Next Step

by Ruth Barker, 8 Feb 2011

Hello,

Many thanks to everyone who’s already posted their Public Art Advice in out Hints and Tips article. And to everyone who still intends to but hasn’t quite got round to it yet: Do It. We really genuinely need to get all the information we can – from a really wide range of experiences.

So far we’ve had quite a bit from artists and project managers, but not so much from members of communities, or those with less direct professional experience. So come on, I know you’re out there – let us know your advice! And I’m particularly keen to hear from folks like T Aikenhead who’ve supported the site by sharing their views in the past.

OK, enough haranguing. I’ve been rereading Sterne’s The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy lately, and I wouldn’t want to think that its tone had affected me too much.

Ben Spencer sent me a link to Yasmin, which I’m ashamed to say that I hadn’t heard of before.

By coincidence they are discussing ‘Next Step Publishing’ at the moment. Here’s what they say about it:

“Next Step Publishing. In the few years ahead of us, many things will change. Most human activities already include publishing digital information: be it shopping, working, relating with people, relaxing. This information will not remain in usual places (databases and monitors), but it will progressively become produceable and accessible directly from objects, architectures, clothes, and bodies. This change is drastically augmenting in speed, and now virtually every surface can become a monitor, an input device or a generator of information, mutating completely our potential understanding of our bodies, of cities, of relationships and other common (or less common) human activities. THis is what we mean by “Next Step Publishing”: both a chance for pioneeristic investigation through sciences, arts and design, and to present currently existing significative practices and their meaning to both sciences, arts and creativity."

You can contribute to the discussion on Yasmin’s pages here

‘Interesting,’ I thought…

More later,

R.