
The
bulletin boards are a public display of a collection of various forms of print
media. The types of print media can include flyers, posters, or business cards.
The public bulletin board offers a tangible space to communicate details
concerning events and opportunities.
The
Public Bulletin Board Collection
theme examines some of the broader contexts that are currently being research
within my “Collection” project. Some examples are: the transition of print
media, public access to the collection, and participation to the “collection”
project. These examples will be investigated through the type of collecting
process used with this theme.
The
central point of the collecting process is based upon participation from the
public to submit digital images of a public bulletin board in their residing
area. Participants of the collecting process are presented with submission
guidelines on the website that enable them to contribute to the collection.
Participant’s names are not presented on the webpage with their image. Rather
the location information (city, state, and country) emailed with the image will
be display on the Public Bulletin Boards Collections webpage. The location information about the
bulletin board contributes to the collection theme, instead of the personal
information about the participant. These emails will be archived as part of the
collection background information.
Olga
Goriunova references that using media, as an art platform becomes a
“self-unfolding mechanism” that enables the development of contemporary
aesthetics on the internet. She describes the direct subjective and societal
involvement with the aesthetic practices that occur. By following the direction
of the effects of these relationships with media, she presents these concepts
to be considered with the engagement of digital technology as a tool, as a
context, as a metaphor, as an agent, and as culture-at-large.[1]
I will refer to these five concepts as preliminary investigations, since the Public
Bulletin Board Collection is in
the beginning stages in using digital technology.
Website
templates are used as the main tool to present the visual representations and
texts concerning the collection. The advantage for me to employ pre-designed
web pages is the accessibility to add content from a continuous collecting
process. The templates offer organization methods of media content, but do have
limits on expanding online exhibit interpretation.
For
this preliminary writing, I am grouping the concepts “as a context” and “as a
metaphor” together. Further development of the Public Bulletin Board
Collection collecting process
will acknowledge the future direction of each of these concepts. Presently
these concepts are the structure and symbolization of the internet being an intangible
exhibition space. Public access to this collection theme has been expanded from
viewer to a contributor of the collecting process.
Various
forms of media supply the agency for a participant to contribute to the Public
Bulletin Board Collection, along
with following the collections growth. Digital images are the main focus to the
collecting process. Participants have a variety of methods with digital
technology to take images. Such as: a digital camera, a smartphone, or even an
“ipad.” The images are then submitted by electronic mail, email, for the
collection. Email is the digital communication medium used between the
participant and myself. This is not just for the attachment of the digital
image, but the body of the email is used to submit the location of the bulletin
board and the terms of release to publish the content publicly.
After
the process of submitting and posting the content to the collection web page,
the participant has the option to follow the collection with social media.
Social media sites, for example Facebook, are posted on the homepage to follow
the progress of the “Collection” project. The Public Bulletin Board
Collection acknowledges an
active participant role, by contributing to the collection, and a passive role
of following or viewing the collection as a whole.
The
last concept, as culture-at-large, which refers to the development of
contemporary aesthetics on the internet. I will be investigating this concept
in broader terms of the project’s internet presences. In the publication Rethinking
Curating, Beryl Graham and Sarah
Cook examine the short history of “new” media art and pose questions toward
this art canon’s future development. Their question is “Is new media art a
result of postmodern culture, or does it exemplify our postmedium condition?”[2]
These questions will be examined further by initiating research with my
“Collection” project through the stages of involvement with media and
interdisciplinary methods.
The
Public Bulletin Board Collection intends
to mobilize participants with
their everyday digital objects in the collecting process. These preliminary
investigations will begin to unfold the engagement of these relationships with
media. I begin the collecting process with my contribution of a digital image
of a community bulletin board located outdoors in my area of residence.
For the guidelines to
submit to the Public Bulletin Board Collection visit this webpage.
To view the recent additions of the Public Bulletin Board Collection