Shamar's IST Paper Outline
For my paper I will explore new story environments as a powerful medium of entertainment, social and political organizing and business strategy. I will give a general overview of the way in which such emerging technologies are being used and will reference specific artworks and/or advertisements which 1) call the ethical ramifications of these emerging technologies into question 2) show new possibilities for the future that could arise due to these technologies.
I will then explore how the emerging technologies could be coupled with communal face-to-face interactions so that the collective body can experience community not only in cyberspace and digitally networked environments, but also in the actual real space where bodies reside. This research will investigate how ancient techniques used for communal and individual healing/celebration can be brought into the present and re-interpreted (in these interactive story spaces) to solve modern day problems and imagine new paradigms for the future. I will explore how to create meaning and connection in such interactive story spaces and will seek to understand how this could lead to inspired actions - be they personal, political, social, etc. I will be looking at Barbara Hubbard's Syncon Process, Rah's Hip Hop Mental Health Project, and Julia Butterfly Hill's organization, What's Your Tree, in addition to referencing Barbara Ehrenreich's book, Dancing in the Streets. And last, I will be exploring the possibilities that these models present for the continued cultivation of BAM.
I will then explore how the emerging technologies could be coupled with communal face-to-face interactions so that the collective body can experience community not only in cyberspace and digitally networked environments, but also in the actual real space where bodies reside. This research will investigate how ancient techniques used for communal and individual healing/celebration can be brought into the present and re-interpreted (in these interactive story spaces) to solve modern day problems and imagine new paradigms for the future. I will explore how to create meaning and connection in such interactive story spaces and will seek to understand how this could lead to inspired actions - be they personal, political, social, etc. I will be looking at Barbara Hubbard's Syncon Process, Rah's Hip Hop Mental Health Project, and Julia Butterfly Hill's organization, What's Your Tree, in addition to referencing Barbara Ehrenreich's book, Dancing in the Streets. And last, I will be exploring the possibilities that these models present for the continued cultivation of BAM.
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