Info sheet
From Karen Karnak
- Remember: WE ARE ALL KAREN KARNAK!
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How to Play
The aim of Karen Karnak is to produce a collaborative digital film
You can participate in the follow ways using the navigation bar on the left of the page:
• Login as your username – if you don't have one send a message to the email address below
• upload files –moving images, sounds or still images (mp3, mpg, jpg, gif, mp4, swf, flv, png)
• Download other Karnak-facet files; download and adapt the files –combine them or add your own content – then upload them for re-edits
• Add to the Kalture ‘Video Collaboration’ on-line video editing using Youtube video clips; web quality video collaboration.
• Use the Karen Karnak Postal address to send words, photos, files or objects: (enclose a return address to receive replies)
email:
karnakkaren@gmail.com
Add links to interesting places
Scene One: POINT OF VIEW
(description from Missive01)
“We never see her face, but we see what she sees: A point of view shot of her activities, her surroundings; objects of creation –perhaps writing a letter or an entry in a journal. There can be the occasional hand but apart from that she could be anybody – we hear her words and voice, although it may be someone else speaking for her- There is a personal dear-diary atmosphere although, from who’s point of view it may be difficult to tell”
Oportunities to be interveiwed as Karen Karnak
at some point towards the end of the project I will ask selected participants consent to be interviewed (as Karen Karnak) and to reflect on their experiences as Karen Karnak
In the meantime, please add to the collective pool of experiences which is happening at the following pages
One of the aims of this project is to create an open content filmwhich will be shown at the Hamilton Underground Film Festival in September 2009
All contributors will receive access to the data, with all the files and archives created by Karen Karnak over the next few months
Collaborative pages
Karens Video Journal - Notes on the Karen Karnak experience
Current project- on-line video collaboration
Special:Upload Upload files for collaboration
Special:ImageList Download files for editing
edit these pages - Other pages which you can collaborate on
archive what next - Manifestations of Karen Karnak in the 'outside world'
The audio-visual virtual author Karen Karnak is based on the potential of widely distributed users to collaborate on a project which is free from many of the constraints usually enforced upon the individual artist. Using a MediaWiki environment as a starting point, Karen Karnak has begun to ‘write herself into existence’ using a process of open-source multi-authorship; small steps towards a fully automated audio-visual practice which is aimed at challenging the traditional values of originality, authority and ownership usually associated with the author/artist. Foucault’s theory of the author-function, in which the author is a series of functions rather than a physical being, describes a process in which the author operates to create a coherent singular voice from the “plurality of egos” which inhabits a work (Foucault, The Author-Function, 1977, p.130). In Foucaultean terms the virtual author, Karen Karnak, is a complex mass of writhing alliances and contradictions; potentials characteristic of a user generated content which blurs the distinction between author and audience. The function of the author which Karen Karnak inhabits stands as a metaphor for the enforced coherency which is imposed on a work by its reader, combined with the paradox of the Romantic notions of the artist as a complex and conflict-filled subject.
Creative Guidelines for contributors
Technical help
Academic Purpose of project
Request for interviews with Karen Karnak the multi-author
Other
Go to Help:Contents for full instructions of how to play -including the missives - set themes for each scene
see links on the outside world or visit archive land
