A photographic imagination

Poegles project

Ongoing multimedia exploration images and spoken word performances of constructed texts based on Poegles. Poegles are poems made from Google search results.

A season of wants (2008)

Search term "I want"

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Penny candy (2008)

Search term "hometown"

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Some bad news (2008)

Search term "secrets"

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Night light (2008)

Search term "night light"

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About Ron Diorio
Ron Diorio is a web based artist working in multiple media including photography, video, spoken word and interactive applications. Ron has had three solo shows of his photographs, which have also been included in many group shows. Ron's work has been exhibited internationally and is currently represented by Peter Hay Halpert Fine Art in New York City (phhfineart.com) . He produced Zine TV (93-95), a DIY television series on the diversity and creativity of the self publishing community - the "zine scene" of the mid 90s. Ron's current video work focuses on virtuality and the "imitation of life" in the early 21st century. The work is presented through short personal essays weaving, spoken word, video, photography, Poegles, and found public forum
postings and other texts. Ron is VP for Product and Community Development for The Economist/Economist.com. He is a life long New Yorker and lives with his wife and two children in northern Manhattan.

Statement of work
I am a citizen artist and through the social web the audience and this body of work have found each other. This current video work extends my recent photographic explorations challenging the veracity of documentary practices through the ambiguity of place and persona, manipulation of media, low-fi production and social methods of distribution. The video links included in this submission include my most recent work produced and premiered online for the active online community audience involved with my work since 2004.

About the Poegles Project
The Poegles Project was started in 2008 as an exploration of the emerging dominance of meta data indexing, the organization of information and the machine prioritizion of those results. It attempts to re-describe the origination of narration and the assembly of visual and audio cues drawing on the notions of surrealist poetry, Burroughs cut-ups and the photo-cinema of Chris Marker.

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Back in June 2003, I started what I thought was going to be a small, simple digital storytelling project. That project branched off into a photographic adventure that has left me changed for the better. However as with all circles you eventually come back. In this case I was renewed by the release of Flickr video which allowed me to create with a fixed 90 second framework and publish to a community of people who were familiar with my body of work, some for almost all five years.

Slowly I have become focused on ths "new" thing. It has re-invigorated my photo-image making but had subtly allowed me to re-define myself as a "recording artist": images, video and spoken word. This is the longest of the pieces I have produced.

The text was adapted from a forum posting on Craig's List, I recorded and mixed the voice over and the sound track. I wanted to use as few images as possible within the video with movement and frame transitions adding duration and ambiguity. I am still in the craft stage. No technique comes without repetition and so this is still early days.

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A photograph is a slippery and unstable idea — it never has only one meaning. In capturing the face of a loved one, it's a hedge against loss. As a document or a formal record, it's dependent on the political, economic and propagandist impulses of the photographer. It can provide evidence of what has been — if we understand the various institutions from which it emerges.

DANA SELF
A Long View

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Discovery. Looking at the image and putting it together again in the rendering: seen - remembered - imagined.

Less direct but more comprehensive, a question of imaginative vision.

A view of the visible, prolonging a moment - neither geometric or photographic.

Orgainized seeing: a personal deformity of vision.

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Last year I ran and lost for a position on the School Leadership committee at my daughter's school here in NY. My campaign focused on bringing in a media literacy program. Wish I had this in hand for the campaign!

From DIY Media WeblogHosted by USC Annenberg Center

Henry Jenkins has posted on his blog about the paper he and his colleagues have written for the MacArthur Foundation, about participatory culture and media literacy. I have followed Jenkins' lead in my attempts to learn how to link DIY media skills with civic engagement, and agree that this is about more than just entertainment -- it's about an entire approach to culture, which Jenkins calls "participatory culture."

We have also identified a set of core social skills and cultural competencies that young people should acquire if they are to be full, active, creative, and ethical participants in this emerging participatory culture:

Play -- the capacity to experiment with your surroundings as a form of problem-solving

Performance -- the ability to adopt alternative identities for the purpose of improvisation and discovery

Simulation -- the ability to interpret and construct dynamic models of real world processes

Appropriation -- the ability to meaningfully sample and remix media content

Multitasking -- the ability to scan one's environment and shift focus as needed to salient details.

Distributed Cognition -- the ability to interact meaningfully with tools that expand mental capacities

Collective Intelligence -- the ability to pool knowledge and compare notes with others toward a common goal

Judgment -- the ability to evaluate the reliability and credibility of different information sources

Transmedia Navigation -- the ability to follow the flow of stories and information across multiple modalities

Networking -- the ability to search for, synthesize, and disseminate information

Negotiation -- the ability to travel across diverse communities, discerning and respecting multiple perspectives, and grasping and following alternative norms.

Some children are acquiring some of these skills through their participation in the informal learning communities that surround popular culture. Some teachers are incorporating some of these skills into their classroom instruction. Some afterschool programs are incorporating some of these skills into their activities. Yet, as the above qualifications suggest, the integration of these important social skills and cultural competencies remains haphazard at best. Media education is taking place for some youth across a variety of contexts, but it is not a central part of the educational experience of all students. Our goal for this report is to encourage greater reflection and public discussion on how we might incorporate these core principles systematically across curricula and across the divide between in-school and out-of-school activities. Such a systemic approach is needed if we are to close the participation gap, confront the transparency problem, and help young people work through the ethical dilemmas they face in their everyday lives. Such a systemic approach is needed if children are to acquire the core social skills and cultural competencies needed in a modern era.

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