DNL #3 A GAME OF YOU - Keynote "Social Media as a Psychedelic Webcomic" with Gabriel S Moses
Channel: Disruption Network Lab
Date: 2015-09-06

Disruption Network Lab
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Berlin, August 8: A GAME OF YOU: Into the Social Media Vortex
Third Event of the Disruption Network Lab, Kunstquartier Bethanien Berlin, Studio 1

Web: http://www.disruptionlab.org
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Artistic Director: Tatiana Bazzichelli
Curator and programme manager: Daniela Silvestrin
Production: Kim Voss

Credits:
Disruption Network Lab Berlin - www.disruptionlab.org
Video by Rofsofilms - www.rofsofilms.com
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Video Thumbnail: photo by Maria Silvano

Saturday, August 8, 2015
17.00 - 18.00 Keynote: Social Media as a Psychedelic Webcomic
with Gabriel S Moses (sequential artist and graphic novelist, IL/DE), moderated by Tatiana Bazzichelli (artistic director, Disruption Network Lab, IT/DE)

Should smart media be considered a form of storytelling? In his presentation, Gabriel S Moses offers a reflection on social media in conjunction with digital nativity and emerging online trends. Moses connects the discourse of comics’ storytelling to our Facebook timelines, where all the cyber- dramas of our lives are rendered as info-graphic actions; chronicled and edited sets of two-dimensional pictures and words in a constant stream. The presentation revisits the old debate over ludic vs. narrative functions and projects it onto this new setting: Should our online timelines be considered a new kind of interactive comic, since they break down into flowing clusters of edited images, narrated by bits of chat bubbles and twittery one-liners? And how does time work in an environment where, on one hand, we are all encoded, recorded, and then played back to ourselves in highlights, but at the very same time we experience and alter it all in real time?

More info: http://www.disruptionlab.org/a-game-of-you/