This weeks blog has focused mainly on the film festival and reactions to the Mooc – my own and others.
The films helped revisit the ideas of utopia and dystopian societies, and linked with Bell’s (2001) idea of dronoeconomics, the suffering of the people building the internet and the capitalist control from the government figures at the top. Also the idea of re-finding the real world and introducing nature. Identifying what is actually important and what are the things we want to hold onto.

I have been reflecting on the enormity of the The Edcmooc experience, which was fantastic, very exciting but also very bewildering.

One of the thing I really enjoyed was the real time shared activities I felt like it reduced feelings of isolation and lack of purpose and direction. Twitter was very good for maintaining these links I also found it manageable as I could scroll back easily and see everything #tagged.

I liked the idea of Utopian and Dystopian futures from the films and as I discuss I decided to go with a musical representation a Sound track to the mooc based on the ideas of the sound track to the future as represented by the people on the course, I loved that people responded to my question and I really felt a member of community because of the interactions. Although the response rate to my twitter question and retweets from course tutors was limited considering how many participants there were on the course.

My original idea was to blend all the songs together to create a soundtrack, a mash up of the mooc. But I kept receiving ideas till late on Friday afternoon and the “song” I created was so rubbish and ear bleeding I decided I couldn’t make it public I was very disappointed, but think perhaps it was too ambitious, I felt part of something big and felt inspired to do something bigger than my capabilites!

I began to think of alternate representations of the information which I had received either as Youtube links or names and lists from tweets. It needed to be multi-model with varying entry points after the weeks readings identifying us as coming from various different starting points. I chose Glogster, It looked like a picture yet showed video’s, people could start where every they wanted, depending on their interests – perhaps they had heard of the artist before, like the image, liked the look of the band. They could listen to the songs and watch the video’s in any order as they were not linearly represented. The guest was then invited to vote for their favourite.

I liked what I had done, it was not what I set out to do but seemed to work
Perhaps I should have just used this:
The ultimate soundtrack to the future

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I was struggling to think of how to describe what would make a perfect sound track to the future.
perhaps discordant, Jarring, ethereal, haunting, powerful, strong – even the words are contradictory

I wondered what other people thought would be a good sound track to the future and decided to use twitter to get instant responses.

Anabel Drought ‏@Edin_Ana
What sound track would you have for your vision of the future movie? #digitalartefact #edcmooc #ededc

I will compile a list and try to create a montage of the music or vote for the most awesome song!!!!!

@pete_wh – started the ball rolling

Dystopian Burial’s Distant Lights

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Utopian Eno’s An Ending

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@giraf87 suggested Koyaanisqatsi – “The Grand Illusion”

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and @jar found Janelle Monae’s Wondaland creepy/catchy…

‏@dickvestdijk suggested #soundtrack for #digitalartifact – I ‘d like to make it myself, part music part spoken word, part silence. #edcmooc

So what’s mine? Grimes – Genesis – a bit cyberpunk, a bit future, a bit ethereal

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