using global media
this workshop
provides tools for using interpersonal, material, and digital media
globally
Matthew Stadler is collaborating with workshop member Colin Beattie to create a session for Spring of 2009, either in Guanajuato, Mexico, or in Mexico City. For more information about the Spring 2009 workshop, contact Matthew Stadler.
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The workshop meets when and wherever 8 or 10 people (or thereabouts) decide they’d like to sponsor and participate in a session. A session typically comprises 20 – 30 hours of meetings over a week to ten weeks, depending on schedules and arrangements with the workshop leader, Matthew Stadler. Afterwards, workshop members continue their association via the workshop’s shared resource data base and publication in the workshop reader. Thus, the community of the workshop grows session by session to include members wherever there is sufficient interest. So far sessions have been held or are scheduled for Portland, Oregon (USA), Berlin (Germany), Mexico, and Vancouver, B.C. (Canada).
If you have a group interested in the workshop, please e-mail usingglobalmedia@gmail.com to make a proposal. If you have fewer than enough people, send a note anyway, and we’ll try to assemble a session that includes you.
Matthew Stadler is a novelist and editor, co-founder of Clear Cut Press, former literary editor of Nest Magazine (R.I.P.), and founder/collaborator with the back room.
Interpersonal Media
- how to create community
conversations
- setting the table — public
discourse and public dining
- finding the right room
- making the mix — connecting
to people you don't know
- taking your show on
the road
Material Media
- how to make a mass market
book for $400
- publish and distribute
well-made books (without much money)
- getting your story to
editors (without an agent)
- making potent objects — the
allure of beauty and scarcity
- newsprint circulars
and wheatpaste posters
- mail art
- finding (or founding)
global independent distribution networks
- making news — how
to use global corporate news systems
- the art of the spectacle
- making things together
with others
Digital Media
- creating a web presence
- web masquerades (making
companies, institutions, and others on the web)
- creating and maintaining
interactive web communities
- finding and linking
to fellow travelers
- minimal interventions — how
to make sites that others activate
For more information write to usingglobalmedia@gmail.com
for writers,
artists, and activists who want to reach (or help create) communities near
and far