Website of Valerie Wilkinson

The first Video Contest was an “omnibus”, edited by Miyazaki, with three short films: “Promises” d. Wilkinson, “Blush” d. Nishiguchi, and “E-motion” d. Miyazaki.? That was the year 2000.? Organizationally speaking, we need a goal, a production group, advertising, and after the event, we need evaluation and to report the results.? This actually hasn’t happened yet.? Nevertheless, we have usually managed to gather about 10 videos to show at the contest, and we have usually been able to select a “grand prix” from the submissions.

The Video Contest is an idea that has not taken wings.

The Video work is “analog information”!?

Here it is in a nutshell.? If we attracted attention, received interesting submissions, viewers (audience), feed-back, we would also attract high-school students who want to work with video at the Faculty of Informatics in their extra-curricular activities.? We would get people who want to make a movie, show a movie, and find out what people think about it.

I would love to hear any ideas about how to make this work.?

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Everything we do in class is founded on experiential learning.? Because I am a systems’ theorist working with the place of the self in complex systems, I work simultaneously with the person’s own system and then develop awareness of the levels, perspectives, and relations in the complex systems within which we live.?

For this kind of study I began with Gregory Bateson and unto Bateson I frequently return.? ?I use Fifth Discipline (MIT) subjects. Personal Mastery, System Thinking, Shared Vision, Mental Models, and Team Learning. I have found the work of Chris Argyris with the Individual and the Organization to be invaluable.? My own field these days is work with Informal Cultural Infrastructure of an organization.

Projects include The Party (management training) and the Shizudaisai video contest (independent student productions).

There are many interpretations available.? Many authorities.? I insist that one potential interpretation belongs to each person.? I teach that we must claim the authority of our own perception as ground from which to begin an interpretative process.

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