Days ahead of the LOCOG World Press Briefing, C@tO Editor Andy Miah is outlining a vision for the 2012 Games that draws together the nations and regions to collectively tell their story via citizen media. Find below the outline for #media2012. The proposal launch will take place on 4 Oct, 2010 in Manchester @ANDfestival (http://www.andfestival.org.uk).

On 19 May, 2010, the London Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games (LOCOG)  launched the Olympic and Paralympic Mascots. Their design is in keeping with London’s pursuit of postmodern iconography, which has created an absence of locative symbols through which outsiders can interpret the 2012 Games. This approach to imaging the Games was most clearly articulated three years ago, with the launch of the logo, which also attracted attention for its avant-garde structure and unique functional property of maintaining its visual integrity even without the Olympic rings (see Miah 2007).
Similarly, …

Another Olympic Games has drawn to a close. Thanks so much to all of our new friends, especially W2 and, in particular, Irwin Oostindie, Lianne Payne. As well, thanks to Steve Kammerer, Jessica Compton and Kelly, Liz Schulze, Carolyn Liu and Jim Rupert who helped our massive team with accommodation. Finally, thanks also to the Abandon Normal Devices Festival and the Carnegie Trust. We will continue to post items about Vancouver 2010 over the next few months, keeping track of what happened for many years to come. Enjoy the Paralympic …

AND + W2 is a programme of debates and artworks, constituting the only Games time cultural collaboration between the Vancouver 2010 and London 2012. It is co-produced with W2 in Vancouver and is thematically structured around the Abandon Normal Devices (AND) festival of new cinema and digital culture. AND is a Legacy Trust funded programme in England’s Northwest. Produced in association with FACT, Tenantspin and Dada for Vancouver 2010 and the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad programme in England’s Northwest.

Citizen journalism is nothing new to our world of available technology. It has become second nature for people to capture their experience, events or news in their environments on their phones, cameras or computers. We live in a world were journalism is an action and all of citizens have stepped forth into that call to action.

However, this is the first Olympic Games of its kind were the real stories that are happening are not necessarily the ones that are showcased by the sponsor holding media companies. The internet with its …

To mark the opening of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games, we have published our first 6 essays for the year. Click here to read them.  Many more articles will follow, as the Games gets started. We will have 11 people in Vancouver and Whistler reporting from the cities in our blog and writing articles for the current issue. We are:
Andy Miah, Beatriz Garcia, Ana Adi, Jennifer Jones, Kris Krug, Danielle Sipple, Debbi Lander, Rachael McAllister, Erin Linton, Mark Hodge, and Geoff O’Donnell.

C@tO is pleased to announce its site relaunch, designed by our new Editorial Assistant, Jennifer Jones. We are all gearing up for Vancouver 2010, where we will have a team of 10 writers and photographers in Vancouver from 1st Feb – 28th Feb. It will include Andy Miah, Beatriz Garcia, Ana Adi, Jennifer Jones, Debbi Lander, Kris Krug & Danielle Sipple. We will be covering all things social, cultural and political related to the Games.
Contact details during Vancouver to follow soon. We’ll be writing for C@tO, along with other outlets, …