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Read More: Everything off YouTube is Video ArtI recently refuted Virgina Heffernan’s euphoric claim about YouTube’s aesthetic gold (everything is…). Even more recently I speculated that: “(Traditional) video art carries assumptions about method, form, and audience. The…
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Read More: Ad-Hoc Piece-Meal Video-Art“Towards the end of the middle decade of the twentieth century, a perplexing and complex form emerged in Europe and the United States. Variously called video art, artists’ video, experimental…
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Read More: Video Art on YouTube: The Name is Equivocal
” VIDEO ART. The name is equivocal. A good name. It leaves open all the questions and asks them anyway. Is this an art form, a new genre? An anthology…
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Read More: Video Art on YouTube: A Matter of Vetting and Consumption
I have been commissioned to write an article about video art on YouTube for the forthcoming scholarly anthology, Resolutions 3 (in the next few weeks I’ll be testing fragments of…
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Read More: AIDS Activist Shorts and the Emergence of Queer CinemaLast Friday night, I attended a screening of nearly twenty-year old AIDS activist videos (the scenes of my youth; the research topic of my juvenalia) which were part of the…
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Read More: The Provenance of Beauty
I had the distinct pleasure of seeing (riding) my friend Claudia Rankine’s play, The Provenance of Beauty, performed on a bus that left from a small Spanish Harlem church (with…
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Read More: Ulrike Ottinger: What’s Left to be SeenI had the great privilege of attending a Critical Symposium, sponsored by Boston University and my friend and colleague, Roy Grundmann, on the amazing Ulrike Ottinger last week. She was…
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Read More: On Publishing my YouTube “book” on-line
Tomorrow I will be visiting Tara McPherson’s graduate course on something like “theories and practices of new media,” and she has asked me to present, quickly, some of the difficult…
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Read More: District 9: Faking the FutureDistrict 9—a scary, literally-allegorical (what is that!), sci-fi blood-fest—is also told, sort of, through the structure of a fake doc. It’s also terrific. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlgtbEdqVsk&hl=en&fs=1&] Because the faked reality is a…
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Read More: The Stake and the WedgeThe female is immanent, the female is bone-deep, the female is instinct. With Lili’s eager complicity, The Professor drives a massive wedge between the masculine and the feminine within her.…