digital media form
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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: 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: A Productive Fake has a Stake: Unnaming in THE OWLSOver the past few days I’ve been teaching my recent writing about fake docs on YouTube to my Media Studies seniors, while thinking a lot about THE OWLS (and reading…
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Read More: Everything on YouTube is Video Art…NahAgain, I am moved to respond to Virginia Heffernan’s intelligent analyses of YouTube. She made some provocative claims about YouTube and the Avant-Garde this weekend in the New York Times—“it’s…
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Read More: Bad On Purpose: On the Corporate Faking of Hand-Made FilmsI’m provoked. Just saw Paper Heart and this charming pseudo-naive cynical/happy fake-rumination on love by comedienne Charlyne Li pushes this blog’s fixations on fake documentary’s current yummy banality to new…
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Read More: Video EssaysI was excited to read about video essays at Film Studies for Free. This summer, I’ve been writing about the YouTube stylo for an essay I’ve been commissioned to write…
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Read More: It Came from Kuchar
Got a chance to see It Came from Kuchar at Outfest. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyOvLS8JnBI&hl=en&fs=1&] The documentary does little more than let the brothers, their films, and fans speak for themselves. And what…
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Read More: On Michael Wesch’s WhateverI greatly enjoyed watching Michael Wesch’s Towards a New Future of Whatever. The two of us share a YouTube project based on pedagogy and student interaction (as an Anthropologist his…
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Read More: Digital HumanitiesI am spending a month at USC’s NEH Vector‘s Institute, Broadening the Digital Humanities. 11 scholars are given the incredible opportunity to develop digital projects through the generous technical and…
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Read More: Millenium’s Experiments in DocumentaryTake a look at Millenium Film Journal’s special issue, No. 51, Experiments in Documentary, edited by Lucas Hildebrand. A strong introductory essay is followed by artist statements/interviews about making work…