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Read More: Praxis at Carnegie Mellon: Yet Another Blogged “Talk”
This is most of my talk for an upcoming Symposium, New Media: Theory, Practice, Power for Carnegie Mellon University’s Center for the Arts and Society focusing on creating fuller interaction…
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Read More: Learning from Huffington Post College
I was pleased to be informed by a staff member that Learning from YouTube was chosen as one of the “ten coolest college classes” by none other than the Huffington…
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Read More: Queer You(th) Tube Talk on YouTube on YouTube
Unfortunately, I can not make the Digital Media and Learning Conference occurring at UCSD February 18-20 because I’ll be in Berlin for the premier of THE OWLS. I have organized…
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Read More: Pitzer Parent’s Weekend
I will be presenting two “lessons” from my work about and on YouTube to parents and students at Pitzer this weekend. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apZ2EBatr6Y&hl=en_US&fs=1&] I taught a course on and about YouTube,…
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Read More: Video Dada
I drove out to UC Irvine with the kids to catch the Video Dada show (“dealing with intersections of video, art, and the internet.”) Martha Gever, the show’s curator, was…
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Read More: “The Camera is the Problem”: Boring Paranormal Camcorder Cinema
A YouTube hand-held jump-cut DIY sensibility masks cine-gimmicks as old as Melies and ever so much more tired given their age: doors that open and close on their own (creepy!),…
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Read More: Fantastic, Expensive, “People-Made” Corporate Puppets
They appear everywhere: skinny legs, perfect couture, under-acted voices. Tiny stop-motion figures haunt my cine-dreams and regular movie-going. Take The Fantastic Mr. Fox: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1v6-T52zLO0&hl=en_US&fs=1] Following in the over-produced, quite-expensive, corporate-backed…
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Read More: Travels & Travails in Digital Media: From Blog 2 Page to Screen 2 Santa Cruz
I begin with a video (where I say among other things that I’ve been working for two years on a project about teaching, writing about, and publishing/presenting in the digital…
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Read More: I make nouveau art video on YouTube: Mommy’s Marriage
I have been criticizing YouTube for a few years now. Easy enough to do given its perplexing gaps in capability—all the things it won’t let you do: find things, surround…
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Read More: Loving the Archive; Controlling the Archive
The archivist brings work to visibility by seeing it, knowing it in her way, and connecting it to other video and viewers that will frame and hold it: giving context,…