YouTube
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Read More: Video Art: Does Access Matter?“The promise held by video, that it could create ‘personal media,’ that normal people could control the production of video imagery and bypass the tightly controlled corporate structure of commercial…
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Read More: Video Art(ists) of the YouTube Archive“The many types of video art have been made with a variety of intentions, ideas, working styles, and structures. Some address pure aesthetic concerns, where others prioritize content in less…
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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: 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: Dear IckaprickSo the internet/web 2.0 allows you and I to meet, talk, and learn together, creating new communions and opportunities for weirdness (YouTube shares but does not OWN this). Hi and…
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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…