media access
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Read More: TOUR #2, Entertainment: Humor, Spectacle, Self-ReferentialityI posted my second tour today, on entertainment on YouTube. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIaxxxECszE&rel=1] (note the goofy performance: trying to be lively…YouTube entertainment does rely on quality performance) This was the first thing…
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Read More: Beginning Thoughts on the Six Binaries indicated in TOUR #1
Thinking through education on YouTube, after teaching a class using its many resources and even greater limitations, I found that the specificity of the site, and some of the features…
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Read More: Reflections on Building TOUR #1
As I built the fist tour, on education, I was working from an outline I had created for a talk (which will, in fact, be the tour) that I am…
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Read More: Slogan Nine
“The more we assert our own identities as historically marginalized groups, the more we expose the tyranny of a so-called center.” Pratibha Parmar [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNh4kdSsBoY&rel=1] YouTube serves the de-centering mandate of…
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Read More: Editing SCALE 3August 8, 2007 Back home after a month in Columbus OH defined, in the end, by the concerns addressed in my earlier posts: what it means to be an artist-on-my-own…
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Read More: Slogan Seven“By empowering ordinary people to speak as experts, they question a basic assumption of dominant ideology, that only those already in power, those who have a stake in defending the…
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Read More: Editing SCALE 2
July 16, 2007. It has been a really great first week. I have been editing with concentration and fervor helped and abetted by the Wexner’s master editor, Paul Hill. We’ve…
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Read More: Learning from YouTube
I am teaching an experimental class on/about YouTube this semester. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CDrYwXVOn4&rel=1] After two class sessions I realize this course is going to be really fun and super hard, challenging me…
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Read More: Slogan three
“I will give you my definition of art: art is ‘making.’” Jean Renoir [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSpKOHUdUx8&rel=1] YouTube creates a platform for non-professional, democratic media production. Open the floodgates, and it’s true, everyone…
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Read More: MPme: Variant of a Manifesta
(After “WE: Variant of a Manifesto,” Dziga Vertov, 1922) I call myself MP:me (Media Praxis : Alexandra Juhasz)—as opposed to “cinematographer,” one of a herd of machomen doing rather well…