Wrap up & next week

Hi all,

Thanks for a good class today. Have a good day off next week!

Here is the media center Andrew & I work with. And as promised, here is the very silly PSA I made for the Sanctuary late one night from whatever random video documentation I had on my laptop (Andrew did the animation). If you explore the site a little, you can get a sense of what we do (film screenings, music, production workshops, organizing, etc.) We even had a pretty crazy censorship scandal last spring (the City shut us down for over a month). Of course, we made a video about it, as a collective, very very quickly (that was my spring break, last year).

The next time we meet, we will have another guest artist, Adam Frelin.

If you want to talk about your projects (or anything else), a reminder that my office hours are Tue 4-6pm.

FOR NEXT CLASS (10/20):

Let's look at examples of artists using the internet as a platform for "working with others." What kinds of problems/issues/exciting developments come up when artists bring ideas of collaboration into their work? Referencing Lind, Holmes and/or Eco, use at least two examples from the list below to anchor your response.

REQUIRED reading (note changes from paper syllabus!):

• "The Collaborative Turn" (Maria Lind)
• “The Poetics of the Open Work” (Umberto Eco)
• "The Oppositional Device" (Brian Holmes)
  

Artwork/projects to review & respond to:

"Open" participatory works (some repeats from last week):

• Crying, While Eating
• Learning to Love You More (Miranda July & Harrell Fletcher)
• Exploding Dog
• The Continuum of Cute (Nina Katchadourian)
• The Sheep Market
• ...and a review of The Sheep Market
• The World's First Collaborative Sentence (click on "Enter Project" after reading description)
• Man With A Movie Camera re-make (open source filmmaking!?!?)
• JacksonPollack

Appropriation as a form of collaboration (?):

• Flickr Sunsets (Penelope Umbrico)
• 50/50 (Oliver Laric)
• Peel (William Boling)

"Oppositional Devices" (aka interventions, these ones mostly taking place on the internet):

• Black People Love Us
• Rent-a-Negro
  
• Improv Anywhere (many of their missions involve the creation of flashmobs)
  
• GWBush.com (one of the earliest projects of The Yes Men)
• Virtual Guantanamo (a project in Second Life)
• Work With Me!
  

Optional related things (some repeats from last week's links):

• Youtube User Agreement
• Why Facebook is the Future
• Facebook Privacy Policy (a video interpretation)
• Web 2.0: The Machine is Us/ing Us (video)
  
• Internet Usage Worldwide
• Race and the Digital Divide