Posts By: Nicola Bozzi

Vito Campanelli and the Memetic Contagion of Aestheticized Objects

By Nicola Bozzi, March 11, 2011

Vito Campanelli's presentation of his own Web Aesthetics. How Digital Media Affect Culture and Society (published by NAi) was one of the few theoretical ones in a very visual and demo-ridden Video Vortex edition. In his work, the Italian scholar reduces important phenomena like social and peer-to-peer networks to their historical premises, laying the foundations for an organic aesthetic theory of digital media. His intervention outlined his conceptual framework, providing the common denominator to the examples analyzed in the book.

Dagan Cohen and Upload Cinema: Taking YouTube to the Big Screen

By Nicola Bozzi, March 11, 2011

By Nicola Bozzi Upload Cinema is a monthly video spree that quite literally takes the most valuable YouTube gems to the big screen. That is, the not-so-big one of the Uitkijk, the smallest and coziest movie theater in Amsterdam. Dutch creative director Dagan Cohen and cinema programmer Barbara de Wijn started the initiative because they [...]

Andrew Clay – YouTube: Make Money While Escaping Death

By Nicola Bozzi, March 11, 2011

A media theorist and lecturer at Leicester's De Montfort University, Andrew Clay has been investigating online video for some time. As an opener of the sixth edition of Video Vortex, his intervention explored YouTube and effectively went a bit beyond, as the Reader tagline suggests. The British theorist raised several compelling questions about the popular video sharing platform, inspiring the audience to ask quite a few questions at the end. In particular, his analysis of the top YouTubers - the ones who got rich by putting serial sketches online and engaging the community - took stock of the YouTube experience so far, focusing on the blurrier and blurrier distinction between amateurs and professionals.