Posts Tagged: Online Video Aesthetics

Dr. Michael Strangelove – “Any Moment Will be a Youtube Moment”

By caroline, March 12, 2011

In his talk on the cultural value of amateur video, the author, scholar and artist Michael Strangelove explained how amateur productions will gain greater value due to their potential of challenging the meaning of things, their subvertion of capitalist modes of production and their use by individuals as tools for self-representation of the world.

Online Video Aesthetics: Florian Schneider talks about the Open Source Documentary

By Catalina Iorga, March 11, 2011

By Catalina Iorga German filmmaker, media artist and activist Florian Schneider ambitiously set out to present a mission statement for a novel type of documentary, the open source mode, and launched into a highly theoretical and somewhat cryptic talk that contained a few guidelines on how this transition can be made, but lacked any clear [...]

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.