February 19, 2006
Empowering citizen media, radically democratize, smash elitism, content redistribution, authentic community … This sociological jargon has now become the lexicon of new media capitalism.
"Just as Marx seduced a generation of European idealists with his fantasy of self-realization in a communist utopia, so the Web 2.0 cult of creative self-realization has seduced everyone in Silicon Valley. The movement bridges counter-cultural radicals of the '60s such as Steve Jobs with the contemporary geek culture of Google's Larry Page. Between the book-ends of Jobs and Page lies the rest of Silicon Valley, including radical communitarians like Craig Newmark (of Craigslist.com), intellectual property communists such as Stanford Law Professor Larry Lessig, economic cornucopians like Wired magazine editor Chris "Long Tail" Anderson, and new media moguls Tim O'Reilly and John Batelle."
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Michael Parenti has created an installation piece for the exhibition "bensiz" ("without me") at address istanbul, titled "paiksiz" ("without paik"), in tribute to the death of video artist Nam June Paik. Pictures HERE.
The piece is comprised of an old macintosh g4 laptop in a plexiglass case, with an riff on paik's original installation piece, "ego machine" (1974). The desktop picture has the words "paik, paik paik....etc" as the original, with a few differences: the words are struck through, symbolizing paik's death, and static video snow has been added. The laptop is also running a 7 minute film in continuous loop, which is projected on a semi transparent curtain in the middle of the 35 meter long space. The film was created in grid pro, using original footage of paik in his coffin, which Todd Thille filmed at the memorial service on Saturday, February 4th, in New York City, This original footage is mixed with close up shots of fingers on a typewriter keyboard as if Paik's ego is still typing his name - even in death, and is seperated into the three channels of video color space - R, G, and B - symbolizing the color space which paik worked in, and is accompanied the song "Death is not the end" a cover version by the austrian band, "Der Scheitel". The surround soundsystem in the glass enclosed space was courteously provided by Bang & Olufsen
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Berkeley Conference: Online Video and the Future of Television - Friday, September 30, 2005
This one-day conference brings together archivists, educators, technologists, entrepreneurs, producers, legal experts, and investors to explore the enormous promise offered by the availability of online video and television content. Demonstrations and interactive panel discussions will highlight new video technologies, services, legal issues, and economic models. Participants from diverse – and until now, largely disconnected – specialties will be especially encouraged to interact.
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