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Mashups, Memes, and HOWTOs: New Forms of Online Video

March 15th, 2010 No Comments

I am chairing a panel this Wednesday at the CUNY Graduate Center
CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street
March 17th 2010, Wednesday, 7:30pm, The Skylight Room (9100)
Online video has rapidly developed genres, conventions, and topics based around a quest for video views and internet fame. These attempts often revolve around [...]

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Autosouveillance, an Automator Script

December 21st, 2009 No Comments

A year ago(!) I “directed” a month long performance by Marisa Olson called “Marisa Writes her Dissertation: an endurance performance in 31 Acts.” For all of September 2008, Marisa wrote while webcam shots and screencaps of her desktop were automatically uploaded to the net every 60 seconds. This gesture of transparency was a continuation [...]

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Best Invite Evar!

December 17th, 2009 No Comments

From Marisa to Steve:
Steve! Hi! It sounds like you’ve been galavanting around giving lots
of rock star lectures and wining lots of awards. I hope there’s been
at least one Giant Check in there!
So I am teaching a Visual Studies seminar (intro, undergrad) at
PurchaseĀ  and it’s going to be largely focused on
advertising. They’ll be reading Roland Barthes, [...]

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Speaking at Dorkbot PDX, August 9th

August 2nd, 2009 No Comments

Marisa Olson and I are speaking at Dorkbot PDX this Sunday, August 7th, 7PM. The annoucement says:
We are extremely honored to have two distinguished artists from New York visiting Portland and sharing their work with DorkbotPDX. Please help us welcome these amazing and inspiring dorks from across the way!
I’m flattered to be called distinguished… !
I’m [...]

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Flickr Photo Download: Eyebeam Benefit Ver3.0, 06/16/09

June 19th, 2009 1 Comment

Flickr Photo Download: Eyebeam Benefit Ver3.0, 06/16/09.

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Drawing Contemporaries Video

June 11th, 2009 No Comments

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