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Loop Video Art Fair, Barcelona
Oliver Laric, Versions, 2009
IF I WERE A COLLECTOR, I’D PUT MY VIDEO COLLECTION ON YOUTUBE
Transcript of a lecture I had on Saturday May 30 in Barcelona, as part to a round table titled “How new technologies and online participative culture affect the production and distribution of videoart”. The panel, moderated by Julia Dragonovic and hosted by LOOP Video Art Fair, featured Christopher Eamon, Mike Stubbs and myself. You can find more informations here.
Generally I’m not an enthusiast of so-called “Web 2.0″ platforms such as Youtube.
My position about them is that they took the great networking culture of the Eighties and Nineties and deprived it of its critical potential, changing its powerful instruments into neutral, commercial devices.
Youtube’s slogan is a good proof to my argument: “Broadcast yourself” changes Indymedia‘s “Dont’ hate the media – become the media!” into a commercial for wannabe celebrities.
But here, we are not talking about Youtube per se, but about its consequences on art production and distribution – and I have to say that I’m quite optimistical about that.
