Video Republic
How young people are changing Europe
Production companies and broadcasters no longer hold a monopoly over moving-images - instead, a new theatre of public information has emerged. Spread across the internet, television, festivals and campaigns this emerging ‘Video Republic’ is a messy, alternative realm of video creation and exchange, dominated by young people. Who inhabits, shapes and regulates the Video Republic?
- When in Rome.. As you can probably tell from all our blog posts, we're getting excited about the launch of Video Republic on Monday. Last week Charlie Tims and I went to Amsterdam to PICNIC to give a preview of the research, and ended up having a brilliant discussion with a film futurist and an executive from MTV. It was the only conference I've ever been to where most surfaces were covered in real turf (it took me a while to make the link: PICNIC = grass).So, having spent the last year immersed in the weird... continue reading on 2nd October 2008
- AITVR3&4: SexEutube & The Targuist Sniper In the run up to the launch of the video republic next Monday. I'm continuing to dip in an out of the bizarre world of internet videos.The EU has its own Youtube Channel - Eutube (see what they did there?). It blurs the line between propaganda, public information and whimsical provocations to new types of public debate - we like it for the later. Some of their videos are alarmingly good - and if you check out (parts of) the comment stream you can see them starting the kind of debate ... continue reading on 30th September 2008
- Adventures in the Video Republic 2 Think the current US election is the first election to be lived out on youtube? You're wrong. In the run up to the parliamentary elections in Croatia in 2007 videos of slips and blunders by politicians from the ruling HDZ party began to appear on the internet. Interior Minister Ivica Kirin spuriously claimed that one popular video made by a 21-year-old boy had been made by the opposition and he knew this because he claimed to have looked into ‘the youtube servers’... continue reading on 28th September 2008
- Adventures in the Video Republic 1 It's 10 days till we launch the Video Republic - a look at what it means to live in a world where just about anyone with basic video recording equipment and an ok internet connection can make and distribute our most instantaneous and powerful form of media - the moving image. Internet videos, produced by us, are part of the evolution of free speech - changing how we see each other, our behavioral norms and our relationship to leaders. They are above all, a new place for public deliberation. So... continue reading on 27th September 2008
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The sheet music hits the fan
Indie 'lifers' Oasis have been causing quite a stir recently. Firstly, because someone assaulted Noel Gallagher on stage in Canada. Someone filmed it, predictably, and popped it up on YouTube.
But secondly, they are giving away a song book free with NME. The scheme has been widely hailed as helping to promote a new generation of musicians, by giving them the tools and encouragement to reinterpret their favourite bands' work. But that very activity is something parts of the music industry have been trying to stamp out... continue reading on 10th September 2008 Comments (2) -
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We're busy writing up the Children of Europa project at the moment. We're really excited about how the pamphlet is shaping up. The launch will be in early September - do get in touch if you'd like to know more.
We've digested a lot of online video over the past 9 months. Yes, there's a lot of nonsense. But there's a lot of cracking content out there. Here's just a couple of videos I've enjoyed: continue reading on 11th August 2008 - hello mr primeminister my name's adam and i'm 14 There are so many ways to be cynical about ask the pm on youtube, but I think it rules. This is a video of Adam talking to the Prime Minister about how he wants to vote, which is sort of illogical if you think about it. This type of thing, and alot of the other semi-political content on youtube definitely isn't representative democracy... and er, it doesn't quite fit into participatory democracy either. Expressive Democracy? Any takers? This is the conundrum that the Children of Europa project... continue reading on 18th June 2008
- Video is not killing the video star We're in the midst of accumulating and reflecting on the material we have drawn from the various video workshops for this project. And naturally we're starting to revisit some of the questions we started with around the production and consumption of video. What is its value? What does it give to the people producing the content, or those watching or sharing it? Something that is hovering in front of us is the issue of intellectual property and copyright. continue reading on 27th May 2008
- Berlin. 24-25/03/08. On 24th and 25th March I spent two days at the marvellous Schlesische 27, a youth arts organisation in Kreuzberg, to the south east of Berlin. It's nestled in a set of buildings off Schlesische street, in an area with growing numbers of artists and an established Turkish population. There were six young filmmakers in the workshop, all aged between 17 and 22. Thanks, first off, to the facilitators and filmmakers for being so welcoming. I was only there two days so unfortunately I haven’t... continue reading on 8th April 2008
- Anthropology of ourselves Having just been reminded of the 'mass observation' project, founded back in 1937, I was struck by how the same impulses drive us to collect and document everyday life now. The difference now is simply in the tools we use. The Mass Observation website describes how the original project worked, and it sounds like a weighty undertaking: 'In Bolton, a team of paid investigators went into a variety of public situations: meetings, religious occasions, sporting and leisure activities, in the... continue reading on 31st March 2008
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