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Curating Play, Part I
In my first post, I said that YouTube Play offered a unique opportunity for the museum to investigate the shifting sands of our visual culture. I want to follow up on that idea by talking about how the...
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Curating Play, Part II
With the theoretical issues I raised in my previous post in mind, I’m going to present some suggestions that might begin to address enhancing the visitor’s experience (both online and at the various...
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Long Takes
Of the many categories for one-upmanship in filmmaking, a special place has long been reserved for any director who can pull off a ridiculously long take.
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YouTube Play: Live from the Guggenheim
On October 21, the top videos selected by the YouTube Play jury will be revealed and celebrated at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. The videos will be presented at the Guggenheim Museums in New York,...
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YouTube Play: Top Videos Announced
Yesterday at an event at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the top videos for YouTube Play were announced. The videos comprise the ultimate YouTube playlist: a selection of the most unique,...
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Infermental
This "video magazine" predated the Internet proper and also, largely, the existence of film and video in the gallery; for that reason, its curatorial conceits seem as alien, and as alluring, as the...
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The Art of Platforms
As a consequence of their ease of use and mass popularity, Internet platforms have become the preeminent domain of collective authorship. Their speed and omnipresence make them extremely well suited to...
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On Access
Earlier this year I was invited by SAW Video to do research into their Public Domain project, in which seven artists were given access to copyright-free material (not limited to, but including film...
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Andy, Nam June, and Me at the Zoo
It’s funny to look back only five years at the first YouTube video, "Me at the Zoo" (2005) by the site’s co-founder Jawed Karim, and consider Andy Warhol’s clichéd "15 minutes" in light of the...
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Remake HK, Project Unlimited
In 1990, the Deep Dish TV series, ...will be televised: Video Documents From Asia, curated and produced by Shu Lea Cheang, intended to reverse the usual flow of communication from America to the other,...
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