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It has been more than six months since we held the Symposium, a daylong, physical gathering on October 21, 2011 at Pitzer College. The Symposium constituted one of our first attempts to collectively reflect on PerpiTube. Artist Dont Rhine, the women of Prototypes and other Symposium participants From its inception, PerpiTube always took YouTube as [ READ MORE ]
We’re two weeks and eight videos into PerpiTube. The distractions have been largely technical—email problems, DVD drives, compression rates—and easily fixed. The depth has been humbling and surprising: demonstrated in the generous and thoughtful participation of our invited presenters and many gallery guests. Of course there has been distraction exhibited in the form and content [ READ MORE ]
Today drew focus on an area that we had not previously witnessed in the gallery, but is of utmost importance when discussing the place of art on YouTube: The place of artistic context on YouTube. Watching a piece today titled “A Thousand Julys” by Anonymous (anonymous meaning a person not identified by name, and not [ READ MORE ]
When you engage in experimental art exercises online, the failures are as vital as are the hits in that what doesn’t work allows for problems to be named and solutions to be sought. Who would have guessed that our biggest problem during the first week of this ambitious show (32 live presentations from artists around [ READ MORE ]
On second day of PerpiTube in the gallery, I cannot help but think of the issue of “art space.” In a broader sense this issue, that is continually present in the show, is the struggle to find art’s place on YouTube. In the physical realm of the gallery, the social contract between the viewers and [ READ MORE ]
We opened PerpiTube with Natalie Bookchin‘s brilliant piece about isolation within community and the public nature of private pain: Pitzer Galleries curator, Ciara Ennis, noted how the depth of this pain was best articulated through the video’s formal distractions. Then, twelve gallery visitors from Italy responded: It was a great opening[ READ MORE ]
Back from São Paulo and still adjusting. We installed today (Wednesday) at Pitzer. Chairs, text interventions and title wall were all put into place. Juan was fast and skilled while placing the text works. Alex, Ciara and I recorded video interviews talking about the show and touring the space. Eddie was of tremendous help and [ READ MORE ]
Pato and I decided to do our intro video for the show on Skype for several reasons: Pato is so busy that he was only free late on a Wednesday night. I had to be home with the kids. It reflects the most common space of our meetings, and those we had with our collaborators [ READ MORE ]
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