MEDIA RELEASE - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: JUNE, 2006
Media contact: Kathy MacPherson, galleryinfo@otis.edu, 310.665.6909.
The Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design is pleased to present:
Perspectives in the Crowd
June 20-August 29, 2007 in the Bolsky Gallery
Public reception: Saturday, July 14, 6-8pm
Perspectives in the Crowd is organized by the Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design and Artist Tucker Neel, Guest Curator of the exhibition. It features over 50 short films projected larger than life inside the Bolsky Gallery by DIY documentarians found on YouTube.
With the aid of websites like YouTube, concerts, lectures, performances, dance parties, political rallies, really any type of event you can imagine, are documented like never before. Now thousands of users upload their own videos of their immediate experiences for the world to see.
How do websites like YouTube alter our perception of a single event? How do we navigate our world when we know that any situation can be captured, uploaded and saved on the internet? What does it mean to be an active spectator today? What does it mean to have so many people filming the same performance?
This exhibition investigates these questions by presenting these amateur films of one particular event, Daft Punk’s 2006 performance at the Coachella Music Festival in Indio, CA, and displays the many ways these individuals have catalogued their experience on YouTube. By allowing for viewers to contemplate how technology such as digital cameras, camera phones and the internet is shaping and changing our participation and memory of singular events. This show emphasizes the desire people have to gather together for a shared experience as well as retell it again and again—instead of an oral tradition it is visual, digital, and viral.
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MEDIA RELEASE - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: JUNE, 2006
Media contact: Kathy MacPherson, galleryinfo@otis.edu, 310.665.6909.
The Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design is pleased to present:
Perspectives in the Crowd
June 20-August 29, 2007 in the Bolsky Gallery
Public reception: Saturday, July 14, 6-8pm
Perspectives in the Crowd is organized by the Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design and Artist Tucker Neel, Guest Curator of the exhibition. It features over 50 short films projected larger than life inside the Bolsky Gallery by DIY documentarians found on YouTube.
With the aid of websites like YouTube, concerts, lectures, performances, dance parties, political rallies, really any type of event you can imagine, are documented like never before. Now thousands of users upload their own videos of their immediate experiences for the world to see.
How do websites like YouTube alter our perception of a single event? How do we navigate our world when we know that any situation can be captured, uploaded and saved on the internet? What does it mean to be an active spectator today? What does it mean to have so many people filming the same performance?
This exhibition investigates these questions by presenting these amateur films of one particular event, Daft Punk’s 2006 performance at the Coachella Music Festival in Indio, CA, and displays the many ways these individuals have catalogued their experience on YouTube. By allowing for viewers to contemplate how technology such as digital cameras, camera phones and the internet is shaping and changing our participation and memory of singular events. This show emphasizes the desire people have to gather together for a shared experience as well as retell it again and again—instead of an oral tradition it is visual, digital, and viral.
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