I’ve posted the first part of a multipart report on Henry Jenkins’ talk at the Annenberg Center for Communication on January 17 about “From YouTube to Youniversity.” Fan culture meets open educational resources, DIY video and participatory culture:
“Amateur content is getting global visibility. And fan communities are not just distribution channels, ” but the seedbeds of cultural creation, Jenkins stated, in a kind of “ecological relationship with blogs and grassroots communities that create cultural material and social networks that distribute it.” Examples: The deaf community using video of american sign language; people invade Walmart, use the equipment on the shelves to create video of Walmart and put it on YouTube; fan communities driving snippets of mass media moments to viral distribution through the online community (Stephen Colbert at the National Press Club dinner, for example); the famous OK Go treadmill video and the world of peer to peer grassroots music videos it represents (reminding Jenkins of vaudeville); lonelygirl15 (which reminds Jenkins of PT Barnum); the blurring of lines between real life and fiction in reality television; the emergence of YouTube as a political space with the tasering of a student at UCLA , George Allen’s racial gaffe, and the Saddam Hussein hanging going viral and effecting public opinion and election outcomes; the grassroots surveillance and sometimes vigilante action that mobile media afford.
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Press Release: UK premiere of Blast Theory’s latest work
> Day Of The Figurines
>
>
> Lighthouse presents the UK premiere of Blast Theory’s latest work
> ‘Day Of The Figurines’, a mass participation artwork using mobile
> phones.
>
> Set in a fictional English town that is littered, dark and
> underpinned with steady decay ‘Day Of The Figurines’ is like a mix
> of Eastenders and Second Life directed by Quentin Tarantino.
>
> Up to 1,000 players play the game by sending text messages. To
> start they visit Lighthouse to choose a plastic figurine which is
> place onto a model of the town. From there onwards all game play is
> on the player’s phone as they try to help others, respond to
> dilemmas and complete missions.
>
> Players can join and leave at any time during the whole game time
> as it unfolds over 24 days. They can chat to other players as
> events unfold in the town: a summer fete, a gig by Scandinavian
> death metallists, and the arrival of an Arabic army,.
>
> Blast Theory, nominated for four BAFTAs and winner of the Prix Ars
> Electronica, is renowned internationally as one of the most
> adventurous groups using interactive media. Recent shows include
> the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the Hebbel Theater in
> Berlin and the National Museum of Singapore.
>
> Day Of The Figurines is the world’s first MUD (Multi User Domain)
> for mobile phones and was developed as part of the European
> research project IPerG (Integrated Project on Pervasive Gaming).
>
> Dates: 4th to 27th April 2007, as the first gig of our three part
> UK tour in 2007.
> Opening times: 12pm - 4pm
> Venue: Lighthouse, Unit 1, Zone B, The Argus Building, 28
> Kensington Street, Brighton
> Private View: If you would like to join us for the private view on
> the 5th of April you would be very welcome. Please contact
> kirsten@blasttheory.co.uk.
> Artist’s Talk: Matt Adams will be speaking at Digiville on the 11th
> April 2007, 7.30-9.30 pm
> For additional information, editor’s notes or pictures go to our
> webpage http://www.blasttheory.co.uk.
> For further enquiries, please contact emma@blasttheory.co.uk, +44-
> (0)1273-676040.
>
>
> –
>
> Blast Theory
> Unit 4, Level 5 South
> New England House
> New England St
> Brighton BN1 4GH
>
> T/F: +44(0)1273 676 040
>
> http://www.blasttheory.co.uk
>
> –
>
> Forthcoming Blast Theory events
>
> Can You See Me Now? Donau Festival, 19th - 21st April 2007
> http://www.donaufestival.at/index_eng.htm?
> http://www.canyouseemenow.co.uk
>
> Can You See Me Now? Dublin, 9th - 12th May 2007
> http://www.canyouseemenow.co.uk
>
> Day Of The Figurines, Brighton, The Lighthouse 4th to 27th April 2007
> http://www.lighthouse.org.uk/
> http://www.dayofthefigurines.co.uk
>
> Day Of The Figurines, Birmingham, Fierce! Festival 18th May - 10th
> June 2007
> http://www.fiercetv.co.uk/
> http://www.dayofthefigurines.co.uk
>
> Uncle Roy All Around You is being featured in the exhibition Cell
> Phone: Art and the Mobile Phone?
> currently showing at?Baltimore Contemporary Museum until 22nd April
> 2007
> http://www.contemporary.org/exhibitions
> http://www.blasttheory.co.uk/bt/work_uncleroy
>
>
>
@ 15:12
This is not a relevant comment for this item, but may be interesting.
Press Release: UK premiere of Blast Theory’s latest work
> Day Of The Figurines
>
>
> Lighthouse presents the UK premiere of Blast Theory’s latest work
> ‘Day Of The Figurines’, a mass participation artwork using mobile
> phones.
>
> Set in a fictional English town that is littered, dark and
> underpinned with steady decay ‘Day Of The Figurines’ is like a mix
> of Eastenders and Second Life directed by Quentin Tarantino.
>
> Up to 1,000 players play the game by sending text messages. To
> start they visit Lighthouse to choose a plastic figurine which is
> place onto a model of the town. From there onwards all game play is
> on the player’s phone as they try to help others, respond to
> dilemmas and complete missions.
>
> Players can join and leave at any time during the whole game time
> as it unfolds over 24 days. They can chat to other players as
> events unfold in the town: a summer fete, a gig by Scandinavian
> death metallists, and the arrival of an Arabic army,.
>
> Blast Theory, nominated for four BAFTAs and winner of the Prix Ars
> Electronica, is renowned internationally as one of the most
> adventurous groups using interactive media. Recent shows include
> the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the Hebbel Theater in
> Berlin and the National Museum of Singapore.
>
> Day Of The Figurines is the world’s first MUD (Multi User Domain)
> for mobile phones and was developed as part of the European
> research project IPerG (Integrated Project on Pervasive Gaming).
>
> Dates: 4th to 27th April 2007, as the first gig of our three part
> UK tour in 2007.
> Opening times: 12pm - 4pm
> Venue: Lighthouse, Unit 1, Zone B, The Argus Building, 28
> Kensington Street, Brighton
> Private View: If you would like to join us for the private view on
> the 5th of April you would be very welcome. Please contact
> kirsten@blasttheory.co.uk.
> Artist’s Talk: Matt Adams will be speaking at Digiville on the 11th
> April 2007, 7.30-9.30 pm
> For additional information, editor’s notes or pictures go to our
> webpage http://www.blasttheory.co.uk.
> For further enquiries, please contact emma@blasttheory.co.uk, +44-
> (0)1273-676040.
>
>
> –
>
> Blast Theory
> Unit 4, Level 5 South
> New England House
> New England St
> Brighton BN1 4GH
>
> T/F: +44(0)1273 676 040
>
> http://www.blasttheory.co.uk
>
> –
>
> Forthcoming Blast Theory events
>
> Can You See Me Now? Donau Festival, 19th - 21st April 2007
> http://www.donaufestival.at/index_eng.htm?
> http://www.canyouseemenow.co.uk
>
> Can You See Me Now? Dublin, 9th - 12th May 2007
> http://www.canyouseemenow.co.uk
>
> Day Of The Figurines, Brighton, The Lighthouse 4th to 27th April 2007
> http://www.lighthouse.org.uk/
> http://www.dayofthefigurines.co.uk
>
> Day Of The Figurines, Birmingham, Fierce! Festival 18th May - 10th
> June 2007
> http://www.fiercetv.co.uk/
> http://www.dayofthefigurines.co.uk
>
> Uncle Roy All Around You is being featured in the exhibition Cell
> Phone: Art and the Mobile Phone?
> currently showing at?Baltimore Contemporary Museum until 22nd April
> 2007
> http://www.contemporary.org/exhibitions
> http://www.blasttheory.co.uk/bt/work_uncleroy
>
>
>