Internet Radio Interview Archived

May 17, 2010
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Share So yesterday evening, I was interviewed by a fellow named Garfield Stinvil who runs an online vidders community called Vidders.net. I haven’t actually listened to it yet, as I cannot stand hearing myself talk, but I give a ton of info on the RE/Mixed Media Festival, it’s background and origin, the formation of LOFI [...]

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GRANT PROPOSAL: 2ND Annual RE/Mixed Media Festival: An Exhibition of Controversial Art, Film and Media.

May 10, 2010

Share PLEASE NOTE: This proposal was created for a class  so some of the numbers for the 2010 festival are made-up, as it was written before the this year’s festival took place.  Also, not all of the artistic advisory panel have actually accepted that post.  I used bios of people in the festival.  In general, [...]

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Jarmusch’s Golden Rules v. Grindhouse Manifesto

May 1, 2010
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Share In class Wednesday, David Nugent, my American Independent Cinema professor at The New School, read Jim Jarmusch’s Golden Rules of Filmmaking, published by MovieMaker magazine in 2002.  It was the first time I’d heard them, and was struck by the uncanny similarity to the Grindhouse Manifesto, a creed I wrote in 1997 – published [...]

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Review of Literature: The Effects of Corporate Copyright Persecution on Fan Relationships to Media Texts

April 29, 2010
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The proposed topic of research is the effect these efforts have had on the fans’ relationship to the brand and its franchises. How, exactly, do these networks think these types of activities will affect their revenues, and have those fears been borne out? Is the fan’s affinity with the brand or franchise adversely affected by persecution by the network? How is the fan community at large affected by the networks’ activities, and what effect does that, in turn, have on the brand? What are some potential solutions that would satisfy both the brands and the networks?

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‘The Former New York’ @ MILLENNIUM FILM WORKSHOP

April 25, 2010
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Share I met Richard, the photographer/filmmaker at a party last weekend – super interesting guy who documents the changes in NYC through photography and film. We had a great conversation about the “old” New York in the mid-80′s, when I moved to NYC for the first time from my ex-hometown of Boston, MA.   He’s [...]

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Media Jamming in the Digital Age

April 19, 2010
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Just finished my final web project for my ‘Media Language and Society’ – fortunately, I’ve included stuff about media, language and society so I should be good. Media Jamming in the Digital Age (not such a clever title, I know) takes a brief look at 3 media jammers: Joey Skaggs, The Billboard Liberation Front, and The Yes Men and how digital tech both affects the way they work and their outcomes.

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Reaction to ‘The Free-Appropriation Writer’ in the New York Times

April 12, 2010
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On February 26 2010, in a piece called “The Free-Appropriation Writer,” The New York Times’ Randy Kennedy reported on the recent controversy over German novelist Helene Hegemann, and whether the use of another writer’s work in her novel was theft or an allowable form of “sampling” or “remix.” In this piece I’ll try to show how Kennedy’s article misses the central issue around the copyright/appropriation debate – the idea/expression dichotomy – and further,how the article misrepresents the interests of artists and copyright activists.

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