YouthLAB has been invited to participate in 24/7: A DIY Video Summit

School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California24/7: A DIY Video Summit will bring together the many communities that have evolved around do-it-yourself (DIY) video:
artists, audiences, technology providers, academics, policy makers and industry executives. Speakers include Henry Jenkins, Yochai Benkler and Lawrence Lessig. Guest curators include Ryanne Hodson, Eric Sax and Mindy Faber

Mindy Faber and YouthLAB Chicago members are among the six chosen curators for this three day event. We are leading a Sunday workshop and organizing a program called YouTube-sized: Youth Personas, Protests, Paranoias & Pleasures

In addition, our video THE REVOLUTION WILL BE TELEVISED will screen in the MAIN PROGRAM. Learn more at http://www.video24-7.org/

24/7 will feature curated programs on design video, activist documentary, youth media, machinima, music video, political remix and video blogging. The video program will culminate in an evening program and reception on February 9 that will draw from all of these video genres.

We hope to raise money so that as many of our YouthLAB members can attend as possible. Please donate to our ChipIN site http://openyouth.chipin.com/travel-fund-to-la-diy-fest.

Here is more about our selection.
YouTube-sized: Youth Personas, Protests, Paranoia s & Pleasures

A beguiling collection of works dealing with thorny issues of youth pleasure and protest
in the networked public media landscape. Curated by members of Open Youth
Networks, under the guidance of PeabodyAward-winning video artist/curator/educator Mindy Faber. The
program is presented by youth in four 10-15 minute acts.

PRO-LOGUE
The Revolution Will Be Televised by YouthLAB 1:45 2007

ACT ONE
Cell-Phone Cinema
From counter-surveillance to Luke Johnson’s Phone experiment, teens make the most
of mobile media devices. Media moments made by teens - captured in private and
made public through YouTube.

ACT TWO
Youth Culture as Terrorist Threat
A teen perspective on the Boston Bomb Scare as played out on the internet by Fox
News, Comedy Central, the Mayor of Boston and a slew of news outlets. The
presentation includes a compelling compendium of video responses to the moral panic
instilled by youth culture in the form of mooninites and Lite Brite toys.

ACT THREE
“TV is Sooooooo 20th Century”
What we as youth watch online and why. From Ask a Ninja to sleeping puppies to
underground music – teens curate and analyze their own online video pleasures.

ACT FOUR
Trying on a Different Face (What’s Your Cultural Makeup?)
A montage of short videos and vlogs in which youth either construct or imitate
different personas online. This disarming and intimate selection reveals how we as
youth attempt to make sense of gender, race, class and other identities by pretending
to be an(other). Videos include What if Men Menstruated, Geisha Girl, Slip of
the Tongue, and a montage of YouTube videos in which youth pretend to be of
another race, gender or ethnicity.