PARTICIPATE IN FURI (THE FAIR USE REMIX INSTITUTE)

Mix and Mash your way to a freer youth culture
OPEN YOUTH NETWORKS IS NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR SCHOLARSHIPS

Click here to download your application. application-scholarship-furi.doc

Click here to download the Flyer

FURI [pronounced fury] is a two week digital media workshop for socially-conscious Chicago teens.

Up to 15 Scholarships are available to Socially-Active Youth worth $1,000. (Scholarships cover entire costs of tuition, travel, equipment fees, free copies of publications and yearly access to equipment and editing facilities)

WHEN: July 7th-July 18th 2008 (Monday-Friday 11:00-4:00)
WHERE: CHICAGO FILMMAKERS – 5243 N. Clark, Chicago
DEADLINE: Submit SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION by June 1, 2008.

NEED MORE INFO?: Call Mindy Faber at 847-902-9158 or write her at mindyfaber@comcast.net

IN FURI YOU WILL:

• Create several remixes and mashups that are critical or satirical works of art focusing on political, social, and cultural issues, from a youth perspective
• Learn to use both on-line and offline editing and remix tools such as Kaltura, Adobe Premiere, and Final Cut Pro.
• Learn how to download or appropriate media from television and the web, including the Creative Commons and Remix America
• Work with various styles of remix including music video, movie trailer, short film, tv commercial, news and artistic
• Learn how to “quote copyrighted material” as Fair Use in order to reclaim First Amendment and Fee Speech rights
• Learn how to advocate for flexible and fair copyright laws, network neutrality and other public policies that impact your cultural rights
• Meet, converse and collaborate with a diverse group of socially-active youth from all over Chicago
• Reach and impact audiences in the hundreds, if not thousands, including: teachers, students, education administrators, scholars, activists, artists and journalists through conferences, web distributions and speaking tours. Some travel to cities such as DC, NY, LA, Boston and San Francisco may be involved.

MEET YOUR FURI Facilitators
Jonathan with YouthLAB 07 member Zane Scheuerlein at the LA DIY Video Summit in February

Jonathan McIntosh
Jonathan McIntosh is a digital media artist, photographer, and activist working in Boston and New York City. His digital video worRecut, Reframe, Recycle: Quoting Copyrighted Material in User-Generated Videok focuses primarily on transforming corporate media images by remixing them to tell alternative political and cultural narratives. This Political Remix Video work has appeared in independent film festivals, on community TV programs and at new media conferences. Jonathan currently teaches art and technology courses at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. You can find his political remix videos and photography work on his website www.politicalremix.wordpresscom
Patricia Aufderheide
Patricia Aufderheide, PhD is a professor in the School of Communication at American University in Washington, D.C., and the director of the Center for Social Media. She is the author of Recut, Reframe, Recycle: Quoting Copyrighted Material in User-Generated Video, a report that shows that many uses of copyrighted material in today’s online videos are eligible for fair use consideration.
Mindy Faber
The Founding Director of Open Youth Networks is Mindy is an award-winning independent video producer, curator and educator. She is a co-recipient (with Youth for Social Action) of the George W. Foster Peabody Award in 2007 and is the 1996 recipient of the Rockefeller Intercultural Media Fellowship.

About Chicago Filmmakers and Open Youth Networks

Chicago Filmmakers is a 33 year-old media arts organization that fosters the creation, appreciation and understanding of film and video as media for artistic and personal expression, as well as media of important social and community impact. The space is equipped with cameras, green screens, a theatre, a classroom and computer lab with state of the art software housed on new iMacs.

Open Youth Networks at Chicago Filmmakers assists young people and their allies in the design and use of digital media tools that enable them to create innovative peer-to-peer projects of dialogue, art, education and action.

What did last year’s youth participants of open Youth Networks gain from their involvement in last’s year YouthLAB workshop. Read their quotes:

YouthLAB was not only about learning media technology but also about the experience of working with a diverse group of teens my age. The program gave me the opportunity to teach media executives how to blog and a give a talk on how the youth use You-Tube in Los Angeles, California!! —Sadia Nawab

Youthlab helps one to become more self-aware of your environments and other communities; while teaching us new skills for video and how to be active in the ever-growing social network. —Kevin Eme

Youth Lab is the coolest summer program I have ever participated in! It is an enriching experience that motivated me to use media for youth activism. Because of YouthLAB I was able to receive a grant to produce a video for an international television series on environmental justice!
-Marisol Becerra

“I like the process of learning media and editing techniques in order to display important issues to the world. YouthLAB gave me the hands-on media experience and social opportunity to get my voice out to the world.” –Andres Quiroz

… being as creative as possible and then to just sit back, relax and enjoy our works of art <— that has to be the most rewarding.. Sadia Nawab

In YouthLAB, youth are put in charge of what they create and what they discuss. I met other kids from different backgrounds and neighborhoods that I never would have met otherwise ..I learned as much about social issues from them as I did about digital DIY media. –Zane Scheuerlein