User:Laura Macchini/thesisOutline

Thesis Outline

description of my graduation project

My graduation project revolves around confessional youtube videos. It is (going to be) an interactive video installation, in which the behaviour of the spectator in front of the projection/screen influences the content(level of intimacy) of the video shown.

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1. history of the concept of celebrity
2. appearing on TV means becoming a celebrity
   1. TV Culture in Italy: Videocracy
3. participation in Talk Shows and Reality TV Series
   1. Judge Jury and So
4. Imitating the professional entertainment Industry
   1. (Difference between being on tv and having videos online)
5. Confessional Youtube Videos
6. Praising of User Generated Content
   1. In the interests of Companies that produce Electronics (Cameras, Videocameras, Camcorders-Webcams)
   2. In the interests of SocialNetworks that host the content (Flickr,Youtube,Vimeo,Facebook..)
7. Production and Consumption of Entertainment

bibliography

• Tom Mc Carthy - Remainder
• Mark Hansen and Ben Rubin - Listening Post
• Kim ki Duk - Time
• Geert Mul - Match of the Day
• Lernert & Sander - I Love Alaska
• Philip K. Dick - Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
• Ondi Timoner - We Live in Public
• Laurie Ouellette & James Hay - Better Living through Reality TV
• David Shields - Reality Hunger: A Manifesto
• Jon McKenzie - Perform or Else
• Olivia Rochette & Gerard-Jan Claes - Because We Are Visual
• Erving Goffman - The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
• Jorinde Seijdel, Liesbeth Melis - Open 19: Beyond Privacy: New Perspectives on the Public and Private Domains
• Geert Lovink, Rachel Somers Miles - Video Vortex Reader II
• Geert Lovink, Sabine Niederer - Video Vortex Reader I
• Andrew Keen, The Cult of the Amateur