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- 1. TOTALLY BUSTED Do we need a YouTube for video art?
- 2. "The cassette will diversify the video culture. Now there is only one television structure in the United States, one-way communication from three major networks. You get their kind of television, or you must cut it off. But in the future world, you will have cable TV, video cassettes, and picture phones... Why move, why drive somewhere in your car, if you can do everything right at home?" Nam June Paik, 1973
- 9. "Power is no longer measured in land, labor, or capital, but by access to information and the means to disseminate it. As long as the most powerful tools (not weapons) are in the hands of those who would hoard them, no alternative cultural vision can succeed. Unless we design and implement alternate information structures which transcend and reconfigure the existing ones, other alternate systems and life styles will be no more than products of the existing process." Kate Horsfield, "Busting the Tube”
- 25. the more you share something the more valuable it becomes
- 29. "by submitting ... to YouTube, you hereby grant YouTube a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sub-licenseable and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform the User Submissions in connection with the YouTube Website and YouTube's (and its successor's) business, including without limitation for promoting and redistributing part or all of the YouTube Website (and derivative works thereof) in any media formats and through any media channels."
- 31. "Television is the most popular medium in our culture. But broadcast and cable TV has always been controlled by a small number of big corporations. We believe that the internet provides an opportunity to open television in ways that have never been possible before. Miro is designed to eliminate gatekeepers. Viewers can connect to any video provider that they want. This frees creators to use the video hosting setup that works best for them - whether they choose to self-publish or use a service. It's the kind of openness that the internet allows and that we should all demand."
- 34. To establish an international hub of video artists, filmmakers and audiences. To expand video arts into public spaces accessible to a wider audience. To create an online community of filmmakers and artists.
- 40. TOTALLY BUSTED