Tag: video

Global Gaga

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IF5WYaoWXI4]

As I’m preparing a talk on Lady Gaga for the upcoming conference “Cultural Distinctions Remediated: Beyond the High, the Low, and the Middle” (to be held here in Hannover December 15-17, 2011), Ruth Mayer just sent me a link to the video above. Wow! What else can you say about that? (Especially if, like me, you don’t understand even a fraction of what’s going on there?) Judging from the looks of it, this certainly seems to be one remediation that’s “beyond the high, the low, and the middle” – where exactly is it, though, and who’s that woman at 3:15-3:20? (By the way, if anyone’s looking for X-mas present ideas, I’ll take one of those cool t-shirts with her face on it being peddled via the youtube video description):

Cognitive Media

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uk8x3V-sUgU]Evgeny Morozov: “The Internet in Society: Empowering or Censoring Citizens?”

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpAMbpQ8J7g]Slavoj Zizek: “First as Tragedy, then as Farce”

Following up on the video of Iain McGilchrist’s talk on “The Divided Brain,” which I posted earlier, I have discovered that Andrew Park’s animation studio Cognitive Media has produced a number of great animations for talks by a range of interesting speakers, including these by Evgeny Morozov and Slavoj Zizek.

The Divided Brain

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFs9WO2B8uI&w=640&h=360]

Fascinating video: not sure about all the connections drawn between cognitive and social structures, but the animation alone (by artist Andrew Park) justifies taking the time to listen to (and watch!) this talk by Iain McGilchrist.

Shane Denson, “Media Crisis, Serial Chains, and the Mediation of Change”

Back in June, I posted a screencast video of “Frame, Sequence, Medium: Comics in Plurimedial and Transnational Perspective,” a presentation I gave at the German Association for American Studies 2011 annual conference in Regensburg. This got me thinking about making screencast versions of other talks I’ve given. Here is one for a talk entitled “Media Crisis, Serial Chains, and the Mediation of Change: Frankenstein on Film,” which I gave at the American Studies Association annual conference in San Antonio, Texas on November 19, 2010.