We dig this!

On Friday August 20, 2010 Northside Social went YouTube playground where eight curators were linked live via video conferencing to the Northside Social audience to show and discuss their favorite hot, cold, weird, sexy, narrative, abstract, fictive, documentary, obscure (and not so) YouTube clips.

It was a great success! Thanks for joining and making it happen. Our partners were Northside Social and Arlington Independent Media (AIM).

the youtube salon photo
Photo by Alison Christ

The entire show was recorded on UStream.TV. We will do an after party (cocktail hour) soon and will show the projection in the background or show it at the next salon. Stay tuned!

What We Dig:

Life interaction between curators, moderators, and audience via audio and video.
Seeing the projection of a curator next to the projection of the chosen video: It became an ART PIECE in itself!
The mix of real-life versus virtual-life intermixed with time based and social media.

Thank You again! Stay tuned for the next one...

The YouTube Salon - Tag & Share

For one night only, Northside Social was going YouTube playground where an artist, a poet, and a journalist in Washington DC, a sociologist, a communications designer, and a Latitudinarian in Mannheim, a sound designer in Tokyo, and a photographer in New Orleans will be linked live via video conference to the Northside Social audience to show and discuss their favorite hot, cold, weird, sexy, narrative, abstract, fictive, documentary, obscure (and not so) YouTube clips.

What do they like to look at? Everything. From everywhere.

Art Outlet presented its fifth new media show, an international YouTube Salon, in partnership with Northside Social and Arlington Independent Media (AIM) on Friday, August 20, 2010 at 9:00 P.M.

You Tube History

YouTube is a video-sharing website, owned by Google, on which users can upload, share, and view videos. The company uses Adobe Flash Video technology to display a wide variety of user-generated video content, including movie clips, TV clips, and music videos, as well as amateur content such as video blogging and short original videos.

Most of the content on YouTube has been uploaded by individuals, although media corporations including CBS, the BBC, UMG and other organizations offer some of their material via the site, as part of the YouTube partnership program.

Other video sharing sites have emerged, such as Vimeo, Flickr, Myspace, Facebook and 'streaming media' will be more important as a means of communication and documentation as internet technology evolves and we as humans adapt to the digital revolution.