Oxy Videotheque Presents ARTBOUND: Cultural Journalism and Transmedia Storytelling

Join us for a night of screening and conversation with Juan Devis, Executive producer of KCET's ARTBOUND.

March 20: 7-9 PM in Occidental's Choi Auditorium

How have online platforms, social media structures, and streaming video capacities transformed possibilities for cultural media production? KCET’s Artbound demonstrates such possibilities as a team of over 50 cultural critics from across Southern California write and post articles on the emerging artists and activities of SoCal’s vibrant art community to the Artbound website. Site visitors vote on the articles, with top picks shot and produced as short video documentaries that are then streamed online and broadcast on KCET, America’s largest independent television station. The creators of Artbound seek to transform traditional modes of top-down media production, instead creating mechanisms “through which audiences can take direct action in the creation of a common narrative.” Executive Producer Juan Devis will share the genesis of Artbound, screen sample episodes, and join in conversation about the potentials of such transmedia storytelling. More at http://www.kcet.org/arts/artbound

Oxy Videotheque: Electronic Art & Activism 1967-2014 is the theme of Occidental Media Arts & Culture Program's Spring, 2014 Cinematheque series. In a digital moment where terms such as “cinema” and “film” are becoming increasingly blurred, this series focuses on video, the electronic medium that has precipitated much of that change. From its analog origins, to digital and now web-based iterations, video has profoundly transformed cinematic ideas of authorship, audience, aesthetics, and agency. Moving from early guerrilla video collectives and community-based video activism, to database documentary and video performance art, this series of spring events invites participants to explore the politics, poetics, and potentials of video. 

The series website with full details and schedule of events is now live at: http://oxymac.com/cinematheque

A printable campus map is accessible at:http://www.oxy.edu/sites/default/files/assets/OXYmap.pdf

McKinnon/Johnson Hall is # 2 on the printable campus map, in the center of campus. The map indicates a number of different general parking options on campus.
 
This series is made possible with generous support from the Remsen-Bird Fund.