I Am User Generated

For all of you that follow this blog you’ll be well aware of my recent obsession with Mash Media Storytelling. I’ve finished my thesis defense on the subject and now have been presenting the notion to conferences. I don’t have all the answers but I do want to champion the cause of art making through appropriated work that is redistributed through socially networked channels to a mass audience.
I’ve had some great feedback and some interesting discussion around this topic but it wasn’t until today that I really saw a great manifestation of the theory.
I’m so grateful to Kutiman who created a project called THRU YOU where he sourced a series of YouTube clips where people were making music and then re-edited them to create a new beautiful song. For all my pontificating on the subject all it took was this work of art to be produced to really explain the concept.
Please check out his work and support this project:
Mother of All Funk Chords
This is What it Became
I’m New
Babylon Band
Someday
Wait for Me
Just a Lady