Media Fetish: The Vidshow!

I'm thrilled to welcome Francesca Coppa to Brown University for this event!

Friday, April 6th, 4-6pm @ Kassar Foxboro Theater (151 Thayer St.)
FREE and Open to the Public

girlboymusic pointed me to a mention of this vidshow in comments at Idolator -- what more incentive do you need than that?!

BLURB
Fanvids, a mashup genre with a 30-year history, are attracting increasing attention today as YouTube and its ilk make internet video ubiquitous. These music videos, constructed of recombined clips from movies or TV, are traditionally created within a predominantly female subculture, and often make feminist and/or queer statements about their mass media source texts. This combination screening-lecture- discussion will contextualize vidding as form and practice and explore its intricate techniques for queering media technologies and bodies. Insider veejays [us] will highlight examples that critique the mainstream representation of gender and sexuality and that self-reflexively elucidate vidding as a technology of fannish fetishism. Variably provocative, joyous, hilarious, and surprising, these ingenious underground artifacts offer a unique vision of the possibilities of popular appropriation.


FEMINIST FETISHISM

vidder(s): California Crew
title: Oh Boy
music: Buddy Holly
fandom: Quantum Leap

vidder(s): California Crew
title: Pressure
music: Billy Joel
fandom: California Crew

vidder(s): Rache and Sandy
title: A Fannish Taxonomy of Hotness
music: Buster Poindexter
fandom: multi


QUEER EYES

vidder(s): laurashapiro
title: Wouldn't It Be Nice
music: The Beach Boys
fandom: multi

vidder(s): Media Cannibals
title: Detachable Penis
music: King Missile
fandom: The Professionals

vidder(s): killabeez and tjonesy
title: Closer
music: Nine Inch Nails
fandom: Star Trek TOS


VIDDING VIDDING

vidder(s): laurashapiro and halcyon_shift
title: I Put You There
music: Mary Schmary
fandom: Giles

vidder(s): flummery (Seah and Margie)
title: Walking on the Ground
music: Sheldon Allman
fandom: multi

vidder(s): counteragent
title: Destiny Calling
music: James
fandom: vidding


GENDER TROUBLE

vidder(s): absolutedestiny
title: I Enjoy Being a Girl
music: Sandra Allen
fandom: Alias, Buffy, BSG, Firefly, Veronica Mars

vidder(s): obsessive24
title: Piece of Me
music: Britney Spears
fandom: Britney Spears

vidder(s): sockkpuppett
title: Vogue
music: Madonna
fandom: 300


EPILOGUE

vidder(s): dualbunny
title: Snakes on a Plane
music: Cobra Starship
fandom: Harry Potter

We have obtained permission from the vidders in the show. Many of these vids, and more, screened at 24/7: A DIY Video Summit.