Links for Monday

Next week, we'll be covering web parady, hacktivism, memes, machinima, mash-ups, detournement, and other forms of unofficial "net art." "All Your Base Are Belong to Us" falls under this category.

Here are the presentations that I assigned last Friday, including the links that I've associated with them (but you can add other material if you find it):

Monday:

Joanna: mash-ups
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastard_pop
(there are tons of mash-up projects about this, but one of the most famous is The Grey Album http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grey_Album)

Alyssa: machinima
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machinima
(again, there are tons of examples, but the most famous is probably Red vs. Blue -- you should plan to show some of them: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_vs._Blue)

Wednesday:

Melissa: memes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memes
(find a few good examples to illustrate the concept and plan to show some -- this website actively tries to propogate them: http://www.fark.com/)

Danielle: detournement
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detournement
(this is a concept that was conceived by the Situationists -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situationist_International -- but I don't expect you to report on them, just find examples of detournement that you can use)

Friday

Annalysa: hacktivism, "Blackness for Sale"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacktivism
http://obadike.tripod.com/ebay.html
(try to talk about another example of "Hacktivism" that you find through the wikipedia entry, but concentrate on Keith Obadike)

Kathryn: outsider art
Outsider Art: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outsider_art
(try to find one or two good examples of "Outsider art" that you find through the wikipedia entry)

Stuff I will probably talk about:

The Yes Men
http://www.theyesmen.org/

MyBall
http://collection.eliterature.org/1/works/rider__myball.html

Found Art at Ubu.com:
http://www.ubu.com/outsiders/

Hillary Clinton Meme
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2412676&perpage=40&pagenumber=1

Snakes on a Plane Trailer
http://youtube.com/results?search_query=snakes+on+a+plane+trailer