Conference Report - by Fred McVittie
Find out more about what happened at this 3 day symposium by watching Fred's reports. They were recorded during his time as an artist in residence in Aberystwyth 2-4 May 2011. Many of the videos have discussion threads underneath them when watched on youtube and these are really worth reading too. Click the link under each video to watch them on youtube.
Fred McVittie is an artist and educator currently based at University College Falmouth. His background is in performance and experimental theatre, having worked with companies such as Forced Entertainment and Manact. More recently his work has been in social media, particularly blogging and video sharing, looking at these media as both sites for performative engagement and as tools which allow for the re-imagining of concepts such as 'relation' and 'participation'.
Fred's Youtube channel, ‘The Conference Report’, carries some 1500 videos on a range of topics, but mostly around themes of perception, embodiment, consciousness, performance, and the life sciences. These videos typically attract healthy exchanges of text comments and also video responses from other Youtube users. For the symposium Fred acted as 'Youtuber in Residence', making a series of videos on themes emergent from the presentations, performances and discussions. These were immediately uploaded to his Conference Report Youtube channel (http://youtube.com/conferencereport) where they became available for engagement by the community of users he is connected to and beyond.
Fred's Youtube channel, ‘The Conference Report’, carries some 1500 videos on a range of topics, but mostly around themes of perception, embodiment, consciousness, performance, and the life sciences. These videos typically attract healthy exchanges of text comments and also video responses from other Youtube users. For the symposium Fred acted as 'Youtuber in Residence', making a series of videos on themes emergent from the presentations, performances and discussions. These were immediately uploaded to his Conference Report Youtube channel (http://youtube.com/conferencereport) where they became available for engagement by the community of users he is connected to and beyond.
1 - "Hi Youtube. I'm in Aberystwyth, Wales, for the next couple of day taking part in a symposium called 'Relation and Participation'. I'll be sending videos from there so if you'd like to join in the conversation that would be great. (I've got my bunny ears in case it gets boring). It's being livecast so if you're quick you might be able to see me introduce myself in about 30 minutes time.http://www.relateparticipate.com/index.html Fred" Fred McVittie
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watch on youtube to see discussions about this video.
2 - "Only 11 people watched this live? My life is over, I want to die etc. I looked much cooler and more attractive live, honest/ p.s. fuck you She is wearing clothes, it's a black off-the-shoulder number. Very nice. I'm in the bar. Life is sweet." Fred McVittie
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watch on youtube to see discussions about this video.
3 - "Basic rambly overview about the first evening at the Relation Participation symposium at Aberystwyth" Fred McVittie
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4 - "In which skinned rabbit feels lonely, but says hi to some friends." Fred McVittie
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watch on youtube to see discussions about this video.
5 - "What it was like to get my kit off, and why folk didn't join me." Fred McVittie
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Find more of Fred's videos on his youtube channel conferencereport
Responses to Fred...
Fred's reports from the 'Relation and Participation' symposium received a number of responses on youtube.
"JUST AN ARTISTIC EXPRESSION OF AN ARTISTIC EXPRESSION... AND IT IS MY STRONG OPINION THAT FRED(CONFERENCEREPORT) IS A TRUE THESPIAN"
Uploaded to youtube by Elenkhos on May 3, 2011
Uploaded to youtube by Elenkhos on May 3, 2011
"The technology, will, and mind work all come together to emancipate one."
Uploaded to youtube by GingerAtheist on May 3, 2011
Uploaded to youtube by GingerAtheist on May 3, 2011
"funny fred fucken fooling from fucktardiea"
Uploaded to youtube by GloomBoomDoom on May 2, 2011
Uploaded to youtube by GloomBoomDoom on May 2, 2011
"we see art, we understand its a protest, we know its about free speech. yadda yadda yadda" theBraveNewCoward
Uploaded to youtube by theBraveNewCoward on May 4, 2011
Uploaded to youtube by theBraveNewCoward on May 4, 2011
"IF YOU WANT TO SEE INMENDHAM NAKED, GO WATCH THIS VIDEO... OH AND OF COURSE THE PHILOSOPHY IS IMPORTANT ALSO.. :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1sBbs_zFYg&feature=channel_video_title " Elenkhos
Uploaded to youtube by Elenkhos on may 5, 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1sBbs_zFYg&feature=channel_video_title " Elenkhos
Uploaded to youtube by Elenkhos on may 5, 2011
