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Hyvinkään Taidemuseo, 30.07.2009 klo 16.00

 'Clip Kino' by Andrew Paterson

Clip Kino events are self-organised screening events of short video clips & documentaries found online. It aims to drag aspects of normalised 'private' activity - of viewing downloaded content on one's own computer - into public space for screening, appreciation and debate.

It has been facillitated by Andrew Paterson, since November 2007, as an open model for self-organised screening events. Clip Kino follows on from traditions of social cinema clubs that have used other distributable formats such as VHS and DVD. Likewise, one or more guest-host(s) are responsible on each occasion for arranging the video content, like a curated screening, although the platform can also be used to invite others to contribute, either live with the audience or remote in advance.

However, unlike other social cinematic events, the content is solely consisted from what can be freely downloaded from P2P file-sharing online networks, and popular media sharing platforms. Due to the relatively democratic ability of ease in gaining the content, the curation process is more egalitarian and less based on privilege of ownership or access. It is a dialogical structure which flattens distinction between the participant and organiser.

However, public viewing of moving-image content from the internet falls into the grey-legal area that affects many of the video-sharing websites. The term 'media-environmental awareness' could be applied to include the social ecology of one's interests, desires, and attentions in one's peer-group and community. This is 'direct action' media literacy: What media is online? Who is watching it? What does it mean to them, and indeed to you? Where does the video clip come from? How was it produced and distributed? Has it inspired copies, remixes or derivatives? This activity is a practical and critical encounter with intellectual property (IP) issues and the emerging configurations of public-private space.

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