Audio from Ars Electronica Talk

A quick update from Ars Electronica here in Linz Austria. I gave my talk on Political Remix Video and building a critical culture this Saturday as part of the New Cultural Economy Symposium IV.

You can listen to the MP3 of the talk on the Ars Electronica site and hear the audio from the panel discussion afterward. Here also is the YouTube playlist I used in my presentation linking to all the videos I referenced.

The Symposium IV line-up included Isaac Mao speaking on Sharism, Georgia Popplewell on Global Voices and Elizabeth Stark on free culture movements. Be sure to check out audio from all the symposium speakers including those mentioned above. Video should be available shortly.

Photo by Joi Ito

Remix at the New Forms Festival

My remix Go Army: Bad Guys will be featured as part of the Politube collection at the New Forms Festival this September in Vancouver Canada. Politube is curated by fellow political remixer Frank Lopez of submedia.tv. The discription for the show reads in part:

“Politube features the highlights of the short history of political videos online. From Canadian filmmaker Stephen Marshall’s “Channel Surfing the Apocalypse” to Jonathan McIntosh’s TV commercial mash-ups, the diverse world of Politube lives up to the name of the first web browser.”

Speaking at the Ars Electronica Symposium 2008

This week I’m on my way to give a talk on Political Remix Video at Ars Electronica, a festival for art, technology and society in Linz, Austria. My presentation focuses on Political Remix Video as a critical genre of new online media.  It will be part of the symposium session IV entitled “Politics and Collective Action in Modern Open Society”. This year’s theme A New Cultural Economy: The Limits of Intellectual Property is curated by Joi Ito who I met while curating the political remix section of the 24/7 DIY Summit earlier this year at USC.

More updates will be posted soon including photos and hopefully video from Linz. I’ll also upload my essay “Building a Critical Culture with Political Remix Video” which I wrote for this years Ars catalog.

Welcome to My New Site

You are looking at Jonathan McIntosh’s brand new website. Here you will find all my remix video work, social justice photography, writing and news updates about my most recent adventures. This endeavor has been in the works for over a year, ever since I transferred my URL from the old, long and hard to remember capedmaskedandarmed.com to the new and improved rebelliouspixels.com

All my older Political Remix Videos can be viewed on either my Blip.tv channel or my YouTube channel. All new Remixes will be posted here on this site. My collection of links to other exceptional Political Remix Videos by creators across the web can be found on this blog.

My recent photography collections are still active and available by clicking on Photography Archives in the sidebar under other pages. My older photography collections can be found on my Wikimedia Commons user page. All my new photo collections and snapshots will be posted on this site under photoblog.

You will notice that you can now grab my site’s RSS feed from the sidebar or if you click on Subscription Options you can add RSS feeds for specific categories. On that page you can also check out my video channels on youtube, miro and blip.tv

The top menu will give you all the posts in each of the given categories. On the sidebar you can also find links to my facebook and myspace profiles as well as my very new delicious account with my favorite links. Also below each post you will find a series of buttons for social bookmarking sites so you can easily share my latest work .

The site is in beta mode at the moment and I’ll be adding new features as the weeks go by. Take a look around and feel free to leave a comment with your thoughts and suggestions for this new site!

The Real Power of Human Energy

Another identity correction remix that turns Chevron’s multi-million dollar Human Energy “greenwashing” PR blitz on its head. Though the video targets Chevron Oil and their Orwellian “Human Energy” campaign, it also focuses more broadly on corporate control of global oil supplies and the connection to brutal American foreign policy. In this corrected commercial the company’s true nature is exposed for what it is, a heartless profit-driven oil machine. The Chevron corporation is not only an ecological catastrophe around the world but still does business with the Burma dictatorship, has oil contracts in war-torn Iraq and is responsible for human rights atrocities in the Niger Delta, among other unpleasant and nasty things.

Remix Source Media: Chevron TV ads, US Army ads, BBC News, Discovery Channel’s Future Weapons, the TV show CSI plus several other short clips recorded off television.

You can also see these and other remixes on my Blip.tv and YouTube channels.

Go Army: Bad Guys

A remixed commercial targeting the US Army’s use of torture in Iraq and around the world. The video (re)creates a military recruitment television ad to expose army atrocities as well as highlight the disturbing normalization and acceptance of torture in the collective consciousness of American youth.

The remix is an example of an Identity Correction ad, a term borrowed from political pranksters The Yes Men. Identity Correction functions in Political Remix Videos by mimicking and often appropriating the advertisements of powerful institutions in order to change or “correct” their carefully constructed PR image. I premiered this remix at the 24/7 DIY Video Summit in Los Angeles, February 2008.  I was also curating a screening of Political Remix Video at the event which was put on by USC.

Remix Source Media: US Army ads, TBS TV promo for “Bad Guys Week”, clips from the movie Rendition and the documentary film Taxi to the Dark Side, plus several other short clips recorded off television.

You can also see these and other remixes on my Blip.tv and YouTube channels.