I have to confess I missed the video slam here in Melbourne. Anyway, Keith who I am working on a video database project with went along and slammed some video. More specific notes on the video slam blog. They had five groups of five people working on five 2-minute video sections. The AV content for these sections could be grabbed from Internet sources that provided creative commons licensed content. There was a copyright lawyer there and they brought 2 creative common reps down from Queensland. These people where checking the content and licenses as the groups put their sections together. The end objective was to then to join the 5 x 2-minute sections into one clip - which apparently by the end of the session was played back on a public screen at fed square here in the centre of the city. Keith described how his group opted to shoot some of their own video footage and remix instead the audio component which was creative commons licensed excepts of Kafka raves and other more well known literary giants. All stuff that was cleared by the cc reps. Keith said he went for this approach as an alternative to purely remixing video. I think, what is interesting about the way the event was put together is the idea of including a number of people in the process, people who had not worked together before. An approach that possibly follows more of a user-generated line than one artist doing a performance.

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