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Arts Law Week 2008 - Video Slam!
 VIDEO SLAM IS BACK!
VIDEO SLAM #02: Appropriate Original
Following the success of VIDEO SLAM 2007, OPEN CHANNEL is at it again, inviting filmmakers to take part in the two-day digital media madness that is VIDEO SLAM!
VIDEO SLAM will again kick off with a two-day workshop, from Tuesday 6pm 20 May to Thursday 6pm 22 May, wherein participants will learn how to incorporate Creative Commons-licensed content into a short film produced on site at Horse Bazaar, Melbourne’s Digital Arts bar, in under 48 hours. The finished work will be screened at the VIDEO SLAM forum and re-appropriated into the live re-mix event.
In a variation of last year’s event, filmmakers, audio-visual artists, two lawyers, two curators and one producer will also slam out two and one half hours of sound and video that explores appropriation, remix, and the use of public space in the electronic arts – the VIDEO SLAM Live Remix!
The Live Remix will be followed by the VIDEO SLAM Forum featuring a distinguished panel who’ll discuss appropriated hybrid artworks, and the laws that may govern what can and can't be digitally consumed on and offline. Screening at Federation Square and workshops at Horse Bazaar, this and the two-day workshop are hands-on events for hybrid arts practitioners.
According to VIDEO SLAM Curator Andrew Garton "VIDEO SLAM is a unique event in that it not only provides a forum for the open content philosophy, it's host to a hybrid form of production where people from across many arts disciplines can meet, network and make something... together! It's certainly one of the earliest production initiatives solely devoted to Creative Commons licenses in Australia that I'm aware of..."
For a blow-by-blow account of 48 hours of Video Slam, please go to the Video Slam blog
The Event
Come along to OPEN CHANNEL's free Video Slam remix and forum at Horse Bazaar on Thursday 22 May, from 7.30pm. Film makers, artists, lawyers, and producers will slam out a sound and video work that explores appropriation, remix, and the use of public space in the electronic arts. A panel of new media practitioners will discuss appropriated hybrid artworks and the laws that may govern what can and can’t be digitally consumed on and offline. Forum participants include:
* Andrew Garton - Producer, New Media Artist
* Shaun Miller - Film Lawyer, Marshalls & Dent
* Elliott Bledsoe - Lawyer, Creative Commons Clinic
* Shiralee Saul - Curator, Educator, Creative Media Research Journalist
* Sean Healy - Plug 'n' Play
When: Thursday 22 May, from 7.30pm
Where: Horse Bazaar, 397 Little Lonsdale St, City
RSVP: artslaw@openchannel.org.au
Download the Arts Law Week Program [pdf]
VIDEO SLAM is presented by OPEN CHANNEL as part of Arts Law Week 2008 in association with Film Victoria, 3RRR, apc.au, Arts Access, Horse Bazaar, Creative Commons Clinic and Federation Square.
 FRAMED 2008 is generously supported by Film Victoria.
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