The YouTube School for Social Politics

IN PERSON: Gabriel Saloman & Sam Gould ► The YouTube School for Social Politics (YTSSP) invites historians, artists and theorists to construct passages of historical inquiry through assemblages of YouTube clips. In an increasingly invisible society we are each a consumer, creator and clearing house for knowledge, as much as we are receivers, producers and disposers of material goods. These notions of surplus knowledge play a central role within the YouTube School for Social Politics. Scattered throughout YouTube are countless personal and collective points of view and scattered historical moments. By arranging segments of documentaries, personal missives, family films, newsreels and music videos, new light is shed on the sociopolitical landscape of history past and history present.

Red76 is the moniker for initiatives most often conceived by Sam Gould and collaboratively realized with Zefrey Throwell, Gabriel Saloman, Dan S. Wang, Mike Wolf, Laura Baldwin and many others dispersed throughout the world. Their initiatives focus on the facilitation of discussion, thought and action within public space. Their projects manifest within the realms of printed matter, multi-media, social practices and anything else they can get their hands on.

Mystery Ecology - Gabriel Saloman | 2009 | 55 mins. | dv
Thank You Masked Man - Sam Gould | 2009 | 50 mins. | dv

Co-presented with ARTSPEAK and VIVO Media Arts Centre

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RELATED EVENTS · SATURDAY, JANUARY 16

ARTSPEAK: Artist Talk with Sam Gould and Robby Herbst. Sam and Robby, editors of The Journal of Radical Shimming and The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest respectively, will discuss their use of printed matter in art, social engagement and politics.

VIVO: Screening and Conversation with Robby Herbst // Mediation, Self Marginalization and Post Politics in Protest Media - Robby Herbst | 2009 | 60 mins | dv Visit www.dimcinema.ca for further details.