The Machine is Us/ing Us (Final Version)
This is a slightly revised and cleaned up version of the video that was featured on YouTube in February 2007.
Many of the future videos will address the last 30 seconds of this video (the "rethink ..." part).- On 1) Copyright 2) Authorship 3) Identity 4) Ethics & 7) Governance
There are higher quality versions available for download:
Windows Media File (55 MB):
http://www.mediafire.com/?2wnmpy2ibz1
Quicktime File (96 MB):
http://www.mediafire.com/?axhbjnmw4yn
Mojiti Version (for comments, translations, etc.):
http://mojiti.com/kan/2743/5984
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons
Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. So you are welcome to download it, share it, even change it, just as long as you give me some credit and you don't sell it or use it to sell anything. I received many more positive comments than negative about the song choice (great work Deus!), but if you are one of those who does not like the song just download the video and change the audio track to your liking.
The video was created by (Michael Wesch), working alone from his house in St. George, Kansas. he used CamStudio for the screen captures and Sony Vegas for the panning/cropping/zooming animations.
This Work, The Machine is Us/ing Us (Final Version) , by Michael Wesch is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license. There are alternative licensing options available.
Comments
1) Copyright 2) Authorship 3) Identity 4) Ethics & 7) Governance -
We've touched on most of the above through DIAL, Ethics is one I hope we'll dig deeper into on the open practice unit, 'Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy' - http://process.arts.ac.uk/content/remix-making-art-and-commerce-thrive-hybrid-economy being on the reading list will help.
Also this is a great debate in terms of appropriation art and design - The Case for Appropriation: Rob Storr (I need to upload the rest) - http://process.arts.ac.uk/content/case-appropriation-rob-storr