Today,
it’s funny to look back only five years at the first
YouTube video,
“Me at the Zoo” by Google co-founder Jawed
Karim, and consider Andy
Warhol’s cliched “15
minutes” in light of the Internet,
YouTube
and
21st
century video art. As misguided as the concept unfortunately
may be,
fame
is no longer relative to time and has rooted itself
in the act of
participation, sharing, and community. It is obvious
today that Nam
June Paik was correct in his prediction that something
would
happen to not only offer us access to millions
of channels but to
allow us to create, curate, and critique for a global
critical mass
that is interacting 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Billions
of
ephemeral stars looking to connect with others with the
slight,
almost random chance of reaching a “too
real to be true” state of
popular
acclaim.
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