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Art Fag City To Kill The World Series of Tubing This Saturday

by Paddy Johnson on May 3, 2011
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The World Championships of Youtubing are once more upon us. This time hosted at The Museum of Moving Image as part of Signal to Noise, this great sporting event asks contestants to pit their favorite internet videos against one another. Audience vote by shining lazer pointers on the bullseye aligned with their favorite video. This year I have been invited back to reclaim my throne.

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Eyebeam’s World Series of Tubing: Round Three

by Art Fag City on November 24, 2009

POST BY PADDY JOHNSON Eyebeam World Championships of ‘Tubing. Photo: Marina Galperina Eyebeam's World Series of ‘Tubing pits contestants' favorite web videos against one another in a three-round series. The following is my third post in a series of three listing my selections for the tournament. Related: Round one. Round two. Round three

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Eyebeam’s World Series of Tubing, Round Two

by Art Fag City on November 24, 2009

POST BY PADDY JOHNSON Eyebeam world championships of tubing. Photo: Marina Galperina Eyebeam's World Series of Tubing pits contestants’ favorite web videos against one another in a three-round series. The following is my second post in a series of three listing my selections for the tournament. Related: Round one. Round Two

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Eyebeam’s World Series of Tubing: Round One

by Art Fag City on November 24, 2009

POST BY PADDY JOHNSON Art Fag City competes! Those who missed Art Fag City’s show down at Eyebeam’s World Series of Tubing because they hate web video won’t be happy with the upcoming series of posts. I’m publishing my competition choices throughout the day. The game pits contestants favorite web videos against one another in a […]

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Art Fag City Almost Wins Eyebeam’s World Series of Tubing

by Art Fag City on November 23, 2009

POST BY PADDY JOHNSON This Friday I nabbed the number one position amongst Internet professionals in Eyebeam’s World Series of Tubing, only to be quickly dethroned by a contestant drawn from the crowd. Conceived by Jeff Crouse and Aaron Meyers, this particular permutation of YouTube contest assumes audience members have already seen most of the chosen […]

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Tonight Only: Eyebeam’s World Series of Tubing!

by Art Fag City on November 20, 2009

POST BY PADDY JOHNSON Angela Lansbury masturbates in a tub. from Everything Is Terrible on Vimeo. Screw video artist Cyprien Gaillard and Koudlam’s live performance tonight at the Kitchen — I’m going to the World Series of Tubing at Eyebeam! Granted, I’m a participant, so I’m contractually obligated to go, but I encourage those interested in […]

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World Series of ‘Tubing!

by Paddy Johnson on April 26, 2011

World Series of ‘Tubing! – May 7th people. Do not miss this!

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YouTube Competitions Over the Years

by Paddy Johnson on May 23, 2011
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Hands up if you don’t know what a youtube contest is. I’ve been talking about them for the last four years, but in case you’ve missed one of those posts: participation usually involves spending hours at home on youtube selecting a bunch of funny videos you hope will be voted “better” by America’s finest in the flesh; drunk 20-somethings.

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Fresh Links!

by Art Fag City on January 5, 2010

World Series of 'Tubing Ӣ Blog Archive Ӣ Want to relive the world series of tubing? Now you can! Thanks to Performa for editing down the video documentation into this short!

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Is Claire Bishop Mired in Citational Modernism?

by Rea McNamara on November 5, 2015
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Going to lectures where the speakers workshop their book on you sucks. This was the case last Wednesday evening, when a crowd of artists, students and academics packed an OCAD auditorium for “Déjà Vu: Contemporary Art and the Ghosts of Modernity”, a free public lecture by art historian Claire Bishop.

From what I could gather during the lecture, Bishop believes we’re stuck in a rut she describes as ’“reformatted modernism”. The self-invented term refers to a historicist strain of contemporary art, where our downloadable obsessions with Eames chairs, van der Rohe skyscrapers and archival forms of display (think slide projectors) have rendered Modernist references in art that are all image and no function.

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