Aasiya Khalil
Aikaterini Aznaourova
Aleksandra Cwikla
Alice Ferrante
Alexandra Andrews
Amy Bean
Ana Lucia Sarabia Villegas
Ananya Dunn
Andrea Werres
Anna Savel
Arthur Rowe Jones
Ash Mohammed-Grange
Avina Jain
Bella Yahin Geiwald
Bobby Ingham
Bradley Claytor
Bridget Mosiya
Caleb Woodward
Cam Harris
Cassandra Dickinson
Charlotte Ross
Cherrie Tong
Chloe Eia Hancock
Cornelia Skrok
Daniela Morris
Elissa Lenoir Ajaka
Ell Lenton
Ella Clancy
Ellecia Marie
Ellen Brandi
Elliott Bulman
Eunbyeol Choi
Flo Bender
Freddie Alexander-Morris
Gal Patal
George Murphy
Gerrick King
Gruffudd Drury
Haitian Xu
Han Bao
Hannah Stockwell
Iman Amjid
Isa Rios Martinez
Isla Burnett
Isabelle Van Zijl
James King
Janine Mody
Janvi Jain
Jiachen Shao
Jihun Lee
Joshua Haswell
Josselin Demelier
Kainuo Huang
Karen Tadrous
Kayla Russell
Ke Bao
Kyeongjin Kim
Leeso Kweon
Leslyn Zhou
Liberty Leatherbarrow Stokes
Lucy Lay
Luke Cahalin
Manil Rai
Mathilda Schmidt
Maya Seth
Maya Tastet
Megan Lim
MengTing Ruan (Stella)
Oli Roper
Panka Fürjes
Qiuxuan Jin
Qiyang Yu
Reid Jameson Potts
Samina Rahman
Sayuri Okazaki
Scarlett Hayes
Seungbum Ha (John)
Sohyun Lim
Stefano Stavrou
Stephanie Pyburn
Tara Ferguson
Teodora Dimitrova
Therese Mastek
Tom Heap
Tongzheng Chu
Violet Wang
Xiaohua (Laura) Liu
Xinyi Zhang
Ya Lucia Kang
Yangzhizhuo Qu
Yawen Chen
Ye Zhang (Lily)
Yeji Kim
Yelley Genkin
Yichen Liao
Yuanming (Krystal) Song
Yufei Liu
Yuming Xu
Yuna Goda
Zhaowei Wang
Zih-Jie Weng (Artemis)
Ziru Wang
Amateurs
Bobby Ingham
‘Amateurs’ pays homage to online video distribution and the first emerging clips that helped form its existence. The founding of YouTube in 2005, marked a landmark in digital history. People flocked online to share homemade videos of their kids, practical jokes, tutorials, and performances. The accumulation of YouTube videos that exist over a decade after their upload, offer a glimpse into the lives of others. It is this use of video to document the everyday that is intrinsic to 'Amateurs'. Distributing Flip cameras to friends and family inexperienced in film making a.k.a. Amateurs, I recreate the homemade videos integral to our generation's digital awakening.
The choice to use the Flip for 'Amateurs' stemmed from its embodying of videos' early existence online. The decision to acquire YouTube by Google in October of 2005, was determined by the release of the Flip Video Camera five months prior. The Flip Videos basic interface and flip out USB port helped drive the transition of video into the online.
The metal installation structure takes inspiration from early cyber aesthetics. Using 'The Old Net' I gathered graphics and commentary from outdated YouTube webpages. Screen-printing these onto the structure reflects YouTube's visual identity and its links to 'amateurism'.
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