11/29: Building Our Media: Beyond Authenticity

<ul class="yiv1970562295uiList yiv1970562295_4kg yiv1970562295_4ks" id="yui_3_7_2_5_1353413451857_410"><li class="yiv1970562295uiListItem" id="yui_3_7_2_5_1353413451857_462">Building Our Media: Beyond Authenticity</li><li class="yiv1970562295uiListItem" id="yui_3_7_2_5_1353413451857_461">&nbsp;<ul class="yiv1970562295uiList yiv1970562295_4ki yiv1970562295clearfix yiv1970562295_6-h yiv1970562295_704 yiv1970562295_4ks" id="yui_3_7_2_5_1353413451857_460"><li class="yiv1970562295uiListItem" id="yui_3_7_2_5_1353413451857_467"><div class="yiv1970562295clearfix yiv1970562295pvm yiv1970562295prm" id="yui_3_7_2_5_1353413451857_466"><div class="yiv1970562295lfloat" id="yui_3_7_2_5_1353413451857_465"><span class="yiv1970562295fsl" id="yui_3_7_2_5_1353413451857_464"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/calendar/2012/November/29" id="yui_3_7_2_5_1353413451857_463" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Thursday, November 29, 2012</a></span></div></div></li><li class="yiv1970562295uiListItem" id="yui_3_7_2_5_1353413451857_469"><div class="yiv1970562295clearfix yiv1970562295pvm" id="yui_3_7_2_5_1353413451857_468"><span class="yiv1970562295lfloat yiv1970562295fsl yiv1970562295fcg" id="yui_3_7_2_5_1353413451857_480"><span class="yiv1970562295fcb">7:00pm</span> until <span class="yiv1970562295fcb" id="yui_3_7_2_5_1353413451857_479">9:00pm</span></span></div></li></ul></li><li class="yiv1970562295uiListItem" id="yui_3_7_2_5_1353413451857_409"><table class="yiv1970562295uiGrid yiv1970562295mvm" id="yui_3_7_2_5_1353413451857_408" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody id="yui_3_7_2_5_1353413451857_407"><tr id="yui_3_7_2_5_1353413451857_406"><td class="yiv1970562295vTop">&nbsp;</td><td class="yiv1970562295vTop" id="yui_3_7_2_5_1353413451857_405"><div class="yiv1970562295text_exposed_root yiv1970562295text_exposed" id="yiv1970562295id_50a5ac1a04fdf5129779386"><span id="yui_3_7_2_5_1353413451857_404"><span class="yiv1970562295fsl" id="yui_3_7_2_5_1353413451857_403">Fourth Week (<span class="ycalshortcuts" data-action="calevent" id="lw_1353413462_0" title="Add an event at this date">Nov. 29</span>):<br><br>The piece "Beyond Authenticity, Aesthetic Strategies and <span class="yshortcuts cs4-visible" id="lw_1353413462_1">Anarchist</span> Media," by Kyle Harris, takes a critical view of the tendency in some Anarchist media (including Indymedia) in which traditional narrative and technical quality take a back seat to hastily edited pieces that favor a grainy low quality aesthetic. The essay argues that with no extra expense, but more attention to what needed to tell an important story, Anarchist media makers could have a much wider audience.<br><br><span class="ycalshortcuts" data-action="calevent" id="lw_1353413462_2" title="Add an event at this date">November 29th, 7-9PM</span></span></span><br><div class="yiv1970562295text_exposed_show" id="yui_3_7_2_5_1353413451857_415"><span id="yui_3_7_2_5_1353413451857_404"><span class="yiv1970562295fsl" id="yui_3_7_2_5_1353413451857_403">Flying Squirrel Community Space<br><span class="yshortcuts cs4-visible" id="lw_1353413462_3">285 Clarissa St.<br>Rochester, NY</span><br><br>"We can have a cynical attitude in the face of the media to say nothing can be done about the dollar power that creates itself in images, words, digital communication, and computer systems that invades not just with an invasion of power, but with a way of seeing that world, of how they think the world should look. We could say, well, 'that's the way it is' and do nothing. Or we can simply assume incredulity: we can say that any communication by the media monopolies is a total lie. We can ignore it and go about our lives. But there is a third option that is neither conformity, nor skepticism, nor distrust: that is to construct a different way—to show the world what is really happening—to have a critical world view and to become interested in the truth if what happens to people who inhabit every corner of this world."<br><br>The above words were read aloud in a statement by Subcomandante Marcos of the Zapatistas in Chiapas, Mexico. And it is with those words that the independent media center movement began to germinate, eventually springing from the ground in Seattle of 1999 during the World Trade Organization summit. The Rochester Indymedia collective, just past our 10th year of operation, felt inspired to critically reflect on what we've produced, how we've produced it, and what we hope the next 10 years will bring. With that spirit of critical engagement, we invite you, our communities, our readership, and the public, to join us for Building Our Media: a critical discussion series on independent media. </span></span></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></li></ul><p>&nbsp;</p>

<ul class="yiv1970562295uiList yiv1970562295_4kg yiv1970562295_4ks" id="yui_3_7_2_5_1353413451857_410"> <li class="yiv1970562295uiListItem" id="yui_3_7_2_5_1353413451857_462">Building Our Media: Beyond Authenticity</li> <li class="yiv1970562295uiListItem" id="yui_3_7_2_5_1353413451857_461"> <br /> <ul class="yiv1970562295uiList yiv1970562295_4ki yiv1970562295clearfix yiv1970562295_6-h yiv1970562295_704 yiv1970562295_4ks" id="yui_3_7_2_5_1353413451857_460"> <li class="yiv1970562295uiListItem" id="yui_3_7_2_5_1353413451857_467"> <div class="yiv1970562295clearfix yiv1970562295pvm yiv1970562295prm" id="yui_3_7_2_5_1353413451857_466"> <div class="yiv1970562295lfloat" id="yui_3_7_2_5_1353413451857_465"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/calendar/2012/November/29" id="yui_3_7_2_5_1353413451857_463" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Thursday, November 29, 2012</a></div> </div> </li> <li class="yiv1970562295uiListItem" id="yui_3_7_2_5_1353413451857_469"> <div class="yiv1970562295clearfix yiv1970562295pvm" id="yui_3_7_2_5_1353413451857_468">7:00pm until 9:00pm</div> </li> </ul> </li> <li class="yiv1970562295uiListItem" id="yui_3_7_2_5_1353413451857_409"> <br /> <div class="yiv1970562295text_exposed_root yiv1970562295text_exposed" id="yiv1970562295id_50a5ac1a04fdf5129779386">Fourth Week (Nov. 29):<br /><br />The piece "Beyond Authenticity, Aesthetic Strategies and Anarchist Media," by Kyle Harris, takes a critical view of the tendency in some Anarchist media (including Indymedia) in which traditional narrative and technical quality take a back seat to hastily edited pieces that favor a grainy low quality aesthetic. The essay argues that with no extra expense, but more attention to what needed to tell an important story, Anarchist media makers could have a much wider audience.<br /><br />November 29th, 7-9PM<br /><br /> <div class="yiv1970562295text_exposed_show" id="yui_3_7_2_5_1353413451857_415">Flying Squirrel Community Space<br />285 Clarissa St.<br />Rochester, NY<br /><br />"We can have a cynical attitude in the face of the media to say nothing can be done about the dollar power that creates itself in images, words, digital communication, and computer systems that invades not just with an invasion of power, but with a way of seeing that world, of how they think the world should look. We could say, well, 'that's the way it is' and do nothing. Or we can simply assume incredulity: we can say that any communication by the media monopolies is a total lie. We can ignore it and go about our lives. But there is a third option that is neither conformity, nor skepticism, nor distrust: that is to construct a different way—to show the world what is really happening—to have a critical world view and to become interested in the truth if what happens to people who inhabit every corner of this world."<br /><br />The above words were read aloud in a statement by Subcomandante Marcos of the Zapatistas in Chiapas, Mexico. And it is with those words that the independent media center movement began to germinate, eventually springing from the ground in Seattle of 1999 during the World Trade Organization summit. The Rochester Indymedia collective, just past our 10th year of operation, felt inspired to critically reflect on what we've produced, how we've produced it, and what we hope the next 10 years will bring. With that spirit of critical engagement, we invite you, our communities, our readership, and the public, to join us for Building Our Media: a critical discussion series on independent media. </div> </div> </li> </ul> <p> </p>