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"We Live in Public is a 2009 documentary by Ondi Timoner which profiles Internet pioneer [[Josh Harris]], founder of JupiterResearch and Pseudo.com. It has as its theme the loss of privacy in the internet age" [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Live_in_Public]. | "We Live in Public is a 2009 documentary by Ondi Timoner which profiles Internet pioneer [[Josh Harris]], founder of JupiterResearch and Pseudo.com. It has as its theme the loss of privacy in the internet age" [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Live_in_Public]. | ||
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| + | Ten years in the making and culled from 5000 hours of footage, WE LIVE IN PUBLIC reveals the effect the web is having on our society, as seen through the eyes of “the greatest Internet pioneer you’ve never heard of”, artist, futurist and visionary Josh Harris. Award-winning director Ondi Timoner (DIG! – which also won the Sundance Grand Jury Prize in 2004 – making Timoner the only director to win that prestigious award twice) documented his tumultuous life for more than a decade to create a riveting, cautionary tale of what to expectas the virtual world inevitably takes control of our lives. | ||
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| + | Harris, oftencalled the “Warhol of the Web”, founded Pseudo.com, the first Internet television network during the infamous dot-com boom of the 1990s. He also curated and funded the ground breaking project “Quiet” in an underground bunker in NYC where over 100 people lived together on camera for 30 days at the turn of the millennium. With Quiet, Harris proved how we willingly trade our privacy for the connection and recognition we all deeply desire, but with every technological advancement such as MySpace, Facebook and Twitter,becomes more elusive. Through his experiments, including a six-month stint living with his girlfriend under 24-hour electronic surveillance which led to his mental collapse, Harris demonstrated the price we pay for living in public [http://www.weliveinpublicthemovie.com/]. | ||
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Andy Warhol was wrong. "People don't want 15 minutes of fame in their lifetimes. People will want 15 minutes of fame every day". | Andy Warhol was wrong. "People don't want 15 minutes of fame in their lifetimes. People will want 15 minutes of fame every day". | ||
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Latest revision as of 06:32, 2 December 2010
Description
"We Live in Public is a 2009 documentary by Ondi Timoner which profiles Internet pioneer Josh Harris, founder of JupiterResearch and Pseudo.com. It has as its theme the loss of privacy in the internet age" [1].
Synopsis
Ten years in the making and culled from 5000 hours of footage, WE LIVE IN PUBLIC reveals the effect the web is having on our society, as seen through the eyes of “the greatest Internet pioneer you’ve never heard of”, artist, futurist and visionary Josh Harris. Award-winning director Ondi Timoner (DIG! – which also won the Sundance Grand Jury Prize in 2004 – making Timoner the only director to win that prestigious award twice) documented his tumultuous life for more than a decade to create a riveting, cautionary tale of what to expectas the virtual world inevitably takes control of our lives.
Harris, oftencalled the “Warhol of the Web”, founded Pseudo.com, the first Internet television network during the infamous dot-com boom of the 1990s. He also curated and funded the ground breaking project “Quiet” in an underground bunker in NYC where over 100 people lived together on camera for 30 days at the turn of the millennium. With Quiet, Harris proved how we willingly trade our privacy for the connection and recognition we all deeply desire, but with every technological advancement such as MySpace, Facebook and Twitter,becomes more elusive. Through his experiments, including a six-month stint living with his girlfriend under 24-hour electronic surveillance which led to his mental collapse, Harris demonstrated the price we pay for living in public [2].
Quotes
Andy Warhol was wrong. "People don't want 15 minutes of fame in their lifetimes. People will want 15 minutes of fame every day".
