DTC 477 Public Intervention

My public intervention just went live on Youtube (youtube being the public forum of which the intervention is being done)!

Here's the video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zm9Ab64-rMw

It's a commentary on binge watching and the use of technology by the masses.

People end up spending hours watching pointless videos, such as cute cat videos, compared to learning something lasting or important. 

Leaving the cat video there with my commentary increases the chance of people remaining to watch the entire video.

The current generation, it seems, is disposed to this Binge watching as an innate trait, and through the personal experience of school people know there are more important things happening. 

That's how this intervention connects to Nature vs. Nuture on the public forum of Youtube.

My complete artist statement for the piece:

"My intervention is relatively straightforward. I'm intervening on the Binge watching of an individual on the public forum of Youtube (and Vimeo). I'm doing this by giving the viewer something they didn't expect. They click on a video called "Cute Cat Video!" and what they get isn't what they expected.

I left the video of the cats playing (for hope of keeping the unsuspecting watcher for a little longer) and overlayed the audio with 3 sections of 1 minute each where I talk about a subject.

These subjects are The invention of the Microwave, the Higgs field discovery, and PAC groups. 

So as the people came to the video through a desire to have mind-numbing entertainment, I shake them to realizing (hopefully) that they're wasting time. That my generation is Binge-watching their lives away when there is so much to learn and interact with.

This is why the forum of the internet was crucial to this intervention. To reach the audience I was intervening with I had to be in the place where Binge-Watching is most prominent (Online including Netflix as well as Youtube). 

I'm in the piece through my personal narration and my google account being the author of the video"

Enjoy!

-Thomas