POPPING THE SEAMS

part of a video-a-day series…

“Thriller” at the US/Canada border in Second Life… performed by the Collective Practice Research Group

This was the product of a class at UCSD called
Collective Art Practice.

This class has three main foci:
* to introduce students to collective practices
* to facilitate student understanding of social issues embodied in the san diego / tijuana borderlands
* to explore online space as public space, its limitations and possibilities

In the 1960s, when Heron first performed the song, it was clear that a narrow pipeline controlled by major media companies was unlikely to transmit ideas that ran counter to dominant interests. The counterculture communicated primarily through grassroots media – underground newspapers, folk songs.people’s radio, and comics. – Hnery Jenkins, Covergence Culture, p. 210