OYN Director, Mindy Faber and Youth Leader, Xavi Macias, Jr. participated on three panels at “Remix/ Mashup 2009: The Future of Creative Production and Ownership” held March 12-13th in Columbus, Ohio. Presented by the Moritz College of Law and the Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University, the symposium explored the implications of mashup and remix in the world of Web 2.0.

Recent technological developments have created a wave of user-generated content in which pre-existing sounds and images are appropriated, reshaped, and shared with unprecedented ease. This series of panel discussions and interviews with artists, filmmakers, technology experts, and legal scholars  considered intellectual property questions that emerge when attempting to navigate and shape this thorny landscape.

DJ Spooky, Wexner Center Present Danger Mouse Mashup of Jay Z’s Grey Album with The Beatles

Along with Xavi Macias and Mindy Faber of OYN, speakers included (abbreviated): mash-up artist Paul Miller (aka DJ Spooky), social media expert JD Lasica, video remix artist Jonathan McIntosh, singer-songwriter Terra Naomi, documentary filmmaker Gordon Quinn, and Ben Relles, creator of “Obama Girl.”

Legal experts included: Professor Pamela Samuelson (Boalt Hall), Professor Rebecca Tushnet (Georgetown Law Center), Professor Peter Shane (Moritz College of Law), Professor Ed Lee (Moritz College of Law), Gillian Lusins (NBC Universal), Dan Cooper (Fox Interactive), and Darrell Miller (Mason Miller LLP).

Mindy and Xavi also led a three hour hands on inter-generational workshop for high school students and teachers in Remix tools at the Wexner Center. Participants learned tools such as Download Helper, Vixy, Tube Tv, Audio Hijack, Mpeg Streamclip, Kaltura, United Streaming and Remix America. Using an exquisite corpse production process, the teens and teachers created this remix.

Open Youth Networks is offering two training workshops in Google MyMaps this February.

The first one takes place at the Illinois Computing Educators Confrence in St. Charles on Feb 26th 10-12:30. See Below
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The second takes place in collaboration with Columbia Links on Saturday February 28th. Teachers and youth are invited as well as youth media educators.

Teachers will receive continuing education credits and a $50 stipend.
Lunch will be provided.

Teachers can bring two students with them to the workshop.


10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Feb. 28

Columbia College Department of Journalism,
33 E. Congress Parkway, Room 214

To RSVP please e-mail columbialinks@colum.edu or call 312-369-8993

Open Youth Networks launches a new workshop and digital artist in residency series called INTERGEN 2.0

Half day workshops are aimed at K-12 classroom teachers, youth workers and teaching artists along with their students. Participants are introduced to new digital web-based applications and technologies such as blogs, wikis, social networks, Google apps, remix,  online digital sharing platforms, skyping and video discussion sites and more. The emphasis is on using digital tools for youth-centered social justice, art, civic engagement, communication and participatory learning.

Intergen 2.0 - Blogging, GoogleMaps and Social Marketing

Saturday, January 17th, 9:00-12:00
Columbia College
Limited to 8 teams, one youth and one adult per team
Cost: $75 per team

Intergen 2.0 - Online Video Chats, Discussion, Sharing and Remix

Saturday, February 14th, 9:00-12:00
Columbia College
Limited to 8 teams, one youth and one adult per team
Cost: $75 per team

To reserve your spot, send an email asap to the Director of Open Youth Networks at mfaber@chicagofilmmaers.org