\non the 10 year anniversary of its Sundance Grand Jury Prize, by interviewing the film’s intrepid director, ONDI TIMONER. They will be asking Ondi about . . “the technological dystopia the film prophesied & where we’re headed from here.’<\/p>\n
the talk is 4-5 PM with cocktails, from 5-7 PM on Main St at the DELL DEN.<\/p>\n
& . . . <\/strong> ‘THE REALITIES of the Internet – today (!!!!)<\/p>\n so, def, watch:<\/strong> the trailer – WE LIVE IN PUBLIC !!!!<\/a><\/p>\n lol, that’s me . . in the trailer. this was the poster<\/strong> for the NYC premiere of ‘WE LIVE In PUBLIC’ at MOMA, back in 2009. over 99 artists worked & played in the week long crazy wild art party \/ artist residency \/ installation.![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/WE-LIVE-IN-PUBLIC-poster.gif\")
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\nFILE UNDER: THE FUTURE of STORY TELLING (!!!!!)<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>
\nat left, ONDI TIMONER, the illustrious director of ‘WE LIVE IN PUBLIC’, 2009 . .
\nflying into the festival, last night.
\nshe looks pretty happy.
\nas well, her newest venture, ‘MAPPLETHORPE’ is opening to great acclaim, & will come to NYC this March.
\nimage via Instagram @onditimoner<\/p>\n
\na few of my friends got together & held a BIG, BIG MILLENNIUM PARTY – the rest, apparently, is HISTORY !!!!!!!<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nJOSH HARRIS, “the greatest internet entrepreneur you never heard of”, or as some people like to call him: the “Andy Warhol of the web”, and the focus of the documentary, was the king of the way-off-the-mainstream, downtown art scene – when he threw the biggest art party NYC has ever seen.
\nthat’s ALFREDO MARTINEZ, at the right of the frame. Alfredo is notorious for the live shooting gallery, with BIG GBG guns, that was in the basement of the 2 building art installion & full-on million dollar \/ millennial par-tay !!
\nJosh had recently sold his baby brainstorm, JUPITER.COM, the first internet, trend tracking company, for $81 million buckeroos.
\nso to say, he had deep pockets . . is NOT an exaggeration.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\nI guess I became the ‘poster’ girl for . . . ‘DYSTOPIAN’.
\ntalk about . .
\nwhen your most<\/strong> humiliating moment, is caught on tape, and goes on to become . . a Sundance winner.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\nat the start of the doc – I was<\/strong> the poster girl for . . Utopia, lol.
\nthat’s me and my kid, Theo in the pod hotel.
\nnote the wires, cameras, and monitors !!!<\/p>\n
\nspread out over 2 old buildings downtown, it was open to the public 24\/7 & it was PACKED !!
\nand probably completely illegal. above all, were the 24\/7 surveillance cameras & live-streaming video.
\ntiny cameras & tiny screens wired beside every artist ‘pod’ \/ and . . (notoriously) through-out, incl showers.
\nthe web – was being born, in real time.
\nit was the birth – of social media, though little did we imagine.
\nit was only in ‘looking back’ – that the big big picture emerges & for that, we have to thank . . Ondi Timoner <\/strong>, and her truly, cinematic in the fullest sense, story-telling.
\nshe caught the action in real time, and set the story in context, 9 years later.<\/p>\n