Title:聽MOOC (Massively Oppressive Operational Condition)
Media type:聽Video with sound
Performer:聽Mark Amerika
Video and Sound production:聽Zak Loyd and Ryan Wade Ruehlen
Video post-production:聽Laura Hyunjhee Kim
Sound post-production:聽Chad Mossholder
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About the work
MOOC is a long-form work of video performance art featuring artist Mark Amerika. In the video, Amerika portrays an unnamed professorial persona who mocks the trendy MOOC online course format.
In this particular course, an Introduction to Digital Art, Amerika鈥檚 persona playfully satirizes the contemporary art scene, digital culture, cult branding, selfie-mythology, and the neoliberal systems of higher education. The unusual recombination of Amerika's Brooklynese vocals with a stream of hilarious visual puns and custom-designed soundtrack blur the lines of distinction between video performance art and a new mode of 21st century pedagogical practice.