Ideas in their Becoming: On Low Quality Video Edits

An audio essay by Tam Lines on the affect machines of social media and the low quality videos that draw their attention to a potential rebirth of all knowing.

Ideas in their Becoming: On Low Quality Video Edits 2
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Ideas in their Becoming: On Low Quality Video Edits 2

Tam Lines presents an audio essay, with original audio produced as Tam Lin.

The ‘Low Quality Video Edit’ is ubiquitous, often intentionally created to mimic and propagate a series of tropes that Tam sees in relation to the work of theorists looking to find strategies of resistance in internet culture. A specific set of videos have captured their attention, hooked in, and won’t let go.

Exploring the textures of social media, how to define the frustration of this mode, and video works that provide handholds of strange affect.

What can be found in a repetition?

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