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This was the first year I missed the sundance film festival in a while and was sort of bummed about it… but literally we were in the middle of opening both sunda & rockit Wrigley that same month and all had me on serious lockdown.  But, how great is it to hear local Chicagoan sean mckeough was in the house and won the Grand Jury Prize Documentary award for “we live in public” that he executive produced!

 

And now, it’s very cool to hear he is bringing it home to chicago’s music box theatre to share it locally from oct 16th – oct 22nd … check it out!  The movie has been “stunning audiences w/ the story of internet visionary Josh Harris. The film grabbed the imagination of critics and pundits alike, sparking voluminous debate on the nature of exposure, fame and technology at a time when their intersection is creating new paradigms.”  

 

Sean, who also owns Cobra Lounge & Cobra Music, invites you to the premiere of We Live In Public on Oct 16th w/a 6p–7p pre-reception next to theatre at Blue Bayou & and afterparty at the AAA Space in Wicker Park (2105 W. Caton) for a killer party! Elements from the film will be featured in various ways and there will be delightful food and drink. Vague? Yes, it’s a surprise! more info on film at http://www.weliveinpublicthemovie.com/ …RSVP to above at [email protected] 

“Ten years in the making and culled from 5000 hours of footage, We Live In Public reveals the effect the web is having on our society, as seen through the eyes of “the greatest Internet pioneer you’ve never heard of”, artist, futurist and visionary Josh Harris. Award-winning director Ondi Timoner (DIG! – which also won the Sundance Grand Jury Prize in 2004 – making Timoner the only director to win that prestigious award twice) documented his tumultuous life for more than a decade to create a riveting, cautionary tale of what to expect as the virtual world inevitably takes control of our lives. 
Harris, often called the “Warhol of the Web”, founded Pseudo.com, the first Internet television network during the infamous dot-com boom of the 1990s. He also curated and funded the groundbreaking project Quiet in an underground bunker in NYC where over 100 people lived together on camera for 30 days at the turn of the millennium. With Quiet, Harris proved how we willingly trade our privacy for the connection and recognition we all deeply desire, but with every technological advancement such as MySpace, Facebook and Twitter, becomes more elusive. Through his experiments, including a six-month stint living with his girlfriend under 24-hour electronic surveillance which led to his mental collapse, Harris demonstrated the price we pay for living in public. 
We Live in Public has been featured on ABC News, CNN and WNYC and in the pages of the Wall Street Journal, New Yorker, New York Magazine, LA Times, Variety, LA Weekly, Village Voice, Huffington Post and dozens of other publications. National Public Radio summarized the questions raised by the film, “Ondi Timoner’s We Live in Public is a breathless film about Josh Harris [whose] projects raise all sorts of fascinating issues about how digital technology is redrawing the boundaries of the self.  As its possibilities enter people’s heads, they redefine what belongs to me — what is me — and what belongs to the world.” 

“Ten years in the making and culled from 5000 hours of footage, We Live In Public reveals the effect the web is having on our society, as seen through the eyes of “the greatest Internet pioneer you’ve never heard of”, artist, futurist and visionary Josh Harris. Award-winning director Ondi Timoner (DIG! – which also won the Sundance Grand Jury Prize in 2004 – making Timoner the only director to win that prestigious award twice) documented his tumultuous life for more than a decade to create a riveting, cautionary tale of what to expect as the virtual world inevitably takes control of our lives. 

Harris, often called the “Warhol of the Web”, founded Pseudo.com, the first Internet television network during the infamous dot-com boom of the 1990s. He also curated and funded the groundbreaking project Quiet in an underground bunker in NYC where over 100 people lived together on camera for 30 days at the turn of the millennium. With Quiet, Harris proved how we willingly trade our privacy for the connection and recognition we all deeply desire, but with every technological advancement such as MySpace, Facebook and Twitter, becomes more elusive. Through his experiments, including a six-month stint living with his girlfriend under 24-hour electronic surveillance which led to his mental collapse, Harris demonstrated the price we pay for living in public. 

We Live in Public has been featured on ABC News, CNN and WNYC and in the pages of the Wall Street Journal, New Yorker, New York Magazine, LA Times, Variety, LA Weekly, Village Voice, Huffington Post and dozens of other publications. National Public Radio summarized the questions raised by the film, “Ondi Timoner’s We Live in Public is a breathless film about Josh Harris [whose] projects raise all sorts of fascinating issues about how digital technology is redrawing the boundaries of the self.  As its possibilities enter people’s heads, they redefine what belongs to me — what is me — and what belongs to the world.”

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