CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS: Video Vortex Reader II
Following the success of the first Video Vortex reader (published late 2008, second edition, 4000 copies in total), recent Video Vortex conferences in Ankara (Oct. 2008), Split (May 2009) and Brussels (Nov. 2009) have sparked a number of new insights, debates and conversations regarding the politics, aesthetics, and artistic [...]
The ‘Full video report of Video Vortex V’ on the Climatics Platform/Brussels
Video Vortex V was held at the Atomium in Brussels
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Video Vortex V is conference no five in this ongoing satellite series being hosted by Cimatics festival, KASK and CLEA. The event will be held in the radical 50s expo building Atomium, in Brussels. The program (download pdf) description has been revised:
The past two years, the conference series – which focuses on the status [...]
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Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Some of you heard it already in Split: the 5th edition of the Video Vortex conference series will be held in Brussels. Video Vortex V is announced for November 20-21 2009, and will be hosted by the Cimatics festival… With this second Brussels meeting the goal is also to set up Video Vortex as an [...]
The Video Vortex Reader: Responses to YouTube was released last week as a follow up to the Video Vortex forums, conferences and exhibitions staged from the end of 2007 into 2008.
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about the book: The Video Vortex Reader is the first collection of critical texts to deal with the rapidly emerging world [...]
The Video Vortex video documentation is now online. Ogg Theora files are also available for download.
Friday, February 29, 2008
The Forums on YouTube are superficial at best and filled with hate speech at worst, meaning that anyone who tries to do work beyond the mainstream (however narrowly this is defined) is apt to face ridicule and harrasment.
…Jenkins – My vision of the future it would be on where everyone had the the power to participate, where diversity is valued as central to the enterprise – it is no that we build and they will come it is not that we construct YouTube and we are automatically a democracy there is still a struggle to be fort around democracy, there is still a struggle around education in terms of teaching media literacies for kids
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
GL writes a brief summarising report on his blog about the Video Vortex conference held in Amsterdam (2008).
Dominick Chen’s presentation at video vortex was impressive in terms of his projects and the connection he made with theory. There was also an informative use of terms as way to describe varying activities occurring on the Internet. (more later once I review the video record)
Other links: A slide version of his presentation [...]
This facebook article from the Guardian Unlimited was brought to my attention on a few lists, With friends like these… written by Tom Hodgkinson. (The Idler magazine) This article does an in-depth analysis on the people behind facebook and their philosophical-economic motivations. It made me realise that joining social media platforms like facebook is like [...]
