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Video Vortex 3 Ankara Edition

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Video Vortex 3 Ankara Edition

On October 10-11 2008, the third Video Vortex event will take place in Ankara, Turkey, organised by Bilkent University (Department of Communication and Design), in cooperation with the Institute of Network Cultures. The event will feature a two-day international conference, evening program, live performances and new media art exhibition. As a follow-up to the Amsterdam conference, held in January 2008, and the Brussels conference, held in October 2007, Video Vortex Ankara aims to continue and deepen the debates, while bringing together a wide range of scholars, artists and curators as well as lawyers, producers and engineers.

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Themes of Video Vortex 3 Ankara Edition will be: Navigating the database, p2p, art online, visual art, innovative art, participatory culture, social networking, political economy, collaboration and new production models, censorship & YouTube, collective memory, cinematic and online aesthetics.

artists using YouTube

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http://www.fridayarts.net/blogs/?p=3677

Internet video site YouTube needs no introduction. Its status as
both a branded channel and a medium in its own right has redefined
“new media” on both sides of the art and corporate entertainment
divide. But most of its content resides somewhere in between, and its
currency lies in the vernacular nature of the items posted there–to
the extent that the memes incubated on YouTube are trickling down
into the language of contemporary artists’ work and, in turn, re-
emerging on the site.

http://thekitchen.org

vernacular video response

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Geert talking to Tom Sherman about his Video Vortex presentation including some views on his notion of vernacular video. This YouTube clip was made by the Masters of Media group.

Video Vortex video documentation

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The Video Vortex video documentation is now online. Ogg Theora files are also available for download.

Henry Jenkins responses to the 24/7 DIY video summit

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Envisioning the Future of DIY - part 1, Ulrike Reinhard, who is blog (video records of the panel)

DIY 24/7 video summit plenary panel titled ‘Envisioning the Future of DIY Video’. From the lrike Reinhard’s blog:

Then they started out by giving their best visions of what Rheingold called the activist question: what to do to influence the way the institutions of democratic governance, of cultural production, of knowledge gathering will shape the outcome of DIY media!

Dialogue from a online video recoding by the first speaker Henry Jenkins:

My vision of the future would be one where everyone had the power to participate, and where diversity was valued as central to the enterprise so it is not that we build and they will come, it is not that we construct YouTube and we are automatically at democracy, there is still a struggle to be fought around democracy, it is a struggle in terms of education in terms of teaching media literacies skills to kids, struggle in terms of law, in terms of changing the notion of fair use so we have strong protection on our ability to respond to the stories that are absolutely central to our culture, it involves changing politics, how we mobilise people who are feeling empowered by making videos and turn them loose in the streets to transform society…

From YouTube to WeTube… , Henry Jenkins blog post, February 14, 2008

One of the things that has excited me about YouTube is the ways that it represents a shared portal where all of these different groups circulate their videos, thus opening up possibilities for cross-polination. Yet, as many at the conference suggests, the mechanisms of YouTube as a platform work to discourage the real exchange of work. YouTube is a participatory channel but it lacks mechanisms which might encourage real diversity or the exchange of ideas. 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. The user-moderation system on YouTube, designed to insure the best content rises to the top, follow majoritarian assumptions which can often hide minority works from view. Perhaps the biggest problem has to do with the way YouTube strips individual works from their larger contexts…

Video Vortex II report

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GL writes a brief summarising report on his blog about the Video Vortex conference held in Amsterdam (2008).

Dominick Chen - how to share creative processes

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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 on slideshare. The Masters of Media blog post, Participatory Culture on his presentation. Dominick’s bio on the video vortex website. A summary of his presentation. His blog derive.

facebook behind the scenes

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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 signing up to a company or corporation that you detest. Something you would never do if you understood in advance what they where about, which is where in following what I would call a “social media fashion”, i.e. blindly follow your neighbour, some very bizarre companies are making huge economic gains. These developments also have quite a significant affect on the development of the Internet. For example, connections could be made with MySpace and YouTube.

Some quotes from the article:

Thiel’s philosophical mentor is one René Girard of Stanford University, proponent of a theory of human behaviour called mimetic desire. Girard reckons that people are essentially sheep-like and will copy one another without much reflection. The theory would also seem to be proved correct in the case of Thiel’s virtual worlds: the desired object is irrelevant; all you need to know is that human beings will tend to move in flocks. Hence financial bubbles. Hence the enormous popularity of Facebook.

Thiel says that PayPal was motivated by this belief: that you can find value not in real manufactured objects, but in the relations between human beings. PayPal was a way of moving money around the world with no restriction.

Jean Burgess Why I am deleting my facebook account

Malka’s Video Vortex reports

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Malka’s video vortex reports on moving web.

Video Vortex - conference report day 1
Video Vortex - conference report day 2.

hammering vlogs

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Jay Dedman and Ryanne Hodson packed a bit into their workshop session as part of the Videodefunct and Showinabox: Hitting vlogging with a hammer workshop at montevideo in Amsterdam. The showinabox community are frustrated with the way a blog content management system handles video. The video clips posted chronologically cause a big part of this frustration as it makes it difficult to find and access video that are not featured as the latest post. In other words the vlogger may what the user to view clips that have been posted some time ago. They are also wanting more aesthetic control, where as media producers they should be able to alter how there video looks and is published online. The idea in addition to this is to provide simple open source tools that follow the YouTube model of accessibility and ease of use. Showinthebox is a response to these objectives where a number of tools are brought together into a type of package, a box.

To get their point across about being able to archive and locate videos in a more open-ended manner on a vlog, they showed a number of examples that people are working on, in response to this issue. Each of these examples demonstrate varying approaches towards customising the index page interface.

Lost in Light 8mm film project. The number of categories demonstrates in part the process of archiving on a conventional vlog. A file Directory has been added to provide alternative access to the posted clips.

Swanjana Life in India On this vlog the conventional sidebar attributes have been dropped, the interface simplified with a video thumbnails at the bottom that lead to a video archive page. The vPIP plugin is being used to provide a range of online video formats for download. These are featured at the bottom of each poster. (as a side note it was interesting to learn that mefeedia created an early plugin now defunct, to create video archive pages on vlogs.)

Shadow World uses a chronology blog drop down archive.

Columbia Migration Project This vlog has had an HTML makeover. People are the key focus and they have been represented on the index page in simple videowall type layout.

Jay then moved to the blip.tv showplayer. The showplayer is like a self-contained video display window that has thumbnails down the side as a list of videos. What is displayed and searched can be customised to a certain degree. But the feature has limitations in terms of making associations across clips and breaking the self-contained nature. The showplayer Jay argued breaks away from blog functionality. i.e comments; permalinks etc and action scripts are an issue. Using this a key focus the vPIP community are interested in maintaining, utilising and developing this blog functionality.

Moving back to showinthebox, vPIP they stated is one of the few players that offers all the online video formats including open source with the facility to add HD formats. Looking for another way to make connections across clips beyond categories and dated archives there is the related videos feature on YouTube. This type of feature has been added to the Showinthebox index interface. An example is Ryan is Hungry. There is also a recent video strip on the bottom of the page. The related videos are created using a showinabox developed plugin by Charles Iliya Krempeaux called “VideoPress Related Videos”.

Ryanne then went through using vPIP. The process was very labour intensive in regards to setting up compression files for each online video format and then inputting a url address for each uploaded video file. But the plugin provides a lot of flexibility and room for choice.

Following using blog functionality the semanal.org project they are working on provides a function to video comment. The vlog uses comments as a way to post to the vlog. This recent project along with the other features being developed by the showinthebox community demonstrates re-working a vlog to suit video - while still keeping the features which make a blog a blog.

They also pointed out the http://havemoneywillvlog.com/ project where the vlog community are encouraged to raise funds to support each others vlog projects. This project reflects some of the P2P Foundation research into differing types of economies.

Finally, in talking with Ryanne afterwards I was fascinated with her http://revlog.blogspot.com/ revlog project. Here hours are put into selecting and posting chosen vlogs in a revlog as a form of personal vlog archive. A process I am familiar with in delicious only this applies to vlogs, using delicious RSS.