Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Came across this recent article The Mosaic-Screen: Exploration and Definition by Sergio Dias Branco , 27 Dec, 2008 on the refractory blog on the concept of the mosaic screen, which provides another way to define the use of spatial montage in the creation of moving-image narratives, in addition to the term split-screen. From the [...]
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Call for papers for Video Vortex 4 in Split, Croatia – 22-23 May, 2009.
Please send in a 500-word abstract and a short bio to Dan Oki (danoki [at] xs4all.nl) before February 5, 2009.
New themes are:
Telepresence and Web Aesthetics
Social Cinema
Architecture and Moving Image
Video Sharing
Technology and politics of the moving image
Literature and video online narrative
I had chat with AD about environmental portraiture as a concept of practice within cinema theory. He put me onto some great references:
John Smith (Regeneration?)
Article – On the Street where You Live: The Films of John Smith by Adrian Danks
http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/03/29/john_smith.htm
Film/Video
John Smith, Lost Sound
Stan Brakhage, The Child’s Garden and the Serious Sea,
Ross McElwee, Sherman’s [...]
The Video Vortex video documentation is now online. Ogg Theora files are also available for download.
Steve Erickson is releasing a new book Zeroville.Steven Shaviro wrote a blog entry about the book .
Thursday, January 3, 2008
I also had a close look at the opening 24/7 a DIY Video Summit, video clip (that ironically has no poster/thumbnail/preview image as it downloads when the web page is opened). The clip a vox-pox of grabs from speakers and artists attending the event provides an insight into what to expect. Following is links to [...]
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
0xdb About
The 0xdb is a rather unique kind of movie database. It uses a variety of publicly accessible resources, like search engines and file-sharing networks, to automatically collect information about, and actual images and sounds from, a rapidly growing number of movies. What the 0xdb provides is, essentially, full text search within movies, and instant [...]
I enjoyed Tom Sherman’s (Spring 2005) articles on video in the Canadian Art Magazine. His frustration with the video being called film brought a smile. In the article ‘Video No Film’, he states:
Fuck film. The dead ideas of film are being heaped onto video, Cinematic history is like a ball and chain. Video, as [...]
An overview of a presentation by Nora Barry at ‘Remixing reality with narrative media’ narrative media’
During the 60s and the 70s, an independent cinema community was established thanks to the existence of an extensive network of alternative film clubs with branches in various parts of the world. According to Nora Barry, if independent [...]
Film on the Internet By Donato Totaro
Offscreen, Volume 11, Issue 1 (January 31, 2007)
In either case, it is clear to me that internet cinema, barely eleven years old, has yet to find its own niche in terms of aesthetics, style, form, and purpose. Whether internet cinema evolves into something lasting, or a strong voice for [...]
