Thursday, November 15, 2007
A Vienna media group CONT3XT.NET contacted me to see about putting an rss feed from net-video in their sidebar. They are getting up a project called MOVING.IMG About:
CONT3XT.NET is a Vienna-based organisation founded in 2006 as a collaborative platform for the discussion and presentation of issues related to Media Art. Against the background of [...]
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
The selected works for the JavaMuseum art + blog curated series are online. The launch of these blogs is officially tomorrow on the 1st November. Videodefucnt – Pedestrian is almost completed as a version, with a few minor tweaks to go.
Montevideo are well underway with an exhibition program for the exhibition side of video vortex.
20 October 2007 – 3 February 2008: Video Vortex Exhibition
Location: Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam http://www.montevideo.nl
Curated by: Annet Dekker
Artists: Beatrice Valentine Amrhein, Giselle Beiguelman, Susan Collins, Jonathan Harris & Sepandar Kamvar, Graham Harwood, MW2MW, Sonic()ject, and more.
Workshops by: Bricolabs, Furtherfield, [...]
The final overview of the first Video Vortex: Responses to YouTube Conference being held in Brussels this week.
Over the past years the moving image has claimed an increasingly prominent place on the internet. Thanks to a wide range of technologies and web applications it has become possible, not only to record and distribute video, [...]
I spent some time with Michel Bauwens over the weekend as he is visiting to do presentations on his research into peer-to-peer (P2P) at Melbourne University, RMIT and Monash. In our conversations I have not only learnt about his research into P2P but also the methods he uses to do his research. For example, using [...]
Michel Bauwens is visiting Melbourne to lecture to students in Networked Media
as well as give a public presentation and discussion. An event organised as a
collaboration between the Media department and MCD: studio to be held in the new
research studio.
Venue: bldg 4.level 5. room 1
Date: Wednesday August 1
Time: 6pm
A summary of the public presentation provided [...]
The video vortex conference has put a call out for papers. A short precis below of the topics visit the post for full description. Conference website. Deadline for submission of abstract (500-1000 words) and biography (100 words): August 14, 2007.
Suggested topics:
- database theory
- software studies
- online video analysis
- YouTube criticism
- alternative platforms/open standards
- theory of [...]
Good news!I made it into the still/open workshops being run by ANAT. A open/still group blog has been set up for the project. From the about:
Still Open will be as a series of free two-day workshops in Perth, Melbourne and Brisbane, each accompanied by a public evening forum. Facilitators will work with 15 artists, [...]
Finished a paper review for DAC recently. They have set up a reviewer page. A note to myself is to follow up some of the papers when they are released. The conference theme:
The Future of Digital Media Culture: In the early 1990s, the very term digital was new and novel. However, it has taken only [...]
