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Elegance ?

Monday, March 30, 2009

Adrian Miles’ lecture on the Tom Sherman’s Vernacular Video reading. Starting with an overview of the two versions with the expanded version on nettime. Miles argued that the longer version clarifies ideas discussed in the first version but does not cover what he thinks is an important point. He discussed how differences between the two [...]

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Vernacular Video (Howard Rheingold)

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Howard Rheingold has made a video clip on the topic Video Vernacular in relation to “education and culture”. Embedded from his vlog http://vlog.rheingold.com/
Rheingold also has notes on course he runs called Virtual Communities/Social Media

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Video Vortex Reader (published)

Sunday, October 12, 2008

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 [...]

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Preliminary Notes on Web-hosted Cinema

Thursday, February 14, 2008

Alejandro Adams, Preliminary Notes on Web-hosted Cinema, http://www.braintrustdv.com/essays/web-hosted.html
There is nothing unique about returning to early film theory in an attempt to delimit the creative uses of digital video technology. Comparing the infancy of the first manifestation of cinema with the infancy of its successor is as natural as it is profitable. Invoking, as I will, [...]

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Video: The Reflexive Medium

Thursday, February 14, 2008

I picked up this 2008 published book Video: The Reflexive Medium by Yvonne Spielmann in Amsterdam at the beautiful Athenaeum Boekhandel.

From book description:
Video is an electronic medium, dependent on the transfer of electronic signals. Video signals are in constant movement, circulating between camera and monitor. This process of simultaneous production and reproduction [...]

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Video Vortex II report

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

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

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Video Art is a cat

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Following is my immediate response to the opening presentation by Tom Sherman at the Video Vortex conference in Amsterdam. Vernacular Video: Nine Lives of Video Art. I made lots of notes as it was inspiring to see Tom speak in the flesh. In condensed form what interested me where these concepts, which could be developed [...]

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Vortex blogged on Masters of Media

Monday, January 21, 2008

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thomas-elsaesser-on-constructive-instability/
jan-simons-on-the-narrative-of-tagging/
dan-oki-cinema-as-research-database/
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participatory-culture/
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