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 [...]
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 [...]
24/7 DIY video summit has finally posted the curated selections and presentations that went with them, from the summit in early 2008. The videoblogging selection which can be viewed in one long hit on YouTube or as singular clips down the bottom of the page.
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
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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More publication information
about the book: The Video Vortex Reader is the first collection of critical texts to deal with the rapidly emerging world [...]
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
In this video I re-worked the tags created around online video during the research process of the Video Vortex conference in Amsterdam. The shot I took travelling from Schiphol Airport to Amsterdam Central.
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 [...]
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).
