Video Vortex Conference : January 18 - 19 2008, Amsterdam

Video Vortex is an international conference that I was involved in as a researcher, in collaboration with Geert Lovink at the Institute of Network Cultures (INC), in Amsterdam.

A reader is currently in the process of being produced as a publication post the event.

The videovortex mailing list is still open for discussion.

A summary of the what the conference was about.

Links to documentation:

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

Amsterdam Conference, Master of Media blog posts

opening-session-friday-january-18/
video-aesthetics-short-essay/
tal-sterngast-karasek-speaks-the-asthetics-of-videoblogging/
thomas-elsaesser-on-constructive-instability/
jan-simons-on-the-narrative-of-tagging/
dan-oki-cinema-as-research-database/
alternative-platforms-and-software/
participatory-culture/
video-vortex-curating-online-video/

The first Argos - INC satellite event Argos is the Centre for Art & Media. Video vortex ARGOS presentations are available on the ARGOS blog Video Vortex video documentation post.

Masters students from Amsterdam University have documented some of the sessions:
Lev Manovich on User Generated Content @ Video Vortex
Deleuze vs. YouTube: Adrian Miles @ Video Vortex
Tomas Rawlings and Ana Kronschnabl @ Video Vortex
The Artist Moving (through) the Web @ Video Vortex
Truth, meaning and Peter Horvath @ Video Vortex