Video Vortex
Institute of Network Cultures (INC), Amsterdam Video Vortex website
Interested in online video as an emerging field of research, Seth collaborated with Geert Lovink at the Institute of Network Cultures (INC) in Amsterdam on a concept for a critical forum on this topic. Seth helped facilitate and research the first major Video Vortex conference in Amsterdam (2008). Now a research series managed by the INC with conferences held in Brussels (2007), Amsterdam (2008), Ankara, Turkey (2008) and Split, Croatia (2009), Amsterdam (2011) and Jokjakarta, Indonesia (2011).
Video Vortex #8 Split, Croatia (2012) call for contributions
Video Vortex #7 documentation, Jokjakarta, Indonesia (2011)
Video Vortex #6, Amsterdam March, 2011
Video Vortex #6 video documentation 2011 Amsterdam
VVV Atomium Brussels Video Vortex V report
Video Vortex Reader: Responses to YouTube a book which brings together outcomes from the the Video Vortex forums, conferences and exhibitions staged from the end of 2007 into 2008.
Download the pdf
More publication information
Video Vortex #2 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