Video Vortex #6: In Coversation with Natalie Bookchin (part 2)
(Part 2 of 2 – In conversation with Natalie Bookchin) Mass Ornament G: I see you’ve really chosen the audio track and it is leading...
Video Vortex #6: In conversation with Natalie Bookchin (part 1)
Natalie Bookchin with Geert Lovink. Photo: Anne Helmond Artist Natalie Bookchin took time to talk to Geert Lovink about online video and her artistic practice...
Video Vortex #6: Sam Gregory on video activism and advocacy
Sam Gregory, program director at WITNESS presented his thoughts on using online video as a political tool at Video Vortex #6 in Amsterdam yesterday.
Online Video Art at Video Vortex 6: Conditional Design
In his presentation at the Video Vortex #6 conference in Amsterdam, graphic designer and project director Roel Wouters introduced the audience to interactive projects which include dynamic media such as web video and animation to install crowdsourced performances. With...
Michael Strangelove @ Video Vortex 6: “Any Moment Will be a Youtube Moment”
In his talk on the cultural value of amateur video at the Video Vortex #6 conference in Amsterdam, the author, scholar and artist Michael Strangelove explained how amateur productions will gain greater value due to their potential of challenging...
Video Vortex: Dan Oki, ‘Cinema as Research Database’
The final speaker for the session Cinema and Narrativity was visual artist Dan Oki. In contrast to Jan Simons and Thomas Elsaesser, who drew on 'old media' to analyze the Web, Oki's talk focused on how the database...
Video Vortex: Thomas Elsaesser on ‘Constructive Instability’
'Constructive instability' is how Condoleeza Rice described the Israeli-Hezbollah conflict in the summer of 2006. It's a term that brings to mind tropes of globalization - maybe a synonym of precarity, or the state that produces a desire for...
Video Vortex: Alternative platforms and software
This session is the most concrete session of today. The focus is on practical views on online video from the perspective of speakers' practices. How do video artist, activists, programmers and curators deal with copyright issues, publishing and distributing...
Video Vortex: Online Video Aesthetics
To much disliking of my parents, as a kid I frequently would watch low budget television programs based on audience generated video fragments and unscripted pranks. These programs included the popular America’s Funniest Home Videos and candid camera shows...
Video Vortex: Responses to YouTube
Friday January 18 and Saturday 19th, PostCS11, Amsterdam. ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░▒░▒▒▓▓▓▒▒░▒░░▒░▒▒▓▓▓▒▒▒▓ In response to the increasing potential for video to become a significant form of personal media on the Internet, this conference examines the key issues that are emerging around the...
Obey the HABBO way and you’re OK
In ‘the declaration of independence of cyberspace’ John Perry Barlow spread a utopian view on the internet in witch users will create their own rules and laws without restrictions or political interference. In this post I will compare this...
Video Vortex Screening
Friday evening at Video Vortex in Brussels, Ana Kronschnabl and Tomas Rawlings showed “a selection of exceptional, witty and provoking Internet videos, compiled for the occassion by international and local guests”, which can be seen here. Most of us...
Truth, meaning and Peter Horvath @ Video Vortex
This weekend Masters of Media visited Video Vortex in Brussels. Video Vortex is a recurring conference, organized by the Institute of Network Cultures and mainly focuses on the independent production and distribution of online video content. This time, the...
The Artist Moving (through) the Web @ Video Vortex
German video maker Simon Ruschmeyer explores the borderline areas between traditional audiovisual narration and the new possibilities given by interactivity and networked communication. He explores this interface between classical moving media (film/video) and new interactive forms (web/media art) both...
Tomas Rawlings and Ana Kronschnabl @ Video Vortex
The main question that was posed in this lecture was ‘Why is this conferention about Youtube, and not one of the other websites that allow people to watch video’s online?’ Because Youtube isn’t the first website that offers people...
Deleuze vs. YouTube: Adrian Miles @ Video Vortex
The subtitle of this conference is Responses to YouTube, and at least one alternative to the world’s largest supplier of piano-playing-cat videos comes in the form of ‘soft video’, via Australian media scholar Adrian Miles. Some of the questions...
Lev Manovich on User Generated Content @ Video Vortex
The following post is a combination of a transcription of Manovich’s keynote and my own notes and commentary. Introduction by Geert Lovink Online video is renegotiating its (problematic) relationship with cinema. It deals with cinematographic principles versus the principles...