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Obey the HABBO way and you’re OK

Rikus Wegman | 08 November 2007, 4:00 pm | 13 comments | tags: , , , ,

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 view to the Habbo Hotel. A virtual environment with 80.000.000 registered users in the age of 8 to 18 years and a strict Habbo-policy.

Video Vortex Screening

Erik Borra | 08 October 2007, 10:27 am | 2 comments | tags: , ,

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 had already seen those videos and in class we wondered why they only showed the ‘most popular’ movies –…

Truth, meaning and Peter Horvath @ Video Vortex

Rosa Menkman | 07 October 2007, 11:51 pm | 3 comments | tags: , , ,

Peter HorvathThis 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 conference was concentrated on a couple questions of which one was: How are people utilizing the potential to independently produce…

The Artist Moving (through) the Web @ Video Vortex

Esther Weltevrede | 07 October 2007, 8:31 pm | 2 comments | tags: , , , , , , , , ,

Ruschmeyer @ 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 in theory and in practice. Ruschmeyer has realized many video projects and has recently finished his paper “The moving…

Tomas Rawlings and Ana Kronschnabl @ Video Vortex

Laura van der Vlies | 05 October 2007, 6:29 pm | 5 comments | tags: , ,

Tomas Rawlings & Ana Kronschnabl
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 to use videos and images in this manner. Take for instance plugincinema.com of pop.com. Been there, done that?

Deleuze vs. YouTube: Adrian Miles @ Video Vortex

Michael Stevenson | 05 October 2007, 6:15 pm | 6 comments | tags: , , , ,

Adrian Miles at Video VortexThe 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 he asks: Where does an online video end – at what point is it ‘complete’? Are those limits imposed…

Lev Manovich on User Generated Content @ Video Vortex

Anne Helmond | 05 October 2007, 5:48 pm | 4 comments | tags: , , , , , , , ,

The following post is a combination of a transcription of Manovich’s keynote and my own notes and commentary.

Introduction by Geert Lovink

Lev Manovich @ Video VortexOnline video is renegotiating its (problematic) relationship with cinema. It deals with cinematographic principles versus the principles of the online age. We cannot directly transfer the cinematographic principles into the online age as new media has its own…