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Online Video Art: Ashiq Khondker and Eugene Kotlyarenko Play with the Diegetic Desktop

Originally published on the Video Vortex #6 conference blog. Ashiq Khondker and Eugene Kotlyarenko's presentation was the most entertaining and confusing of the first day of Video Vortex #6. To begin with, their collaboration took place exclusively...

By Catalina Iorga on 03/16/11 1

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...

By Janice Wong on 03/15/11 Comments Off

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...

By Janice Wong on 03/15/11 1

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.

By Janice Wong on 03/13/11 Comments Off

Video Vortex #6: Florian Cramer: Bokeh Porn Poetics, On the Internet Film Genre of DSLR Video Camera Tests

(A blogpost on Florian Cramer’s presentation, originally published @ Video Vortex #6 website. The original text can be found here ) Florian Cramer (media theorist, director of the Piet Zwart Institute) participated in the first day of Video Vortex to provide the audience with...

By Ourania on 03/13/11 Comments Off

Holmes Wilson on Universal Subtitles: Collaborative, Volunteer Subtitling for any Video on the Web Using Free Software

(A blogpost on Holmes Wilson’s presentation, originally published @ Video Vortex #6 website. The original text can be found here) The importance of subtitles is an undeniable fact for Holmes Wilson, co-founder of the Participatory Culture Foundation. Through the foundation’s latest open source, software-based project Universal Subtitles,...

By Ourania on 03/13/11 Comments Off

Vito Campanelli and the Memetic Contagion of Aestheticized Objects

Vito Campanelli's presentation of his own Web Aesthetics. How Digital Media Affect Culture and Society (published by NAi) was one of the few theoretical ones in a very visual and demo-ridden Video Vortex edition. In his work, the Italian scholar reduces...

By Nicola Bozzi on 03/11/11 Comments Off

Online Video Aesthetics: Florian Schneider Talks about the Open Source Documentary

Originally published on the Video Vortex #6 conference blog German filmmaker, media artist and activist Florian Schneider ambitiously set out to present a mission statement for a novel type of documentary, the open source mode, and launched into a...

By Catalina Iorga on 03/11/11 1

Dagan Cohen and Upload Cinema. Taking YouTube to the Big Screen

Upload Cinema is a monthly video spree that quite literally takes the most valuable YouTube gems to the big screen. That is, the not-so-big one of the Uitkijk, the smallest and coziest movie theater in...

By Nicola Bozzi on 03/11/11 Comments Off

Andrew Clay @ Video Vortex 6. YouTube: Make Money While Escaping Death

A media theorist and lecturer at Leicester's De Montfort University, Andrew Clay has been investigating online video for some time. As an opener of the sixth edition of Video Vortex, his intervention explored YouTube and effectively went a bit...

By Nicola Bozzi on 03/11/11 1

Excerpts of audiovisual astronomy

In the first systematic study about movie stardom and its heavy influence on early mass culture, Edgar Morin (1957) argues that during the golden studio-age Hollywood was able to dramatically change the ritual function of the mythical universe: by...

By Alberto Angelini on 09/29/10 Comments Off

Video Vortex Vlog

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By Rosa Menkman on 02/24/08 Comments Off

Video vortex; video slamming

The closing session of the conference was named video slamming and consisted of screening famous youTube favorites, interviews with video performers Emile Zile Sam Nemeth, Tatiana de la O, and Rosa Menkman and the actual video performances. All this...

By Tjerk Timan on 01/21/08 2

Video Vortex: Jan Simons on the narrative of tagging

The presentation given by Jan Simons is called Weddings, Cities and Colors via tagging. Simons has performed a short study into user generated content and user generated indexing. With a background in cinema and narrative, Simons is interested in...

By Tjerk Timan on 01/19/08 1

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...

By Roman Tol on 01/19/08 3

Video Vortex: opening session Friday January 18

Introduction Yesterday the workshop, this morning the start of the two-day “Video Vortex – responses to YouTube”, an international conference organized by the Institute of Network Cultures at PostCS11, Amsterdam. A good crowd fills the hall at the 11th...

By Jasper Moes on 01/19/08 8

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...

By Rosa Menkman on 01/15/08 Comments Off

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...

By Rosa Menkman on 10/07/07 3