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*Choose Life*

Ourania Dalalaki, Ashiq Khondker, Maritje Onjering, Hans Terpstra mini-exhibition curated for the Critical Media Art seminar. Disengage from the fear of technology, engage living forms through technicity, transform life, choose life. Living, Semi-living, bio-creations that tactically aim to shape...
By Ourania on 03/19/11 3

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 on Video Vortex #6: In Coversation with Natalie Bookchin (part 2)

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
Free and Open: Unfolding the politics

Free and Open: Unfolding the politics

Lets talk about the supposedly free and open Web again, not ‘again’ in the sense that it has been discussed too much or too abundantly but in the sense that maybe new and other frameworks have to be introduced...
By Levien Rocha on 03/14/11 2

Risky Business: How Microsoft Turns the Threat of Contagion into a Profit

Computer viruses have posed a threat to the Windows operating system and its users since its earliest versions. The security update, often integrated in the infamous service packs, is the never-ending temporal solution for those that want to minimize...
By Niels Kerssens on 03/14/11 Comments Off on Risky Business: How Microsoft Turns the Threat of Contagion into a Profit
Imogen Heap is crowdsourcing your sounds for new album

Imogen Heap is crowdsourcing your sounds for new album

Imogen Heap is crowdsourcing your sounds for new album Imogen Heap, two-time grammy award winner and known for her innovative online practices...
By Janice Wong on 03/14/11 9

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 on Video Vortex #6: Sam Gregory on video activism and advocacy

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

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 on Holmes Wilson on Universal Subtitles: Collaborative, Volunteer Subtitling for any Video on the Web Using Free Software
Augmented reality: the first steps to a society of control?

Augmented reality: the first steps to a society of control?

Layla van Daalen, Chris Hoogeveen, Hanneke Mertens Every aspect of the world has an extra layer of information. It may not always be obvious, but these extra layers are most certainly present. Marc Tuters and Kazys Varnelis describe these...
By Chris Hoogeveen on 03/13/11 2

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...
By Caroline Goralczyk on 03/13/11 Comments Off on Online Video Art at Video Vortex 6: Conditional Design
Michael Strangelove @ Video Vortex 6: “Any Moment Will be a Youtube Moment”

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...
By Caroline Goralczyk on 03/13/11 Comments Off on Michael Strangelove @ Video Vortex 6: “Any Moment Will be a Youtube Moment”

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 on Vito Campanelli and the Memetic Contagion of Aestheticized Objects

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

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
The Missing Link: Google Alternatives

The Missing Link: Google Alternatives

“In the greatest leverage of the common user, Google turns traffic and link patterns generated by 2+billion searches a month into the organizing intelligence for a new economy.” – Kevin Kelly (Bruns 2008, 174) Whether users realize it or...
By Ronen Shay on 03/11/11 2

TOP: Networks and Resistance

What are the role of networks in the Arabic revolution? Can we then speak about a network that is being changed from within? And what, in that respect, is within? The situation in Egypt became so chaotic that defining...
By Fei An Tjan on 03/09/11 1

Book Review – Open 20: The Populist Imagination

The Populist Imagination comes in a timely moment. The 20th issue of Open, the cahier on art and the public domain published by NAi, is a collection of essays dealing with “the role of myth, narratives and identity in...
By Nicola Bozzi on 03/07/11 2
The rebirth of data – between database and narrative

The rebirth of data – between database and narrative

In arts, it has always been customary that artists influence each other and build upon the work of their peers. However, in the 20th century, this tendency magnified even further. Art movements like pop art and Dada, with their...
By Cendy Calis on 03/06/11 3

Nicholas Carr in Amsterdam: “The Net Bombards Us With Distractions”

Last Wednesday, author and journalist Nicholas Carr presented his new book "The Shallows: How the Internet is changing the way we think, read and remember" at the Universiteit van Amsterdam. After his famous 2008 essay "Is Google Making Us...
By Caroline Goralczyk on 03/06/11 3

News and Facebook’s ‘Like’ Button

One of the most talked about aspects concerning Facebook’s launch of social plugins was how these would affect the content and distribution of news. My aim in this short post is to briefly address the following exploratory question: “What...
By Catalina Iorga on 03/03/11 1

Interacticipation: Ten Artworks Reflecting the Status of Contemporary Participation in New Media Art

Interactive art is a genre of art in which the viewers participate in a way by providing an input in order to determine the outcome (Wikipedia, 2011a). In other words, it allows a dialogue between the artwork and the...
By Lotte Woerde on 02/24/11 6