From sabine at networkcultures.org  Tue Dec  2 12:01:02 2008
From: sabine at networkcultures.org (Sabine Niederer)
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 12:01:02 +0100
Subject: <videovortex> CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS: VIDEO VORTEX 4 (Split, Croatia,
	22-23 May 2009)
Message-ID: <A3F97343-26A7-4F92-9A77-F5459D6D954A@networkcultures.org>

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS: VIDEO VORTEX 4

On 22-23 May, 2009 the fourth edition of Video Vortex will take place  
in Split, Croatia. The Department of Film and Video at the Academy of  
Arts University of Split and Platforma 9.81 will organize the event,  
in collaboration with the Institute of Network Cultures in Amsterdam.  
After previous events on online video and responses to YouTube in  
Brussels, Amsterdam and Ankara, this event will focus on the moving  
image on the Web.

We invite contributions for the following themes:

- Telepresence and Web Aesthetics
Video meets Web Aesthetics: how is the phenomenon of telepresence  
incorporated in various art forms, such as music, theater, visual  
arts, literature and cinema? What are underlying aesthetics in all of  
them and
what are specific interface contexts.

- Social Cinema
Has cinema found its way onto the Web? Did it change the essential  
features of cinema? What are the new possibilities of collaborative  
production? Does the future of Film museums and Cinematheques lie in the
on line cinematic databases?

- Architecture and Moving Image
Online video offers an immense database for the moving image to be  
displayed in urban public space.  What are the existing  
cinematographic visions of the future? (Think Blade Runner, Minority  
Report, Children of Men,etc.) Which visions can be directly  
implemented and which will remain film scenography?

- Video Sharing
Distribution, licensing, collaborative production, video hosting, What  
are the standards and alternatives for sharing, licensing and hosting  
moving images on the Web?

- Technology and politics of the moving image
Future of visual browsers. Control of moving image communication.  
Moving image production in relation to cultural, technological and  
political dominances. Open standards and codex politics. Surveillance  
issues.

- Literature and video online narrative
Narrative strategies on the web. From screenplay writing with hyper  
texts, broadcasted self and narrative avatars to collective narrative  
processes leading to web literature, tag based video narrativity,  
public journalism and performative real time literature.

Please send in a 500-word abstract and a short bio to Dan Oki (danoki at xs4all.nl 
) before February 5, 2009.

During the Video Vortex in Split we will present five cinema events:
1) upload cinema  2) mobile phone cinema  3) social cinema 4)  
cinematic data base  5) performative cinema

///
For further information on the previous Video Vortex editions, please  
see: http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/videovortex/.
Also check out the Video Vortex reader:  Geert Lovink and Sabine  
Niederer (eds.), Video Vortex Reader: Responses to YouTube, Amsterdam:  
Institute of Network Cultures,
2008. ISBN: 978-90-78146-05-6.  Available as a pdf on: http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/portal/publications/inc-readers/videovortex/


From sethkeen at internode.on.net  Wed Dec  3 09:17:05 2008
From: sethkeen at internode.on.net (Seth Keen)
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 19:17:05 +1100
Subject: <videovortex> fast film - disposable media (social media for social
	change)
Message-ID: <03D264C4-9C42-4E7C-AB21-4E3F3775674D@internode.on.net>

http://causeglobal.blogspot.com/2008/11/fast-film_23.html - fast film

Some of the biggest global dramas of recent times?the crackdown on pro- 
democracy demonstrators in Burma, the China earthquake, suicide  
bombers in Israel, the hanging of Sadaam Hussein?all were filmed on  
cell phones, snippets of strife seen and shared by people all over the  
world, thanks to digital video.

But there also is creativity in these ephemeral, on-the-fly images of  
our accelerated times?and a new artistic medium for both filmmakers  
and social advocates...

http://disposablefilmfest.com/about/
http://www.redbucketfilms.com/

best
Seth Keen
seth.keen at rmit.edu.au
http://www.sethkeen.net/blog/
http://videodefunct.net/




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From geert at xs4all.nl  Thu Dec  4 21:08:59 2008
From: geert at xs4all.nl (Geert Lovink)
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 21:08:59 +0100
Subject: <videovortex> Fwd: Facebook 24 hours summary;
	new arrestings, apologizes...
References: <49371E55.5030906@st.htnet.hr>
Message-ID: <2DC59AB9-5CEC-43A5-80FC-6818D2E8C999@xs4all.nl>

> Resent-From: nettime at kein.org
> From: Ana Peraica <ana.peraica at st.htnet.hr>
> Date: 4 December 2008 1:03:33 AM
> Resent-To: Nettime <nettime-l at kein.org>
> To: nettime-l at kein.org
> Subject: <nettime> Facebook 24 hours summary; new arrestings,  
> apologizes...
>
> Hi everyone again,
>
> here is the summary of events regrading Facebook groups in Croatia;  
> new
> arresting, apologizes, international media pressure....
> A chronology of events after arresting of Niksa Klecak.
>
> Two more Facebook "activists," as they call them, were arrested for
> putting posters on initiative of one group "Stegnite vi svoj remen  
> bando
> lopovska."
>
> Posters were announcing demonstrations in all major Croatian cities  
> for
> 5th December.
> http://www.index.hr/vijesti/clanak/privedeni-facebookeri-ne-prihvacaju-faberovu-ispriku-policija-je-izazvala-strah-i-nepovjerenje/412171.aspx
>
> Bijesprvi, an author of Youtube movies, has made a movie
> http://www.index.hr/vijesti/clanak/video-sanaderhitler-luduje-zbog-facebookera/412130.aspxwhich
> but it was latter on censored in largest daily newspapers
> http://www.index.hr/vijesti/clanak/jutarnji-list-cenzurirao-bijesaprvog/412166.aspx
>
> A new Facebook grows with topic "Break into my apartment you band of
> Gestapo!"
>
> New web page appears - Arrest us! www.sanaderu-uhapsi-nas.com
> where it is stated - This is the page of the victims of "democration"
> You can put down the TV but not this web-page"
>
> International media reports on Facebook democracy.
>
> Prime minister asks two ministers to report what was the problem as
> international media is reporting on arresting of Facebookers.
>
> Two ministers (of police and internal secret affairs) apologize to
> Facebookers
> http://www.index.hr/vijesti/clanak/video-sanaderhitler-luduje-zbog-facebookera/412130.aspx
>
> Facebookers do not accept the apologize
> http://www.index.hr/vijesti/clanak/privedeni-facebookeri-ne-prihvacaju-faberovu-ispriku-policija-je-izazvala-strah-i-nepovjerenje/412171.aspx
>
> Prime minister, pushed by all reporting on Facebookers claims they  
> have
> right on the freedom of speech.
>
> But...
>
> The group organizing in Zagreb didn't yet get the permission for
> demonstrations, as can be read from their page.
>
>
>
> #  distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission
> #  <nettime>  is a moderated mailing list for net criticism,
> #  collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets
> #  more info: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l
> #  archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime at kein.org
>
>



From geert at xs4all.nl  Sat Dec  6 16:34:57 2008
From: geert at xs4all.nl (Geert Lovink)
Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2008 16:34:57 +0100
Subject: <videovortex> linda wallace: non-western | are you or have you ever
	been?
Message-ID: <6976167F-1594-4AE2-9827-414F024D1C35@xs4all.nl>

new work by video artist linda wallace:

non-western  |  are you or have you ever been?

internet version now online, see it from:

http://www.lindawallace.eu

and jump in any order from, for example:

http://www.undergrowth.eu/

or see it from utube

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=machinehunger

"In her video non-western Linda Wallace subtitles her fascinating,
rhythmic montage of Dutch vistas, highways and people with long strings
of numbers. These "facts and figures" describing Dutch society slide
through the images at a fast pace, for instance: the total number of
non-western immigrants in 2050, the percentage of non-westerners in the
biggest cites, and the total numbers of non-western young people.
Wallace knowingly uses bureaucratic "truths" rather than the complex,
contradictory and dynamic daily reality that the statistics hide. What
do these statistics do? The inclination towards statistical
essentialism, where lives become stuck in unambiguous, unalterable and
irreconcilable identities is characteristic of the contemporary public
debate, and bears a striking resemblance to the corners and straight
lines of the Netherlands landscape."

Dr Jolle Demmers, Centre for Conflict Studies, Utrecht University

non-western  |  are you or have you ever been?

by Linda Wallace
Amsterdam, November 2008
web, installation and single screen version
production assistant: Emile Zile
non-western duration: 13.30min

non-western premiered at the Kasseler Documentarfilm and Videofest,  
November 13 2008


From seth.keen at rmit.edu.au  Tue Dec  9 04:54:00 2008
From: seth.keen at rmit.edu.au (Seth Keen)
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 14:54:00 +1100
Subject: <videovortex> Open Source Video innitative
Message-ID: <E8A8F01F-6E91-4C6A-9058-C9E750D69CEF@rmit.edu.au>

http://osvideo.constantvzw.org/

Open Source Video is a project of Constant, a Brussels based  
organisation for Arts and Media. This weblog is a collective testsite  
for producing and distributing open source video. Here we keep traces  
of experiments with software for sharing and editing video, and report  
on what we found to be effective hardware, good linux distributions  
and helpful configurations. Also: tips and hints on where to find  
manuals, practical info on using software etc. This blog contains  
posts on annotating, tracing, collectively editing and sharing video  
online. We are interested in finding ways to make archived video  
material accessible, to make it searchible and keep video archives  
alive by allowing the content to be re-interpreted.


best
Seth Keen
seth.keen at rmit.edu.au
http://www.sethkeen.net/blog/
http://videodefunct.net/




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From seth.keen at rmit.edu.au  Tue Dec  9 05:00:43 2008
From: seth.keen at rmit.edu.au (Seth Keen)
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 15:00:43 +1100
Subject: <videovortex> open video alliance - open video principles
Message-ID: <75709942-4A7F-4BE7-B5C4-DCA23A6FE3CF@rmit.edu.au>

http://openvideoalliance.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

http://openvideoalliance.org/wiki/index.php?title=Draft_of_Open_Video_Principles

best
Seth Keen
seth.keen at rmit.edu.au
http://www.sethkeen.net/blog/
http://videodefunct.net/




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From sethkeen at internode.on.net  Fri Dec 19 21:03:59 2008
From: sethkeen at internode.on.net (Seth Keen)
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 07:03:59 +1100
Subject: <videovortex> Top 10 Viral Political Videos of 2008
Message-ID: <3931A2C4-D248-4224-B559-A39638DBD397@internode.on.net>

http://airamerica.com/blog/2008/dec/17/list-top-10-viral-political-videos-2008

best
Seth Keen
seth.keen at rmit.edu.au
http://www.sethkeen.net/blog/
http://videodefunct.net/




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