From sabine at networkcultures.org Fri Sep 26 17:24:22 2008 From: sabine at networkcultures.org (Sabine Niederer) Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:24:22 +0200 Subject: Video Vortex 3 program, 9-11 October Ankara Message-ID: <51540C8C-2902-471C-A82A-5E60D465FD83@networkcultures.org> Video Vortex 3 Ankara On October 9-11 2008, Bilkent University Department of Communication and Design, in cooperation with the Institute of Network Cultures, will organise the 3rd Video Vortex event in Ankara, Turkey. Video Vortex 3 Ankara Edition will feature a two-day international conference, evening program, live performances and new media art exhibition. As video is becoming a significant form of personal media on the internet, this conference and new media event aims to examine the key issues that are emerging around the independent production and distribution of online video. We are witnessing the merging of television and the Internet at an unprecedented speed. Video Vortex 3 Ankara Edition, similar to the former Video Vortex conferences, will contextualize the latest developments through presenting continuities and discontinuities in the artistic, activist and mainstream perspective of the last few decades. Unlike the way online video presents itself as the latest and greatest, there are long threads to be woven into the history of visual art, cinema and documentary production. The rise of the database as the dominant form of storing and accessing cultural artifacts, has a rich tradition that still needs to be explored. How will we navigate through continuous expanding spaces of moving images? Will there be a technological paradigm shift, and how will this shift be narrated? What responses do are artists, activists, filmmakers and media producers have to the dynamic and controversial world of online video? How are institutions, groups and individuals coping with the potentialities of freely distributed video content? Video Vortex 3 Ankara Edition is an extension of the broader Video Vortex project by the Institute of Network Cultures in Amsterdam. Video Vortex Ankara is a follow-up to the Amsterdam conference, held in January 2008, and the Brussels conference, held in October 2007. It aims to continue and deepen the debates, while bringing together a wide range of scholars, artists and curators as well as lawyers, producers and engineers. /////////// Conference Program: Thursday October 9 10.00 ? 12.00 Workshop: Open Collaborative Mapping/OLPC Project (Marcus Schall) 14.00 ? 16.00 Video Art Screenings Friday October 10 9.30 ? 12.00 Workshop: Video Blogging (Michael Verdi) 13.30 Doors open, coffee and tea 14.00 Welcome Andreas Treske, Head of Department of Communication and Design 14.15 ? 16.30 Opening Session: Political Economy Moderator: Sabine Niederer Aras ?zg?n Dominic Pettman Kylie Jarret 16.30 Coffee, tea 16.45 Video Vortex Reader Launch (Sabine Niederer) 17.00 Video Screening (Vera Tollmann, ?Always on your minds?) 18.30 Exhibition + Reception 21.00 COMD 10th Anniversary Party Saturday October 11 10.00 - 12.00 Participatory Culture Michael Liegl Martin Koplin Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen 12.00 - 13.00 Lunch 13.00 - 15.00 Online-Video and Blogging Michael Verdi Sarah K?senne Ba?ak ?enova 15.00 - 15.15 Coffee, tea 15.15 - 17.15 Art Online Moderator: Mehmet ??ray Brittany Shoot G?lsen Bal Dan Oki 17.15 ? 17.30 Coffee, tea 17.30 ? 18.15 YouTube and Censorship: Turkish Case Mehmet Ali K?ksal From sabine at networkcultures.org Tue Sep 30 09:44:55 2008 From: sabine at networkcultures.org (Sabine Niederer) Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:44:55 +0200 Subject: Top 10 YouTube Videos of All Time, 2008 Edition Message-ID: <8372DB21-6922-41FE-A65B-0B466459020D@networkcultures.org> http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/top_10_youtube_videos_of_all_time_2008.php Top 10 YouTube Videos of All Time, 2008 Edition Written by Richard MacManus / September 29, 2008 8:40 PM / 5 Comments Last year we reviewed YouTube's 10 most popular videos. It's time to update that list and see what, if anything, has changed. Last year we concluded that 7 of the top 10 videos were music - with 5 of those being professional videos. That trend has continued, although there are now no amateur music videos in the top 10. There are 6 music videos this year, all of them from professional musicians and their record labels. While YouTube became famous from user-generated content, this year's top 10 list shows that professionals still create the most popular content. Of the 4 non-music videos, 2 are comedy (professional comedians), 1 is a sappy foreign love story, and the last is a cute baby video. Only the baby video seems to be an amateur one. So, what's changed over the last year in terms of rankings? Well there is a new number 1. We also now have two videos that have gone over 100 million views - the top video last year was at 55.8 million. There are 8 new entrants to the top 10, with the only two survivors being numbers 1 & 2 (who swapped places this year). Here's the top 10 as of September 2008: [Note: we wanted to embed all 10 of them, but curiously 5 of these videos have had embedding disabled by YouTube - which is surprising to us, because embedding videos on third party sites is one of the best ways to get a video to 'go viral'. I guess the video owners think they've already gone viral enough.] Watch the videos and read more at: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/top_10_youtube_videos_of_all_time_2008.php -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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