From geert at xs4all.nl  Fri Apr  3 11:18:36 2009
From: geert at xs4all.nl (Geert Lovink)
Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 11:18:36 +0200
Subject: <videovortex> Joost Teams With Social Network Netlog
Message-ID: <67667ED6-30B1-4076-A4F9-55E92DEE351C@xs4all.nl>

Joost Teams With Social Network Netlog
Thursday 5 March, 2009
More evidence that the major video-aggregation sites are morphing into  
hubs and distributors of content rather than pure destination sites:  
Joost has announced an agreement to make its library of over 50,000  
videos available to users of the homepage of Belgian social-networking  
site Netlog.
http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-joost-teams-with-social-network-netlog-another-video-aggregator-leaving/




From sabine at networkcultures.org  Tue Apr 14 15:41:30 2009
From: sabine at networkcultures.org (Sabine Niederer)
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:41:30 +0200
Subject: <videovortex> YouTube collages
Message-ID: <31375DB2-67EE-4A78-B54E-A5A212B889F3@networkcultures.org>

A friend just forwarded me these YouTube collages. They are freely  
available for downloading (and printing).

Ciao, Sabine

/////

Source: http://www.joshpoehlein.com/ModernHistory.html

"Modern History is a series of collages assembled exclusively from  
screen grabs of Youtube videos. This is a work in progress and the  
site will be updated as I finish new pieces.

I am offering large files for personal printing at no cost.  Computer  
files are the most easily reproducible information on the planet.  In  
this particular case I see no reason to imbue a false sense of  
preciousness on the work.  The information I gathered to create the  
collages is publicly availaibe, and the collages themselves are no  
different. " 
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From sabine at networkcultures.org  Wed Apr 15 15:20:27 2009
From: sabine at networkcultures.org (Sabine Niederer)
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 15:20:27 +0200
Subject: <videovortex> Call for Online Video Curating project Intermerz
Message-ID: <F344F8EA-A496-4DE3-BBD7-85C3AF36374A@networkcultures.org>

Dear all,
this is a call for the call for 'online video curating' project  
Intermerz. Feel invited to submit your curatorial video selection at http://tiny.cc/Xwwrt 
.
INTERMERZ is an ongoing curatorial experiment, reconsidering  
exhibition formats for single screen based video. It is a traveling  
exhibition with a highly variable form, always adapting itself to its  
hosting environment.

Browsing is curating. INTERMERZ is not only a physical exhibition but  
also a database, a digital platform. INTERMERZ explicitly denies the  
conventional borders between the artist and the public, the specialist  
and the amateur. In the 'age of the user' where video has become the  
global vernacular through online platforms, browsing has become a form  
of curating.

The curating process is open. For INTERMERZ, both artists and the  
wider public are invited to upload their video-work to the database.  
Next to that, and in the idea of 'browsing is curating' and 'senders  
receive' we also challenge everyone to send us their series of online  
video, i.e. to add a series of favorite online videos which generate  
beauty or meaning through their interrelation.





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From joomen at beeldengeluid.nl  Thu Apr 16 05:30:50 2009
From: joomen at beeldengeluid.nl (Johan Oomen)
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 05:30:50 +0200
Subject: <videovortex> ArtBabble.org - Play Art Loud
In-Reply-To: <F344F8EA-A496-4DE3-BBD7-85C3AF36374A@networkcultures.org>
Message-ID: <C60C730A.968E%joomen@beeldengeluid.nl>

?Are you an artist? Would you like to become one? If you nodded along to
either question, this portal is more than certain to appeal to you. In
essence, it is a community resource where individuals the world over convene
to discuss anything that has to do with art.

The site www.artbabble.org has a very exciting range of options and features
on offer. User profiles are spotlighted on the main page, and you can see
each user?s favorite videos and media from the main page. News and video
quotes are prominently featured too, and the site will give you a very good
umbrella knowledge (and more) about what goes into the inception of a work
of art.

Registration to the site comes at no cost, and all you have to do is choose
a screen name and provide some basic information. Besides, you can sign in
using your Google or Yahoo ID.

All in all, a very nice resource that will let you fuel your creative fire
until it shines brighter than ever. Pay it a visit by following the link
below and start browsing through the available contents ? the layout of the
site alone will make it an enjoyable and fulfilling task. ?

Visit website: http://www.artbabble.org

(source: http://www.killerstartups.com)

Best wishes,
Johan Oomen
Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
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From geert at xs4all.nl  Thu Apr 16 19:55:04 2009
From: geert at xs4all.nl (Geert Lovink)
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 19:55:04 +0200
Subject: <videovortex> first draft of the video vortex 4 program in split
	(croatia)
Message-ID: <380CF9F4-10FD-4AD8-AC77-002C7CDC53D0@xs4all.nl>

VIDEO VORTEX 4, SPLIT-CROATIA, MAY 21-23 2009

OPENING EVENING: THURSDAY 21 MAY 2009

17:30 Afternoon Screenings Preview at Kinoteka Zlatna Vrata, Split

19:00 Opening evening at Multimedia Cultural Center, Split
Word of Welcome by Geert Lovink, Miranda Velja?i? and Dan Oki
Introduction speech by Lev Manovich (to be confirmed)

20:00 Exhibition opening (with food buffet)

21:00 Performance: Emile Zile - Post-It Kino

(Buses to the hotel at 22:30 and 23:00)

DAY ONE: FRIDAY 22 MAY
Conference at Multimedia Cultural Center, Split
(Buses to the Conference at 9:00 and 9:20)

9:45 - 11:30 SESSION 1: Tele-image Research Strategies
Moderator: Sabine Niederer
Presentations by:
- Andreas Treske
- Nathalie Bookchin
- Dalibor Martinis
Discussion

COFFEE

11:45 ? 13:45 Session 2: The Database
Moderator: Tomislav Medak
Presentations by:
- Maarten Brinkerink
- Kuros Yalpani
- Albert Figurt
- Alejandro Duque
Discussion

LUNCH

14:30 ? 16:15 Session 3: Video Art meets Web Aesthetics
Moderator: Leila Topi?
Presentations by:
- Vera Tollmann
- Vito Campanelli
- Sarah K?ssene
Discussion

COFFEE/TEA

17:00 SCREENINGS
Presented by Dan Oki
- Lemeh42, Study on human form and humanity #1, (2?00?).
- Cornelius Onitsch, *AV*, (5?00?).
- Ivana Runjic, Show me your hard disk and I will tell you who you  
are, (7?00?).
- Nathalie Bookchin, Parking Lot, (15?00?).
- Shelly Silver, In Complete World (53?00?).
Q&A

20:00 CONFERENCE DINNER
(Buses to the hotel leave at 22:15 and 23:00)

DAY TWO: SATURDAY 23 MAY 2009
Conference at Multimedia Cultural Center, Split
(Buses to the conference leave at 9:00 and 9:15)

09:30 ? 11:15 Session 4: Online Video Theories
Moderator: Geert Lovink
Presentations by:
- Jan Simons
- Gabriel Menotti
- Amir Soltani
- Stefan Heidenreich
Discussion

COFFEE

11:30 ? 13:30 Session 5: Online Video Narratives
Moderator: Brian Willems
- Jasmina Kallay
- David Clark
- Valentina Rao
- Paul Wiersbinski
Discussion

LUNCH

14:15 - 16:15 Session 6: Politics of the Moving Image
Moderator: Petar Milat
Presentations by:
- Sasa Vojkovic
- David Teh
- Ana Peraica
- Antanas Stancius
Discussion

COFFEE/TEA

16:30 ? 18:00 Session 7: Social Cinema
Moderator: Dan Oki
Presentations by:
- Perry Bard
- Evelin Stermitz
- Dagan Cohen
Discussion

Evening: 19:00 CONFERENCE DINNER

21:00 PERFORMANCES
- Cym, 30?00?
- Surprise Act

22:00 VIDEO VORTEX PARTY
(Buses to the hotel leave at 24:00 and 02:00)





From sabine at networkcultures.org  Fri Apr 17 10:44:16 2009
From: sabine at networkcultures.org (Sabine Niederer)
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 10:44:16 +0200
Subject: <videovortex> VV Split update
Message-ID: <FB860C52-42B5-462A-82DC-3ECD9DB36532@networkcultures.org>

Dear all,
On 22-23 May, 2009 the fourth edition of Video Vortex will take place  
in Split, Croatia. It is organized by the Department of Film and Video  
at the Academy of Arts University of Split and Platforma 9.8, in  
collaboration with the Institute of Network Cultures in Amsterdam.  
After previous Video Vortex events in Brussels, Amsterdam and Ankara,  
Video Vortex Split will focus on the moving image on the Web.

VV Split includes presentations by:  Perry Bard, Nathalie Bookchin,  
Maarten Brinkerink, Vito Campanelli, David Clark, Dagan Cohen,  
Alejandro Duque, Albert Figurt, Stefan Heidenreich, Jasmina Kallay,  
Sarah K?ssene, Lev Manovich (to be confirmed), Dalibor Martinis,  
Gabriel Menotti, Ana Peraica, Valentina Rao, Jan Simons, Amir Soltani,  
Antanas Stancius, Evelin Stermitz, David Teh, Vera Tollmann, Andreas  
Treske, Sasa Vojkovic, Paul Wiersbinski, Kuros Yalpani.  Performances  
by: Cym and Emile Zile, and screened work by: Nathalie Bookchin, Cym,  
Lemeh42, Cornelius Onitsch, Ivana Runjic, and Shelly Silver.

The draft program is online at www.networkcultures.org/videovortex.
We hope to see you in Split!

Sabine Niederer
Institute of Network Cultures



///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
VIDEO VORTEX SPLIT
OPENING EVENING: THURSDAY 21 MAY 2009

17:30 Afternoon Screenings Preview at Kinoteka Zlatna Vrata, Split

19:00 Opening evening at Multimedia Cultural Center, Split
Word of Welcome by Geert Lovink, Miranda Velja?i? and Dan Oki
Introduction speech by Lev Manovich (to be confirmed)

20:00 Exhibition opening (with food buffet)

21:00 Performance: Emile Zile - Post-It Kino

(Buses to the hotel at 22:30 and 23:00)

DAY ONE: FRIDAY 22 MAY
Conference at Multimedia Cultural Center, Split
(Buses to the Conference at 9:00 and 9:20)

9:45 - 11:30 SESSION 1: Tele-image Research Strategies
Moderator: Sabine Niederer
Presentations by:
- Andreas Treske
- Nathalie Bookchin
- Dalibor Martinis
Discussion

COFFEE

11:45 ? 13:45 Session 2: The Database
Moderator: Tomislav Medak
Presentations by:
- Maarten Brinkerink
- Kuros Yalpani
- Albert Figurt
- Alejandro Duque
Discussion

LUNCH

14:30 ? 16:15 Session 3: Video Art meets Web Aesthetics
Moderator: Leila Topi?
Presentations by:
- Vera Tollmann
- Vito Campanelli
- Sarah K?ssene
Discussion

COFFEE/TEA

17:00 SCREENINGS
Presented by Dan Oki
- Lemeh42, Study on human form and humanity #1, (2?00?).
- Cornelius Onitsch, *AV*, (5?00?).
- Ivana Runjic, Show me your hard disk and I will tell you who you  
are, (7?00?).
- Nathalie Bookchin, Parking Lot, (15?00?).
- Shelly Silver, In Complete World (53?00?).
Q&A

20:00 CONFERENCE DINNER
(Buses to the hotel leave at 22:15 and 23:00)

DAY TWO: SATURDAY 23 MAY 2009
Conference at Multimedia Cultural Center, Split
(Buses to the conference leave at 9:00 and 9:15)

09:30 ? 11:15 Session 4: Online Video Theories
Moderator: Geert Lovink
Presentations by:
- Jan Simons
- Gabriel Menotti
- Amir Soltani
- Stefan Heidenreich
Discussion

COFFEE

11:30 ? 13:30 Session 5: Online Video Narratives
Moderator: Brian Willems
- Jasmina Kallay
- David Clark
- Valentina Rao
- Paul Wiersbinski
Discussion

LUNCH

14:15 - 16:15 Session 6: Politics of the Moving Image
Moderator: Petar Milat
Presentations by:
- Sasa Vojkovic
- David Teh
- Ana Peraica
- Antanas Stancius
Discussion

COFFEE/TEA

16:30 ? 18:00 Session 7: Social Cinema
Moderator: Dan Oki
Presentations by:
- Perry Bard
- Evelin Stermitz
- Dagan Cohen
Discussion

Evening: 19:00 CONFERENCE DINNER

21:00 PERFORMANCES
- Cym, 30?00?
- Surprise Act

22:00 VIDEO VORTEX PARTY
(Buses to the hotel leave at 24:00 and 02:00)

From sethkeen at internode.on.net  Sat Apr 18 14:59:08 2009
From: sethkeen at internode.on.net (Seth Keen)
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 22:59:08 +1000
Subject: <videovortex> another fantastic open video demo
Message-ID: <86ECF715-8A24-4F00-A8EA-E8A9BFEF2E55@internode.on.net>

http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/?p=1218 - dated April 15, 2009.

dialogue from the video screencast:

"the user can interact with the webpage while the video is being  
displayed"

---
sethkeen at internode.on.net
 >> sethkeen.net/blog/


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From jay.dedman at gmail.com  Sun Apr 19 02:24:38 2009
From: jay.dedman at gmail.com (Jay dedman)
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 20:24:38 -0400
Subject: <videovortex> another fantastic open video demo
In-Reply-To: <86ECF715-8A24-4F00-A8EA-E8A9BFEF2E55@internode.on.net>
References: <86ECF715-8A24-4F00-A8EA-E8A9BFEF2E55@internode.on.net>
Message-ID: <34ced5f40904181724qf98ab1k7789567ac604542@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 8:59 AM, Seth Keen <sethkeen at internode.on.net> wrote:
> http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/?p=1218 - dated?April 15, 2009.
> dialogue from the video screencast:
> "the user can interact with the webpage while the video is being displayed"

I believe Chris Blizzard reposted it. Check out the original link:
http://standblog.org/blog/post/2009/04/15/Making-video-a-first-class-citizen-of-the-Web

Tristan does a great job of framing the issue of open video. It's
still difficult to convince an average computer user why they should
care,.

Jay



-- 
http://ryanishungry.com
http://jaydedman.com
http://twitter.com/jaydedman
917 371 6790


From vera.tollmann at gmx.net  Mon Apr 20 20:58:46 2009
From: vera.tollmann at gmx.net (Vera Tollmann)
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:58:46 +0200
Subject: <videovortex> =?iso-8859-1?q?Youtubes_sch=F6ne_Schwester?=
References: <86ECF715-8A24-4F00-A8EA-E8A9BFEF2E55@internode.on.net>
	<34ced5f40904181724qf98ab1k7789567ac604542@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <A0326D9575554C65BDB1BC10476FDB27@YOUROU348Z4472>

An article about the "beautiful sister of Youtube", a smaller online video 
plattform called Vimeo, which is appreciated for its high quality.
Sorry, the article is in German, maybe only some of you can read it:
http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/0,1518,619600,00.html 



From seth.keen at rmit.edu.au  Tue Apr 21 05:03:00 2009
From: seth.keen at rmit.edu.au (Seth Keen)
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:03:00 +1000
Subject: <videovortex> immobilite - A Foreign Film by Mark Amerika
Message-ID: <C96B8D4B-682B-4E69-B77E-36667A5E5135@rmit.edu.au>

http://www.immobilite.com/

The world's first feature-length mobile phone art film.

A story about a future world where the dream of living in utopia can  
only be sustained by a nomadic tribe of artists and intellectuals,  
Mark Amerika's Immobilit? mashes up the language of "foreign films"  
with landscape painting and literary metafiction. The work was  
composed using an unscripted, improvisational method of acting and the  
mobile phone images are intentionally shot in an amateurish or DIY [do- 
it-yourself] style similar to the evolving forms of video distributed  
in social media environments such as YouTube. By interfacing this low- 
tech version of video making with more sophisticated forms of European  
art-house movies, Amerika both asks and answers the question "What is  
the future of cinema?"


best
Seth Keen
---
media lecturer
 >> sethkeen.net/blog






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From mail at tilmanbaumgaertel.net  Tue Apr 21 05:42:17 2009
From: mail at tilmanbaumgaertel.net (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?tilman_baumg=E4rtel?=)
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 11:42:17 +0800
Subject: <videovortex> immobilite - A Foreign Film by Mark Amerika
In-Reply-To: <C96B8D4B-682B-4E69-B77E-36667A5E5135@rmit.edu.au>
References: <C96B8D4B-682B-4E69-B77E-36667A5E5135@rmit.edu.au>
Message-ID: <49ED4099.6020807@tilmanbaumgaertel.net>

I think in the "future of cinema" films like that would be downloadable...

Yours,
Tilman

Seth Keen schrieb:
> http://www.immobilite.com/
>
> The world's first feature-length mobile phone art film.
>
> A story about a future world where the dream of living in utopia can 
> only be sustained by a nomadic tribe of artists and intellectuals, 
> Mark Amerika's Immobilit? mashes up the language of "foreign films" 
> with landscape painting and literary metafiction. The work was 
> composed using an unscripted, improvisational method of acting and the 
> mobile phone images are intentionally shot in an amateurish or DIY 
> [do-it-yourself] style similar to the evolving forms of video 
> distributed in social media environments such as YouTube. By 
> interfacing this low-tech version of video making with more 
> sophisticated forms of European art-house movies, Amerika both asks 
> and answers the question "What is the future of cinema?"
>
>
> best
> Seth Keen
> ---
> media lecturer
> >> sethkeen.net/blog
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> -----
>
> video vortex discussion list
> artist responses to youtube
>
> to change your settings or unsubscribe, please go to: http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/videovortex_listcultures.org



From J.A.A.Simons at uva.nl  Tue Apr 21 10:25:29 2009
From: J.A.A.Simons at uva.nl (Simons, J.A.A.)
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 10:25:29 +0200
Subject: <videovortex> FW: sms sugar man now online
Message-ID: <3E5C5B18CD1F014C865FA11958848480064CE179@devries.uva.nl>

To my knowledge, this is the first feature length movie entirely shot
with mobile phone cameras. It was made in 2007 by the South-Arfrican
filmmaker Aryan Kaganof. It is available online.
 
Jan Simons
 

________________________________

From: Aryan Kaganof [mailto:kaganof at mweb.co.za] 
Sent: dinsdag 21 april 2009 9:00
To: Simons, J.A.A.
Subject: sms sugar man now online


Dear Jan, 

The first full length feature film shot on a mobile phone camera is now
online and can be watched in its entirety for free. 

www.smssugarman.com 


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From mail at tilmanbaumgaertel.net  Tue Apr 21 10:55:51 2009
From: mail at tilmanbaumgaertel.net (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?tilman_baumg=E4rtel?=)
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:55:51 +0800
Subject: <videovortex> FW: sms sugar man now online
In-Reply-To: <3E5C5B18CD1F014C865FA11958848480064CE179@devries.uva.nl>
References: <3E5C5B18CD1F014C865FA11958848480064CE179@devries.uva.nl>
Message-ID: <49ED8A17.2050405@tilmanbaumgaertel.net>

There was another feature length film shot with a cam phone in 2005 by 
two Italians:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lY5g-nRPCrk

It is kind of a remake of Pasolini?s "Comizi d'amore"...

Yours,
T.

Simons, J.A.A. schrieb:
> To my knowledge, this is the first feature length movie entirely shot 
> with mobile phone cameras. It was made in 2007 by the South-Arfrican 
> filmmaker Aryan Kaganof. It is available online.
>  
> Jan Simons
>  
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From:* Aryan Kaganof [mailto:kaganof at mweb.co.za]
> *Sent:* dinsdag 21 april 2009 9:00
> *To:* Simons, J.A.A.
> *Subject:* sms sugar man now online
>
> Dear Jan,
>
> The first full length feature film shot on a mobile phone camera is 
> now online and can be watched in its entirety for free.
>
> www.smssugarman.com
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> -----
>
> video vortex discussion list
> artist responses to youtube
>
> to change your settings or unsubscribe, please go to: http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/videovortex_listcultures.org



From sabine at networkcultures.org  Tue Apr 21 12:46:29 2009
From: sabine at networkcultures.org (Sabine Niederer)
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:46:29 +0200
Subject: <videovortex> BeamClub
References: <225d08500904210236g6a210347oa2abc7513e221fc7@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <B56AD350-EC7A-40DA-91EA-228A24F6A85A@networkcultures.org>

Hi all,
this is a new video program in the Trouw Building in Amsterdam, and  
the first edition is tomorrow eve.
ciao, sabine


> Rijksakademie >> BeamClub THIS WEDNESDAYNIGHT 20:30 at De Verdieping
>
> On a regular irregular basis we ask (current and former) residents  
> of the http://www.rijksakademie.nl/ to show footage. This includes  
> anything that can be beamed, from youtube to documentary, from  
> mobile phone uploads to found vhs. What will be shown is not their  
> own art, but what inspires them to make it. The Rijksakademie is an  
> internationally acclaimed art research residency, currently home to  
> 60 artist with 29 different nationalities.
> The upcoming two nights will be kindly hosted by De Verdieping in  
> their ongoing wednesdaynight program. Doors open at 20:30, movies  
> start at 21:00. Entrance is FREE.
>
> De Verdieping (Trouw), Wibautstraat 131: http://www.trouwamsterdam.nl/2009/04/wo22apr
>
> or join us on facebook: group: Rijksakademie >> BeamClub http://tinyurl.com/c6pzlb
> or Twitter: http://twitter.com/sarahvsonsbeeck
>
>
>
>
> -- 
> Sarah van Sonsbeeck
> Studio A13
> Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten
> Sarphatistraat 470
> 1018 GW Amsterdam
> Telefoon +31-(0)20- 5270 300
>

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From geert at xs4all.nl  Wed Apr 22 09:48:21 2009
From: geert at xs4all.nl (Geert Lovink)
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 09:48:21 +0200
Subject: <videovortex> RiP: A Remix Manifesto
Message-ID: <62923671-8ABB-47D3-868D-51251E24D47E@xs4all.nl>

RiP:
A Remix Manifesto

a documentary about copyright
and remix culture
Wednesday May 13 - 7pm
Greater Union, Bondi Junction (Sydney)

PLUS: an audience Q&A after
the movie with director and web activist
Brett Gaylor
Live from Poland (of all places!)
Hosted by
Lindsay McDougall
("The Doctor" JTV, Frenzal Rhomb)

Web activist and filmmaker Brett Gaylor explores issues of copyright  
in the information age, mashing up the media landscape of the 20th  
Century and shattering the wall between users and producers. The  
film's central protagonist is Girl Talk, a mash-up musician topping  
the charts with his sample-based songs. But is Girl Talk a paragon of  
people power, or indeed the Pied Piper of piracy?

Examining the ambiguity of copyright law throughout the entertainment  
industry from Walt Disney through the brazen 'borrowing' of the blues  
via The Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin, the Napster Vs Metallica  
watershed legal feud, The Verve not getting a cent for their biggest  
single ever, right through the lesser known acts such as Negativeland  
who've felt the legal wrath of those with more power and money than  
themselves.

Ultimately pondering the question - when is art not legally classified  
as art. Which side of the ideas war are you on?

This kinetic, visceral and wildly entertaining and enlightening mixed-  
media documentary was recently the talk of the SXSW Film Festival and  
is ruffling corporate feathers the globe over.

Join us for what's sure to be a heated and engaging debate between  
morality and commercial reality - a night not to be missed.

More on Brett Gaylor:
Brett Gaylor is a documentary filmmaker and new media director.  He is  
the creator of opensourcecinema.org, a video remix community which  
supports the production of his feature documentary RiP: A remix  
manifesto.

He is also the web producer of the Homeless Nation.org, a web project  
dedicated to bridging the digital divide - allowing everyone to  
participate in online culture.

Brett is one of Canada?s first videobloggers and has been working with  
youth and media for over 10 years, and is a founding instructor of the  
Gulf Islands Film and Television School.

From geert at desk.nl  Wed Apr 22 10:10:17 2009
From: geert at desk.nl (geert lovink)
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 10:10:17 +0200
Subject: <videovortex> update on VV4 Split and beyond
Message-ID: <60E323E9-02D6-45B0-B500-1183FE030F5E@desk.nl>

Dear Videovortex networkers!

Videovortex 4 is in a month from now. The preparations for the program  
are more or less done and it looks like a very exciting line up!

If you are thinking of coming, let us know. Dan Oki is the festival  
director and coordinator in Split: danoki at xs4all.nl.

The Videovortex reader came out in October 2008, a year after  
VideoVortex 1 in Brussels in October 2007. Number 2 happened here in  
Amsterdam (January 2008) and the third edition in Ankara (October  
2008). To have number 4 already in May 2009, in the wonderful Croatian  
coastal town of Split  is pretty amazing. It shows us that the field  
of online video is very dynamic and that there is very active,  
critical involvement of artists, theorists, programmers and activists  
in this area.

The Videovortex reader has recently been reprinted (total circulation  
now: 3000). We might consider to produce a second Videovortex reader  
but, in part, this also depends on how the Videovortex research  
network will further develop. We would like to discuss this on this  
list. How do you see Videovortex as a project? Has it been too much  
old school, depending on a mailinglist, conferences and publications?  
Will additional layers of exchange on Web 2.0 platform add anything  
and reach other audiences?

Where and when should Videovortex 5 happen? Or Videovortex 6 for that  
matter... When should we start producing a second reader?

At Wintecamp in March, here in Amsterdam (www.networkcultures.org/wintercamp) 
  we discussed how networks can become more sustainable. Soon the  
outcomes of this largest INC event so far will become available. Would  
it make sense to turn the loose Videovortex community into what we  
call an 'organized network'? Would it make sense, for instance, to  
create an editorial board for Videovortex as a whole?

This and other things we would like to discuss in Split, and, if  
possible, make some decision there.

All the best,

Geert 


From geert at xs4all.nl  Thu Apr 23 19:47:35 2009
From: geert at xs4all.nl (Geert Lovink)
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:47:35 +0200
Subject: <videovortex> could be interesting for the videovortex context
Message-ID: <0EC266E6-4EAB-4AED-8B6E-CB60995CE25D@xs4all.nl>

http://criticalcommons.org/Members/ironman28/lectures/database-narrative

(the project launched on april 17)

Database Narrative
by Steve Anderson

This lecture outlines some basic properties of database narratives,  
referring to the debate between Lev Manovich and Marsha Kinder on the  
nature of selection and combination in narrative.

Database Narrative

Kinder vs. Manovich debate

-Manovich: database is the opposite of narrative!

-Kinder: all stories, like language itself, derive from combinations  
of narrative possibilities!

Virtually all stories - like language itself - derive from  
combinations of narrative elements

-paradigm and syntagm

-selection and combination

?Database narrative refers to narratives whose structure exposes or  
thematizes the dual processes of selection and combination that lie at  
the heart of all stories,? Kinder explains, ?particular data -  
characters, images, sounds, events - are selected from a series of  
databases or paradigms, which are then combined to generate specific  
tales.?

Where novelists are bound by numbered pages and filmmakers are  
constrained by sprocket holes and time code numbers, the digital  
artist is afforded a seeming infinitude of possibilities through the  
recombination of SNUs (?Smallest Narrative Units?)

The real questions then become: How and why do narrative conventions  
change? What drives new storytelling sensibilities? The usual answers?  
Television. Video games. The Internet. Programming languages.

But changes in technology are only part of the answer

The ways we read, watch and use media have been transformed at a  
fundamental level

expectations of interactivity and gratification, desire for liveness  
and responsiveness, as well as openness to complexity in temporal and  
spatial structures.

Witness the ease and pleasure with which contemporary movie audiences  
traverse the disruptive temporality of a Memento or Kill Bill, to say  
nothing of the spatial disruptions and reverberant visual structure of  
music videos by Chris Cunningham or Michel Gondry. By some  
estimations, it is the emergence of the database that has enabled this  
fascination with repetition and dislocation. Cultural theorist Lev  
Manovich claims that the logic of the computer has become the logic of  
culture at large, arguing that the database should be accorded the  
stature of a symbolic form on the order of cinema or the novel.

For Manovich, there is something more at stake in creating database  
art than narrative. ?A particular question which interests me these  
days is how can computer databases be used to represent contemporary  
subjectivity? While a pre-modern person was a part of a collective, a  
modern subject came to be defined in opposition to the outside world,  
with the border between the psychological interior and social exterior  
clearly marked. Today this border has dissolved, and our selves once  
again have become `distributed': stored in external corporate,  
medical, government and surveillance databases, broadcast to the world  
via blogs and web cams, invaded by media images. How can new computer- 
based representational techniques, and in particular databases, be  
used to portray this new sense of identity?? The most interesting  
interactive database narratives push beyond the mere recombination of  
elements from a preexisting heap of possible SNUs. Indeed there is  
nothing specifically digital about this type of structure. So what  
characteristics uniquely define the interactive database narrative?  
Arguably, it is these three: randomness, metadata and dynamism.

RANDOMNESS

Among the most interesting practitioners of what is sometimes called  
?computational cinema,? Andrea Flamini www.flamini.com explores the  
possibilities of generative narratives using random sequences of image  
and sound which are set in motion by a user, but are not subsequently  
guided or controlled. Flamini has created an impressive body of work  
in recent years, ranging from multi-channel and site-specific  
installations to Net artworks easily downloaded by modem. The  
brilliance of Flamini's work is its ability to evoke a mood or a state  
of consciousness within which narrative elements seem to gain  
coherence while resisting conventional narrative logics of cause and  
effect.

METADATA

Metadata is invisible information (keywords, for example) that is  
attached to any data set. Metadata allows a database system to create  
combinations of story elements that are dictated by the logic of  
relational algorithms or a search engine designed to access and  
combine information in particular configurations. An example of a  
rigorously metadata-driven narrative may be found in Manovich's Soft  
Cinema project. The structure of Soft Cinema depends on what Manovich  
calls ?algorithmic editing,? an automated system for combining  
elements according to prescribed rules based on the formal properties  
or content of video clips. The result is a pattern of images  
predicated on a system of rules that is not always immediately  
discernable, simulating what Manovich calls the contemporary state of  
?data-subjectivity? in which individuals are continually interpolated  
by layers of time, space and information.

DYNAMISM

Dynamism provides the antidote to the closed narrative system,  
allowing users to control not just the sequencing of designated SNUs,  
but to add or alter the basic narrative elements. A truly dynamic  
database must be expandable and reconfigurable, capable of ?talking?  
to a narrative engine by means of metadata and a predefined  
organizational architecture. Dynamism is a crucial part of the  
Labyrinth team's investigation of interactive narrative, both at the  
level of individual agency and in creating systems that are mutable  
and expandable. ?Embracing the interactive is important,? says Kinder,  
?but we don't want to just fetishize the interactivity. Agency doesn't  
necessarily make something wonderful.?

On a grander cultural scale, the open architecture database and the  
interactive narratives it engenders may be viewed in relation to the  
highly productive model of open source programming communities.