From geert at xs4all.nl  Wed Jun  3 10:07:15 2009
From: geert at xs4all.nl (Geert Lovink)
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 10:07:15 +0200
Subject: <videovortex> governance body for videovortex
Message-ID: <CAA68D6A-5D06-4227-81A0-A4682A9C1349@xs4all.nl>

Dear all,

if you're interested to join the conversation that we started in  
Split, please contact me.

This list doesn't seem to be the right place because of the low  
response rate. Would Skype perhaps maybe be a better, more active  
platform for Video Vortex? Or a Facebook page?

Best, Geert


From geert at xs4all.nl  Wed Jun 10 10:00:32 2009
From: geert at xs4all.nl (Geert Lovink)
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:00:32 +0200
Subject: <videovortex> Fwd: [iDC] Introduction: The Internet as Playground
	and Factory
References: <50e5df370906091444w3e083fe4qf4ab5674e514f78b@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <B4E652C4-CE44-4832-BB93-A38178D8363E@xs4all.nl>



Begin forwarded message:

> From: john smith <arttorrents at gmail.com>
> Date: 9 June 2009 11:44:03 PM
> To: idc at mailman.thing.net
> Subject: Re: [iDC] Introduction: The Internet as Playground and  
> Factory
>
> Hey
>
> I'm a new reader of this list as well and wanted to give a short  
> introduction to what i work on as well(English is not my first  
> language, i hope it's readable).
>
> Between December 2006 and September 2008 i ran a blog called Art  
> Torrents, which was and still is a synergetic bridge between  
> KaraGarga.net, the largest torrent based archive, indexing material  
> which could be labeled 'the negative shape of Hollywood(arthouse,  
> videoart, experimental cinema, etc.) and then Google. The blog had  
> several functions. One was to invite people to KaraGarga, who had  
> use of and interest in some of the same material as i had, being  
> mainly video art from the 60's to now. I have since 2006 received  
> 4000 mails from which i have invited app. 1500 people from all over  
> the world, students from every field and every place, professors  
> from Asia, Africa and other non-western locations, with no access to  
> the university archives in the west, which most of the new material  
> which has come through me, stems from, artists(some sharing own  
> work) - also from a wide range of locations, curators, historians,  
> researchers and so forth. One thing was important while going  
> through the mails: the ones who in some way said they planned to use  
> the material they found in a social situation, in its widest sense(i  
> might at some point have invited a lonely Inuit at some point, now  
> sitting in his igloo watching Godard or something having no one to  
> share it with), were chosen before the others, as i myself have  
> moved from a somewhat romantic view of the internet as a place where  
> new experiences can be gained to a view of the internet/the browser  
> as a tool, to move data from one computer to another, and then into  
> a social situation, where the material again is activated,  
> actualized, made important; taken from the highspeed space being our  
> browser into a more slow social space where our minds can relax and  
> more often drop below the surface.
> In the future, everything which can be digitized will always all  
> ready be there, which moves the task from creating the archive to  
> the new task, which of course all ready is actual; making the binary  
> masses important again, getting it off the internet, into a space,  
> into our dialogue, away from the browser, from the place our  
> computer is situated - often a desk and a chair, which literally  
> makes everything flat, the body is put out of control, deactivated  
> so as to make peace for our eyes, to scan over our computers and  
> take everything in visually.
> Because of the decentralized structure of KaraGarga, the archive is  
> everywhere and nowhere at the same time. It has no physical  
> appearance, at least not one anyone except a very small group of  
> people have access to and therefore it lies somewhere in between the  
> daily lifes of the sites users, the institutions they attend every  
> day, the cinema they go to at night and so forth: it is what Stoffel  
> Debuysere at some point on his blog referred to as an informal  
> archive opposed to the formal ones which we find at fx. Berkeley and  
> places like that - a line which of course isn't clearly drawn,  
> meaning that KaraGarga, as a surface, a picture of how history also  
> can be written, of course at some point, if it isn't taken down, may  
> become an established institution in itself, a formal archive.
> Other than that i have since 2007 helped out at UbuWeb, an archive  
> focusing on poetry/visual poetry, avantgarde, art, etc., run by  
> Kenneth Goldsmith, a new york based poet.
> On a more general level, I am interested in the internet because of  
> it's similarities with books and publications, as a thing, which is  
> nothing else than what is asserted in a given context - meaning, at  
> every site, in every book, every discourse, aesthetic language, can  
> or can not be activated, by the one engaging with it opposed to the  
> physical institutions which, when stepping through their doors,  
> accepts certain ways of behaving while excluding others, the  
> internet can as you can in a book fx., establish a hybrid  
> institution, drawing on whatever language, visual as linguistic, as  
> it want's to all the time affirming, that it exists in a place where  
> it can be activated as well as it maybe wont be.
>
> All the best
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From geert at xs4all.nl  Wed Jun 10 10:59:43 2009
From: geert at xs4all.nl (Geert Lovink)
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:59:43 +0200
Subject: <videovortex> By 2013 Video Will Be 90 Percent Of All Consumer IP
	Traffic And 64 Percent of Mobile
Message-ID: <F4F477A2-C8FB-4AF3-82D7-9E74441D86DB@xs4all.nl>

Cisco: By 2013 Video Will Be 90 Percent Of All Consumer IP Traffic And  
64 Percent of Mobile
37 Comments
by Erick Schonfeld on June 9, 2009

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/09/cisco-by-2013-video-will-be-90-percent-of-all-consumer-ip-traffic-and-64-percent-of-mobile/

By 2013, annual global IP traffic will reach two-thirds of a  
zettabyte, according to a new forecast of IP traffic issued by Cisco  
today. What is a zettabyte? It is a trillion gigabytes, dummy. (I had  
to look that up too). And that number represents more than a fivefold  
increase in IP traffic from today. (See the forecast in the tables  
below).

What is driving this growth is video. Cisco forecasts that 90 percent  
of consumer IP traffic (which makes up the majority of total IP  
traffic) will be video in 2013. Cisco also predicts that mobile data  
traffic will also be overtaken by video, reaching 64 percent of total  
mobile IP traffic by 2013. Part of this might be wishful thinking on  
Cisco?s part, which needs broadband usage growth to continue apace in  
order to sell its networking gear. But part of it is also the fact  
that these numbers are based on the percentage of bits traveling over  
those broadband pipes, and it doesn?t take a lot of fat video files to  
fill those up.

Cisco is a big believer in the growth of mobile video, expecting it to  
grow from 33 petabytes a month in 2008 to 2,184 petabytes (or 2  
exabytes) a month in 2013, which represents a 131 percent compound  
annual growth rate. (No wonder it bought the maker of the Flip video  
camera). As impressive as those numbers sound, at that point, mobile  
data will only make up 4 percent of total IP traffic. (Good thing  
Apple finally decided to get with the program and add video to its  
upcoming iPhone 3GS). In the chart below, you can see how big a role  
Cisco expects video to play in mobile data traffic. Video is the green  
part of the bar graphs. Standalone data (dark blue) is also expected  
to grow quickly.

(more...)

From geert at xs4all.nl  Fri Jun 12 10:20:14 2009
From: geert at xs4all.nl (Geert Lovink)
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:20:14 +0200
Subject: <videovortex> towards a video vortex steering committee
Message-ID: <1895BAC4-39F2-48A5-B11B-7A69131623EC@xs4all.nl>

Dear all,

over the past few week, after we recovered from Split a few people  
responded to the call for a governance structure in order to turn  
Video Vortex into an 'organized network'.

This is how the group looks like at the moment:

- Jan Simons, University of Amsterdam, new media theorist and speaker  
at VV 2 and 4
- Andreas Treske, Birkent University Ankara, speaker at VV 2 and 4,  
organizer of VV 3
- Dan Oki, presenter at VV 2 and 3, organizer of VV 4
- Adrian Miles, RMIT Melbourne, vlogger and speaker at VV 1
- Vera Tollmann, Berlin online video (art) critic and speaker at VV 2,  
3 and 4
- Sabine Niederer, INC Amsterdam, organizer of VV 2, co-editor of the  
VV Reader, attended VV 1-4
- Johan Oomen, Research Dept. Audio-Visual Archive Hilversum (NL),  
works with Maarten Brinkerink
- Geert Lovink, INC Amsterdam, founder of VV network/event series and  
co-editor of VV Reader
- Bram Crevits, Brussels, attended VV 2, 3 and 4, organizer of VV 5
- Seth Keen, RMIT Melbourne, Video Vortex 2 researcher, finishing his  
PhD on online video

We can certainly have more (female?) members!

I am not sure if and what the maximum amount of the group should be. I  
don't mind so much. We're not talking here about some legal board with  
a chairperson etc.

Besides Nathalie Bookchin, who's interested to pull off the Video  
Vortex facebook group?

Soon Bram will come with more news from Brussels Video Vortex 5  
(November 20/21 2009).

Best, Geert


From inarao at libertysurf.fr  Fri Jun 12 12:30:06 2009
From: inarao at libertysurf.fr (Valentina Rao)
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:30:06 +0200
Subject: <videovortex> (no subject)
Message-ID: <3FD3E2C7-307D-4E87-B5A0-8BB820039352@libertysurf.fr>

Hello Geert, and everybody,

isn't Video Vortex already on Facebook?

I am a new entry at Vortex, but I  would really like to follow up and  
well, if you need help with anything I'd be happy to contribute.


all best

Valentina 


From J.A.A.Simons at uva.nl  Fri Jun 12 17:02:53 2009
From: J.A.A.Simons at uva.nl (Simons, J.A.A.)
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:02:53 +0200
Subject: <videovortex> Camera war
Message-ID: <C6583ABD.11614%J.A.A.Simons@uva.nl>

http://www.camerawar.tv/ 



From info at vitocampanelli.it  Fri Jun 12 19:31:57 2009
From: info at vitocampanelli.it (Vito Campanelli)
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:31:57 +0200
Subject: <videovortex> towards a video vortex steering committee
In-Reply-To: <1895BAC4-39F2-48A5-B11B-7A69131623EC@xs4all.nl>
References: <1895BAC4-39F2-48A5-B11B-7A69131623EC@xs4all.nl>
Message-ID: <4A32910D.3030204@vitocampanelli.it>

Hello all,
I'm not a female but I'd love to contribute.

My "references":
attender at VV 2 and speaker at VV 4.

Best,
V.


Geert Lovink wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> over the past few week, after we recovered from Split a few people 
> responded to the call for a governance structure in order to turn 
> Video Vortex into an 'organized network'.
>
> This is how the group looks like at the moment:
>
> - Jan Simons, University of Amsterdam, new media theorist and speaker 
> at VV 2 and 4
> - Andreas Treske, Birkent University Ankara, speaker at VV 2 and 4, 
> organizer of VV 3
> - Dan Oki, presenter at VV 2 and 3, organizer of VV 4
> - Adrian Miles, RMIT Melbourne, vlogger and speaker at VV 1
> - Vera Tollmann, Berlin online video (art) critic and speaker at VV 2, 
> 3 and 4
> - Sabine Niederer, INC Amsterdam, organizer of VV 2, co-editor of the 
> VV Reader, attended VV 1-4
> - Johan Oomen, Research Dept. Audio-Visual Archive Hilversum (NL), 
> works with Maarten Brinkerink
> - Geert Lovink, INC Amsterdam, founder of VV network/event series and 
> co-editor of VV Reader
> - Bram Crevits, Brussels, attended VV 2, 3 and 4, organizer of VV 5
> - Seth Keen, RMIT Melbourne, Video Vortex 2 researcher, finishing his 
> PhD on online video
>
> We can certainly have more (female?) members!
>
> I am not sure if and what the maximum amount of the group should be. I 
> don't mind so much. We're not talking here about some legal board with 
> a chairperson etc.
>
> Besides Nathalie Bookchin, who's interested to pull off the Video 
> Vortex facebook group?
>
> Soon Bram will come with more news from Brussels Video Vortex 5 
> (November 20/21 2009).
>
> Best, Geert
>
> -----
>
> 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  Sun Jun 14 13:40:27 2009
From: J.A.A.Simons at uva.nl (Jan Simons)
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 13:40:27 +0200
Subject: <videovortex> Very short conference in Tate Modern
Message-ID: <4A34E1AB.2070202@uva.nl>

An alternative conference format on a topic that is remotely related to 
Videovortex:

http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/eventseducation/symposia/18189.htm or 
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=109426723697&ref=ts
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From geert at xs4all.nl  Wed Jun 17 22:49:06 2009
From: geert at xs4all.nl (Geert Lovink)
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 22:49:06 +0200
Subject: <videovortex> new list of VV steering committee
Message-ID: <1C9DDEF3-98F0-4B4B-9FB4-0E1E678954A6@xs4all.nl>

- Jan Simons, University of Amsterdam, new media theorist and speaker  
at VV 2 and 4
- Andreas Treske, Birkent University Ankara, speaker at VV 2 and 4,  
organizer of VV 3
- Dan Oki, presenter at VV 2 and 3, organizer of VV 4
- Adrian Miles, RMIT Melbourne, vlogger and speaker at VV 1
- Vera Tollmann, Berlin online video (art) critic and speaker at VV 2,  
3 and 4
- Sabine Niederer, INC Amsterdam, organizer of VV 2, co-editor of the  
VV Reader, attended VV 1-4
- Johan Oomen, Research Dept. Audio-Visual Archive Hilversum (NL),  
works with Maarten Brinkerink
- Geert Lovink, INC Amsterdam, founder of VV network/event series and  
co-editor of VV Reader
- Bram Crevits, Brussels, attended VV 2, 3 and 4, organizer of VV 5
- Seth Keen, RMIT Melbourne, Video Vortex 2 researcher, finishing his  
PhD on online video

New:

- Jean Burgess, QUT Brisbane, co-author of YouTube (Polity Press) and  
essay in VV reader
- Sasa Vojkovic, critic and theorist, Split/Rijeka, speaker at Video  
Vortex 4
- Perry Bard, artist, New York, exhibited and spoke at Video Vortex 4
- Nathalie Bookchin, artist & professor, Los Angeles, spoke at Video  
Vortex 4
- Vito Campanelli, media theorist, Napoli, attended VV2, speaker at VV 4




From sarahbxl at gmail.com  Wed Jun 17 22:51:38 2009
From: sarahbxl at gmail.com (Sarah Kesenne)
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 22:51:38 +0200
Subject: <videovortex> towards a video vortex steering committee
In-Reply-To: <1895BAC4-39F2-48A5-B11B-7A69131623EC@xs4all.nl>
References: <1895BAC4-39F2-48A5-B11B-7A69131623EC@xs4all.nl>
Message-ID: <9237c41c0906171351y6a9f4f0cv2f6be64686a36b1b@mail.gmail.com>

hello Geert and other vortex people,
A late reply, but of course I would like to be part of the 'organized
network' of video vortex...and I'm female too!

best
Sarah



2009/6/12 Geert Lovink <geert at xs4all.nl>

> Dear all,
>
> over the past few week, after we recovered from Split a few people
> responded to the call for a governance structure in order to turn Video
> Vortex into an 'organized network'.
>
> This is how the group looks like at the moment:
>
> - Jan Simons, University of Amsterdam, new media theorist and speaker at VV
> 2 and 4
> - Andreas Treske, Birkent University Ankara, speaker at VV 2 and 4,
> organizer of VV 3
> - Dan Oki, presenter at VV 2 and 3, organizer of VV 4
> - Adrian Miles, RMIT Melbourne, vlogger and speaker at VV 1
> - Vera Tollmann, Berlin online video (art) critic and speaker at VV 2, 3
> and 4
> - Sabine Niederer, INC Amsterdam, organizer of VV 2, co-editor of the VV
> Reader, attended VV 1-4
> - Johan Oomen, Research Dept. Audio-Visual Archive Hilversum (NL), works
> with Maarten Brinkerink
> - Geert Lovink, INC Amsterdam, founder of VV network/event series and
> co-editor of VV Reader
> - Bram Crevits, Brussels, attended VV 2, 3 and 4, organizer of VV 5
> - Seth Keen, RMIT Melbourne, Video Vortex 2 researcher, finishing his PhD
> on online video
>
> We can certainly have more (female?) members!
>
> I am not sure if and what the maximum amount of the group should be. I
> don't mind so much. We're not talking here about some legal board with a
> chairperson etc.
>
> Besides Nathalie Bookchin, who's interested to pull off the Video Vortex
> facebook group?
>
> Soon Bram will come with more news from Brussels Video Vortex 5 (November
> 20/21 2009).
>
> Best, Geert
>
> -----
>
> 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
>
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From mail at stefanheidenreich.de  Fri Jun 19 10:22:20 2009
From: mail at stefanheidenreich.de (Stefan Heidenreich)
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 10:22:20 +0200
Subject: <videovortex> new list of VV steering committee
In-Reply-To: <1C9DDEF3-98F0-4B4B-9FB4-0E1E678954A6@xs4all.nl>
References: <1C9DDEF3-98F0-4B4B-9FB4-0E1E678954A6@xs4all.nl>
Message-ID: <4A3B4ABC.40206@stefanheidenreich.de>

dear Geert and all,

please add me to the list. I would very much enjoy to take part in the 
project.

Stefan Heidenreich, Berlin, media-theorist, speaker at VV4

Geert Lovink schrieb:
> - Jan Simons, University of Amsterdam, new media theorist and speaker at 
> VV 2 and 4
> - Andreas Treske, Birkent University Ankara, speaker at VV 2 and 4, 
> organizer of VV 3
> - Dan Oki, presenter at VV 2 and 3, organizer of VV 4
> - Adrian Miles, RMIT Melbourne, vlogger and speaker at VV 1
> - Vera Tollmann, Berlin online video (art) critic and speaker at VV 2, 3 
> and 4
> - Sabine Niederer, INC Amsterdam, organizer of VV 2, co-editor of the VV 
> Reader, attended VV 1-4
> - Johan Oomen, Research Dept. Audio-Visual Archive Hilversum (NL), works 
> with Maarten Brinkerink
> - Geert Lovink, INC Amsterdam, founder of VV network/event series and 
> co-editor of VV Reader
> - Bram Crevits, Brussels, attended VV 2, 3 and 4, organizer of VV 5
> - Seth Keen, RMIT Melbourne, Video Vortex 2 researcher, finishing his 
> PhD on online video
> 
> New:
> 
> - Jean Burgess, QUT Brisbane, co-author of YouTube (Polity Press) and 
> essay in VV reader
> - Sasa Vojkovic, critic and theorist, Split/Rijeka, speaker at Video 
> Vortex 4
> - Perry Bard, artist, New York, exhibited and spoke at Video Vortex 4
> - Nathalie Bookchin, artist & professor, Los Angeles, spoke at Video 
> Vortex 4
> - Vito Campanelli, media theorist, Napoli, attended VV2, speaker at VV 4
> 
> 
> 
> -----
> 
> 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 es at mur.at  Fri Jun 19 14:20:56 2009
From: es at mur.at (Evelin Stermitz)
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:20:56 +0200
Subject: <videovortex> Info: Open Video Conference, NYC, June 19-20, 2009
Message-ID: <20090619142056.wlkpipljkckggkoc@secure.mur.at>


Maybe of your interest, some infos:
http://openvideoconference.org/

The Organizers:
http://pculture.org/
http://www.law.yale.edu/intellectuallife/informationsocietyproject.htm
http://corp.kaltura.com/
http://icommons.org/
http://openvideoalliance.org/

PAM is invited http://www.perpetualartmachine.com/



Best regards,
Evelin
~ evelin stermitz
~ http://evelinstermitz.net








From mbrinkerink at beeldengeluid.nl  Fri Jun 19 14:24:19 2009
From: mbrinkerink at beeldengeluid.nl (Maarten Brinkerink)
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 08:24:19 -0400
Subject: <videovortex> Info: Open Video Conference, NYC, June 19-20, 2009
In-Reply-To: <20090619142056.wlkpipljkckggkoc@secure.mur.at>
Message-ID: <C660FBB3.2A0F%mbrinkerink@beeldengeluid.nl>

Dear all,

Me and Johan are there at the moment to host a session about Audiovisual
Archives on Saturday. We are going to write a report about the conference,
so we'll also circulate that on this list.

Best,

Maarten Brinkerink
Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision


Op 19-06-09 08:20, Evelin Stermitz <es at mur.at> schreef:

> 
> Maybe of your interest, some infos:
> http://openvideoconference.org/
> 
> The Organizers:
> http://pculture.org/
> http://www.law.yale.edu/intellectuallife/informationsocietyproject.htm
> http://corp.kaltura.com/
> http://icommons.org/
> http://openvideoalliance.org/
> 
> PAM is invited http://www.perpetualartmachine.com/
> 
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> Evelin
> ~ evelin stermitz
> ~ http://evelinstermitz.net
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----
> 
> 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 es at mur.at  Fri Jun 19 15:08:35 2009
From: es at mur.at (Evelin Stermitz)
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:08:35 +0200
Subject: <videovortex> Info: Open Video Conference, NYC, June 19-20, 2009
In-Reply-To: <C660FBB3.2A0F%mbrinkerink@beeldengeluid.nl>
References: <C660FBB3.2A0F%mbrinkerink@beeldengeluid.nl>
Message-ID: <20090619150835.4yb10dxlby84o00s@secure.mur.at>


Great!
I just heard that Perry Bard is invited with her project "MAN WITH A  
MOVIE CAMERA" and Andreas Treske is speaking.




Zitat von Maarten Brinkerink <mbrinkerink at beeldengeluid.nl>:

> Dear all,
>
> Me and Johan are there at the moment to host a session about Audiovisual
> Archives on Saturday. We are going to write a report about the conference,
> so we'll also circulate that on this list.
>
> Best,
>
> Maarten Brinkerink
> Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
>
>
> Op 19-06-09 08:20, Evelin Stermitz <es at mur.at> schreef:
>
>>
>> Maybe of your interest, some infos:
>> http://openvideoconference.org/
>>
>> The Organizers:
>> http://pculture.org/
>> http://www.law.yale.edu/intellectuallife/informationsocietyproject.htm
>> http://corp.kaltura.com/
>> http://icommons.org/
>> http://openvideoalliance.org/
>>
>> PAM is invited http://www.perpetualartmachine.com/
>>
>>
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Evelin
>> ~ evelin stermitz
>> ~ http://evelinstermitz.net
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -----
>>
>> 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 insalatamistica at yahoo.it  Sat Jun 20 16:41:17 2009
From: insalatamistica at yahoo.it (insalatamistica at yahoo.it)
Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2009 14:41:17 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: <videovortex> R:  new list of VV steering committee
Message-ID: <39132.33058.qm@web25604.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>

as already stated in my performative intervention, at the moment I have a hunting-gathering approach to connectionso, I re-enter the cyburbia today - tryin' to rapidly rewind a week of lethargy..
of course I'd like to be part of the commitee :
@lbert figurt, male, amsterdam/italy, free-lance multimedialchemist
(speaker at VV 4,?feverishly?waitin' for VV 5)


      
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From joomen at beeldengeluid.nl  Sat Jun 20 17:26:24 2009
From: joomen at beeldengeluid.nl (Johan Oomen)
Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2009 17:26:24 +0200
Subject: <videovortex> OMG TV - ch 14,
	nycBroadcasting remix culture in a post analog world.
In-Reply-To: <20090619150835.4yb10dxlby84o00s@secure.mur.at>
Message-ID: <C662CC40.C323%joomen@beeldengeluid.nl>

http://38.108.108.26/drupal/

What is OMG TV?
OMG I'm on .TV is post-analog TV station broadcasting in NYC. We're
broadcasting internet content to your TV, through a low-power TV
transmitter. You get to create the shows, and vote on the shows. We built
this station to explore the newly FCC allocated white-spaces, embrace
internet and remix culture, and finally to celebrate analog TV. 



From minx at bway.net  Sun Jun 21 20:49:40 2009
From: minx at bway.net (Perry Bard)
Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2009 14:49:40 -0400
Subject: <videovortex> Fwd: NYTimes.com: Those Big Bright Eyes May Soon Be
	Brighter
Message-ID: <EE1DF689-5779-4BF6-B55E-54848A8F7282@bway.net>

www.nytimes.com/2009/06/21/business/21novel.html?emc=eta1



http://www.perrybard.net

http://dziga.perrybard.net

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From info at vitocampanelli.it  Mon Jun 22 18:31:30 2009
From: info at vitocampanelli.it (Vito Campanelli)
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:31:30 +0200
Subject: <videovortex> Phil Wood
In-Reply-To: <9237c41c0906171351y6a9f4f0cv2f6be64686a36b1b@mail.gmail.com>
References: <1895BAC4-39F2-48A5-B11B-7A69131623EC@xs4all.nl>
	<9237c41c0906171351y6a9f4f0cv2f6be64686a36b1b@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4A3FB1E2.4020900@vitocampanelli.it>

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From sarahbxl at gmail.com  Tue Jun 23 12:11:08 2009
From: sarahbxl at gmail.com (Sarah Kesenne)
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:11:08 +0200
Subject: <videovortex> ESF EU funding
Message-ID: <9237c41c0906230311g3fbf00d6y95e94a46ef12c258@mail.gmail.com>

hello,

Does anyone knows ESF -EU research network programmes funding? Maybe we
could apply with Video vortex for this.

best
Sarah Kesenne
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From geert at desk.nl  Wed Jun 24 22:14:28 2009
From: geert at desk.nl (geert lovink)
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:14:28 +0200
Subject: <videovortex> jeffrey jarvis: should youtube start with its own
	channels
Message-ID: <B41A7159-1869-4EFC-90C1-CEA24CDE05F1@desk.nl>

http://www.buzzmachine.com/2009/06/20/the-responsibility-of-knowledge-in-news/

The responsibility of knowledge in news

I tweeted a few minutes that I wish YouTube itself would be curating  
and featuring video from Iran because only it is in the position to  
know whether the video came from Iran and whether it is a duplicate. I  
said that YouTube has a responsibility in the news ecosystem. Andy  
Scheurer questioned that: responsibility? Good question. Isn?t YouTube  
just a host? Can?t it be agnostic as to interests? No, I don?t think  
so, because YouTube has unique knowledge it can add to inform the  
discussion (e.g., this video isn?t from Iran or it?s a year old or  
this video is unique from Iran today) and to not add that knowledge  
becomes irresponsible, no? YouTube can?t just make the information  
transparent so we can figure it out because it also has a moral  
responsibility to protect the identity of those who are putting  
themselves in danger by uploading the videos to inform the world. That  
means they are the only ones who can verify at least some information  
about the videos for our benefit. So shouldn?t they?

Jeffrey Jarvis




From treske at bilkent.edu.tr  Thu Jun 25 23:00:25 2009
From: treske at bilkent.edu.tr (Andreas Treske)
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:00:25 +0300
Subject: <videovortex> YouTube Sees 400 Percent Jump In Mobile Video Uploads
	Since New iPhone Launch
Message-ID: <B9FFF998-16F9-4B7C-A9BC-D78CF6898489@bilkent.edu.tr>

YouTube Sees 400 Percent Jump In Mobile Video Uploads Since New iPhone  
Launch
Give them easier access and they will upload and watch. Google (NSDQ:  
GOOG) said today that since the iPhone 3G S has come out, YouTube  
uploads have risen 400 percent. That?s a mighty jump being attributed  
to one phone model. But Google, which owns the online video site, said  
that in the last six months, uploads from all mobile phones to YouTube  
have surged 1,700 percent.

The company attributes the overall growth to new video-enabled phones  
on the market, as well as improvements it made to make it easier to  
post a video to YouTube from a phone, plus a recently added feature  
that lets users connect their YouTube account to their social  
networks. We?d also add the increase in cheaper flat rate data plans  
to the list.

Dianne See MorrisonJun 25, 2009 7:16 AM ET
Posted In: Gadgets, iPhone, Mobile, Social Media, Video, Companies,  
Apple, Google, YouTube
This work is licensed under a CreativeCommons License.
Copyright ContentNext Media Inc. 2002?2009


http://moconews.net/article/419-youtube-sees-400-percent-jump-in-mobile-video-uploads-since-new-iphone-/print/




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From vera.tollmann at gmx.net  Fri Jun 26 20:26:56 2009
From: vera.tollmann at gmx.net (Vera Tollmann)
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:26:56 +0200
Subject: <videovortex> new book on YouTube out
Message-ID: <EB663C849C0646CDB321F9FD6C00BD9F@YOUROU348Z4472>

Jean Burgess, Joshua Green
YouTube. Online Video and Participatory Culture
Click the images below for bigger versions:

Kurzbeschreibung: 
YouTube is one of the most well-known and widely discussed sites of participatory media in the contemporary online environment, and it is the first genuinely mass-popular platform for user-created video. In this timely and comprehensive introduction to how YouTube is being used and why it matters, Burgess and Green discuss the ways that it relates to wider transformations in culture, society and the economy. The book critically examines the public debates surrounding the site, demonstrating how it is central to struggles for authority and control in the new media environment. Drawing on a range of theoretical sources and empirical research, the authors discuss how YouTube is being used by the media industries, by audiences and amateur producers, and by particular communities of interest, and the ways in which these uses challenge existing ideas about cultural 'production' and 'consumption'. Rich with both concrete examples and featuring specially commissioned chapters by Henry Jenkins and John Hartley, the book is essential reading for anyone interested in the contemporary and future implications of online media. It will be particularly valuable for students and scholars in media, communication and cultural studies.

Autor/Herausgeber: 
Jean Burgess, Joshua Green
YouTube. Online Video and Participatory Culture
Polity Press, 2009, 978-0745644790 
EUR 21.50
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From treske at bilkent.edu.tr  Sun Jun 28 10:28:59 2009
From: treske at bilkent.edu.tr (Andreas Treske)
Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 11:28:59 +0300
Subject: <videovortex> =?windows-1254?q?Twitter_Guide_Book_=96_How_To=2C_T?=
 =?windows-1254?q?ips_and_Instructions_by_Mashable?=
Message-ID: <D30ADB6C-C46E-4FB0-B860-CAC434F95589@bilkent.edu.tr>

If you haven't got  a guide yet:

http://mashable.com/guidebook/twitter/

and as special "The Journalist's Guide to Twitter"

http://mashable.com/2009/05/14/twitter-journalism/

Best

Andreas
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From paulohartmannmobilefest at gmail.com  Sun Jun 28 22:11:25 2009
From: paulohartmannmobilefest at gmail.com (paulohartmann mobilefest)
Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 17:11:25 -0300
Subject: <videovortex> SP Mobilefest 2009 Calls
Message-ID: <cc97f3690906281311k9b891c6r9a402c849f52075c@mail.gmail.com>

CALL FOR PAPERS____________________________________________________

IV MOBILEFEST 2009 - International Festival of Mobile Art and Creativity
Call for Papers, Projects, Prototypes and Products.

THEME
How can mobile technology contribute to democracy, culture, art,
environment, peace, education, health and the Third Sector?

KEY WORDS
3g, mobile applications, interactive architecture, electronic art,
mobile activism, bluetooth, cyber culture, live cinema, mociology,
culture, democracy, inclusion design, ecology, education, d-i-y, gprs,
gps, LBS, innovation, mobile and wireless games, lbs, locative,
geotagging, electronic music, mobile music, m-health,_m-payment,
m-gov, mobile narrative, peace, interactive net performances with
mobile and wireless devices, interchange, video production and
distribution, augmented reality, open wireless, mesh, social nets,
rfid, expanded classroom, health, sms, mobile streaming, wearable
technolgies, tendencies, third-sector, citizen video, video call, TV
on mobile, wi-fi, wi-max, zigbee, etc.

INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR AND EXHIBITION
This seminar attracts leading academics, researchers and other
serious-minded people engaged in the pursuit of knowledge related to
mobile technology. Mobilefest seeks papers for live presentation.

For the participation at the exhibition with interactive
installations, performances or urban interventions send a detailed
technical rider: installation plan, photos, video and complete
description.

PAST TOPICS
activism, art and technology, democracy, digital divide, ecology and
e-waste, games and behavior, inclusive design, innovation, locative
media, licensing, m-government, m-learning, mobile art, mobile
marketing, mobile music, network culture, new forms of distribution,
performance, rfid, video mobile production, wearable technology,
wireless cities.

CRITERIA
Papers should be of an academic or serious research nature.  Papers
should address current topics of direct relevance to Mobilefest's
theme. Abstracts should be at least 500 words.

Final papers should be at least 1000 words long, and authors should be
prepared to deliver a presentation limited to 45 minutes.

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
Papers may be written in Portuguese, Spanish or English.
Abstracts and final papers should be sent as email attachments in
.TXT, .RTF, .DOC or PDF format.

Presentations must be delivered in Portuguese or English.
Presentations will be limited to 45 minutes total.

DEADLINE
Abstracts must be received no later than 15th July 2009.
Abstracts will be selected for presentation by 15th August 2009.
Notification will be made via this website, as well as to the
applicant's listed contact email.

REGISTRATION FOR AUTHORS _
Registration must be received by 15th July 2009.  Please submit the
following information via email to 2009 at mobilefest.org:

Author's Full name:
Email address:
Optional 2nd email address:
Postal address:
City:
State:
Country:
Postal Code:
Landline telephone number:
Mobile number:

(Optional) University/Organisation/Company:_

Abstract Category (Please mark all that apply):
____Democracy
____Culture
____Art
____Environment
____Peace
____Education
____Health
____Third Sector
____All **

** MOBILEFEST is a transdisciplinary event.
The more interconnection of information, the better.

Short biography of principal author:
Abstract (minimum 500 words):




CALL FOR VIDEOS____________________________________________________


IV MOBILEFEST 2009 - International Festival of Mobile Art and Creativity
Call for mobile videos 2009

Mobilefest International Mobile Video Exhibition
17th to 28th September 2009
MIS ? Museum of Image and Sound (Museu da Imagem e do Som) Sao Paulo,  
Brazil.

THEME: How can mobile technology contribute to democracy, culture,
art, environment, peace, education, health and the Third Sector?

Mobilefest Call for Mobile Videos has a cultural emphasis and, thus,
is not competitive by design.  We seek the very best content possible
to share broadly with our participants and via mobile technologies.
The 2009 Call for Mobile Video is for professional
filmmakers/videographers (writers/producers/directors), as well as
amateurs (people that do not make their primary living in the
film/video business). Mobilefest also seeks participation and
contribution from artists, researchers and developers actively engaged
in discovering new possibilities for uses of mobile media.


OVERVIEW
Today, several initiatives by non-governmental organizations (NGOs),
universities, media centers, companies, governments and regular
citizens all over the world use the new mobile technologies to promote
democracy, culture, art, the environment, peace, education, health and
the Third Sector.  Mobilefest International Mobile Video Exhibition
will screen selected narrative, documentary and experimental
film/videos that support these.


GENERAL SUBMISSIONS
Films and videos submitted should relate to one or more of the stated
Mobilefest general theme categories (democracy, culture, art, peace,
the environment, education, health, and the Third Sector). Video about
the environment is separately considered.

    1. Professional Submissions
Mobilefest seeks films/videos that may be narrative, documentary or
experimental in nature, provided they relate to democracy, culture,
art, peace, education, health and the Third Sector.  They must be
suitable for viewing on a small format, although they need not have
been shot using mobile technology.  Running time is not restricted.
Films/videos can be independent, studio produced, or corporate
sponsored.

Criteria

Submissions must be professionally produced/directed and may be
submitted either by the writer, director or producer(s).  Videos
should have been completed during the previous year, although
exceptions will be allowed with advance permission from Mobilefest
organizers.  Previously submitted entries may not be resubmitted.

    2. Amateur Submissions
Citizen filmmakers and videographers unite!  Submit your creations
that were made either using your mobile phone, or made for watching on
a mobile.  Whether telling a story or documenting something, you can
submit your video as long as it relates to any of the themes of
Mobilefest.


ENVIRONMENT SUBMISSIONS
A significant aspect of Mobilefest is its commitment to screen
informative and consciousness-raising digital content (shot either by
professionals or amateurs around the world) that encourages the
mobilization of everyone to protect and preserve our planet for
generations to come.

Mobilefest calls on all mobile users around the world ? professional,
amateur, citizen journalists, etc. ? to mobilize for the protection of
the environment by sending noteworthy videos of the environment from
their mobiles or computers.  In addition to images that may reveal
lack of respect towards our Earth ? like illegal cutting of trees,
water pollution, wild animal smuggling, or other irregularities ?
Mobilefest also seeks videos that show the beauties of nature to draw
attention to what future generations will miss if we don?t take action
now to preserve and protect Mother Nature.

Criteria

- Only the rightful owner of material may submit it.  Material may not
be submitted by third parties on behalf of anyone else.
- Submissions may include fiction and non-fiction films/videos that
reflect the issue of environmental protection.
- Submissions need not be professionally produced or directed.
- Special attention will be given to documentary footage ? either
professional, amateur or citizen journalist ? that captures
environmental mistreatment.  If       your video documents acts being
committed against the environment, please include date, approximate
time and place of shooting, and total running time of the video.


NEW MOBILE MEDIA POSSIBILITIES
Mobile and wireless technologies are making it possible for artists of
all kinds to stretch the boundaries of their creativity.  Mobilefest
encourages producers, developers and artists to explore their
imagination in search of new artistic expression that uses current
technology and hints at future possibilities for content production
and distribution.

Mobilefest Festival seeks artwork, video and mobile-related creativity
that incorporates such technologies as GPS; 3G/4G access; music;
wi-fi; scanning; video calls; micro-blogging; picture and video
messaging; new applications; localized content; real-time image
processing and recognition; augmented or mixed reality; streaming
video sharing; and mobile TV.

Criteria

We are looking for innovative and unique submissions that defy easy
categorization or prerequisites, so if you have something you believe
we should include, please send us a brief description (up to 500
words) of your project or digital artwork and then we will contact
you.

Please send your email to videos2009 at mobilefest.org, ATTN: Paulo
Hartmann and Marcelo Godoy, and include the phrase NEW MEDIA
POSSIBILITIES in the subject line.


SHOWCASE OF MOBILE FESTIVALS WORLDWIDE
 From its very beginning in 2006 Mobilefest has built an international
network of festivals that involve content production created by or for
mobile applications. Our goal is to share with the Brazilian audience
what others are doing concurrently around the world, and to present an
expressive exhibition of the extraordinary emerging mobile video
scene.

Universities, media centers, cultural associations or companies that
have produced or curated festivals about videos created for or by
mobiles are encouraged to participate.  We will work closely with
foreign embassies and cultural centers of your country of origin so
that the organizer/representative of your festival also can
participate in Mobilefest International Seminar.

Mobilefest receives extensive media coverage throughout Brazil.  The
festivals represented will be included in Mobilefest?s official
programme and have their logos published in the official catalogue.

Past international festivals represented have included:
?	Mobifest Canada
(Canada)
?	Pocket Shorts
(England)
?	Pocket Films (France)
?	Arte Mov
(Brazil)
?	Microfilmes
(Portugal)
?	The 4th Screen
(USA)
?	FilMobile (UK)
?	MobilityFest (Colombia)

To participate in the Exhibition of Mobile Festivals
We request that you send us, by email, some background information
about your festival, as well as a representative clip-reel of up to
1-hr. that characterizes the content and nature of your unique
festival.  Please see technical specifications below.

Please send your email to videos2009 at mobilefest.org,
ATTN: Marcelo Godoy and Paulo Hartmann, Mobilefest organizers, and
include the phrase SHOWCASE OF FESTIVALS in the subject line of your
email.


REGISTRATION/DEADLINE
All submissions are due no later than 15th July 2009
Selections for screening will be announced on 15th August 2009, via
this website and the registered director/producer also will be
informed via email.
Registration fee: Free

Registration should be sent by email to videos2009 at mobilefest.org,
with the word REGISTRATION in the subject line, with the following
information:

Director?s (Producer?s) Full name:
Email address:
Optional 2nd email address:
Postal address:
City:
State:
Country:
Postal Code:
Landline telephone number:
Mobile number:

Description (maximum 200 words):

Tags:

Video Category (Please mark all that apply):
____Democracy
____Culture
____Art
____Environment
____Peace
____Education
____Health
____Third Sector
____All

Short biography of submitting writer, director or producer:


TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS FOR ALL SUBMISSIONS
Subtitles
If dialogue is not in Portuguese, English or Spanish, please include
subtitles in one of these languages.

Acceptable formats for all video submissions
Digital: 3GP, MPEG2, AVI, MOV
Files.
Can be up to 5Mb, with minimum resolution 128 x 96 pixels and maximum
resolution 720 x 480 pixels.

(Non-digital) Physical:
DVD, DV, Mini-DV, must be NTSC format.

Videos should be accompanied by the following information:
?	A brief description (max. 200 words)
?	Technical information (including total running time; year shot);
?	Whether or not video has been broadcast and if so, where/when;
?	Names of primary production crew.

Please submit this descriptive information as an email attachment in
.RTF, .DOC or PDF format.

Additionally, please include three (3) stills from the video in JPEG
(640 x 480 pixels), no compression, from 100kb to 500kb, with 200 dpi
resolution.

HOW/WHERE TO SEND
Videos up to 5 MB should be sent to: videos2009 at mobilefest.org

Videos up to 50MB can be sent to mobilefestfestival at gmail.com

Videos over 50MB must be sent on physical media (DVD, DV, Mini- DV,
NTSC-only), to the following address:

Mobilefest
R. Helena, 280, cj. 1107
Sao Paulo ? SP ? Brazil
CEP 04552-050
ATTN: 50 MB+ video

You must send your submission with some sort of tracking or return
receipt (or proof of signature) to verify our receipt.  Mobilefest
cannot be responsible for materials that never arrive. Materials will
not be returned.  DO NOT SEND YOUR ONLY COPY!!!


MOBILEFEST COLLECTION
All materials sent will become part of Mobilefest?s permanent video
collection.  You consent to its possible use in conventional or
digital media, advertising and/or promotional materials for
Mobilefest, or at any venues related to Mobilefest, including but not
limited to school concerts, university functions, and social
gatherings.  In such instances where any recognizable portion of your
video is used, Mobilefest will make best efforts to give credit to the
writer, director or producer who originally submitted the material.


QUESTIONS?
Please email us at videos2009 at mobilefest.org


Important:
Registrations will be considered complete and valid only
when the festival receives the emailed registration form and
corresponding DVD or video file (or physical entry).  Registration
forms must be submitted electronically.  You may send an additional
hard copy of your registration with a physical entry for
identification purposes, but you must submit your official
registration electronically.












Paulo Hartmann

skype:
paulohartmann

mobile: +5511 94531314
office:   +5511 35257428

((((((MOBILEFEST))))))
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
www.mobilefest.com.br
Rua Helena 280, 1107
04552-050
Sao Paulo
Brazil




From je.burgess at qut.edu.au  Mon Jun 29 00:00:48 2009
From: je.burgess at qut.edu.au (Jean Burgess)
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 08:00:48 +1000
Subject: <videovortex> The YouTube Reader
Message-ID: <C66E2530.19D3E%je.burgess@qut.edu.au>

New book:

The YouTube Reader edited by Pelle Snickars and Patrick Vonderau,
distributed by Wallflower Press:
<http://www.wallflowerpress.co.uk/product/new-titles/youtube_reader>

And supplementary online exhibition curated by Giovanna Fossati (Netherlands
Film Museum) with 100 selected YouTube clips. <http://www.youtubereader.com>

Cheers
Jean



From geert at xs4all.nl  Mon Jun 29 22:08:01 2009
From: geert at xs4all.nl (Geert Lovink)
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:08:01 +0200
Subject: <videovortex> next INC conference on art & politics of search (nov.
	13-14)
Message-ID: <F2B3DC7C-8DCB-4D09-BD32-1DEFB668D894@xs4all.nl>

Society of the Query conference: 13 - 14 November 2009
Location: Trouw Amsterdam
Organized by the Institute of Network Cultures

More info and material on: http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/query/

In the information society the current reality is an increasing  
dependence on technological resources to create order and to find  
meaning in a gigantic quantity of online data. Searching has surpassed  
browsing and surfing as main activity on the web. This development  
turned the search engine into our most significant point of reference.  
Its focus on efficiency and expansion of services tends to veil the  
nature of the technology as well as underlying (corporate) ideologies.

In this query driven society, The Society of the Query conference  
seeks to analyze what impact our reliance on resources to manage  
knowledge on the Internet has on our culture. The theory of a semantic  
web lurking around the corner revives the ?human vs. artificial  
intelligence?-debate. The centralizing web demands to critically  
question the distribution of power, the diversity and accessibility of  
web content, while promising alternatives for the dominant paradigm  
surface in peer-to-peer and open source initiatives. Finally, the  
question arises what role politics and education, after having  
invested substantially in media intelligence, can play in the creation  
of an informed users? group.

For two days, the Society of the Query conference aims to zoom in on  
some of the essential themes surrounding web search by critical  
analysis and the contextualization of developments in interface design  
and the organization of knowledge. The Institute of Network Cultures  
seeks to achieve this specifically by uniting researchers, theorists,  
activists, artists and professionals working in this area and by  
creating a platform for not only realized projects and recent  
research, but also for open questions and predictions.

Conference Themes

Society of the Query
Digital Civil Rights and Media Literacy
Alternative Search (1)
Art and the Engine
Googlization of Everyday Life
Alternative Search (2)

Society of the Query
Because the web lacks editorial monitoring, we have become more  
dependent on technological resources when trying to find meaningful  
content within the vast amount of data on the web. Traditional methods  
to decide what information is valuable and useful are absent. In  
recent years, people have become increasingly dissatisfied by Google?s  
PageRank-algorithm, which is based of the popularity of a web page.  
Also, new semantic layers have been added to the principal  
architecture of the web. This conference session will focus on  
?searching? on the level of the software and will discuss the notion  
of the organization of knowledge within the theoretical framework of  
the humanities and computer science.

Questions to be discussed in this session include: What is the history  
of the organization of knowledge? Which ideologies make up the  
foundations for  the concept  of ?ontology?? And, what role will human  
expertise play in the era of ?machine understanding??

Moderator: Geert Lovink
Speakers:

  * Yann Moulier Boutang (F), editor of Multitude?s special issue on  
Google (May 2009).
  * Matteo Pasquinelli (NL), Author of Animal Spirits (2008) and  
Google?s PageRank: Diagram of the Cognitive Capitalism and Rentier of  
the Common Intellect? (2009).
  * Teresa Numerico (IT), (PhD in History of Science) is a researcher  
in Philosophy of Science at the University of Salerno, where she  
teaches New Media.
  * David Gugerli (CH), author of ?Suchmaschinen ? Die Welt als  
Datenbank? (2009).

Digital Civil Rights and Media Literacy
In 2005, John Batelle characterized Google as a ?database of intents?:  
a valuable archive of individual and collective wishes. As the number  
of services offered by search engines is expanding, large amounts of  
personal information are gathered, stored and used for commercial  
purposes. The current technological climate seems to be one in which  
the user is virtually unaware of who or what is behind the web  
applications they use on a daily basis.

Questions to be discussed in this session include: How does the  
intermediary function of search engines threaten digital civil rights  
such as the right to privacy and freedom of expression? What role can  
politics play in protecting these rights? How can the way search  
engines are designed aid to protecting our autonomy? How will the  
legal framework concerning search engines be shaped? And, after  
substantial investments in media intelligence, how are these matters  
raised on a national and European level?

Moderator: Caroline Nevejan
Speakers:

  * Nart Villeneuve (CA), Open Net Initiative.
  * Joris van Hoboken (NL), doctoral candidate at the Institute for  
Information Law at the University of Amsterdam. His research focuses  
on digital civil rights and the legal framework concerning search  
engines.
  * Ippolita Collective (IT), Italian collective that recently  
published ?Luci e Ombre di Google? (2007), available in English as  
?The Dark Side of Google?.

Alternative Search (1)
In response to a growing interest in alternative methods to search the  
web, this session will focus on three ?genres? of alternatives on the  
level of the user, the software and the network ? represented and  
compared by researchers. The first genre that is attended to will  
include the upcoming ?general purpose?-search engine, a search engine  
designed specifically with large audiences and competition with Google  
in mind. The second genre will focus on search methods that disregard  
the ?engine? as dominant paradigm. How promising are, for example,  
peer- to-peer and open source technologies with regards to the current  
search conditions and which alternatives for commercial and  
centralizing methods have already emerged? The third and final genre  
consists of specialized search engines, mostly targeting specific  
content. What can we learn, for instance, from search methods within  
certain web spheres, such as the blogosphere, or the flourishing area  
of mobile search? And, how is the field of visual search developing,  
looking beyond the tag as systematizing principle?

Moderator: Eric Sieverts
Speakers:

  * Matthew Fuller (UK), Goldsmiths College, will discuss alternative  
search engines and interventions within the field of artists.
  * Cees Snoek (NL), University of Amsterdam, focuses on visual search  
engines, competitions between universities in the US and Amsterdam,  
assignment for the search engine: find the red hat in the movie as  
fast as possible.
  * Ingmar Weber (NL/FR), post doctorate researcher in information  
retrieval at the Ecole Polytechnique F?d?rale de Lausanne in  
Switzerland. His doctoral research focused on efficient data  
structures and applications for an interactive search engine called  
?CompleteSearch?.

Art and the Engine
Even during the web?s early stages, artists used this platform to  
produce and distribute a extensive diversity of media such as  
animation, programming, video, audio and games.  While in the last  
decennium we have witnessed a shift from the ?directory? towards the  
algorithm, it is the art database that has been refining the directory  
model for years.

What influence does Google?s omnipresence have over the production and  
distribution of web based art? How does art criticism manifest itself  
in the era of Google? And, how the can online artistic experience be  
preserved and made easily findable? While examining these issues, the  
Institute of Network Cultures will invite representatives of some of  
the largest art databases, such as the Rhizome ArtBase and the Whitney  
ArtPort, to discuss the latest developments in the classification,  
annotation and visualization of web based art.

Concentrating on the latest developments within the field of graphic  
design, art and the architecture of information, additionally this  
session will address potential outcomes of search result design.

Questions to be discussed in this session include: How can we achieve  
more advanced forms of interface design and search result design? What  
role do graphic and visual representations play in the conveyance of  
digital information? Do alternatives exist that can challenge the  
?ranked list? as dominant type of search result presentation? And, how  
would the interface be able to stimulate new and progressive ways for  
the user to search, find and analyze data?

Moderator: Sabine Niederer
Speakers:

  * Lev Manovich (USA), UCSD professor, media theorist and initiator  
of Software Studies.
  * Daniel van der Velden (NL), Metahaven Design Research is a design  
and research agency in Amsterdam, that researches the potential power  
of ?bridging nodes?, the peripheral nodes in a network, and is  
implementing this theory into a prototype for a new kind of search  
engine.
  * Christopher Bruno (FR), artist. Produces polymorphic art inspired  
by network phenomena and globalization regarding image and language.
  * Allessandro Ludovico (IT), thoughts on the aftermath of the Google  
Will Eat Itself project.

Googlization of Everyday Life
Questions to be discussed in this session include: In what way does  
the hegemony of some of the bigger search engines influence the flow  
of information and the diversity and accessibility of web content? How  
does the current division of power influence the administration of  
informational sources. And, what are the results of the Google  
BookSearch agreement?

Introduction and moderation by Andrew Keen
Speakers:

  * Siva Vaidhyanathan (US), culture historian and Associate Professor  
in Media Studies and Law at the University of Virginia. Authored  
publications include ?The Anarchist in the Library? (2004) and the  
forthcoming ?The Googlization of Everything? (early 2010).
  * Stefan Weber (Vienna) on the dangers of plagiarism and Google?s  
role in the decline of education.
  * Benjamin Edelman (US), How Google and Its Partners Inflate  
Measured Conversion Rates and Increase Advertisers? Costs.

Flarf Performance

Alternative Search (2)
In response to a growing interest in alternative methods to search the  
web, this session will focus on three ?genres? of alternatives on the  
level of the user, the software and the network ? represented and  
compared by researchers. The first genre that is attended to will  
include the upcoming ?general purpose?-search engine, a search engine  
designed specifically with large audiences and competition with Google  
in mind. The second genre will focus on search methods that disregard  
the ?engine? as dominant paradigm. How promising are, for example,  
peer- to-peer and open source technologies with regards to the current  
search conditions and which alternatives for commercial and  
centralizing methods have already emerged? The third and final genre  
consists of specialized search engines, mostly targeting specific  
content. What can we learn, for instance, from search methods within  
certain web spheres, such as the blogosphere, or the flourishing area  
of mobile search? And, how is the field of visual search developing,  
looking beyond the tag as systematizing principle?

Moderator: Richard Rogers
Speakers:

  * Florian Cramer (Rotterdam), head of the Master of Arts in Media  
Design program at the Piet Zwart Institute/ Willem de Kooning Academy  
in Rotterdam. Authored publications include the essay ?Animals that  
Belong to the Emperor: Failing Universal Classification Schemes from  
Aristotle to the Semantic Web? (2007).
  * Europeana Thought Lab (The Hague), Semantic Search Engine for  
Europeana
  * Stephen Pemberton (Amsterdam), chairman of the XHTML2 Working  
Group at W3C and researcher at the Center for Mathematics and Computer  
Science in Amsterdam.

Project Showcase

This segment of the conference will consist of the exhibition of  
specific projects addressing the theme of the search engine, and will  
be divided into two parts. During the conference, a display of  
computers and screens will be available on which the latest generation  
of search engines is installed. The Institute of Network Cultures  
seeks to give visitors the opportunity to discover search engines such  
as Wolfram Alpha, Quaero, Theseus and Autonomy. This will provide them  
with hands-on experience of the range of search methods discussed in  
the conference sessions. Furthermore, the Institute of Network  
Cultures plans to organize a concluding evening program to do justice  
to the diversity of artistic and activist projects that examine the  
role of the search engine in contemporary society. The works presented  
in the evening program will vary from browser extensions, alternative  
search engines and net art projects to videos and VJ performances. It  
is aspired that artists and developers will be present during this  
showcase to discuss and elaborate on their work with the audience.
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From treske at bilkent.edu.tr  Tue Jun 30 06:35:45 2009
From: treske at bilkent.edu.tr (Andreas Treske)
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 07:35:45 +0300
Subject: <videovortex> YouTube - reporterscenter's Channel
Message-ID: <1DE73A8C-3F31-4203-8760-6D83B01A4F47@bilkent.edu.tr>

Here we go - YouTube launches its reporter center - mobile phone  
journalists in the need of education

http://www.youtube.com/reporterscenter

See also Chris Albrecht on the website Newteevee:

http://newteevee.com/2009/06/29/youtube-launches-reporters-center/

 From Newteevee:  ?learn practical and ethical tips, like how to fact  
check your stories, avoid breaking the law while reporting, and adhere  
to journalistic principles.? and "The Reporters? Center is a timely  
addition to the site, considering just how much the Internet is  
changing the face of journalism. During recent crackdowns on  
protesters, YouTube provided Iranians with an outlet to let their  
stories be seen. CNN?s citizen journalism site, iReport, saw a spike  
in submissions from Iran; and the mobile phone-filmed death of ?Neda?  
punctuated the protests with an all-too-real tragedy."

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From treske at bilkent.edu.tr  Tue Jun 30 06:42:08 2009
From: treske at bilkent.edu.tr (Andreas Treske)
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 07:42:08 +0300
Subject: <videovortex> Interactive TV - TV anywhere
Message-ID: <D9F67FBD-5906-431B-87FD-3A75B1C295F3@bilkent.edu.tr>

Another citation from Informitv:

TV Anywhere
The TV Everywhere concept promoted by Time Warner and Comcast is  
ambitious in name but modest in its initial scope. Pay television  
providers like Sky in the United Kingdom already offer a comprehensive  
online service, while the main British broadcast networks now make the  
majority of their programmes available online. As yet there is little  
integration between these services and they tend to be tied to  
particular territories. The rights issues involved in geographic  
roaming have yet to be addressed. The challenges are more commercial  
than technical. A standardised single sign-on system based on  
subscription entitlements and personalised advertising is certainly  
technically achievable. The end game is surely to deliver media  
anytime, anywhere, over any network provider, to any compatible  
device. Although this may be technically inevitable, it still feels we  
are some way from TV Anytime, Anywhere.

Dr William Cooper
Chief Executive
informitv


http://informitv.com/



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From J.Mariategui at lse.ac.uk  Tue Jun 30 16:50:12 2009
From: J.Mariategui at lse.ac.uk (Jose-Carlos Mariategui)
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:50:12 -0500
Subject: <videovortex> Interactive Film wins Grand Prix at the Cannes Lions
Message-ID: <4D8995B2-0DF8-4514-9005-2B25FB439C69@lse.ac.uk>

For the first time in history an interactive films gets the Grand Prix  
at the Cannes Lions Advertising Festival.  The work was done by  
digital agency TribalDDB Netherlands for Philips Cinema 21:9

http://work.canneslions.com/film/

There is also quite an interesting note on this here:

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/b8afdf8e-64cb-11de-a13f-00144feabdc0.html

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