From vera.tollmann at gmx.net  Sun Mar  8 19:24:12 2009
From: vera.tollmann at gmx.net (Vera Tollmann)
Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2009 19:24:12 +0100
Subject: <videovortex> data moshing
Message-ID: <CDBD10DAC7BE4456B34BED9110EA8354@YOUROU348Z4472>

Hi,

two examples of data moshing (now, that most streams run smooth)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2aLQTl6LdA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBrpGwBCDis

and the article I found:
It's happened to you at least once - a color explosion on your screen created by an ill-fated download or a codec mismatch. A compression algorithm slip-up can introduce surprising colors and patterns but retain strange motion memories of the original video.
A little over a week ago, Ray Tintori premiered his music video for Chairlift's "Evident Utensil", which wrangles the technique, "data moshing," into a fun, effortless, mind-bending trip with the members of Chairlift. Every time you start to wrap your head around whats happening, the band breaks through the frame, tearing the pixels with them.

A couple days ago, another data moshing video was released ...

http://motionographer.com/2009/02/19/tintori-and-nabil-breaking-your-internets/

vera
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From brainopera at gmail.com  Sun Mar  8 19:45:24 2009
From: brainopera at gmail.com (Kevin Lim)
Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2009 13:45:24 -0500
Subject: <videovortex> data moshing
In-Reply-To: <CDBD10DAC7BE4456B34BED9110EA8354@YOUROU348Z4472>
References: <CDBD10DAC7BE4456B34BED9110EA8354@YOUROU348Z4472>
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Vera,
   This is really fascinating to me. Much like we feel warm to
artifacts we get from analogue media (e.g. crackles from vinyl
records), here we are seeing digital artifacts now being appreciated /
manipulated as an artistic quality of the media.

Years ago, I was gifted with a Macintosh Centris 660AV and while I
could edit videos on it, it was too slow to digitize footage off my
Hi8 camera. I ended up using the choppiness of the video and
syncopated beats to fit with it. Surprisingly watchable. Perhaps it'd
be a good time for me to upload such work onto Youtube.

Kevin Lim
Cyberculturalist
http://theory.isthereason.com
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On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Vera Tollmann <vera.tollmann at gmx.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> two examples of data moshing (now, that most streams run smooth)
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2aLQTl6LdA
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBrpGwBCDis
>
> and the article I found:
> It?s happened to you at least once ? a color explosion on your screen
> created by an ill-fated download or a codec mismatch. A compression
> algorithm slip-up can introduce surprising colors and patterns but retain
> strange motion memories of the original video.
>
> A little over a week ago, Ray Tintori premiered his music video for
> Chairlift?s ?Evident Utensil?, which wrangles the technique, ?data moshing,?
> into a fun, effortless, mind-bending trip with the members of Chairlift.
> Every time you start to wrap your head around whats happening, the band
> breaks through the frame, tearing the pixels with them.
>
> A couple days ago, another data moshing video was released ...
>
> http://motionographer.com/2009/02/19/tintori-and-nabil-breaking-your-internets/
> vera
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From joomen at beeldengeluid.nl  Mon Mar  9 08:43:30 2009
From: joomen at beeldengeluid.nl (Johan Oomen)
Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2009 08:43:30 +0100
Subject: <videovortex> DIVERSE Conference - The use of video in higher
 education - Call for Proposals
In-Reply-To: <314a904e0903081145n51de0b82k2b8420494eb75dc0@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <C5DA8732.7B92%joomen@beeldengeluid.nl>

>From June 24th to 26th June 2009, Aberystwyth University in Wales will
organise DIVERSE 2009. Presentation proposals, with a maximum of 250 words,
can be submitted until 30th March 2009.
 
The DIVERSE Conference focuses on the effective uses of video and
videoconferencing in education. DIVERSE is an acronym for Developing
Innovative Video Resources for Students Everywhere. The conference has
become an active community of experts from all over the world.
 
Keynote speakers
Carol Skyring, CEO, LearnTel, Australia
Obadiah Greenberg, Strategic Partnerships, YouTube, USA
 
Until 30th March 2009, the presentation proposals can be submitted. The
proposals should be related to the following themes:
 
    * Track 1 Pedagogy and assessment
    * Track 2 Tools and content oriented applications
    * Track 3 Projects and cases: implementation and sustainability
    * Track 4 People and technology: societal aspects
 
Send your abstract to diverse-conference2009 at aber.ac.uk
<mailto:diverse-conference2009 at aber.ac.uk>
 
For more information on the Call for Proposals and the conference, see:
http://www.aber.ac.uk/diverse/ <http://www.aber.ac.uk/diverse/> 



From geert at xs4all.nl  Mon Mar  9 13:21:47 2009
From: geert at xs4all.nl (Geert Lovink)
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 13:21:47 +0100
Subject: <videovortex> =?windows-1252?q?Random_Rules=3A_A_Chanel_of_Artist?=
 =?windows-1252?q?s=92_selections_from_YouTube?=
Message-ID: <50E950B2-91E9-4B57-A786-4A504C1B1B1D@xs4all.nl>

Fwd for Linda Wallace (lwallace (at) xs4all.nl)

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=randomrules09&view=playlists

http://www.pulse-art.com/newyork/

PULSE PLAY > New York 2009
Random Rules: A Chanel of Artists? selections from YouTube
Curated by Marina Fokidis

Many believe that since the launch of YouTube in 2005, the history of  
the moving image has diverted from its canonical route. The website,  
which makes it possible for anyone who can use a computer to post a  
video, reaches millions of people daily.

Like no other time before, it is now possible for amateur videos,  
music videos, film footage, commercials and news segments as well as  
(in some cases) artists? videos to be mingled together in a random  
way, free of any preconceived hierarchy or system. According to  
Fokidis, the active use of YouTube is a form of curating and  
?Different people?s ?playlists? are transformed into exhibitions and  
?tagging? becomes a process of random archiving.? For PULSE  
PLAY>Random Rules, Fokidis has invited several emerging and  
established artists to create their very own playlists thereby  
presenting these artists not only as artists, but as curators and as  
collectors as well. Artists include Andrea Angelidakis, Aids 3D, AVAF,  
Pablo Leon de la Barra, Erick Beltran, Keren Cyter, Jeremy Deller,  
Cerith Wyn Evans, Dominique Gonzalez Foerster, Dora Garcia, Rodney  
Graham, Annika Larsson, Matthieu Laurette, Ingo Niermann, Miltos  
Manetas, Ahmet Ogut, Angelo Plessas, Lisi Raskin, Linda Wallace.

The selections will be available simultaneously in the video lounge at  
the Fair and online as a YouTube Channel.




From alejoduque at gmail.com  Mon Mar  9 21:50:39 2009
From: alejoduque at gmail.com (alejo duque)
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 21:50:39 +0100
Subject: <videovortex> data moshing (could be also: pay per death)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.5.1236596403.26592.videovortex_listcultures.org@listcultures.org>
References: <mailman.5.1236596403.26592.videovortex_listcultures.org@listcultures.org>
Message-ID: <DCD7B419-B051-4FC8-83A1-E17BE6050FF4@gmail.com>

few friends at wintercamp were talking about video distribution

do check this project from !mediengruppe bitnik:
http://download-finished.com/p2p/downloads


im sending it to the list also, since it might relates somehow to the  
thread.
/a



From geert at desk.nl  Sat Mar 21 21:34:29 2009
From: geert at desk.nl (geert lovink)
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 21:34:29 +0100
Subject: <videovortex> open video conference in new york
Message-ID: <3190E328-40C7-4275-B23C-D30E282971A1@desk.nl>

http://openvideoconference.org/about/


From geert at xs4all.nl  Thu Mar 26 08:30:08 2009
From: geert at xs4all.nl (Geert Lovink)
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 08:30:08 +0100
Subject: <videovortex> random rules
Message-ID: <44742063-4EFE-45A5-AE99-A39E70325A84@xs4all.nl>

Random Rules - A Channel of Artists' Selections from YouTubecurated by  
Marina Fokidis

Phone: 00302110109807
Contact: Marina Fokidis
mfokidis at oxymoron-art.com

www.youtube.com/randomrules09


Artists: Andreas Angelidakis, Aids 3D ( Daniel Keller and Nick  
Kosmas) , assume vivid astro focus, Pablo Leon de la Barra, Eric  
Beltran, Keren Cytter, Jeremy Deller, Cerith Wyn Evans, Dominique  
Gonzalez Foerster, Dora Garcia, Rodney Graham, Annika Larsson,  
Matthieu Laurette, Ingo Niermann, Miltos Manetas, Ahmet ?g?t, Angelo  
Plessas, Lisi Raskin, Linda Wallace.

http://www.youtube.com/randomrules09

The history of moving image seems to have 'seriously' diverted from  
its canonical route ever since the launch of YouTube, in 2005, the  
website which made possible for anyone who could use a computer to  
post a video that millions of people could watch within a few minutes.  
More effectively than ever before, amateur videos, music videos,  
footages of films, commercials and news segments as well as artists'  
videos (in lesser numbers) mingle together, in a random way, free of  
any short of predetermined hierarchy or system.

Does amateur culture have undervalued artistic expertise?

Some would argue that this is true; however, it is neither a major  
concern nor a pragmatic threat. During the last decades, there have  
been a lot of debates about expertise versus amateurism or around the  
idea that everyone is an artist, etc, that it would be redundant to  
renegotiate these notions anew. Maybe it is more interesting to focus  
on the gaps and the relations between the systems of the art market  
and a more open mass culture market, to find some answers, which will  
not be fixed in anyway. Even if artists, in some cases, are reluctant  
to upload their works in there (at least up to now) due to  
reproduction and copyright issues, they still seem to frequent YouTube  
for inspiration, collecting information, socializing, communication,  
activism or entertainment, among other reasons! Active use of YouTube  
is a short of curating, where different 'playlists' of people are the  
exhibitions and 'tagging' is a process of a random archiving.

In a time that invitations for YouTube-exchange private gatherings  
become regular, seemed to make lots of sense to explore what YouTube  
means to a specific intellectual community, by asking a number of  
artists to select videos already exciting in YouTube and create their  
own playlists. The idea was to form a YouTube channel, a short of a  
paradoxical archive, or an emission in an independent media (such as  
YouTube) which includes all these playlists, each under the name of  
the artist-selector. In that plot, the uploader or the broadcaster  
becomes the artist, the artist becomes the curator or the collector,  
and the viewers exceed by far the number that can be contained into a  
normal screening room, since the channel is to be watched in a black  
cube setting and online at the same time.

Through the combination of this specific set of artists -as selectors-  
the aim remains always to come up with an anthology of different  
voices existing within the YouTube context. Perhaps, by watching this  
channel one could come across the notions of political, private,  
humor, narcissism, pop and DIY culture and distribution, -among  
others- as they result from various personal accounts in YouTube today.

Launched at Pulse, Contemporay Art Fair NY, 5th March 2009






From vera.tollmann at gmx.net  Fri Mar 27 10:52:14 2009
From: vera.tollmann at gmx.net (Vera Tollmann)
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 10:52:14 +0100
Subject: <videovortex> Fw: Broadcast Yourself: symposium at Pratt Manhattan
	Gallery
Message-ID: <D13810FEF9BB4828A4D8EBD3ECDB9A07@YOUROU348Z4472>

fyi


Anfang der weitergeleiteten E-Mail:


  Von: Art&Education <edu-news at mailer.e-flux.com>
  Datum: 26. M?rz 2009 01:26:32 MEZ
  An: conrads at zedat.fu-berlin.de
  Betreff: Broadcast Yourself: symposium at Pratt Manhattan Gallery 
  Antwort an: Art&Education <edu-news at mailer.e-flux.com>


              03/25/09  

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              "Broadcast Yourself"
              6:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 1, 2009 

              Lecture Hall 213, 
              next to Pratt Manhattan Gallery
              144 West 14th Street, 2nd Floor

              http://www.pratt.edu/exhibitions
             


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        NPR "ON THE MEDIA" HOST BROOKE GLADSTONE TO SPEAK AS PART OF PRATT MANHATTAN GALLERY SYMPOSIUM ON APRIL 1
        Symposium To Contrast Traditional Media with the "YouTube" Generation

        Pratt Manhattan Gallery will present "Broadcast Yourself," a free public symposium in conjunction with the gallery's "Broadcast" exhibition at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 1, 2009 in Lecture Hall 213 at 144 West 14th Street. Speakers will include NPR "On The Media" host Brooke Gladstone, "Broadcast" curator Irene Hofmann, and "Broadcast" participating artists Gregory Green, Angel Nevarez and Valarie Tevere of neuroTransmitter, and Siebren Versteeg.

        "Broadcast Yourself" will address the issues of power and control extended by traditional media outlets in contrast with the do-it-yourself attitude pervasive in the tech-savvy younger generation. Symposium panelists will also speak to the impact that radio and television can have in shaping the events of our time; how artists can directly engage, challenge, or subvert the structure and authority of broadcast media; and how our culture is shaped by the actions of individuals and artists.

        "Broadcast" is a traveling exhibition co-organized by the Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, and iCI (Independent Curators International), New York; circulated by iCI; and guest-curated by Irene Hofmann. The exhibition comes to Pratt Manhattan Gallery from the Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, and the Contemporary Museum, Baltimore. The exhibition and tour are made possible, in part, with support from the iCI Exhibition Partners. 

        The exhibition is on view now through May 2, 2009 and features work by Dara Birnbaum; Chris Burden; Gregory Green; Doug Hall, Chip Lord, and Jody Procter; Christian Jankowski; Inigo Manglano-Ovalle; Antoni Muntadas; neuroTransmitter; Nam June Paik; TVTV (Top Value Television); and Siebren Versteeg. 

        Speaker Biographies:

        Overseas Press Club and Peabody award-winner Brooke Gladstone started out in print journalism, writing on defense policy, strip-mining, broadcasting, and cable television. Gladstone joined National Public Radio (NPR) in 1987, working on "Weekend Edition" and "All Things Considered" before covering NPR's media beat. She helped re-launch the WNYC-produced NPR radio program "On The Media" in 2001, where she serves as host and managing editor. 

        Guest-curator Irene Hofmann is Executive Director of the Contemporary Museum in Baltimore. Recent exhibitions include "Cell Phone: Art and the Mobile Phone" and "St. Cecilia," a solo exhibition of works by Joseph Grigely. Hofmann previously served as Curator of Contemporary Art at the Orange County Museum of Art, where she co-curated the 2002 and 2004 California Biennials and the photography and video exhibition "Girls' Night Out." She has organized exhibitions and projects with artists such as Kutlug Ataman, Mark Dion, Jason Dodge, Fabrice Gygi, I?igo Manglano-Ovalle, and Marjetica Potrc.

        Brooklyn native Gregory Green has created controversial work addressing the evolution of various strategies for empowerment, which consider the use of violent and non-violent measures as vehicles for social or political change. Green is perhaps best known for his sculptures that are mechanically complete and potentially functional bombs or missiles, or that provide instruction on how to make large quantities of LSD.

        Angel Nevarez and Valarie Tevere, who co-founded neuroTransmitter in 2001, fuse a combination of media forms and sound performance; their work re-articulates radio in multiple environments and contexts?public, exhibition, over the airwaves?and considers new possibilities for the broadcast spectrum as public space.

        Siebren Versteeg creates computer-driven video installations that situate the viewer in paradoxical realms where the real and the virtual seem to interconnect. At once humorous and unsettling, his works feed real-time online data culled from CNN, The Associated Press, and internet diaries into video animations with digitally produced sound.


        Image above: 
        Gregory Green, M.I.T.A.R.B.U. (Mobile internet, television, and radio broadcast unit), Mixed media with 35-watt pirate FM broadcast system, 100-watt pirate television broadcast system, and internet broadcast system, 2000.



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From geert at desk.nl  Sun Mar 29 20:28:10 2009
From: geert at desk.nl (geert lovink)
Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 20:28:10 +0200
Subject: <videovortex> David Lynch Launches TM TV Site
Message-ID: <E5289B35-FF77-4627-9A56-B8EF56C4D0DF@desk.nl>

David Lynch Launches Transcendental TV Site
By Scott Thill
March 28, 2009 | 9:20:00 AM
Categories: Celebrity, DIY, Events, Movies, Music, Web/Tech

http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2009/03/david-lynch-lau.html

The iconoclastic mind behind Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks and  
DavidLynch.com, one of the first celebrity membership sites on the  
internet, jumped into the online television game Wednesday, launching  
the David Lynch Foundation's DLF.TV. The site's focus is not on  
creating memorable demon spirits like Twin Peaks' Bob, but rather  
spreading the word about a time-worn technique to eradicate them,  
namely transcendental meditation, or TM.

"Instead of taking Ritalin, Prozac or any of those other drugs, you  
just sit and meditate for 20 minutes in the morning and afternoon, go  
about your business, and watch things get better and better," Lynch  
told Wired.com in a lengthy 2007 interview in which he discussed TM.  
"It doesn't happen overnight, but it happens, and some things happen  
right away. The anger that I had when I first started meditating in  
1974 lifted in two weeks. It kinda just went away."

DLF.TV's first webcast is set to air April 4, when TM (and Lynch) fans  
like Paul McCartney, Eddie Vedder and more take the stage at Radio  
City Music Hall for the foundation's Change Begins Within benefit  
concert. The goal of the concert is the same as Lynch's foundation,  
which is, as he explained in his own jocular way to Wired.com, "to  
give transcendental meditation to any student that wants it, so they  
can dive within, start expanding that consciousness, start expanding  
that bliss, and get on the big, fast train to enjoying life."

It's a mission that has been partly accomplished. To date, the David  
Lynch Foundation has given scholarships to more than 70,000 at-risk  
students in schools around the world to help them learn TM technique.  
The new site features a wealth of information on that technique, as  
well as cool recurring video features such as "David Doing Stuff" and  
"Daily David," in which Lynch jams with Moby (below) or meditates with  
thousands in Brazil.

The online television station is just another way Lynch has used the  
internet to take control of his production, artistic and otherwise.  
After launching the subscription-based DavidLynch.com in the late '90s  
to fund and expose his creative work and now an internet TV station  
dedicated to the educational mission of his well-intentioned  
foundation, the longtime director has positioned himself well for when  
the future of the digital age comes calling.




From vera.tollmann at gmx.net  Mon Mar 30 12:43:52 2009
From: vera.tollmann at gmx.net (Vera Tollmann)
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 12:43:52 +0200
Subject: <videovortex> Oberhausen: Copyright and the Moving Image online
Message-ID: <1E96C8F8F9EF4A5293EC031EF68AA16C@YOUROU348Z4472>

http://www.kurzfilmtage.de/index.php?id=3339&L=2&print=1

Copyright and the Moving-Image, online 2 May

In the culture of Web 2.0, the business models of online media distribution 
blur commercial and non-commercial motivations, and facilitate the 
unregulated sharing of media through a global network. One of the most 
contentious aspects being tested is copyright. Our panellists will discuss 
how matters of copyright impact - negatively and positively - on the 
production and reception of media as it proliferates online.

With Julieta Aranda, artist and curator, e-flux (Berlin/New York), Brian J. 
Frye, artist, curator and lawyer (New York), Henriette Huldisch, author and 
curator (Berlin/New York), Bj?rn Melhus, artist (Berlin) a.o.

Moderated by: Rebecca Cleman, Director of Distribution, Electronic Arts 
Intermix (New York) 



From alejoduque at gmail.com  Mon Mar 30 14:54:47 2009
From: alejoduque at gmail.com (alejo duque)
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:54:47 +0200
Subject: <videovortex> David Lynch Launches TM TV Site (geert lovink)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.13.1238407205.16845.videovortex_listcultures.org@listcultures.org>
References: <mailman.13.1238407205.16845.videovortex_listcultures.org@listcultures.org>
Message-ID: <26E4FC02-76E9-4161-AB59-61EFD92F88BC@gmail.com>

On Mar 30, 2009, at 12:00 PM, videovortex-request at listcultures.org  
wrote:
>
> 1.  David Lynch Launches TM TV Site (geert lovink)
> David Lynch Launches Transcendental TV Site
> By Scott Thill


eia hola,

Once I downloaded from a filesharing network (p2p-karagarga) one of  
Lynch's meditation routines, I was never able to follow them til the  
end.

Today I went into the new TM site and watched this video:
http://dlf.tv/2009/what-is-tm/

This time I lost track watching his elbows, the jacket has this big  
holes. Not that i want to drive this thread to senseless details but  
could not hold to comment on this, having such a clean website,  
offering even "HD" video and then the funny holes.., very Lynchian  
wonder how that is part of the TM message, seems i have a homework !.

Im guessing that on his next video his shadow project some gigantic  
rabbit ears.

/a

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