From treske at bilkent.edu.tr Mon Nov 2 21:15:42 2009 From: treske at bilkent.edu.tr (Andreas Treske) Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 22:15:42 +0200 Subject: Fwd: CFP: Conference on the amateur moving image, University College Cork, 17-18 September 2010 References: <3DB8357AA97D5B459D459028777374CE32AEE2@EXCH1.central.ad.ucc.ie> Message-ID: <68315961-EA37-4F58-9AB8-C29CC074676F@bilkent.edu.tr> Begin forwarded message: > From: "Rascaroli, Laura" > Date: November 2, 2009 8:22:45 PM GMT+02:00 > To: FILM-PHILOSOPHY at JISCMAIL.AC.UK > Subject: CFP: Conference on the amateur moving image, University > College Cork, 17-18 September 2010 > Reply-To: Film-Philosophy Salon > > Call for papers > > Saving Private Reels > > An International Conference on the Presentation, Appropriation and > Re-contextualisation of the Amateur Moving Image > > University College Cork, Ireland 17-18 September 2010 > > Often underrated as a private and, thus, socially irrelevant > phenomenon, and equally dismissed in aesthetic terms or at least > confined to the domain of amateur pictorialism, in the 1960s the > home movie became central to the personal, subjective avant-garde > and experimental filmmaking of New American Cinema. The practice of > incorporating private home movies in experimental film and video > resurfaced powerfully over the past decades, with artists such as > Alan Berliner, P?ter Forg?cs, Rea Tajiri, Daniel Reeves and Michelle > Citron, among many others. > > The socio-political impact of which private footage is potentially > capable is epitomized by the most complete and most viewed recording > of John F. Kennedy?s assassination, filmed on 8mm by Abraham > Zapruder on November 22, 1963, as well as by more recent examples, > such as the beating of Rodney King, videotaped in Los Angeles by > bystander George Holliday on March 2, 1991, which played an > important part in triggering the Los Angeles riots of 1992. > > Even films that do not happen to capture significant events and > historical moments, but focus instead on domestic settings, private > occasions or everyday scenes in the public sphere have now become > valuable documents of the customs, values, identities, practices, > rituals and historical realities of generations of amateur > filmmakers. What makes them so relevant today is precisely what > previously relegated them ? their ephemeral, private and subjective > nature. > > As a result of the waning of authority and objectivity as compelling > social narratives, alternative, subjective and contingent accounts > of reality have become more appealing. The proliferation of amateur > videos and video-diaries on the Internet testifies to the strength > and intensity of the phenomenon. In parallel, the humanities have > registered an ever-growing interest in self-representation, first- > person narratives and practices of memorialization that go beyond > official historiography. The success of recent non-fictions such as > Andrew Jarecki?s Capturing the Friedmans and Jonathan Caouette?s > Tarnation has once again demonstrated the eloquence and power of > private images when used for purposes of historical and cultural > investigation and of self-scrutiny and representation. > > This conference aims to explore the pressing issues of the use, > presentation, appropriation and re-contextualisation of the amateur > moving image, of our relationship with it, both historically and > today, and of the senses and meanings of its encounters with a > variety of contexts, technologies and discourses. > > Papers of the duration of 20 minutes and pre-organized panels of up > to 4 papers can address the following or related topics and issues: > > (Re)presentation and the archive > Private document, memory, memorialization > The first-person documentary and autobiographical cinema > The personal on the Internet: YouTube, Videoblogs > Amateur footage meets art film > Orphan films > The re-contextualization of amateur footage in fiction and documentary > Amateur form and aesthetics > Capturing the Zeitgeist, making history: amateur newsreels > Representing the family > Imagining the nation, imagining the self > Leisure and pleasure and the touristic gaze > Amateur filmmaking and modernity > The banal, the commonplace, the repetitious > Audiences and reception > Reflections of class, ideology and society > From 8mm to digital: evolution of amateur technologies > Identities, sexualities, genders > Amateur fictions, amateur genres > Shooting on the edge: guerrilla filmmaking > Self-censoring and selection > > Keynote speaker: Patricia Zimmerman, Professor in the Department of > Cinema, Photography and Media Arts at Ithaca College, Ithaca, New > York, USA, author of Reel Families: A Social History of Amateur Film > (Indiana, 1995) and co-editor of Mining the Home Movie: Excavations > in Histories and Memories (California, 2008) > > Submissions: Panel and single paper proposals (abstracts of 300/500 > words plus short bibliography) should be sent to the following email > address, along with a brief biographical note, by Monday 8 February > 2010: ucchomemovies at gmail.com > > Conference homepage: http://www.ucc.ie/en/filmstudies/research/conferences/amateur/ > > Organizers: Dr Barry Monahan, Dr Laura Rascaroli, Dr Gwenda Young > (University College Cork, Ireland) > > A conference part-funded by the Irish Research Council for the > Humanities and Social Sciences, as part of the research project > ?Capturing the Nation: Irish Home Movies, 1930-1970? > > > Film Studies at UCC: http://www.ucc.ie/en/filmstudies/ > > > > > * * Film-Philosophy Email Discussion Salon After hitting 'reply' > please always delete the text of the message you are replying to To > leave, send the message: leave film-philosophy to: jiscmail at jiscmail.ac.uk > Or visit: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/film-philosophy.html For > technical help email: helpline at jiscmail.ac.uk, not the salon * Film- > Philosophy online: http://www.film-philosophy.com Contact: editorialboard at film-philosophy.com > ** Andreas Treske Assistant Professor Chair Department of Communication and Design Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture Bilkent University 06800 Bilkent -Ankara Turkey treske at bilkent.edu.tr -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From geert at xs4all.nl Mon Nov 16 08:47:17 2009 From: geert at xs4all.nl (Geert Lovink) Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 08:47:17 +0100 Subject: Liz Losh @ VV 5: "Official Channels: Government Rhetoric and Online Video" References: <96b3966930c864ab06544c0578f3a289.squirrel@webmail.uci.edu> Message-ID: <9BF4F3F9-E465-4825-BA03-B08F6AF36DE2@xs4all.nl> > From: "Elizabeth Losh" > > Hi, > > for VV 5 in Brussels I've put my slides here: > http://eee.uci.edu/faculty/losh/Official_Channels.ppt > > I've also tried to post my Obama YouTube montage at > https://eee.uci.edu/faculty/losh/Obama_YouTube.mov but there seem to > be > problems with it so you can also access a lower rez version here: > http://www.archive.org/details/ObamaYoutubeMontage > > Do you still need a short description. It could read: > > Many heads of state are looking to the United States and to the Obama > administration to imitate the specific rhetorical techniques of the > current American president and to YouTube as a mode for broadcasting > state-sanctioned video messages. In retasking a platform generally > associated with a fragmented politics of personal liberty and > rhizomatic > modes of resistance, Obama both borrows from the conventions of > vernacular > video and also adapts those conventions to established methods of > standard > official persuasion. He also presents a model of computer use and > online > interaction that draws attention to the limits of the participatory > culture model as he inhabits the domestic spaces of the White House. > > Liz > > Video Vortex Conference > > "Official Channels: Government Rhetoric and Online Video" > > Elizabeth Losh, University of California, Irivne > > Throughout the world, government agencies have adopted YouTube as a > mode > for broadcasting state-sanctioned video messages. Now many heads of > state > are looking to the United States and to the Obama administration to > imitate the specific rhetorical techniques of the current American > president. In retasking a YouTube platform generally associated > with a > fragmented politics of personal liberty and rhizomatic modes of > resistance, Obama both borrows from the conventions of vernacular > video > and also adapts those conventions to established methods of standard > official persuasion. In particular, Obama is situated in the domestic > spaces of the White House in ways that might be familiar to YouTube > viewers who are accustomed to a webcam cinema oriented around private > homes. > > Obama?s direct address to the YouTube viewer references the > rhetorics of > many other U.S. presidents. A montage of clips from the White House > official YouTube channel shows several allusions to his historical > predecessors. Like Franklin Roosevelt Obama uses the pedagogical > pose of > the ?fireside chat,? like Kennedy he attempts to conduct public > diplomacy > efforts and speak to citizens abroad in their own languages, and like > Reagan he consoles the nation in times of tragedy. > > However, his YouTube performances as the nation?s patriarch also draw > attention to what could be called ?mediated transparency.? Unlike his > Republican opponent who was mocked for his use of green screen > technologies that digitally effaced the physical background of a > shot in > favor of a virtual backdrop, the images of Obama chosen as the icons > of > many of his YouTube Weekly Addresses display lights, camera viewers, > and > computer monitors prominently. > > YouTube also gives the viewer lessons about how to be an ideal > computer > user, but the official message coming from the White House?s visual > rhetoric seems to be that to be wired is to be unpresidential. The > Obama > official Flickr photo stream never shows him on his famous > Commander-in-Chief Blackberry. Like the cigarettes he smokes, the > ubiquitous computing devices that he uses must be indulged in only > secretly. A phone with a traditional cord that tethers him to his > desk is > clearly deemed much more presidential. On the rare occasions when > he is > posed in front of someone else?s computer screen for the launch of a > new > government website, Obama appears uncomfortable in front of the > monitor, > usually at a woman?s desk. Thus, a president may create content for > YouTube, but ? of course ? he would never actually watch it. Since > the > White House allows text comments on its official channel, but response > videos are prohibited, the inconvenient possibility that citizens > might be > viewed as well as view is eliminated. > > These limitations on Obama?s engagement with the political feedback > loop > has often been highlighted in his so-called ?Town Hall? performances > with > YouTube, which began before he took office with the CNN-YouTube > Democratic > Party debates in July of 2007, where Obama famously answered a > question > from a YouTube viewer by promising to talk directly to ?foreign > leaders? > of countries with which the United States had no diplomatic relations. > Although Obama publicized the use of ?Open for Questions? derived > from the > Internet in one of his YouTube messages, he often avoided answering > the > most popular questions and instead focused on responding to > specifically > selected questions from webcam viewers who presented a YouTube > political > spectacle that was deemed more appropriate. > > Often the constraints placed by networks that censor content from > YouTube > are assumed to exist only in totalitarian regimes that might want to > block > the U.S. message of democratic neoliberalism. Yet there was some > irony > this September when Obama created a YouTube back-to-school message > intended for children in public school classrooms to inspire them to > work > hard and show respect for the institutions of learning, because most > schools in the United States block YouTube, and even teachers cannot > access such video-sharing sites on school networks when needed for > obvious > pedagogical uses. > > As privacy advocate Christopher Soghoian points out, what is most > disturbing about the official sanctioning of YouTube by the White > House is > that it subjects citizens who visit the website of a public > institution to > YouTube?s surveillance, tracking, and data mining without their > knowledge > or explicit consent. Although the White House has experimented with > other > players that do not have the proprietary software or policies on > copyright > that advocates for public property might find repugnant, YouTube > continues > to be the chosen third-party video player. As the language of > different > privacy policies is finessed, the company itself is never named. > Furthermore, the close personal and financial relationship between the > interests of Obama and the CEO of YouTube?s parent company, Google?s > Eric > Schmidt, is also certainly a cause for concern, given that American > presidents since Teddy Roosevelt have been expected to break up > corporate > monopolies not legitimate them. > > The use of YouTube by official agencies that are pursuing e-government > agendas for the United States demonstrates the distinctive way that > state > authority is represented in distributed digital video in modes that > mimic > one-to-one communication and yet reinforce the one-to-many structure > by > which liberal representative democracies have traditionally > functioned in > the mass media era. With the expanding use of commercial Web 2.0 > technologies by government agencies, critics and activists are finally > expressing concern that in the name of ?participatory culture? the > government may risk compelling its citizens to participate in > particular > copyright regimes that constrain speech, to submit to corporate user > agreements that rewrite the social contract, and to divulge private > information to commercial vendors without their consent. > > Elizabeth Losh > Writing Director > Humanities Core Course > HIB 188, U.C. Irvine > Irvine, CA 92697 > 949-824-8130 > http://eee.uci.edu/faculty/losh From seth.keen at rmit.edu.au Thu Nov 19 02:50:20 2009 From: seth.keen at rmit.edu.au (Seth Keen) Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:50:20 +1100 Subject: Media Fragments Working Group - Video, Audio, Images Message-ID: <534778CC-9884-428A-89A6-5AE543BD9B38@rmit.edu.au> http://www.w3.org/2008/WebVideo/Fragments/ 'The mission of the Media Fragments Working Group, part of the Video in the Web Activity, is to address temporal and spatial media fragments in the Web using Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI). Brief overview - Breaking up video so you can link to points in the timeline (deep hyperlinking) enabling video to be broken up into parts. http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-media-fragment/ From - Use cases and requirements for Media Fragments http://www.w3.org/TR/media-frags-reqs/ Introduction Audio and video resources on the World Wide Web are currently treated as "foreign" objects, which can only be embedded using a plugin that is capable of decoding and interacting with the media resource. Specific media servers are generally required to provide for server- side features such as direct access to time offsets into a video without the need to retrieve the entire resource. Support for such media fragment access varies between different media formats and inhibits standard means of dealing with such content on the Web. This specification provides for a media-format independent, standard means of addressing media fragments on the Web using Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI). In the context of this document, media fragments are regarded along three different dimensions: temporal, spatial, and tracks. Further, a fragment can be marked with a name and then addressed through a URI using that name. The specified addressing schemes apply mainly to audio and video resources - the spatial fragment addressing may also be used on images. The aim of this specification is to enhance the Web infrastructure for supporting the addressing and retrieval of subparts of time-based Web resources, as well as the automated processing of such subparts for reuse. Example uses are the sharing of such fragment URIs with friends via email, the automated creation of such fragment URIs in a search engine interface, or the annotation of media fragments with RDF. This specification will help make video a first-class citizen of the World Wide Web. The media fragment URIs specified in this document have been implemented and demonstrated to work with media resources over the HTTP and RTP/RTSP protocols. Existing media formats in their current representations and implementations provide varying degrees of support for this specification. It is expected that over the time, media formats, media players, Web Browsers, media and Web servers, as well as Web proxies will be extended to adhere to the full requirements given in this specification. best Seth Keen --- media lecturer >> sethkeen.net/blog -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bcrevits at gmail.com Fri Nov 20 01:42:18 2009 From: bcrevits at gmail.com (Bram Crevits) Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:42:18 +0100 Subject: Late call: Video Vortex V Brussels live stream Message-ID: Hi everyone, This late call to announce you that we will put a live stream on for the Video Vortex V conference tomorrow at the Brussels Atomium. You can follow via: (from 13h30 on) http://www.ustream.tv/channel/video-vortex-v---cimatics-festival-brussels More info on http://www.cimaticsfestival.com All the best from Brussels, Bram From alejoduque at gmail.com Fri Nov 20 14:21:49 2009 From: alejoduque at gmail.com (alejo) Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:21:49 +0100 Subject: live stream In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Nov 20, 2009, at 12:00 PM, videovortex-request at listcultures.org wrote: > we will put a live stream on for the Video Vortex V conference > tomorrow at the Brussels Atomium. > > You can follow via: (from 13h30 on) > http://www.ustream.tv/channel/video-vortex-v---cimatics-festival-brussels Great news Bram! I will try to follow from the South, Museum of Modern Art here in Medellin expressed some interested on having a Video Vortex, hopefully the streams will help to better explain what is all about. Please let me know if this idea of having a video vortex in Colombia appeals to you, cause im here and could help trace the link with the Museum.. also it could well be done withouth me in the way, the director already emailed some of you but i think she didnt got any answer so far (phps the spam filter?). Warm regards to all, /a From cymnet at gmail.com Fri Nov 20 17:17:14 2009 From: cymnet at gmail.com (Cym Net) Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:17:14 +0100 Subject: live stream In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <95c795f70911200817l6703a952k5601aca8efb5cdfd@mail.gmail.com> I'm online, but it seems there is no live stream? I tried a few times already, but nothing's there... VideoVortex in Medellin sounds good! That would create a possibility to approach the subject from a much more non-european perspective. I wish you all a nice time in Brussels, Cym On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 2:21 PM, alejo wrote: > > On Nov 20, 2009, at 12:00 PM, videovortex-request at listcultures.org wrote: > > we will put a live stream on for the Video Vortex V conference tomorrow at >> the Brussels Atomium. >> >> You can follow via: (from 13h30 on) >> http://www.ustream.tv/channel/video-vortex-v---cimatics-festival-brussels >> > > > Great news Bram! I will try to follow from the South, > > Museum of Modern Art here in Medellin expressed some interested on having a > Video Vortex, hopefully the streams will help to better explain what is all > about. > > Please let me know if this idea of having a video vortex in Colombia > appeals to you, cause im here and could help trace the link with the > Museum.. also it could well be done withouth me in the way, the director > already emailed some of you but i think she didnt got any answer so far > (phps the spam filter?). > > Warm regards to all, > /a > > ----- > > 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 > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ghh at thing.net Fri Nov 20 20:57:10 2009 From: ghh at thing.net (G.H. Hovagimyan) Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:57:10 -0500 Subject: Subway 1,2,3 by G.H. Hovagimyan Message-ID: <0910835F-080D-4CC7-B7A7-F5944D1824E6@thing.net> For Immediately Release -- One Night Only - Saturday November 21st, 7pm to 10pm at Over The Opening (OTO) 60 North 6th Street, 2nd floor Brooklyn, NY, 11211 L train to Bedford Avenue 3 Blocks west on North 6th - just shy of Kent 917-686-3984 mriver [at] mteww [dot] com SUBWAY ? 1 ? 2 ? 3 By G.H. Hovagimyan The subway is a defining urban experience across cultures. Underground and in the subconscious, every rider experiences a disjunctive experience when entering one place and emerging in a different one. In day to day experience, time spent on a subway ride can resemble lost footage between cuts in a movie. But when a movie includes scenes shot in a subway, the subway passage becomes a shared, collective experience. Familiarity with subway scenes from movies have become part of the contemporary vernacular, creating ?Oh I remember that film!? reactions. Movie scenes shot in subways also trigger deeper feelings as the viewer defines and redefines personal and shared experiences. In the work I have created using subway scenes from movies, narrative conventions of standard film techniques have been removed to further the exploration of submerged emotions. The installation includes three video loops of one hour each. The piece is designed as a three-panel projection with the three loops running simultaneously. Since the individual movie clips in each loop are of varying aspect ratios, I selected a standard 1280 x 720 pixel ratio and fit the clips into that size. By doing that, some of the clips are squeezed into higher definition and others become pixilated. The use of translation and codec problems, and the variations produced by varied definition are an integral part of the work. Visual association, media memory, and a collective experience can be furthered by asking the viewer to adapt to differences. Copyright issues are addressed as the completed artwork is composed entirely of re-purposed cinema found solely on the Internet. 48 Hrs A Taste of Tea?? Adventures in Baby-Sitting?? After?? After Hours?? Along Came A Spider American Werewolf In London American Werewolf In Paris?? Annie Hall Bang the drum slowly Barbershop 2: Back In Business Beethoven Virus?? BENEATH THE PLANET OF THE APES Blade?? Bless the Child Bless the Child trailer?? ButterflyMole?? Brother From Another Planet?? Carlito's Way?? Collateral Condemned?? Conspiracy Theory Die Another Day Die Hard With a Vengance Do the Right Thing Edmond?? End of Days Fame FBI Story Flatliners FRENCH CONNECTION II Getting Even With Dad Ghost?? Ghostbusters Godfather Godzilla Happyness?? HUNTED Incident Inner Circle?? Irreversible. ITALIAN JOB (2003) Jacob's Ladder Cowboy Way Creep?? Crocodile Dundee Daredevil Daybreak Express?? Death Wish Little Fugitive Little Nicky Lost in Translation Malcolm X Maniac Marathon Man Matrix Revolutions Men in Black 2 Midnight Cowboy Midnight Meat Train?? Mimic Money Train Mr. Wonderful My Best Friends Wedding My Boss's Daughter My Dinner with Andre Naked City Network Neverwhere (Neil Gaimens ) Next Stop Greenwich Village Nighthawks North by Northwest Ocean's Eleven (2001) ODDESSA FILE On The Line Paycheck Passer By Pi?? Pickup On South Street?? Predator II Prizzi's Honor Pursuit of Happyness Quartermass and the Pit?? Resident Evil? Risky Buisness Rosemary's Baby Rules of Attraction Saturday Night Fever Serendipity Seven Year Itch?? Silver Streak Just Another Girl on the IRT King Kong?? King of Comedy King of New York?? Knowing?? Sleeper Cell?? Sliding Doors songs from the 2nd floor Speed Step Up 2?? Strange Days Subway (by Luc Besson)?? Suicide Club?? SUPERMAN: THE MOVIE Swat SWIMMING POOL TAKING OF PELHAM 1,2,3 Taxi Driver Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Secret of the Ooze They Three and Out?? Total Recall Trackman?? Train Simulator?? Trick?? Tube?? Twelve Angry Men Underworld. Untouchables volcano ?? Waking the Dead?? WARRIORS?? Weekend at Bernie's II West Side Story When Harry met Sally While you were Sleeping Wings of Desire?? Wrong Man Yards?? You've Got Mail G.H. Hovagimyan http://nujus.net/~gh http://artistsmeeting.org http://turbulence.org/Works/plazaville -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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I myself I am quite in favour to have more focussed sessions. We have to decide together which topics will be discussed in which editions. The Brussels scope was a bit too broad to my taste. But then, the mix was absolutely right: arts, activism and politics, theory, with plenty of links to film. Margreet, Sabine and I blogged VV 5 and the report will become available on the INC site later on today or tomorrow. There was a delegation of three from Budapest and we're going to give it a serious try to have a VV 6 there in May 2010 as part of the VJ festival there. Because of the short time and lack of space there was hardly any possibility for the VV steering committee to gather. Nonetheless, there is all sorts of things happening. To have five conferences, a reader, exhibitions and so many p2p collaborations happening is an impressive trackrecord anyway. By late January you can expect a call for the VV 2 reader, which we're planning to produce, here at INC, over the course of 2010. Greetings from the still not yet that cold Amsterdam in heavy rain, Geert From es at mur.at Mon Nov 23 12:24:11 2009 From: es at mur.at (Evelin Stermitz) Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:24:11 +0100 Subject: Good News! ArtFem.TV at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, Serbia Message-ID: <20091123122411.y37rxchikgwoocgk@secure.mur.at> I can't hide the good news! ArtFem.TV is selected for the competition program of the 13th International Video Festival VIDEOMEDEJA December 11 - 13 2009 Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia The title of this year's festival is "subject: No commercial value !" http://videomedeja.org Please spread the word and link ArtFem.TV and forward it to anyone who might be interested, since it is an online project! Thanks for your kind support! Hope all is well and have a good time! Evelin ~ evelin stermitz ~ http://evelinstermitz.net ~ http://artfem.tv ~ http://world-of-female-avatars.net From geert at xs4all.nl Tue Nov 24 10:04:34 2009 From: geert at xs4all.nl (Geert Lovink) Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:04:34 +0100 Subject: blogreport vv 5: politics of online video Message-ID: Politics of online video Saturday, November 21, 2009 By Geert Lovink In his presentation the Glasgow-based Simon Yuill took us back to the 1980s and the media activism back then: films and videos produced during the miners strike and other riots and actions. This activity in the late 1990s transforms in ?citizen journalism?. Yuill here used the example of the Cluetrain Manifesto (1999). The emphasis here is on distributed conversations. It is the RSS feed that becomes the organizing principle of distributed realtime news production. This tool can be used by anyone and is not own or controlled by states and corporations. With Toni Negri one could say that APIs are becoming ?constitutional machines?. Yuill calls for ?critical constitutions? in order to prevent the use of closed and proprietary platforms by activists. The was no ?twitter revolutions? that came out of street in Iran. It was mainly users overseas, in other countries, that caused this hype. Elizabeth Losh started with a montage of Barack Obama?s YouTube performances. In the talk called ?Official Channels? she discussed the different trends that emerge. YouTube is more state-like, and national then we often might think. How is online video used to maintain the status quo? Online video is fully integrated in the White House media strategy. The media apparatus is often shown explicitly, which Losh is calling ?mediated transparency?. Obama is put in the role of the leader that explains. Obviously Obama is not the first US president to use media techniques. Liz mentioned elements from Bush, Reagan, Roosevelt, Kennedy, and so on. How much ?change? do we really have? In the White House Obama has been removed from the computer. Liz was able to find only one picture in which Obama holds his encrypted top-secret Blackberry. Most often we see him on the phone. The realm of the computer is left to the female secretaries outside of the Oval Office. An irony of Obama?s online video policy is that most schools in the USA block YouTube, in order to Then Liz Losh addressed the issues of the White House?s dependency on Google/YouTube. Most of you will know about the important role of Google?s CEO Eric Schmidt?s role as a senior political advisor of this administration (more related interview video footage on vectorsdev.usc.edu/nehvectors/losh. Stephen Crocker from Newfoundland, Canada, started with 1960s film footage of Fogo Island. The question then was not so much to represent people?s lives but how to ?create people?. How to overcome the problem of ?remoteness?? One of the solutions at the time was the resettlements of thousands of people to larger growth centres. The problem was defined as one of communication, ?information poverty? as it was called. Information was supposed to tell us something about human nature, and was associated by Marshall McLuhan and others as ?metaphysics?. For remote communities the origin of a film remained mysterious. The National Film Board had the task to change this. ?The Things I Cannot Change? from 1967 for the first time explained the situation of poverty to a wider audience. From now on films did not have to be about the poor, but had to involve them, and had to be produced by them. Films about social change were screened to the people themselves. These days there is no collective public space anymore. What online video tools do is enable self-reflection. It is confessional and self-referential amateur material. Video sharing is addressed to anyone but no one in particular. With Lacan we could say that these images are both inadequate and compelling. Intimacy is created, and not destroyed, by bureaucratic machines. How can we be with others in this new world of remoteness and loneliness? The ways of being together are different these days. The way we relate to others is through the image. From treske at bilkent.edu.tr Tue Nov 24 15:34:51 2009 From: treske at bilkent.edu.tr (Andreas Treske) Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:34:51 +0200 Subject: Fwd: what the hell is VJ? 2010 References: <20091124001707.7gxf87u2g4oc4g48@webmail.bubunation.de> Message-ID: <6645D5E6-56C4-4D7A-84B5-F210AEB9F050@bilkent.edu.tr> Begin forwarded message: > From: mo at bubunation.de > > Subject: what the hell is VJ? 2010 > > hi, dear my friends everywhere! :) > > hope, you all are well! > > we had in september an event > "what the hell is vj?" in munich. > 10 or more vjs played all together and we have so much fun! > > was planed only for once but we had positiv feedback > and did that again in november, now from february we do that > every two month. > > it is local and we don?t have money > (location is of kind of youth welfare office and we don?t > pay rental fee but we couldn?t get entrance fee, it is > open for everyone) > > but from february it will be an regular event every two > month. if you are coincidentally in munich, you all are > very welcome, accomodation is upstairs of venue, enough > there. beer is also enough there :) > > here are the pics from last time > http://picasaweb.google.com/bubunation/WhatTheHellIsVJ2# > we will make a what the hell is vj account on vimeo > and upload some impressions of the party! > > would be happy to meet you all in munich! > love! > mo! > > > What the hell is VJ? > thu., 4.2. > thu., 1.4. (no april fool) > thu., 3.6. > > wed., 6.10. > wed., 1.12. > > at kranhalle caf? (feierwerk) > hansastra?e 39, munich > http://feierwerk.de/ > > > mo / aiko okamoto > weissenburger strasse 39 > d-81667 munich > 0049 173 6540 638 > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From geert at xs4all.nl Tue Nov 24 21:33:57 2009 From: geert at xs4all.nl (Geert Lovink) Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:33:57 +0100 Subject: Nicholas Carr on The Price of Free (in NY Times) Message-ID: The Price of Free By NICHOLAS CARR Published in the NYT on November 13, 2009 When, in late September, rumors surfaced that Comcast was trying to buy NBC Universal from General Electric, Wall Street reacted with dismay. Grandiose attempts to combine media production and distribution ? programming and plumbing ? are nothing new in the entertainment business, but they almost always end in disappointment. Witness AOLTime Warner. So what in the world could be prompting the Comcast chief executive, Brian Roberts, to start down this accursed path? I fear that I?m to blame. A few months ago, while stalking the aisles of my local Best Buy, I gave in to techno-temptation. I bought a Blu-ray player. What I didn?t realize until I unpacked the gadget was that it does a lot more than just spin high-definition discs. It is, as they say, Web-enabled. As soon as I plugged it into an outlet in my living room, its built-in WiFi antenna sniffed out my home network and logged on. The Blu-ray player became a gateway between the Internet and my television set. Ever since, and much to my surprise, I?ve been using the device more to transmit Internet content than to play discs. I stream TV shows and movies fromNetflix, music from Pandora and videos from YouTube. Beyond my existing $11-a-month Netflix subscription, I haven?t forked out a penny for any of this programming. It comes flowing out of the Web, whenever I summon it, free. My new viewing habits must make Brian Roberts very nervous. The more I play movies and TV shows from the Web, the less I use my cable TV service. I almost never order pay-per-view movies anymore. And I recently canceled my premium Showtime subscription. Most of Showtime?s best programs, including ?The Tudors,? ?Weeds? and ?Dexter,? are available to stream through Netflix, as are a lot of the movies currently playing on the network. Why pay $23 a month when I can get the stuff for almost nothing? I have a feeling that it won?t be long before I and a whole lot of other people start asking similar questions about pay-TV subscriptions in general. Until recently, the TV business was shielded from the turmoil that the Internet has visited upon other media industries, like music and publishing. The reason was largely a matter of network capacity. Sending high-quality video through the Web requires a lot more bandwidth than sending text or music, and until 2007 most Americans lacked high-speed Internet connections at home, according to the Pew Research Center. The Net simply wasn?t a viable alternative for distributing the signals traditionally sent over cables or beamed down from satellites. That?s changing, and fast. With broadband becoming the norm and connection speeds continuing to quicken, what has happened to music companies and newspapers is beginning to happen to broadcast networks and cable companies. People like me are using the Net to bypass the customary providers of television programming, along with the ads they show and the fees they collect. My Blu-ray player is just the tip of the iceberg that the TV business is about to hit. Today you can watch snippets of shows on YouTube or entire episodes on sites like Hulu or Yahoo TV. You can view news reports at CNN.com, sports events at ESPN360.com and documentaries at PBS.org. You can download shows, sometimes without charge, from Apple?s iTunes store and watch them on your iPod, iPhone or PC. Or you can stream them through your Xbox or Wii. Television is escaping the TV set and the cable box. We no longer watch the tube. We watch, to borrow ex-Senator Ted Stevens?s memorable conceit, a series of tubes. As the technology of television changes, so, too, does the experience of watching it. In the past, TVs often served as the focal points of communal gatherings. Families or groups of friends would collect around the set to watch the prime-time shows or the weekend games. They would laugh at the sitcom slapstick, cheer for their local teams, chat through commercials and, during the duller stretches, keep one another from nodding off. TV may have been a vast wasteland, as Newton Minow, the F.C.C. chairman in the Kennedy administration, said in a speech in 1961, but at least it was a wasteland we shared. The communal mode of TV viewing isn?t gone, but it?s becoming less common. As screens proliferate and shrink, and as the Web allows us to view whatever we want whenever we want, we spend more time watching video alone. That?s one funny thing about the Internet: it?s an extraordinarily rich communications system, but as an information and entertainment medium, it encourages private consumption. The pictures and sounds served up through our PCs, iPods and smart phones absorb us deeply but in isolation. Even when we?re together today, we?re often apart, peering into our own screens. Television companies, desperate to protect their sources of revenue, are trying to figure out ways to control or at least influence the shifts in our viewing practices. If a transmission company like Comcast ? although it owns a few cable stations, Comcast?s main business is providing cable TV, Internet and telephone service ? were to own more of the programs it distributes, it could, at least theoretically, wield more power over how that content reaches viewers. In buying NBC Universal, for instance, Comcast would gain a stake in Hulu, whichNBC owns with ABC and Fox. It could impose limits or even fees on the shows streamed through that popular Web site. Such opportunities reveal the conflict of interest that?s built into the TV business. The companies that supply us with pay-TV subscriptions ? not just cable operators like Comcast but telephone companies like AT&T and Verizon? also tend to be the ones that provide us with Internet service. By blocking or slowing certain Net transmissions, they could shunt us toward their own programming and prevent us from viewing alternatives, particularly free ones. If my Internet provider degraded my Netflix signal, I would almost certainly go back to watching more cable programs. That scenario is not as far-fetched as it may sound. In 2007, Comcast was caught throttling back its customers? links to BitTorrent, a file- sharing network often used to trade bootleg copies of TV shows and movies. Comcast argues that heavy BitTorrent users were taking up too much bandwidth, to the detriment of other services. Looked at another way, Comcast was using its Web-access franchise to protect its pay-TV franchise. But, as the company soon found out, impinging on ?net neutrality? ? the principle that Internet providers should treat all data the same ? is a good way to make enemies. Internet purists went ballistic. Consumer advocates denounced the move. The government began an investigation. In 2008, the F.C.C. decided that Comcast had broken its rules, and it ordered the company not to impede access to BitTorrent and other such services. Comcast is appealing the ruling. Under its new chairman, the Obama-appointee Julius Genachowski, the F.C.C. is becoming even more aggressive in defending the openness of the Internet. Last month, it voted to begin preparing regulations aimed at giving net neutrality the force of law. Though controversial, the commission?s move will be welcomed by most Web users. I know that I don?t want my Internet provider to control the sites I visit or services I can use when I?m online. Unimpeded access to the Net has come to feel like a right. In the end, and whether they gobble up content producers or not, network operators like Comcast may be fated to be in the plumbing business. They?ll turn tidy profits by maintaining the pipes through which we get Internet service, even if we use those pipes to bypass their pay-TV offerings. We?ll go on gorging ourselves on free Internet video. We, the viewers, will be the winners. Or will we? The smartest, most creative TV shows, from ?Deadwood? to ?Mad Men? to NBC?s own ?30 Rock,? tend to be the most expensive to produce. They have large, talented casts, top-notch writers and directors, elaborate sets and generally high production values. If the changes in our viewing habits stanch the flow of money back to studios, producing those kinds of programs may no longer be possible. In their place, we?ll get more junk: dopey reality shows, cookie-cutter police dramas, inane gab fests. The vast wasteland will become even vaster. Even ?free? has a price. Nicholas Carr?s new book, ?The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains,? will be published next spring. From admin at politube.org Fri Nov 27 13:47:54 2009 From: admin at politube.org (politube) Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:47:54 +0100 Subject: help needed Message-ID: <4B0FCA7A.4060207@politube.org> Hi everyone, the politube.org platform desperately needs video storage online, preferrably upto 1 TB to alleviate problems in the short to medium term. As the project has virtually no funding but is doing a useful service to many activists world-wide, I am appealing to this list for help. 1. the best solution would be if one or more organisations/institutions help with providing some free online file storage from their own servers, space that the politube servers could access online. 2. the second best solution would be, if you can donate some money to pay for monthly fees of online storage, the going rate seems to be around 50?/month for about 750GB (0.75 TB) . Perhaps some people here know of cheaper solutions and they can share their experience with me? 3. as I have no experience with fundraising, perhaps someone with experience can get in touch with me and explain to me how and where I need to apply for funding. 4. if you know of other organisations/institutions that may be interested in helping this project please let me know. thanks very much Kuros Yalpani politube.org From admin at politube.org Fri Nov 27 14:22:11 2009 From: admin at politube.org (politube) Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 14:22:11 +0100 Subject: help needed In-Reply-To: <4B0FD11A.4060307@politube.org> References: <4B0FCA7A.4060207@politube.org> <4B0FCDCD.1010506@mailb.org> <4B0FD11A.4060307@politube.org> Message-ID: <4B0FD283.4000406@politube.org> thanks for the tip, in fact I know hetzner and I overlooked the 2x factor in their description (I thought it only came as raid). If I could only get my hands on the 50? a month then my problem would be solved :-) Kuros > j at mailb.org wrote: > >> On 11/27/2009 01:47 PM, politube wrote: >> >> >>> 2. the second best solution would be, if you can donate some money to >>> pay for monthly fees of online storage, the going rate seems to >>> be around 50?/month for about 750GB (0.75 TB) . Perhaps some >>> people here know of cheaper solutions and they can share their >>> experience with me? >>> >>> >> at http://www.hetzner.de/de/hosting/produkte_rootserver/eq4/ >> you get 2x750 if you combine that with a local backup on an external usb >> drive you have about twice the space for the same price, only downside >> is that you will need some fast upload in case the server breaks. >> >> j >> >> > > > From mbrinkerink at beeldengeluid.nl Fri Nov 27 15:26:40 2009 From: mbrinkerink at beeldengeluid.nl (Maarten Brinkerink) Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:26:40 +0100 Subject: help needed In-Reply-To: <4B0FCA7A.4060207@politube.org> Message-ID: Dear Kuros, Maybe Wikimedia Commons is interested? Best, Maarten Op 27-11-09 13:47, politube schreef: > Hi everyone, the politube.org platform desperately needs video storage > online, preferrably upto 1 TB to alleviate problems in the short to medium > term. As the project has virtually no funding but is doing a useful service > to many activists world-wide, I am appealing to this list for help. 1. the > best solution would be if one or more organisations/institutions help > with providing some free online file storage from their own servers, > space that the politube servers could access online. 2. the second > best solution would be, if you can donate some money to pay for monthly > fees of online storage, the going rate seems to be around 50?/month for > about 750GB (0.75 TB) . Perhaps some people here know of cheaper > solutions and they can share their experience with me? 3. as I have > no experience with fundraising, perhaps someone with experience can get > in touch with me and explain to me how and where I need to apply for > funding. 4. if you know of other organisations/institutions that may be > interested in helping this project please let me know. thanks very > much Kuros Yalpani politube.org ----- 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 admin at politube.org Fri Nov 27 15:33:53 2009 From: admin at politube.org (politube) Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:33:53 +0100 Subject: help needed In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4B0FE351.8010707@politube.org> thanks for your suggestion, do you know a contact there? of course I can try it through their advertised contact page.... Kuros Maarten Brinkerink wrote: > Dear Kuros, > > Maybe Wikimedia Commons is interested? > > Best, > > Maarten > > > Op 27-11-09 13:47, politube schreef: > > >> Hi everyone, >> > > the politube.org platform desperately needs video storage > >> online, >> > preferrably upto 1 TB to alleviate problems in the short to medium > >> term. >> > As the project has virtually no funding but is doing a useful service > >> to >> > many activists world-wide, I am appealing to this list for help. > > 1. the > >> best solution would be if one or more >> > organisations/institutions help > >> with providing some free online >> > file storage from their own servers, > >> space that the politube >> > servers could access online. > 2. the second > >> best solution would be, if you can donate some money to >> > pay for monthly > >> fees of online storage, the going rate seems to >> > be around 50?/month for > >> about 750GB (0.75 TB) . Perhaps some >> > people here know of cheaper > >> solutions and they can share their >> > experience with me? > 3. as I have > >> no experience with fundraising, perhaps someone with >> > experience can get > >> in touch with me and explain to me how and >> > where I need to apply for > >> funding. >> > 4. if you know of other organisations/institutions that may be > > >> interested in helping this project please let me know. >> > > > thanks very > >> much >> > > Kuros Yalpani > politube.org > > ----- > > 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 mbrinkerink at beeldengeluid.nl Fri Nov 27 15:38:27 2009 From: mbrinkerink at beeldengeluid.nl (Maarten Brinkerink) Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:38:27 +0100 Subject: help needed In-Reply-To: <4B0FE351.8010707@politube.org> Message-ID: Dear Kuros, Sorry, can't help you with a direct contact. Best, Maarten Op 27-11-09 15:33, politube schreef: > thanks for your suggestion, do you know a contact there? of course I can > try it through their advertised contact page.... > > Kuros > > Maarten Brinkerink wrote: >> Dear Kuros, >> >> Maybe Wikimedia Commons is interested? >> >> Best, >> >> Maarten >> >> >> Op 27-11-09 13:47, politube schreef: >> >> >>> Hi everyone, >>> >> >> the politube.org platform desperately needs video storage >> >>> online, >>> >> preferrably upto 1 TB to alleviate problems in the short to medium >> >>> term. >>> >> As the project has virtually no funding but is doing a useful service >> >>> to >>> >> many activists world-wide, I am appealing to this list for help. >> >> 1. the >> >>> best solution would be if one or more >>> >> organisations/institutions help >> >>> with providing some free online >>> >> file storage from their own servers, >> >>> space that the politube >>> >> servers could access online. >> 2. the second >> >>> best solution would be, if you can donate some money to >>> >> pay for monthly >> >>> fees of online storage, the going rate seems to >>> >> be around 50?/month for >> >>> about 750GB (0.75 TB) . Perhaps some >>> >> people here know of cheaper >> >>> solutions and they can share their >>> >> experience with me? >> 3. as I have >> >>> no experience with fundraising, perhaps someone with >>> >> experience can get >> >>> in touch with me and explain to me how and >>> >> where I need to apply for >> >>> funding. >>> >> 4. if you know of other organisations/institutions that may be >> >> >>> interested in helping this project please let me know. >>> >> >> >> thanks very >> >>> much >>> >> >> Kuros Yalpani >> politube.org >> >> ----- >> >> 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 minx at bway.net Sat Nov 28 05:00:04 2009 From: minx at bway.net (Perry Bard) Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 23:00:04 -0500 Subject: gender Message-ID: <8A990E36-3D19-494A-88B7-0A42383D72CC@bway.net> The Canada Arts Council sent out a multiple choice questionnaire on how artists use the internet. The last question, gender, had 3 options: male, female, intersex http://www.perrybard.net http://dziga.perrybard.net