From geert at xs4all.nl Fri Jan 1 08:17:09 2010 From: geert at xs4all.nl (Geert Lovink) Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2010 08:17:09 +0100 Subject: Fwd: tipping point References: Message-ID: Josephine posted this to the list but maybe it didn't get through. Geert Begin forwarded message: > From: Josephine Starrs > Date: 30 December 2009 6:04:57 AM > To: , Michael Verdi > > Cc: Geert Lovink > Subject: Re: tipping point > > > Dear Michael > > The toad in this video was not boiled alive and there was no animal > cruelty > involved. The cane toad was filmed in hot water only after it was > already > dead in order to illustrate the boiling frog anecdote. The video > alludes to > the total environmental degradation at Bottle Bend Lagoon in Australia > caused by climate change. > > The cane toad, which is a pest in Australia was put down in the > humane way > suggested by Australia?s Department of Agriculture. That is to cool > the > toad, so that it's metabolism slows right down and then to freeze it. > > Best > Josephine > http://lx.sysx.org From mbrinkerink at beeldengeluid.nl Fri Jan 1 16:48:21 2010 From: mbrinkerink at beeldengeluid.nl (Maarten Brinkerink) Date: Fri, 01 Jan 2010 16:48:21 +0100 Subject: FW: [Communia] Happy Public Domain Day 2010! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: FYI ------ Doorgestuurd bericht Van: bernardo parrella Datum: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 17:13:41 -0700 Aan: Onderwerp: [Communia] Happy Public Domain Day 2010! January 1st is Public Domain Day 2010 While New Year's Day is an occasion for great celebrations worldwide, we shouldn't forget another special reason to celebrate January 1st: Public Domain Day! In several countries, this day marks the expiration of copyright protection terms on creative works produced by authors who died several decades earlier (1939, for this 01/01/2010). Therefore in certain jurisdictions such works enter the Public Domain, and their content is no longer owned or controlled by anyone but it rather becomes available for anyone to freely use for any purpose. In other words, on each year's January 1st an impressive wealth of knowledge, information and beauty becomes freely available to humankind. To celebrate this occasion, COMMUNIA is promoting a new website devoted to Public Domain Day: http://www.publicdomainday.org. This project aims at increasing the public awareness of this celebration and educating about the Public Domain concept and its potentialities for spreading culture and knowledge worldwide. The website is particularly focused on this Public Domain Day 2010, providing useful resources and a detailed list of authors and artists entering the Public Domain in several countries. Happy Public Domain Day 2010! 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URL: From sabine at networkcultures.org Tue Jan 5 17:21:51 2010 From: sabine at networkcultures.org (Sabine Niederer) Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 17:21:51 +0100 Subject: State of the Vlogosphere 2010 Message-ID: http://blog.mefeedia.com/vlog-2010 and a very happy new year everyone! ciao, sabine From geert at xs4all.nl Mon Jan 11 01:34:20 2010 From: geert at xs4all.nl (Geert Lovink) Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 01:34:20 +0100 Subject: "Ordinary citizens, extraordinary videos" #iranelection References: <3692c5811001040653i5c2417d4m64997c979cddd12f@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <249CAA15-0AC0-4EF3-A0EA-017D57C2F26B@xs4all.nl> > Ordinary citizens, extraordinary videos > 12/29/2009 10:04:00 AM > (Cross-posted from Citizentube and the YouTube Blog) > > The images are grainy, often jerky and hard to follow (like most > footage shot using hand-held cameras and cellphones), but the message > is unmistakable: in the months since the disputed Iranian presidential > election in June, the people of Iran have become fluent in the new > language of citizen video reporting. What might have seemed an > isolated moment immediately following the election, when we watched > videos of Iranians marching, battling and even dying on the streets of > Tehran, appears to have become an essential part of their struggle. > > At YouTube, we have been watching week after week as new videos have > appeared on the site within hours of every single protest or similar > event reported from Iran in the past six months. Thousands of uploads > have brought the fear and tension of these protests to YouTube, > inviting millions of views around the world. It is as if the revolts > that are taking place could not do so outside the eye of the camera. > > Unlike traditional news footage from foreign correspondents (currently > prohibited in Iran), these videos are the voice of the people ? > unfiltered, unedited and with a single, sometimes disturbing point of > view. No professional film could capture the one-to-one feeling of > watching an ordinary citizen's images of unrest in his or her own > country. > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hH6Y6YIP0CY > > We are constantly amazed by the videos our community uploads, whether > from their own backyards or the streets of a faraway land. Armed with > only a camera and a means to reach the Internet, anyone can ask > another to bear witness to their lives. Given the nature of the > YouTube videos from Iran, we may want to turn away from some of the > images we see, but we keep watching, knowing that we are seeing > through the eyes of a people who have discovered the power of > information ? despite the often extreme measures their government is > using to try to stop them. > > We will continue to provide the platform for you to see what they see, > hear their voices and learn about their struggles. And we encourage > you to join the global conversation. Leave a comment, upload your own > response video or share a moving moment with someone else. > > Posted by Olivia Ma, YouTube News and Politics From geert at xs4all.nl Thu Jan 14 04:22:37 2010 From: geert at xs4all.nl (Geert Lovink) Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 04:22:37 +0100 Subject: Virtual KinoEye: Kinetic Camera, Machinima, and Virtual Subjectivity in Second Life References: <20100113212307.nhtcai4a7co0ggcc@webmail.dds.nl> Message-ID: <7ACCA802-B338-4F88-A53F-74F30DA732E2@xs4all.nl> > http://journals.dartmouth.edu/cgi-bin/WebObjects/Journals.woa/2/xmlpage/4/article/340 > http://tiny.cc/r72rB e-Media Studies Volume 2 Issue 1 (2009) Virtual KinoEye: Kinetic Camera, Machinima, and Virtual Subjectivity in Second Life By Lori Landay From geert at xs4all.nl Tue Jan 19 10:45:24 2010 From: geert at xs4all.nl (Geert Lovink) Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 10:45:24 +0100 Subject: EUscreen project website online References: <047D5843A1BF394EB9B73B773B79951ED1B7A1@s163-bems01.ka.beeldengeluid.nl> Message-ID: <335270B2-5F9E-4DEE-8CBF-BB4A9711C977@xs4all.nl> > From: "Wietske van den Heuvel" > Date: 19 January 2010 10:29:24 AM > To: > Subject: [Nettime-nl] EUscreen project website online > > EUscreen project website online > > As of January 15, the EUscreen project website (www.euscreen.eu > ) is live. The project website contains a > blog, information about the project and the partners, publications, > events and so on. Visitors can also subscribe to the EUscreen mailing > list or follow the project on Twitter or Facebook. > > EUscreen started in October 2009 as a three-year project funded by the > eContentplus programme of the European Commission. Within the duration > of the project over 35,000 items that capture Europe's television > heritage (videos, photographs, articles) will be made available online > through a freely accessible, multilingual portal. The portal will be > launched in 2011 and will be directly connected to Europeana. The > EUscreen consortium is coordinated by the University of Utrecht and > consists of 27 partners (audiovisual archives, research institutions, > technology providers and Europeana) from 19 European countries. > > Wietske van den Heuvel > Projectmedewerker Beelden voor de Toekomst > > Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid > Media Park, Sumatralaan 45, Hilversum > Postvak BG22 , Postbus 1060, 1200 BB Hilversum > www.beeldengeluid.nl From es at mur.at Tue Jan 19 16:47:26 2010 From: es at mur.at (Evelin Stermitz) Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:47:26 +0100 Subject: movie resource online: movie2k.com Message-ID: <20100119164726.fmrfu3r1gkgw0wsk@secure.mur.at> english and german movies online: http://www.movie2k.com/index.php?lang=en with Stream2k option they are best/free to watch ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From es at mur.at Tue Jan 19 21:12:51 2010 From: es at mur.at (Evelin Stermitz) Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 21:12:51 +0100 Subject: Today is [PAM]'s Birthday! Message-ID: <20100119211251.76m9b87k0mww0wg8@secure.mur.at> Luckily [PAM] the earliest Artist run video art online database, huge valuable resource, community and global installation, celebrates it's 4th birthday http://www.perpetualartmachine.com/ Please mail to Lee Wells , he and his collaborators would be happy about some mental support and acknowledgement for this valuable non profit work in means of Video Art online! From geert at xs4all.nl Thu Jan 21 11:39:09 2010 From: geert at xs4all.nl (Geert Lovink) Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:39:09 +0100 Subject: from techcrunch Message-ID: http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/20/youtube-disco-music-discovery-project/ There are so many music search engines out there based on YouTube music videos (Songza comes to mind) that it was only a matter of time until YouTube created its own music playlist maker. The YouTube Music Discovery Project just launched quietly out of TestTube (YouTube?s labs). The page is a search box on top of which says, ?Find>Mix>Watch,? and once you enter a name, you hit the ?Disco? button to find music. You can enter any music group or artist, and a playlist pops up, along with a thumbnail video and a description of the band. You can find related artists, create a mixtape, and save playlists. As you are listening to music and watching videos, it is easy to add and delete songs. YouTube is taking advantage of a lot of the officially-sanctioned Vevo music videos in the Music Discovery Project. Playlists are saved to your regular YouTube playlists page, from where you can share them via email. For instance, here is a playlist I crated called ?Too Cool For School.? Oddly, there doesn?t seem to be any to purchase the music other than the occasional iTunes ad within the videos themselves. But this is an experimental product. From mbrinkerink at beeldengeluid.nl Mon Jan 25 07:41:32 2010 From: mbrinkerink at beeldengeluid.nl (Maarten Brinkerink) Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 07:41:32 +0100 Subject: FW: [Communia-members] launching the Public Domain Manifesto In-Reply-To: Message-ID: For Immediate Release - - January 25, 2010 THE PUBLIC DOMAIN MANIFESTO LAUNCHES TODAY http://www.publicdomainmanifesto.org The Public Domain as a whole is the wealth of information that is free from the barriers to access or reuse usually associated with copyright protection, either because it is free from any copyright protection or because the right holders have decided to remove these barriers. The Public Domain ensures that the principles of Article 27 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights ('Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits.') can be fully enjoyed by everyone across the world. In order to increase public awareness about such concepts and potentialities for spreading knowledge and culture, today COMMUNIA, the European Thematic Network on the Digital Public Domain, announces the launch of the Public Domain Manifesto (http://www.publicdomainmanifesto.org). The document outlines a series of general principles (opening with: the Public Domain is the rule, copyright protection is the exception) along with various issues relevant to today's Public Domain, and provides some recommendations aimed at protecting the Public Domain and ensuring that it can continue to function in a meaningful way-with particular relevance to education, cultural heritage and scientific research. The Public Domain Manifesto reinforces the recent Public Domain Day (1. January 2010) initiatives and is already available in several languages with more translations underway, also featuring dozens of initial signers-both individuals and organizations worldwide. Everyone is encouraged to sign it, to follow our Facebook page and? to spread the word! For more information: - Public Domain Manifesto website: http://www.publicdomainmanifesto.org - Public Domain Manifesto Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/pages/The-Public-Domain-Manifesto/4483718 90304?v=info&ref=ts - Public Domain Day website: http://www.publicdomainday.org ------------------- About the Public Domain In the strict copyright law realm, "Public Domain" refers to those works which are no longer or have never been protected by copyright. But in today's digital networked Information Society, the definition of Public Domain essentially covers any cultural material that can be used without restriction, absent copyright protection - broadening its range to include close relations with open access, open licensing, fair use, and orphan works. About COMMUNIA The COMMUNIA Thematic Network focuses on theoretical analysis and strategic policy discussion of existing and emerging issues concerning the public domain in the digital environment. Its activities cover several related topics, including, but not limited to, alternative forms of licensing for creative material; open access to scientific publications and research results; management of works whose authors are unknown (i.e. "orphan works"). Funded by the European Commission within the eContentplus framework, the 2007-2010 project expects to provide policy guidelines that will help each stakeholder involved - public and private, from the local to the European and global level. The network includes 51 members and is coordinated by Politecnico of Torino's NEXA Research Center for Internet and Society. More info: http://communia-project.eu/ Contacts: COMMUNIA Media Office: press at communia-project.eu _______________________________________________ Communia-members mailing list Communia-members at lists.communia-project.eu https://lists.communia-project.eu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/communia-members ------ Einde van doorgestuurd bericht From sabine at networkcultures.org Mon Jan 25 12:15:46 2010 From: sabine at networkcultures.org (Sabine Niederer) Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:15:46 +0100 Subject: funded studentship in curating new media art - PhD opportunity at CRUMB Message-ID: <46E32341-1FDD-4F14-B387-9EFED66254D8@networkcultures.org> Funded studentship in Curating New Media Art An interesting PhD opportunity with CRUMB... (via Edward Shanken) -- AHRC Postgraduate Studentship Opportunities For full details see http://nuweb.northumbria.ac.uk/nebgp/ Northumbria and Sunderland Universities operate a collaborative AHRC Block Grant Partnership to support quality research and professional training Studentships are available for uptake from September/October 2010 in the following areas: Doctoral Studentships D1 Applied Arts and Crafts (Glass and Ceramics) D2 Fine Art (Curating New Media Art, or Photography) Research Preparation Masters Studentships M3 Conservation of Art (two studentships) Awards cover stipend and fees subject to eligibility criteria, see the AHRC Guide to Student Eligibility http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/FundingOpportunities/Documents/Guide to Student Eligibility.pdf Applications are invited electronically to applications at northeastbgp.org on the relevant form by no later than 12.00 midday on Thursday 24 March 2010. Applications received after this date and time will be kept on file as reserves. For details of each studentship opportunity and relevant form, see web links above. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Beryl Graham, Professor of New Media Art Faculty of Arts, Design, and Media, University of Sunderland Ashburne House, Ryhope Road Sunderland SR2 7EE Tel: +44 191 515 2896 Fax: +44 191 515 2132 Email: beryl.graham at sunderland.ac.uk Edward Shanken Universitair Docent, New Media University of Amsterdam http://artexetra.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From invite+zrdohihvfvzz at facebookmail.com Mon Jan 25 13:18:43 2010 From: invite+zrdohihvfvzz at facebookmail.com (Teoman Madra) Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 04:18:43 -0800 Subject: Check out my photos on Facebook Message-ID: <53683b613d9c0bb7a2400b3f2cf83888@www.facebook.com> Hi Videovortex, I set up a Facebook profile where I can post my pictures, videos and events and I want to add you as a friend so you can see it. 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URL: From bcrevits at gmail.com Tue Jan 26 14:43:28 2010 From: bcrevits at gmail.com (Bram Crevits) Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:43:28 +0100 Subject: VIDEO REPORT Video Vortex 5, Brussels Message-ID: <4488FB59-EF24-4699-8488-9DD9CAED337C@gmail.com> Hi all, Finally the full video report of the Video Vortex 5 conference in Brussels can be found online. We listed everything on: http://www.cimatics.com/cms_site/news/archive/article.php?id=154 Once again, thanks to all of you for being there. We are now officially and fully recovered from the latest festival edition and heading for the next Cimatics festival in 2011. Since the first edition in 2003 our focus shifted from VJing to live coding over A/V performance towards a more general festival for digital culture, but always with a 'this is not a media-art festival' mentality. For us, it was an honour to be able to host the VV conference, especially for it's critical but not so institutional/academic approach. The next edition of Cimatics festival will be set up around aspects of participatory culture, and will not be restricted to the geographical limitations of Brussels. We aim at an unusual event with a global urban scope. We invite everyone to contact us with any proposals for collaboration. All the best, Bram From geert at xs4all.nl Wed Jan 27 09:12:50 2010 From: geert at xs4all.nl (Geert Lovink) Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:12:50 +0100 Subject: question for the VV community from Mike Wesch Message-ID: <10BB9C0D-D478-47F3-A74C-F116CBA902B9@xs4all.nl> From: mwesch at ksu.edu Dear colleagues, After several meetings with representatives at YouTube, I am in a position to open up a discussion with them about the possibility of them releasing additional data about their videos and users to researchers. Before I begin this discussion, I would like to know the types of data that you might need or want. We have all been involved in some project when we thought "I wish I knew ..." and then realized that it would take a complicated screen-scrape or intensive sampling to find a less than perfect solution while YouTube/Google holds the data we need if they would just give it to us. I want to make sure I address everybody's needs when I discuss this with them, so please let me know of any data that would be of interest to you and your research. I can't promise anything, but I would like to give this a shot. Thanks, Mike Wesch -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Michael Wesch, PhD Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology Digital Ethnography Working Group Kansas State University mwesch at ksu.edu http://mediatedcultures.net ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From admin at politube.org Wed Jan 27 09:40:01 2010 From: admin at politube.org (politube) Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:40:01 +0100 Subject: question for the VV community from Mike Wesch In-Reply-To: <10BB9C0D-D478-47F3-A74C-F116CBA902B9@xs4all.nl> References: <10BB9C0D-D478-47F3-A74C-F116CBA902B9@xs4all.nl> Message-ID: <4B5FFBE1.1030908@politube.org> Dear Mr. Wesch, my first question is: Before asking for information, is it at all appropriate for Google to release information, among others about their users, in particular to 3rd parties? Just because we would "like to have" this data, doesn't mean that we should collect it or for that matter, google release them. best regards Kuros Yalpani politube.org Geert Lovink wrote: > From: mwesch at ksu.edu > > Dear colleagues, > > After several meetings with representatives at YouTube, I am in a > position to open up a discussion with them about the possibility of > them releasing additional data about their videos and users to > researchers. Before I begin this discussion, I would like to know the > types of data that you might need or want. We have all been involved > in some project when we thought "I wish I knew ..." and then realized > that it would take a complicated screen-scrape or intensive sampling > to find a less than perfect solution while YouTube/Google holds the > data we need if they would just give it to us. I want to make sure I > address everybody's needs when I discuss this with them, so please let > me know of any data that would be of interest to you and your > research. I can't promise anything, but I would like to give this a > shot. > > Thanks, > > Mike Wesch > > > From mwesch at k-state.edu Wed Jan 27 12:36:08 2010 From: mwesch at k-state.edu (Michael Wesch) Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 05:36:08 -0600 Subject: question for the VV community from Mike Wesch In-Reply-To: <4B5FFBE1.1030908@politube.org> References: <10BB9C0D-D478-47F3-A74C-F116CBA902B9@xs4all.nl> <4B5FFBE1.1030908@politube.org> Message-ID: I agree that it would not be appropriate to gather personal information, and the line between personal and public needs to be a central part of the discussion. Some way of easily aggregating the public data could be useful (something as simple as being able to see a breakdown of self-reported ages, countries, video style, interests, etc.). Others have also suggested a comment search (which they already have in the testtube area) that could give keyword frequencies. As a qualitative researcher, this data is not especially important to my work, but I frequently receive questions from other researchers about the possibility of getting data from YouTube. Before I start the discussion with them I just want to make sure I request all the data people need. On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 2:40 AM, politube wrote: > Dear Mr. Wesch, > > ? ? my first question is: Before asking for information, is it at all > appropriate for Google to release information, among others about their > users, in particular to 3rd parties? Just because we would "like to > have" this data, doesn't mean that we should collect it or for that > matter, google release them. > > best regards > > Kuros Yalpani > politube.org > > Geert Lovink wrote: >> From: mwesch at ksu.edu >> >> Dear colleagues, >> >> After several meetings with representatives at YouTube, I am in a >> position to open up a discussion with them about the possibility of >> them releasing additional data about their videos and users to >> researchers. Before I begin this discussion, I would like to know the >> types of data that you might need or want. ?We have all been involved >> in some project when we thought "I wish I knew ..." and then realized >> that it would take a complicated screen-scrape or intensive sampling >> to find a less than perfect solution while YouTube/Google holds the >> data we need if they would just give it to us. ? I want to make sure I >> address everybody's needs when I discuss this with them, so please let >> me know of any data that would be of interest to you and your >> research. ?I can't promise anything, but I would like to give this a >> shot. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Mike Wesch >> >> >> > > > ----- > > 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 > -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Michael Wesch, PhD Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology Digital Ethnography Working Group Kansas State University mwesch at ksu.edu http://mediatedcultures.net ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From geert at xs4all.nl Sat Jan 30 16:49:56 2010 From: geert at xs4all.nl (Geert Lovink) Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 16:49:56 +0100 Subject: The Medium is the Messsage 2010 Message-ID: <195C67E1-4202-4279-8F72-1A554838EB14@xs4all.nl> Charlie Brooker: How to Report the News ttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtGSXMuWMR4