From geert at xs4all.nl Tue Jun 1 09:29:35 2010 From: geert at xs4all.nl (Geert Lovink) Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 09:29:35 +0200 Subject: Open Video Conference proposals deadline: June 7th Message-ID: <5E48A25F-A880-48B5-A63C-120912BDC3DE@xs4all.nl> Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 13:58:15 -0400 From: Ben Moskowitz To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] Open Video Conference proposals deadline: June 7th Hello all, I'm writing on behalf of the Open Video Alliance, in preparation for our Open Video Conference in New York City, October 1-2. OVC is a high- profile gathering of thought leaders in business, academia, technology, and non-profits to explore the future of the online video medium. This year's OVC is particularly important, given new technology developments. If you are interested in the critical debates around online video, participatory culture, and the mass media generally, you may be interested in participating. Details from last year's event are available at http://openvideoalliance.org/open-video-conference/speakers09/ If you have an idea for a panel, workshop, or any other programming, please take the time to suggest it at: http://openvideoconference.org/proposals We will offer travel funding to a number of participants. The deadline to propose a session is June 7th. Please feel free to pass the message along to friends are colleagues who are interested in online video and the open web. Best wishes, Ben Moskowitz General coordinator, Open Video Alliance http://openvideoalliance.org Contact: (714) 420-6471 From cecilia at networkcultures.org Wed Jun 2 12:26:14 2010 From: cecilia at networkcultures.org (Cecilia Guida) Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2010 10:26:14 -0000 (UTC) Subject: From Wired: About Information War. Israel Turns to Youtube... Message-ID: <53782.145.92.192.224.1275474374.squirrel@webmail.sonologic.nl> 'Israel Turns to Youtube, Twitter after Flotilla Fiasco' http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/06/israel-turns-to-youtube-twitter-to-rescue-info-war/ -- Cecilia Guida Video Vortex Institute of Network Cultures t: +31 (0)20 595 1866 f: +31 (0)20 595 1840 At INC on Wednesdays and Thursdays cecilia at networkcultures.org www.networkcultures.org From geert at desk.nl Wed Jun 2 22:50:44 2010 From: geert at desk.nl (geert lovink) Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2010 22:50:44 +0200 Subject: Screens: Viewing Media Installation Art by Kate Mondloch Message-ID: Screens Viewing Media Installation Art By Kate Mondloch $25.00 paper ISBN 978-0-8166-6522-8 http://www.uminnpressblog.com/2010/03/q-kate-mondloch-on-use-of-screens-as-in.html Investigates how viewers experience screen-based art in museum Media screens?film, video, and computer screens?have increasingly pervaded both artistic production and everyday life since the 1960s. Yet the nature of viewing artworks made from these media, along with their subjective effects, remains largely unexplored. Screens addresses this gap, offering a historical and theoretical framework for understanding screen-reliant installation art and the spectatorship it evokes. Examining a range of installations created over the past fifty years that investigate the rich terrain between the sculptural and the cinematic, including works by artists such as Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Doug Aitken, Peter Campus, Dan Graham, VALIE EXPORT, Bruce Nauman, and Michael Snow, Kate Mondloch traces the construction of screen spectatorship in art from the seminal film and video installations of the 1960s and 1970s to the new media artworks of today?s digital culture. Mondloch identifies a momentous shift in contemporary art that challenges key premises of spectatorship brought about by technological objects that literally and metaphorically filter the subject?s field of vision. As a result she proposes that contemporary viewers are, quite literally, screen subjects and offers the unique critical leverage of art as an alternative way to understand media culture and contemporary visuality. "What is most provocative and original about Kate Mondloch?s approach is that she realizes that screens are both objects and ?virtual windows,? material and immaterial entities at the same time. Screens has not only the potential of being a major contribution to a pre- existing art historical field, but opening up the discipline to entirely new modes of critical enquiry." ?Colin Gardner, University of California, Santa Barbara Kate Mondloch is assistant professor of art history at the University of Oregon. 208 pages | 32 b&w photos | 2010 Electronic Mediations Series, volume 30 TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgments Introduction: Screen Subjects 1. Interface Matters: Screen-Reliant Installation Art 2. Body and Screen: The Architecture of Screen Spectatorship 3. Installing Time: Spatialized Time and Exploratory Duration 4. Be Here (and There) Now: The Spatial Dynamics of Spectatorship 5. What Lies Ahead: Virtuality, the Body, and the Computer Screen Afterword: Thinking through Screens From cecilia at networkcultures.org Thu Jun 3 08:37:03 2010 From: cecilia at networkcultures.org (Cecilia Guida) Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2010 06:37:03 -0000 (UTC) Subject: From Reuters: Internet traffic quadrupling by 2014 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <61654.87.210.197.147.1275547023.squirrel@webmail.sonologic.nl> http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN0112581720100602?type=marketsNews * Cisco sees Internet traffic quadrupling by 2014 * Video to be primary driver of growth NEW YORK, June 2 (Reuters) - Network equipment maker Cisco Systems Inc (CSCO.O) said it expects global Internet traffic to more than quadruple by 2014 as more people use the Internet to watch videos and chat with friends online. Cisco forecast Internet traffic to rise to 767 exabytes a year by 2014, with most of the growth coming from online video. That forecast is also 100 exabytes higher than the level it projected last year for 2013. One exabyte equals 1 billion gigabytes. To illustrate the sheer size of online traffic it expects, Cisco said watching all the video crossing over the global network in 2014 would take around 72 million years. The company said video, including video-on-demand on cable and Internet services, will account for around 91 percent of global consumer online traffic by 2014. Cisco makes routers and switches that direct Internet traffic, and is a key beneficiary of the trend as phone and cable service providers upgrade their networks to handle increased Web use. Suraj Shetty, vice president of Cisco's service provider marketing, said Web traffic was growing more rapidly than he had expected a few years ago. He cited new gadgets and the popularity of video sites like Google Inc's (GOOG.O) YouTube and movie downloading services such as Netflix Inc (NFLX.O). "Let's look at the last two years. The economy has gone down pretty much across the globe. But IP traffic has actually accelerated because there are a lot more people using video," he said. "You see devices like Blu-ray players with Netflix and YouTube built in... and the iPad comes along." Cisco said increasing network bandwidth capacity should allow more consumers to more quickly, download videos in high-definition and 3D formats, and to watch them without interruptions. The company has also expanded into areas like consumer video products and corporate videoconferencing equipment, which are accelerating growth in Internet traffic. It said Web-based videoconferencing would likely grow 180-fold from 2009 through 2014. Global mobile data traffic will increase 39 times from 2009 to 2014, it predicted. (Reporting by Ritsuko Ando; Editing by Sofina Mirza-Reid) -- Cecilia Guida Video Vortex Institute of Network Cultures t: +31 (0)20 595 1866 f: +31 (0)20 595 1840 At INC on Wednesdays and Thursdays cecilia at networkcultures.org www.networkcultures.org From minx at bway.net Thu Jun 3 15:05:31 2010 From: minx at bway.net (Perry Bard) Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2010 09:05:31 -0400 Subject: http://vimeo.com/12226459 Message-ID: marina abramovic at moma webcam captures http://www.perrybard.net http://dziga.perrybard.net From cecilia at networkcultures.org Fri Jun 4 09:23:29 2010 From: cecilia at networkcultures.org (Cecilia Guida) Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2010 07:23:29 -0000 (UTC) Subject: You Choose 2010 Campaign Toolkit In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <62706.87.210.197.147.1275636209.squirrel@webmail.sonologic.nl> Facebook and YouTube launch election hubs http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/06/03/facebook-and-youtube-launch-election-hubs/?fbid=gPzolQ0zC6S#more-107027 http://www.youtube.com/youchoose2010 -- Cecilia Guida Video Vortex Institute of Network Cultures t: +31 (0)20 595 1866 f: +31 (0)20 595 1840 At INC on Wednesdays and Thursdays cecilia at networkcultures.org www.networkcultures.org From geert at xs4all.nl Tue Jun 8 09:46:07 2010 From: geert at xs4all.nl (Geert Lovink) Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2010 09:46:07 +0200 Subject: Debate: Gaza Flotilla Debacle and Online Video Message-ID: <5A861FB9-E48B-4754-A9F0-D448F6508D83@xs4all.nl> http://www.digiactive.org/2010/06/01/debate-gaza-flotilla-debacle-and-online-video/ From admin at politube.org Tue Jun 8 11:41:25 2010 From: admin at politube.org (politube) Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2010 11:41:25 +0200 Subject: Debate: Gaza Flotilla Debacle and Online Video In-Reply-To: <5A861FB9-E48B-4754-A9F0-D448F6508D83@xs4all.nl> References: <5A861FB9-E48B-4754-A9F0-D448F6508D83@xs4all.nl> Message-ID: <4C0E1045.2010807@politube.org> ...although this was a rather feeble attempt by the IDF to control damage. Their clip at best reasserted their own constituency and even inside Israel it did not convince many observers. However, more to the point of the short article, I am not convinced that this was a good example of governments using social media because: 1. I saw the Israeli "version" of events (in fact both sides versions) in the main news on TV and not online, whereas the IDF released these videos primarily on their own website. Is this considered social media? 2. Whereas the Israeli version is definitely the government/official version of the events, the same cannot be made so obviously for the activists side, since it was a flotilla of international activists on board and no government representatives and the boats where attacked by the IDF and not Pro-occupation Israeli activists. There is a kind of asymmetry here. Kuros On 06/08/2010 09:46 AM, Geert Lovink wrote: > http://www.digiactive.org/2010/06/01/debate-gaza-flotilla-debacle-and-online-video/ > > > ----- > > 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... 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"Besides the Screen: Moving Images during Distribution, Exhibition and Consumption" 27th November 2010 - Goldsmiths, London New media technologies impact cinema well beyond the screen; they also promote the reorganization of its logic of distribution, modes of consumption and viewing regimes. Once, it was video and television broadcast that disturbed traditional cinematographic experience, revealing the image as soon as it was captured and bringing it into the home of the audience. Nowadays, computer imaging and online networks cause an even stronger effect to the medium, increasing the public agency in the movie market dynamics. In order to understand how these significant changes in the modes of accessing and distributing moving images might affect cinematographic experience, economy and historiography, we are obliged to rethink not only of its future, but its past as well. Besides the Screen is a one-day international symposium that aims to map research projects on new and old forms of moving image distribution, exhibition and consumption. The conference will be hosted in Goldsmiths College (University of London) in November 2010, with the support of the Goldsmiths Graduate School. We invite proposals for paper presentations in the form of 250-word abstracts, to be sent to the email besidesthescreen at gmail.com until June 25th 2010. The list of selected works will be published online at www.besidesthescreen.blogspot.com. Suggested topics / themes: ? Contemporary views of traditional exhibition venues ? Online video archives and directories (archive.org, youtube) ? Non-traditional distribution networks ? Peer-to-peer and filesharing ? Film& video piracy ? Transnational distribution ? Projection-based performances (vjing/ live cinema/ etc.) ? Market regulations (DVD distributions, release windows, ratings) ? Contemporary and historical film societies ? Non-commercial exhibition spaces (art galleries, outdoor screenings, etc.) ? Intersections between IPR, copyright& film distribution/exhibition. From sabine at networkcultures.org Wed Jun 9 13:18:54 2010 From: sabine at networkcultures.org (Sabine Niederer INC) Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2010 13:18:54 +0200 Subject: CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS Impakt Festival 2010 Panorama film / video Message-ID: <4C0F789E.207@networkcultures.org> ....and another call, this one for film and video works to be shown at Impakt Festival this fall :) Deadline is July 1st. Ciao, Sabine *CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS* The Impakt Festival 2010 will be held from 13 to 17 October in Utrecht, The Netherlands. In our annual Panorama program we show a selected overview of the best new film and video works. The Panorama program is open for submissions of single channel works. You can submit your work via our online entry form: _www.impakt.nl/entryform _. PLEASE FILL OUT A SEPARATE ENTRY FORM FOR EACH WORK, so your work is accompanied by all the necessary information before it is included in our viewing procedures. Work produced in 2008, 2009 or 2010 can be submitted till July 1st, 2010. ??For submitting work that you expect not be finished by July 1st please contact us at panorama [at] impakt.nl *Screening *Please indicate which format(s) you have available for screening in case the submitted work is selected for the Impakt Festival. Although we will contact you for detailed information on the screening version of your work if it is selected it is necessary to be as precise as possible on the screening format already. *Publicity* Because the selection procedure ends close to the publicity deadlines we kindly ask you to already include print quality images of your work: 300dpi at 10x15cm, and higher resolution if possible. Also be sure to enter the creditline and the synopsis. 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URL: From jo at turbulence.org Wed Jun 9 22:05:41 2010 From: jo at turbulence.org (Green Jo-Anne) Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 16:05:41 -0400 Subject: videovortex Digest, Vol 42, Issue 4 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <53C18F03-2B22-4259-9971-7B906AA5434E@turbulence.org> Richard Grusin wrote and interesting piece about this: http://premediation.blogspot.com/2010/06/premediation-on-high-seas.html and, in case you missed this appalling Israeli government YouTube video, Flotilla Choir presents: We Con the World : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOGG_osOoVg&feature=player_embedded On Jun 8, 2010, at 6:00 AM, videovortex-request at listcultures.org wrote: > Send videovortex mailing list submissions to > videovortex at listcultures.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/videovortex_listcultures.org > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > videovortex-request at listcultures.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > videovortex-owner at listcultures.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of videovortex digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Debate: Gaza Flotilla Debacle and Online Video (Geert Lovink) > 2. Re: Debate: Gaza Flotilla Debacle and Online Video (politube) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2010 09:46:07 +0200 > From: Geert Lovink > Subject: Debate: Gaza Flotilla Debacle and Online Video > To: videovortex at listcultures.org > Message-ID: <5A861FB9-E48B-4754-A9F0-D448F6508D83 at xs4all.nl> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed > > http://www.digiactive.org/2010/06/01/debate-gaza-flotilla-debacle- > and-online-video/ > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2010 11:41:25 +0200 > From: politube > Subject: Re: Debate: Gaza Flotilla Debacle and Online > Video > To: videovortex at listcultures.org > Message-ID: <4C0E1045.2010807 at politube.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > ...although this was a rather feeble attempt by the IDF to control > damage. Their clip at best reasserted their own constituency and even > inside Israel it did not convince many observers. However, more to the > point of the short article, I am not convinced that this was a good > example of governments using social media because: > > 1. I saw the Israeli "version" of events (in fact both sides > versions) in the main news on TV and not online, whereas the IDF > released these videos primarily on their own website. Is this > considered social media? > 2. Whereas the Israeli version is definitely the government/ > official > version of the events, the same cannot be made so obviously for > the activists side, since it was a flotilla of international > activists on board and no government representatives and the > boats > where attacked by the IDF and not Pro-occupation Israeli > activists. There is a kind of asymmetry here. > > Kuros > > > On 06/08/2010 09:46 AM, Geert Lovink wrote: >> http://www.digiactive.org/2010/06/01/debate-gaza-flotilla-debacle- >> and-online-video/ >> >> >> ----- >> >> 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: videovortex_listcultures.org/attachments/20100608/5617e79f/ > attachment-0001.html> > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > videovortex mailing list > videovortex at listcultures.org > http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/videovortex_listcultures.org > > to change your settings or unsubscribe, please go to: http:// > listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/videovortex_listcultures.org > > End of videovortex Digest, Vol 42, Issue 4 > ****************************************** Jo-Anne Green Co-Director New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. 917.548.7780 or 617.522.3856 Turbulence: http://turbulence.org Networked_Performance: http://turbulence.org/blog Networked_Music_Review: http://turbulence.org/networked_music_review Networked: http://networkedbook.org New American Radio: http://somewhere.org Upgrade! Boston: http://turbulence.org/upgrade_boston From cecilia at networkcultures.org Sat Jun 12 12:43:10 2010 From: cecilia at networkcultures.org (Cecilia Guida) Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2010 10:43:10 -0000 (UTC) Subject: From Wired: Spies Want to Stockpile Your YouTube Clips Message-ID: <52752.87.210.197.147.1276339390.squirrel@webmail.sonologic.nl> Spies Want to Stockpile Your YouTube Clips (And Scan Them for Terror Threats) http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/06/spies-want-to-stockpile-your-youtube-clips-and-scan-them-for-terror-threats/ -- Cecilia Guida Video Vortex Institute of Network Cultures t: +31 (0)20 595 1866 f: +31 (0)20 595 1840 At INC on Wednesdays and Thursdays cecilia at networkcultures.org www.networkcultures.org From geert at xs4all.nl Sat Jun 12 22:24:00 2010 From: geert at xs4all.nl (Geert Lovink) Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2010 22:24:00 +0200 Subject: Taliban 'filming attacks for internet' References: <28876fa1671df7d2fed02d2ae5ad9153.squirrel@webmail.xs4all.nl> Message-ID: <8390BAFA-9281-49A1-BB20-C3A640670060@xs4all.nl> http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/taliban-filming-attacks-for-internet/story-e6frg6nf-1225878648163 From admin at politube.org Sun Jun 13 10:51:11 2010 From: admin at politube.org (politube) Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2010 10:51:11 +0200 Subject: Julian Assange Message-ID: <4C149BFF.8020901@politube.org> Hi, according to a few news reports, e.g.: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/jun/11/wikileaks-founder-assange-pentagon-manning the Pentagon is after the founder of wikileaks.org for fear he may publish some more compromising material, under the guise of national security of course. If this is not a direct attack on journalistic freedom then I don't know what is. We should try to raise awareness of this issue. Perhaps Mr. Assange is in real trouble because of this and he needs support? Kuros From cecilia at networkcultures.org Tue Jun 15 09:20:42 2010 From: cecilia at networkcultures.org (Cecilia Guida) Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 07:20:42 -0000 (UTC) Subject: YouTube Play and Guggenheim Message-ID: <51277.87.210.197.147.1276586442.squirrel@webmail.sonologic.nl> http://www.youtube.com/Play http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/youtube-play-searching-with-guggenheim.html YouTube Play: searching with the Guggenheim for the world?s most creative online video Do you ever look at a YouTube video and think, "That's a work of art?" Yep, so do we?and now, so does the Guggenheim. In five years, YouTube has redefined media culture by changing the way the world creates, distributes and watches video. Online video is exploding not just as a medium, but as an art form, and we?re proud of the originality and innovation that YouTube has fostered among our users. Our community has produced some of the most creative and celebrated works on the Internet, videos that have been viewed by millions of people around the world. We want to celebrate phenomenal video-makers and recognize the creative potential of the medium. So today we?re collaborating with the Guggenheim Museum to discover the most creative video in the world, and showcase exceptional talent working in the ever-expanding realm of digital media: YouTube Play: A Biennial of Creative Video. This global online initiative is presented in collaboration with HP. We?re looking for animation, motion graphics, narrative, non-narrative, or documentary work, music videos and entirely new art forms?creations that really challenge the world?s perceptions of what?s possible with video. We want to elevate the debate. This presentation, we hope, will garner some of the finest creative work from every corner of the globe?not only to showcase it on one of the biggest stages online, but also in one of the most iconic artistic venues in the world, the Guggenheim Museum in New York City, and throughout the Guggenheim network of museums in Bilbao, Venice and Berlin. Participants must submit their videos to YouTube Play to enter. The deadline for submission is July 31, 2010, after which the Guggenheim will assemble a shortlist to be evaluated by an international jury of experts from the worlds of art, design, film and video. Up to 20 videos will be presented at the Guggenheim Museum in New York on October 21, with simultaneous presentations at the Guggenheim museums in Bilbao, Venice and Berlin. The presentations will also be viewable to on the YouTube Play brand channel at youtube.com/play. As we did with the YouTube Symphony Orchestra, we hope to build an aspirational place for some of the world?s best artists to showcase their works and talents. For more information about how to enter, go to youtube.com/play. -- Cecilia Guida Video Vortex Institute of Network Cultures t: +31 (0)20 595 1866 f: +31 (0)20 595 1840 At INC on Wednesdays and Thursdays cecilia at networkcultures.org www.networkcultures.org From minx at bway.net Tue Jun 15 17:03:48 2010 From: minx at bway.net (Perry Bard) Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 11:03:48 -0400 Subject: anti-suicide facebook group Message-ID: <277A69A5-FE17-4987-BAB9-48A7317FF4E0@bway.net> http://www.montrealgazette.com/life/Anti+suicide+Facebook+group+elicits+positive+messages/3151586/story.html http://www.perrybard.net http://dziga.perrybard.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From geert at xs4all.nl Fri Jun 18 07:33:00 2010 From: geert at xs4all.nl (Geert Lovink) Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 07:33:00 +0200 Subject: http://www.youtube.com/play Message-ID: a response to http://www.youtube.com/play. who else? geert http://brand-e.biz/the-museum-and-the-youtube-play_7375.html http://www.artfagcity.com/2010/06/16/the-guggenheims-youtube-exhibition-play-challenged-from-the-outset/ The Guggenheim?s YouTube Exhibition Play Challenged From The Outset POST BY PADDY JOHNSON How out of touch can the art people get? The Guggenheim?s launching a new YouTube Biennial dubbed Play for two days this October and the museum?s curators have named themselves the web experts and chief video selectors. ?We?re looking for things we haven?t seen before? Nancy Spector, the deputy director and chief curator of the Guggenheim Foundation told The Times last week, as if the staff spent most of their hours on YouTube. I have a hard time believing the Guggenheim?s secretly spent the past decade beefing up on the various web memes and amateur videos trafficked across the web. How will the museum?s curators be able to recognize a remade meme from years past without that experience? How will they be able to spot various web references? If the ability to locate art historical citation within art work is important, surely an equally rich background in the web is essential. [UPDATE: SS asks why assume the videos will have anything to do with web culture. They may not, but if they do it won't be spotted by staff. Also, the opportunity missed here is all the work that's out there to be found]. So far, art media has been predictably myopic in its discussion of the announced. Dean of Yale University School of Art, and famed art quote churner Robert Storr told the Times Carol Vogel what he thought of the exhibition, ?Hit-and-run, no-fault encounters between curators and artists, works and the public, will never give useful shape to the art of the present nor define the viewpoint of institutions.? His statement is predictably out of touch with contemporary culture, but also not overly relevant. In this instance he?s not an art world gatekeeper (contrary to NYMagazine critic Jerry Saltz), just a prominent voice with an ill-informed opinion. The real problem is the museum?s untrained staff, now charged with identifying 200 outstanding videos from thousands. According to their website, a jury of ?experts,? (distinguished artists, filmmakers, graphic designers, and musicians) will select up to 20 videos from the museum?s initial picks. It?s anyone?s guess who they?ll select ? hopefully they?ll opt for those with web-expertise ? but before they get to that stage, I hope they?ll consider working with professionals who can give them some guidance. Here are a few names: Andrew Baron: Founder of Rocketboom, Magma, and Know Your Meme amongst other video and meme based websites. Baron holds a Master of Fine Arts from Parsons University. Rex Sorgatz: Founder of Kind of Sorta Media, and former Executive Producer of MSNBC.com. Runs the blog fimoculous. Sorgatz has a Masters of Digital Media from the University of Washington and has a working knowledge and interest in Fine Art. Joanne McNeil: A renaissance woman of all things Internet. Founding editor of the Tomorrow Museum. Tom Moody: A well known artist and fine art blogger who?s spent the last ten years scouring the web for engaging visual material. Lauren Cornell: Executive Director of Rhizome and Adjunct Curator for the New Museum. Jonah Paretti: Founder of Buzzfeed, The Huffington Post, and Contagious Media. Worked at Eyebeam Art and Technology Center from 2000-2005 and has exhibited at the New Museum (though he does not consider his work ?art?). Camille Paloque-Berges: PHD Candidate and Teaching Assistant in Information Science and Communication at the Laboratoire Paragraphe (Universit? Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint Denis). A web connoisseur of the highest degree. 12:48 pm // Digg this // Save this to del.icio.us // 5 Comments ? ? Why assume videos shared via YouTube would necessarily have anything to do with Internet culture and ?web memes?? If the Guggenheim?s open call involved artists mailing in DVDs instead, would you expect the judges to have expertise about the postal system? SS // 16 Jun 2010, 1:17 pm ? I meant to qualify that assumption in the post, so thanks for pointing it out. They don?t necessarily. I guess my feeling is that there?s a lot of stuff out there to be found as well as those who might submit, so their call really only engages a fraction of the audience it could. Art Fag City // 16 Jun 2010, 2:03 pm ? The whole things smells like ?American Idol? to me. Are we already seeing the Bravo effect? ernstwhere // 16 Jun 2010, 3:27 pm ? Paddy, the link is broken on the Times story. SS?s ?would you expect the judges to have expertise about the postal system?? question, while sarcastic, gets to whether YouTube is just a delivery system for ?video art? or whether it?s a culture unto itself that curators should be learning about. The involvement of the YouTube p.r. department and Hewlett-Packard, which according to the Times, is collaborating on the project ?to teach skills like editing, animation and lighting to the video-na?ve? (yuck) suggests YouTube is being thought of in its original, intended, non-vernacular sense as a place for video ?new talent.? But as William Gibson said, ?the street finds its own uses for things? and right now it seems to me YouTube is being used mostly as a substitute iTunes, with people posting their favorite obscure song with a single still image for the consideration of the site?s talkative commenters. Likely this and other ?pirate? uses of YT? such as OAVs or ?original anime videos? featuring anime clips recut with new music?will not be considered. tom moody // 16 Jun 2010, 3:56 pm ? [...] to submit their favorite web videos for possible inclusion in an exhibition at the Guggenheim. Art Fag City?s Paddy Johnson doesn?t think too much of the idea. ?How out of touch can the art people get?? she asks on her blog. The real problem is the [...] Leading Off: Vaquero For Fort Worth, Producing Superman, and Second Thoughts on the Guggenheim?s YouTube Project | FrontRow // 17 Jun 2010, 10:44 am From geert at xs4all.nl Tue Jun 22 14:32:33 2010 From: geert at xs4all.nl (Geert Lovink) Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 14:32:33 +0200 Subject: Momus: Hypnoprism Message-ID: <69946609-BEC6-47DA-93D3-3DDD6E2B58D0@xs4all.nl> http://imomus.com/ Momus spent May taking a break from the book he's writing about Japan to write and record his 2010 album, Hypnoprism, due to be released in the US and Europe (via labels American Patchwork and Analogue Baroque) on September 27th 2010. The album will feature on its cover Diamond Eye, a painting by New York-based Japanese artist Misaki Kawai. The "hypnoprism" of the title is YouTube, a sort of hypnotic musical prism, the source of much of the inspiration for this album, and even some of the sounds. Hypnotised by watching his favourite music videos on YouTube, Momus made songs aspiring to the same qualities -- that mysterious catnip which makes you want to play a pop song over and over, and commit it to memory -- then immediately made videos for them and posted them. As a result, the whole album is available right now as a YouTube playlist. From cecilia at networkcultures.org Thu Jun 24 11:16:26 2010 From: cecilia at networkcultures.org (Cecilia Guida) Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 09:16:26 -0000 (UTC) Subject: =?iso-8859-1?q?From_NYT=3A_A_Site_for_the_Videos_Yo?= =?iso-8859-1?q?u_Don=92t_Want_Everyone_to_See?= Message-ID: <51927.145.92.114.148.1277370986.squirrel@webmail.sonologic.nl> http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/23/a-site-for-the-videos-you-dont-want-everyone-to-see/ -- Cecilia Guida Video Vortex Institute of Network Cultures t: +31 (0)20 595 1866 f: +31 (0)20 595 1840 At INC on Wednesdays and Thursdays cecilia at networkcultures.org www.networkcultures.org From J.A.A.Simons at uva.nl Thu Jun 24 15:15:35 2010 From: J.A.A.Simons at uva.nl (Simons, J.A.A.) 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URL: From cecilia at networkcultures.org Sat Jun 26 13:06:26 2010 From: cecilia at networkcultures.org (Cecilia Guida) Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2010 11:06:26 -0000 (UTC) Subject: Pakistan set to ban more web blasphemy Message-ID: <61224.87.210.197.147.1277550386.squirrel@webmail.sonologic.nl> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/25/pakistani_censhorship/ Pakistan set to ban more web blasphemy Yahoo!, Google, Amazon, Bing... By Rik Myslewski Pakistan announced Friday that it will monitor Yahoo, Google, MSN, Hotmail, YouTube, Amazon, and Bing, and will block links and content that it deems anti-Islamic. "If any particular link with offensive content appears on these websites, the [link] shall be blocked immediately without disturbing the main website," Pakistan Telecommunication Authority spokesman Khurram Mehran told the Associated Press. In addition to the link-blockage of the seven named high-traffic sites, Pakistan web-watchers have also completely blocked 17 lesser sites, including, for example, Islam Exposed, which includes links to blaspheming articles such as "Muhammad, A Symbol Of Terrorism" along with over-the-top posts such as "Joe Lieberman Spews Excrement!". The monitoring and blockage comes in response to a court order, as did Pakistan's recent ban on Facebook due to its hosting of an "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day" page ? a page that was subsequently taken down, although Facebook officials claimed to have had no part in its removal. The complete banning of Facebook was lifted after censorship official Najibullah Malik was satisfied that the site had lifted all all "sacrilegious material". In addition to the Facebook ban, Pakistan last month blocked, then unblocked YouTube for depictions of the prophet Muhammad, a practice that many Muslims find blasphemous. "We decided that this kind of information was going to hurt people's feelings. We have directed the [Pakistan Telecommunications Authority] to block all and any sites that display those caricatures," Malik told The Guardian at the time of the YouTube ban. The Guardian, reporting on internal controversy surrounding the YouTube ban, quoted one Pakistani tweeter as tweeting: "Way to go assholes. Why don't you just cut us off from the internet and get it over and done with." Despite lifting the Facebook and YouTube bans, Pakistan hasn't given up its censorship efforts. "At least 800 individual web pages and URLs have been blocked since the government's orders to shut Facebook and YouTube," Wahaj us Siraj, a spokesman for the Internet Service Providers Association of Pakistan (ISPAK), told AFP. In perhaps the most bizarre development in the country's campaign to remove blasphemy from its interwebs, Pakistan's Deputy Attorney General recently launched a criminal investigation against Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg for his role in the "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day" dust-up. Although no charges have been filed in the case, the Pakistani newspaper The News International reports that the law that prompted the Zuckerberg investigation, Section 295-C of the penal code, carries with it penalties of "death, or imprisonment for life". Not all Pakistanis, of course, are in support of their government's draconian crackdown on what Section 295-C refers to as "Use of derogatory remark etc, in respect of the Holy Prophet ... either spoken or written, or by visible representation, or by any imputation, innuendo, or insinuation, directly or indirectly." "It's absurd," journalist and filmmaker Hasan Zaidi told The Guardian. "They haven't thought this through. The logical conclusion is that we should shut our eyes, stick our fingers in our ears and ban the entire internet, even email." Nadeem Paracha of Pakistan's Dawn news service wrote in his "Smokers' Corner" column: "By continuing to tolerate a psychotic faith-based fringe for so long, we have actually helped it metamorphose into an unrestrained monster that has zero tolerance for what we think or do." The problem, Paracha told The Guardian, is that "Anything to do with Allah, or the prophet, and everyone keeps quiet." And it must also be noted that the more extreme members of the Muslim world aren't alone in taking angry offense at what they perceive as "blasphemy". Remember, for example, the hue-and-cry that resulted from artist Chris Ofili's elephant dung?encrusted The Holy Virgin Mary, or the attacks on the US National Endowment for the Arts over works such as Andres Serrano's photograph, Piss Christ. But, to be fair, we must also note that neither Ofili nor Serrano were subject to a possible government-sanctioned death sentence. -- Cecilia Guida Video Vortex Institute of Network Cultures t: +31 (0)20 595 1866 f: +31 (0)20 595 1840 At INC on Wednesdays and Thursdays cecilia at networkcultures.org www.networkcultures.org From paulien at dresscher.nl Mon Jun 28 09:30:41 2010 From: paulien at dresscher.nl (Paulien Dresscher) Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 09:30:41 +0200 Subject: =?windows-1252?q?Fwd=3A_Debate_=93The_Smooth_and_th?= =?windows-1252?q?e_Striated=94_Nieuw_Dakota=2C_July_11_2010?= References: <5DFDFAB3-B40A-4BF7-9E11-E77E14323703@dresscher.nl> Message-ID: <704EC405-68FB-47EE-B2E8-ABF6C57B519E@dresscher.nl> Debate ?The Smooth and the Striated? Nieuw Dakota, July 11 2010 Speakers: Laura U. Marks (Simon Fraser University, Canada), Edward Shanken Universiteit van Asterdam) Nathalie Beekman and Thuur Caris (Pavlov Elab Groningen) Patricia Pisters (Universiteit van Amsterdam), Menno Lievers (Universiteit Utrecht) Rob Zwijnenberg (University Leiden). Moderator: Margriet Schavemaker (head of collections, Stedelijk Museum) doors open 14.00 hrs debate 14.30 hrs. - 16.30 hrs drinks afterwards Limited amount of seats, please make reservations at thesmoothandthestriated at gmail.com http://thesmoothandthestriated.wordpress.com/ On Sunday July 11, the University of Amsterdam and the University of Utrecht present a debate about the relationship between art, science and philosophy in collaboration with Nieuw Dakota. In the context of the exhibition The Smooth and The Striated (2 July? 1 August) in Huize Frankendael and Nieuw Dakota, philosophers and artists will reflect upon difference and similitude in the ways in which various disciplines of practice and thought attempt to describe or interpret our world. The Smooth and The Striated (2 July ? 1 August) is an event within the framework of the Third International Deleuze Studies Conference, hosted by the University of Amsterdam and the University of Utrecht, which invites scholars to reflect on the ideas of the renowned twentieth century philosopher Gilles Deleuze. What is the history and philosophy of art?s relation to research? In their celebrated essay ?The Smooth and The Striated?, Gilles Deleuze and F?lix Guattari write about our apparent human desire to make various processes and environments comprehensible by means of delineating, quantifying and measuring; at the same time, they emphasize the ways in which our world resists these attempts at over- coding and hierarchization. In art academies worldwide, the work of Gilles Deleuze has functioned as fertile ground for architects, musicians, Dj?s, Vj?s, filmmakers, sculptors and painters in their explorations and critical thinking, in the context of larger structural changes to education and pedagogy. The merging and exchanges of art, science, and philosophy in Deleuze?s work has become an inspiration to many and resulted in new practices, research, and experiments. It is in this context that a new Bachelor-Master (BAMA) structure has been introduced in the Netherlands over the last couple of years, in line with international trends, creating ways for artists to pursue Ph.D. programs. The Universities of Leiden, Utrecht, and Amsterdam, for example, are creating?in some cases in collaboration with art schools and art funding organizations? specific trajectories for artistic PhD?s. Within the curriculum of these new artistic research programs, the boundaries between different disciplines vary: their emphasis might be tailored to the work of art as final piece (practice based research); in other cases it is the research that is central (artistic research). The debate will discuss the question and problem of defining ?research? and reflection, and will take place at Nieuw Dakota. For this event, a variety of artists and theorists are invited to come together to discuss the convergence of different disciplines, both within their daily practices, and in relation to recent transformations in he educational system over the last couple of years. The discussion will be loosely grouped around the following statements that are composed to serve as a provocative frame and launch for the debate. ? Art, science, and philosophy need each other. ? Institutions should not try to guard disciplinary specificity, but should instead refuse to distinguish between the realms of philosophy, art, and science. In this way, truly interdisciplinary work can develop. ? Artistic research is a new branch of research in between universities and art academies that should be embedded into the domain of scientific research. The debate will provide a platform to question and revisit the identification and separation of disciplines, and to elaborate upon the different languages, conceptual borrowings, similarities and differences of practice between art, science and philosophy. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cecilia at networkcultures.org Mon Jun 28 11:02:36 2010 From: cecilia at networkcultures.org (Cecilia Guida) Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 09:02:36 -0000 (UTC) Subject: YouTube 'professor' teaches the world from his bedroom Message-ID: <51367.87.210.197.147.1277715756.squirrel@webmail.sonologic.nl> http://www.khanacademy.org/ http://www.youtube.com/khanacademy YouTube 'professor' teaches the world - from his bedroom by Lisa M. Krieger San Jose Mercury News http://azstarnet.com/news/national/article_1b79b325-ded4-5e67-b6e1-ce86bd374a06.html SAN JOSE, Calif. - From a tiny closet in Mountain View, Calif., Sal Khan is educating the globe for free. His 1,516 videotaped mini-lectures - on topics ranging from simple addition to vector calculus and Napoleonic campaigns - are transforming the former hedge fund analyst into a YouTube sensation, reaping praise from even reluctant students across the world. "I'm starting a virtual school for the world, teaching things the way I wanted to be taught," explains Khan, 33, the exuberant founder and sole faculty member of the nonprofit Khan Academy, run out of his small ranch house, which he shares with his wife and infant son. Khan has never studied education and has no teaching credentials. His brief and low-tech videos, created in the corner of his bedroom, are made with a $200 Camtasia Recorder, $80 Wacom Bamboo Tablet and a free copy of SmoothDraw3 on a home PC. But every day, his lectures are viewed 70,000 times - double the entire student body of UC Berkeley. His viewers are diverse, ranging from rural preschoolers to Morgan Stanley analysts to Pakistani engineers. Since its inception in 2006, the Khan Academy website has recorded more than 16 million page views. At a time when conventional education is under stress, his project has caught the attention of educators and venture capitalists such as John Doerr, who just invested $100,000 to help pay Khan's salary. Jason Fried, CEO of tech company 37signals, said he invested in Khan's nonprofit because "the next bubble to burst is higher education. It's too expensive. It's too much one-size-fits-all. This is an alternative way to think about teaching - simple, personal, free and moving at your own pace." With a computer science degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MBA from Harvard, Khan settled into a lucrative position at Sand Hill Road's Wohl Capital Management, while his wife studied medicine at Stanford. Then, his young cousin Nadia started struggling in math. In afternoon long-distance conference calls to Louisiana, Khan taught her "unit conversions" using Yahoo Doodle as a shared notepad. He wrote JavaScripts to generate random algebra problems. Soon Nadia's brothers and other far-flung family members wanted help, too. Frustrated by scheduling tutoring sessions around work, soccer schedules and different time zones, he simply posted his talks on YouTube. "Then somebody searched YouTube for 'greatest common divisor,'" he said with a laugh. Web traffic now soars 10 percent a month. His approach is learn-as-you-go. Students can start anywhere in the curriculum. Stumped? Simply stop the video and repeat. He's off camera and conversational. Lessons are bite-size. The modules offer immediate feedback - what's right, what's wrong. There's conceptual progression. Some lessons - in math, computer science and physics - are spontaneous, as Khan works from memory. Other topics, such as cellular respiration or the Haitian revolution, are more scripted. He immerses himself in material, roaming the aisles of the used bookstore BookBuyers. When stuck on a question, he calls experts. "I just ponder things, until they're clear," he said. So clear that Felix Thibodeau, 11, of Wilmington, N.C., can enjoy math. "I think he rocks. I'm studying pre-algebra and I love it," he said in an e-mail message to the San Jose Mercury News. Saudi dentist Fawaz Sait wrote: "He deserves a Nobel Prize." It's not possible to verify the accuracy of each video. But in their testimonials, students say Khan helped them master the material - particularly math. "I learned more about calculus in the last few hours than in the whole of the last semester at university," said Derek Hoy, majoring in geological science/geophysics at Australia's University of Queensland. "I was almost ready to change majors, because I wasn't understanding a lot of the content but am now up to speed." Khan laughed. "I'm the 'Dear Abby' of math problems. But if you understand something, shouldn't you be able to explain it? Isn't that the whole point?" Online Sal Khan's topics include math, chemistry, physics, biology, finance and history. Several modules cover material in the California Standards Test in Algebra I and II. -- Cecilia Guida Video Vortex Institute of Network Cultures t: +31 (0)20 595 1866 f: +31 (0)20 595 1840 At INC on Wednesdays and Thursdays cecilia at networkcultures.org www.networkcultures.org From geert at xs4all.nl Mon Jun 28 13:36:43 2010 From: geert at xs4all.nl (Geert Lovink) Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 13:36:43 +0200 Subject: deadline video of post-its References: <6db34b0bbd51e8562aeaf3e6f426a6df.squirrel@webmail.xs4all.nl> Message-ID: <9BBBA6DA-80F8-4F9E-831B-DB584A300C68@xs4all.nl> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpWM0FNPZSs From geert at xs4all.nl Mon Jun 28 15:14:31 2010 From: geert at xs4all.nl (Geert Lovink) Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 15:14:31 +0200 Subject: next video vortex conference/festival in amsterdam Message-ID: Dear all, for those who want to book early, apply for travel grants etc. we're now preparing a next Amsterdam event on Friday/Saturday March 11/12 2011, most likely to be held in the Trouw building, here on Wibautstraat. There will be a workshop and a Video Vortex steering committee that Thursday. The conference will be part of our two year SIA/RAAK Publiek Culture Vortex research project that we are doing with a range of (Dutch) partners. The second Video Vortex reader will be out a few weeks/months before that. Writing it down in your diary and contact us (through the list is also good) if you have proposals! Best, Geert From margreet at networkcultures.org Mon Jun 28 15:34:03 2010 From: margreet at networkcultures.org (Margreet Riphagen) Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 15:34:03 +0200 Subject: Fwd: Impakt Works - Residency Program - Call for proposals Sao Paulo and Utrecht References: <20100628132933.8C07A6E15BF@mail.impakt.nl> Message-ID: Begin forwarded message: > From: "Impakt" > Date: 28 juni 2010 15:29:27 GMT+02:00 > To: "" > Subject: Impakt Works - Residency Program - Call for proposals Sao Paulo and Utrecht > > Impakt Works - Residency Program - Call for proposals Sao Paulo and Utrecht > > Impakt WORKS, the media art lab of the Impakt Festival has three openings for residencies: > > 1) Impakt Works residency at MIS (Museo do Imagem I Som) in Sao Paulo, Brazil > Open to artists from the Netherlands > Residency period: November 1st ?December 31st, 2010 > The residency includes: accommodation, a studio, technical facilities, 2000 euro (per diem) > The residency does NOT include traveling expenses (But Impakt can support your funding request for this) > > 2) and 3) Impakt Works residencies at Impakt in Utrecht > Open to international artists and artists from the Netherlands > Residency periods: September 1st ? October 31st, 2010 and November 1st ? 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