From minx at bway.net Wed Sep 1 00:12:05 2010 From: minx at bway.net (Perry Bard) Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 18:12:05 -0400 Subject: crowd sourced rebuilding of star wars wins emmy Message-ID: <4158DEC3-C698-499B-A666-DD195B62AEB7@bway.net> www.nytimes.com/2010/08/28/arts/television/28uncut.html? _r=1&scp=1&sq=an emmy for rebuilding a galaxy&st=cse http://www.perrybard.net http://dziga.perrybard.net From geert at xs4all.nl Thu Sep 2 09:04:01 2010 From: geert at xs4all.nl (Geert Lovink) Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 09:04:01 +0200 Subject: Video Vortex Amsterdam 2011 - Session Ideas Feedback In-Reply-To: <256D6F2C-9191-4628-8564-5708D1D2CF50@networkcultures.org> References: <256D6F2C-9191-4628-8564-5708D1D2CF50@networkcultures.org> Message-ID: <6E3919F8-3451-47B4-BCA9-F25D4EF96387@xs4all.nl> Dear all, because of the holidays maybe you missed this email. We're all back at INC and start to prepare now for the next VV event in Amsterdam on March 11/12. If you have ideas for lecturers, good speakers, material that we should screen or exbihit, let us know. Next Wednesday, September 8, we have a meeting about this, here at INC. Below we have proposed six broad themes that we want to work further over the next months. What do you think we should discuss in Amsterdam? Please send your responses to the list! Best, Geert On 22 Jul 2010, at 3:04 PM, Rachel Somers Miles wrote: > Dear All, > > Here at the Institute of Network Cultures we?re starting the > planning for the big Video Vortex event here in Amsterdam next March > 11-12, 2011, held at TrouwAmsterdam. The event will consist of a > conference, an exhibition, parties (of course), workshops, > screenings and so on. > > We?ve started to draft a preliminary template of session themes and > rough session titles for the conference, and wanted to ask for your > input. What do you, the Video Vortex community think? > > Do you think the proposed sessions are interesting approaches? > Do you find something less interesting or important? > Is there something crucial missing? What is urgent/emerging and > should be discussed? > > The official call for contributions, with a more detailed > explanation of sessions, for the conference will be going out mid- > September, but we wanted to get input from the Video Vortex list/ > community on these tentative session themes before posting it. > > To get the conversation going, reply to the Video Vortex listserv > > Also take a look at the new face of the Video Vortex blog. > > Looking forward to your responses, > All the best, > Video Vortex Amsterdam 2011 Team > > _______ > > PROPOSED SESSIONS > > 1. Open Everything: > What is the current state of the art of open source, open content, > open video, open and alternative platforms, etc. with respect to > online video practices? What issues are faced, tackled, arrived at, > explored, remedied when considering, and working with open > practices? This session will be concerned with both editing software > and delivery systems, codecs, hardware, platforms and issues of open > video itself. > > 2. Youtube as Archive or the Question of Dynamic Database vs. > Static Collection: > With a massive and diverse assortment of videos, is Youtube indeed > an archive, or is it something else? If it is an archive, what in > fact is it an archive of; is it a collection of videos, or an > archive that represents little vignettes of cultural interest, > whether memes, historic moments, tv show clips etc.? And is anyone > archiving Youtube? > > How are Youtube and other sorts of online video collections (whether > institutionally owned or not) understood, practiced, used, designed, > and reflected upon in terms of the opposition between the dynamic > database and the static collection? And does such a stringent > opposition actually exist? In the context of Youtube as a > potentially dynamic database and a place of heavy social commentary > and participation, is there interesting theory around the usefulness > of creating channels on Youtube? How are people using the video > lists they create, and what can been gleaned from this? How does all > of this relate to the era of comment culture? > > 3. Beyond Keen and Lanier: Critique of the Amateur: > This session seeks to deal with some of the following questions: > Is the era of appropriation over ? is remix just a deadly boring > routine rather than a creative source of inspiration? Are we beyond > remix? What is next? A return to a true and pure 'authentic' image > culture? > > Are the amateur and professional indeed in competition in the realm > of online video? What should the role of art education be to > overcome and understand the barrage of amateur work that is easily > created, shared and presented? What kind of art literacy is > required, how are art education institutions dealing with this, or > are they, and what kind of language exists to discuss a separation > between the amateur and the professional artist, and is this > required? Are there art education institutions discussing the > production of video for online purposes, and if so, what kinds of > issues are tackled, and technical training offered? > > The professional world of advertisement has fully integrated itself > with the amateur approach, such as playing with remix culture and > invoking a feeling of rawness. Should we aim for professional > standards that really engage with the world of online video that > don?t just build on professional standards of television and film ? > and what would these be ? is it indeed the interactive capabilities > of online video that make these professional structures different > from those of tv and film? What techniques, structures, genres etc. > exist in the professional realm of online video, compared to those > of the amateur? > > 4. Video Activism Online: > Examples and explorations of online video as a form of activism, > including both online portals and platforms that offer a space to > post important human rights issue videos for example, and the ways > that people in various locations around the world are using video as > a tactical tool for political mobilization. This will consider both > those that use video as a form of grassroots activism, and the ways > in which authoritative powers, such as the police, understand and > use video against activist actions. Furthermore, this session will > explore the ethics of online video in the context of considering the > issues and implications related to posting and making certain kinds > of video material available online. > > 5. Big Players in the Game of Online Video: > This session will examine the big players in the world of online > video. How are corporations and governments using online video? For > example, what kind of surreptitious practices like impersonating > grassroots organizations and guerrilla marketing are companies > adopting for commercial purposes, appropriating and making use of > the possibilities of online video and its easily viral nature? How > are governments and officials turning to, and using, online video > etc.? > > 6. Artist Perspectives: > What?s currently on the minds of artists making use of, or engaging > with, online video? What kinds of issues are they dealing with and > what kind of work is being made? This session is also interested in > exploring how professional artists understand their position in > relation to the expansive amount of amateur work being created and > presented via online video and remix culture. > > ----- > > 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 rachel at networkcultures.org Thu Sep 2 11:38:04 2010 From: rachel at networkcultures.org (Rachel Somers Miles) Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 11:38:04 +0200 Subject: YOUTUBE AS A SUBJECT: Interview with Constant Dullaart Message-ID: <6F2AAC5C-50B5-451D-A830-A25E35FE7145@networkcultures.org> Dear Video Vortex community, check out the beginnings of this great interview with artist Constant Dullaart. The interview was conducted by Cecilia Guida, and will be continued in the upcoming second Video Vortex reader. Read the interview here: http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/videovortex/archives/690 Also, take a look at the newly made-over Video Vortex site: http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/videovortex/ Hope everyone is well, Rachel -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From adrian.miles at rmit.edu.au Fri Sep 3 02:02:34 2010 From: adrian.miles at rmit.edu.au (Adrian Miles) Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2010 10:02:34 +1000 Subject: Video Vortex Amsterdam 2011 - Session Ideas Feedback In-Reply-To: <6E3919F8-3451-47B4-BCA9-F25D4EF96387@xs4all.nl> References: <256D6F2C-9191-4628-8564-5708D1D2CF50@networkcultures.org> <6E3919F8-3451-47B4-BCA9-F25D4EF96387@xs4all.nl> Message-ID: hi all my personal interests: would be interested in discussion/panel/theme around any/either/all: 1. documentary and online video practice. Just something with stronger connection to previous genre/form/practices. The rise of informal video making (like blogging before it) has strong connections in relation to some forms of personal documentary. What are they? And what might this mode of making contribute to new documentary forms or practices? 2. online video and new narratives The majority of video online is still a) treating video as a single whole object and b) linear. As far as I know we still haven't even really managed something like Flickr's squaredcircle or something with the density of connections that a decent blog manages. Why not? Is this a problem of video in itself so video will always be 'book like' (bounded and relatively closed in itself) is this is just the hegemony of heritage media? an appropriate closing Adrian Miles School of Media and Communication Program Director B.Comm Honours vogmae.net.au On 2 September 2010 17:04, Geert Lovink wrote: > If you have ideas for lecturers, good speakers, material that we should > screen or exbihit, let us know. > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ghh at thing.net Fri Sep 3 14:32:04 2010 From: ghh at thing.net (G.H. Hovagimyan) Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2010 08:32:04 -0400 Subject: videovortex Digest, Vol 45, Issue 2 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <3E1DB5B1-C932-4694-BAC6-DEFA8AA8F3E5@thing.net> Hi All, My artists collaborative Artists Meeting Have been doing a series of curated you tube events. Theve have bee very successful We've done these in Hereford England for the Static 3 festival, In Germany at the Dokfest in Kassel, and several times at Postmasters Gallery in New York. The group pick a theme and then everyone chooses videos. There are 14 members in the group so the range is quite interesting. We then have two people curate the results to make a concise program. We also have an open bar so that people can socialize. Barbara London, the video curator from MoMA remarked that the vent was the freshest thing she'd seen in a long time. We've also used you3b that was created by Jeff Krouse from Eyebeam here in New York. you3b is a tool to create youTube tryptychs. We consider these events and the use of youTube video to be a digital *objet-trouv?* You can see some documentation here -- We would be able to come to Amsterdam and do a youTube party and a talk about Artists Meeting if that makes sense for you all. /gh On Sep 2, 2010, at 6:00 AM, videovortex-request at listcultures.org wrote: > > G.H. Hovagimyan http://nujus.net/~gh http://artistsmeeting.org http://turbulence.org/Works/plazaville From info at vitocampanelli.it Sat Sep 4 20:46:33 2010 From: info at vitocampanelli.it (Vito Campanelli) Date: Sat, 04 Sep 2010 20:46:33 +0200 Subject: Video Vortex Amsterdam 2011 - Session Ideas Feedback In-Reply-To: <6E3919F8-3451-47B4-BCA9-F25D4EF96387@xs4all.nl> References: <256D6F2C-9191-4628-8564-5708D1D2CF50@networkcultures.org> <6E3919F8-3451-47B4-BCA9-F25D4EF96387@xs4all.nl> Message-ID: <4C829409.7060602@vitocampanelli.it> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ironicmuse at gmail.com Sun Sep 5 06:23:58 2010 From: ironicmuse at gmail.com (Jennifer Chan) Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2010 00:23:58 -0400 Subject: videovortex Digest, Vol 45, Issue 5 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <32E8C10E-989C-444E-AC9C-CEFB192ACBDD@gmail.com> 1. Re: videovortex Digest, Vol 45, Issue 2 (G.H. Hovagimyan) Hi all, I'm an artist, curator and scholar of video art from Toronto/Syracuse. I have curated at both artist run centres and alternative exhibition spaces in Toronto. I am interested in ideas of contexts and methods of how to present online videos in real space as well as how people/communities curate videos in the virtual realm. I recently curated a mashup of Internet videos that was installed in an apartment gallery. www.butchergallery.com/video2.html I am interested in "2. Youtube as Archive or the Question of Dynamic Database vs. > Static Collection:" "3. Beyond Keen and Lanier: Critique of the Amateur:" "4. Video Activism" and "6.Artist Perspective" Perhaps this is a bit of a dead horse but I am always thinking of new ways/sites (real/virtual) to curate online video or net art, and strategies to get institutional support/ funding for it as many festivals feel as if these videos are not as valuable if the text is already on the Web. I do believe that YouTube videos should be archived as on a few occasions my videos or my friends' ones have been unreasonably removed. As a video artist I am informed by viral and amateur aesthetics. I am interested in emerging and transgressive uses of technology (video and new media), and do research on the underbelly of the Internet (efukt, 4chan) and the limits of expression on YouTube. I'd be thrilled to talk about this and will be presenting a seminar on antisocial online video at the Open Video Conference coming October. I'm concerned about what it means to watch and produce these base things on the Web. Anyone interested in a session on ethics and individuality, or a sampling of trash? With respect to Video Activism, I'm sure there's to say about this as I'm from Toronto and most of my peers only understood the severe breach of civil rights due to videos of G20... All best, Jennifer Chan http://www.jennifer-chan.com On 2010-09-04, 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. Re: videovortex Digest, Vol 45, Issue 2 (G.H. Hovagimyan) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2010 08:32:04 -0400 > From: "G.H. Hovagimyan" > Subject: Re: videovortex Digest, Vol 45, Issue 2 > To: videovortex at listcultures.org > Message-ID: <3E1DB5B1-C932-4694-BAC6-DEFA8AA8F3E5 at thing.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed; delsp=yes > > Hi All, > My artists collaborative Artists Meeting Have been doing a series of > curated you tube events. Theve have bee very successful We've done > these in Hereford England for the Static 3 festival, In Germany at the > Dokfest in Kassel, and several times at Postmasters Gallery in New > York. The group pick a theme and then everyone chooses videos. There > are 14 members in the group so the range is quite interesting. We > then have two people curate the results to make a concise program. We > also have an open bar so that people can socialize. Barbara London, > the video curator from MoMA remarked that the vent was the freshest > thing she'd seen in a long time. We've also used you3b that was > created by Jeff Krouse from Eyebeam here in New York. you3b is a tool > to create youTube tryptychs. We consider these events and the use of > youTube video to be a digital *objet-trouv?* You can see some > documentation here -- > > We would be able to come to Amsterdam and do a youTube party and a > talk about Artists Meeting if that makes sense for you all. > /gh > > > On Sep 2, 2010, at 6:00 AM, videovortex-request at listcultures.org wrote: > >>> > > G.H. Hovagimyan > http://nujus.net/~gh > http://artistsmeeting.org > http://turbulence.org/Works/plazaville > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > 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 45, Issue 4 > ****************************************** From mbrinkerink at beeldengeluid.nl Tue Sep 7 10:07:37 2010 From: mbrinkerink at beeldengeluid.nl (Maarten Brinkerink) Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2010 10:07:37 +0200 Subject: Video Vortex Amsterdam 2011 - Session Ideas Feedback In-Reply-To: <6E3919F8-3451-47B4-BCA9-F25D4EF96387@xs4all.nl> Message-ID: Dear all, Just a brief reply, since I'm just back from vacation and working through a back catalogue of mail. I particularly like topics 1, 3 and 5. With current developments like HTML5 video vs. Flash, Video on Wikipedia and the current codec wars they seem quite pressing to me for this moment in online video. Not to dismiss the artistic perspective. I would love to contribute to topic 1 by the way. Best, Maarten Op 02-09-10 09:04, Geert Lovink schreef: > Dear all, > > because of the holidays maybe you missed this email. We're all back at > INC and start to prepare now for the next VV event in Amsterdam on > March 11/12. > > If you have ideas for lecturers, good speakers, material that we > should screen or exbihit, let us know. > > Next Wednesday, September 8, we have a meeting about this, here at INC. > > Below we have proposed six broad themes that we want to work further > over the next months. What do you think we should discuss in Amsterdam? > > Please send your responses to the list! > > Best, Geert > > > On 22 Jul 2010, at 3:04 PM, Rachel Somers Miles wrote: > >> Dear All, >> >> Here at the Institute of Network Cultures we?re starting the >> planning for the big Video Vortex event here in Amsterdam next March >> 11-12, 2011, held at TrouwAmsterdam. The event will consist of a >> conference, an exhibition, parties (of course), workshops, >> screenings and so on. >> >> We?ve started to draft a preliminary template of session themes and >> rough session titles for the conference, and wanted to ask for your >> input. What do you, the Video Vortex community think? >> >> Do you think the proposed sessions are interesting approaches? >> Do you find something less interesting or important? >> Is there something crucial missing? What is urgent/emerging and >> should be discussed? >> >> The official call for contributions, with a more detailed >> explanation of sessions, for the conference will be going out mid- >> September, but we wanted to get input from the Video Vortex list/ >> community on these tentative session themes before posting it. >> >> To get the conversation going, reply to the Video Vortex listserv >> >> Also take a look at the new face of the Video Vortex blog. >> >> Looking forward to your responses, >> All the best, >> Video Vortex Amsterdam 2011 Team >> >> _______ >> >> PROPOSED SESSIONS >> >> 1. Open Everything: >> What is the current state of the art of open source, open content, >> open video, open and alternative platforms, etc. with respect to >> online video practices? What issues are faced, tackled, arrived at, >> explored, remedied when considering, and working with open >> practices? This session will be concerned with both editing software >> and delivery systems, codecs, hardware, platforms and issues of open >> video itself. >> >> 2. Youtube as Archive or the Question of Dynamic Database vs. >> Static Collection: >> With a massive and diverse assortment of videos, is Youtube indeed >> an archive, or is it something else? If it is an archive, what in >> fact is it an archive of; is it a collection of videos, or an >> archive that represents little vignettes of cultural interest, >> whether memes, historic moments, tv show clips etc.? And is anyone >> archiving Youtube? >> >> How are Youtube and other sorts of online video collections (whether >> institutionally owned or not) understood, practiced, used, designed, >> and reflected upon in terms of the opposition between the dynamic >> database and the static collection? And does such a stringent >> opposition actually exist? In the context of Youtube as a >> potentially dynamic database and a place of heavy social commentary >> and participation, is there interesting theory around the usefulness >> of creating channels on Youtube? How are people using the video >> lists they create, and what can been gleaned from this? How does all >> of this relate to the era of comment culture? >> >> 3. Beyond Keen and Lanier: Critique of the Amateur: >> This session seeks to deal with some of the following questions: >> Is the era of appropriation over ? is remix just a deadly boring >> routine rather than a creative source of inspiration? Are we beyond >> remix? What is next? A return to a true and pure 'authentic' image >> culture? >> >> Are the amateur and professional indeed in competition in the realm >> of online video? What should the role of art education be to >> overcome and understand the barrage of amateur work that is easily >> created, shared and presented? What kind of art literacy is >> required, how are art education institutions dealing with this, or >> are they, and what kind of language exists to discuss a separation >> between the amateur and the professional artist, and is this >> required? Are there art education institutions discussing the >> production of video for online purposes, and if so, what kinds of >> issues are tackled, and technical training offered? >> >> The professional world of advertisement has fully integrated itself >> with the amateur approach, such as playing with remix culture and >> invoking a feeling of rawness. Should we aim for professional >> standards that really engage with the world of online video that >> don?t just build on professional standards of television and film ? >> and what would these be ? is it indeed the interactive capabilities >> of online video that make these professional structures different >> from those of tv and film? What techniques, structures, genres etc. >> exist in the professional realm of online video, compared to those >> of the amateur? >> >> 4. Video Activism Online: >> Examples and explorations of online video as a form of activism, >> including both online portals and platforms that offer a space to >> post important human rights issue videos for example, and the ways >> that people in various locations around the world are using video as >> a tactical tool for political mobilization. This will consider both >> those that use video as a form of grassroots activism, and the ways >> in which authoritative powers, such as the police, understand and >> use video against activist actions. Furthermore, this session will >> explore the ethics of online video in the context of considering the >> issues and implications related to posting and making certain kinds >> of video material available online. >> >> 5. Big Players in the Game of Online Video: >> This session will examine the big players in the world of online >> video. How are corporations and governments using online video? For >> example, what kind of surreptitious practices like impersonating >> grassroots organizations and guerrilla marketing are companies >> adopting for commercial purposes, appropriating and making use of >> the possibilities of online video and its easily viral nature? How >> are governments and officials turning to, and using, online video >> etc.? >> >> 6. Artist Perspectives: >> What?s currently on the minds of artists making use of, or engaging >> with, online video? What kinds of issues are they dealing with and >> what kind of work is being made? This session is also interested in >> exploring how professional artists understand their position in >> relation to the expansive amount of amateur work being created and >> presented via online video and remix culture. >> >> ----- >> >> 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 > > > ----- > > 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 sabine at networkcultures.org Wed Sep 8 12:18:04 2010 From: sabine at networkcultures.org (Sabine Niederer) Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 12:18:04 +0200 Subject: Impakt Channel online References: <20100907215434.927A27ED522@mail.impakt.nl> Message-ID: <5087009D-EBB5-4B1F-8BD5-0A25196A6D7D@networkcultures.org> > Impakt Channel, our brand new online database of video and audio art, is open to the public. The intention of Impakt Channel is to host a wide variety of qualitative video and audio works produced by artists around the world. Many of these works were only displayed in galleries, museums or public screenings, but from now on they can also be viewed online anywhere at anytime. > > We currently host six works selected from our Impakt Festival 2009 programme including works from Doug Fishbone, Reynold Reynolds, Clorinde Durand, Manuel Saiz, Witte van Hulzen & Sander Breure, and Erikka Nissinen. In the future the plan is to expand the Impakt Channel database with old and new artworks from famous and less famous artists that have been shown before on the Impakt Festival or the Impakt Events. > > Impakt Channel makes use of a streaming server to serve the files to your browser and even your mobile phone or iPad! Because Impakt Channel makes use of the new HTML5 standard, we are fully prepared for the future of video streaming. > > Impakt Channel can be visited at the following URL: http://www.impakt.nl/channel > > To unsubscribe or change your subscriptions, click on my subscriptions -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rachel at networkcultures.org Wed Sep 15 14:48:54 2010 From: rachel at networkcultures.org (Rachel Somers Miles) Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 14:48:54 +0200 Subject: Applications for projects in OPEN VIDEO - Jan van Eyck Academie Message-ID: <3D559236-CC27-4F9E-B1C0-7CF9F2AF7BB9@networkcultures.org> Hi everyone, the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, NL has a new project stream in OPEN VIDEO for which projects can be proposed: Application is open now. Deadline October 1st, 2010 scroll down for a description of the OPEN VIDEO project category, amongst other interesting topics. ________________ Jan van Eyck Academie Application deadline 1 October 2010 Jan van Eyck Academie Post-Academic Institute for Research and Production Fine Art, Design, Theory Academieplein 1 6211 KM Maastricht The Netherlands www.janvaneyck.nl The Jan van Eyck Academie is an institute for research and production where artists, designers and theoreticians work alongside each other. The JVE has positions available in the Fine Art and Design Departments for the next academic year, starting on 1 January 2011. Artists are invited to submit proposals for individual research projects; designers to propose projects for one of the new initiatives started by the department. On 17 and 18 September, all Design projects will be presented at BETWEEN #1: BORDERS More info: www.janvaneyck.nl FINE ART The Fine Art department offers a unique space for experimentation, production, reflection and debate. Researchers conduct their artistic research in an environment that encourages questioning of the assumptions, forms, meanings and contexts that are tied to the practice of making art today. The Fine Art department welcome artists, individuals and groups, without stipulating conditions regarding form, content and media. Artistic practice is supported by a programme of events and sustained conversations organised by the (advising) researchers. The academy offers expertise in all media and production areas, in-house or in cooperation with partner organisations, and encourages publishing through the Jan van Eyck publication series. The Fine Art Department is headed by advising researchers Hans- Christian Dany, Imogen Stidworthy and Nasrin Tabatabai & Babak Afrassiabi. DESIGN The Design Department is planning to start the following new research initiatives: FORBIDDEN CITY Strijp-S is an urban development plan that tries to turn the 66-acres of the former Philips factory in Eindhoven from a 'Forbidden City' into a ' Creative City with an unequalled character'. The project is a visual research into new divisions of labour that emerge when heavy industries and mass-production are replaced by what is coined as cognitive, immaterial or affective labour. The project calls for designers, urbanists, video- and filmmakers. Advising researcher: Florian Schneider *LATENT STARE* Exploring the practice, methods and messages of type-design, *Latent stare* proposes a gathering and study of selected typefaces and stories, from the 1900s onwards ? when technology had accelerated, and begun to affect, the production and distribution of new types. The selected material is affiliated to a political, social or spiritual set of beliefs, which feed back into the typefaces creation, design and/or use. Advising researcher: David Bennewith NEUTRALITY_Polity and Space in the Post-Eurocentric City Researches the modalities and substances that contemporary practices of neutrality give rise to and contribute in sustaining. The project will outline innovative paths towards design agency and creativity and analyses forms of transformation and control of contemporary space. Advising researcher: John Palmesino OPEN VIDEO HTML5 is supposed to open a new chapter in web design and web-based publishing. Open Video will research into past and present open-source video implementations to develop an independent platform that explores the specific potentials of self-authored and self-managed, open-source video publishing initiatives against the backdrop of the overwhelming dominance of mass-media like content providers. The project calls for code developers, web designers and digital content producers. Advising researcher: Florian Schneider REMOTE SENSING_Biopolitical Imagery Investigates how new remote-sensing technologies are shaping and carving contemporary spaces of operation and sovereignty, and focuses on the agency that these new technologies elicit and entail. The project singles out a series of contemporary situations and traces the complex links and exchanges between the production of new images through remote sensing and the outline of new legal and governmental issues. The project calls for data visualisation designers, interaction designers, urbanists, architects, photographers, video and filmmakers. Advising researchers: John Palmesino and Florian Schneider The Design Department is currently headed by advising researchers John Palmesino, Florian Schneider and Daniel van der Velden. 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URL: From geert at xs4all.nl Thu Sep 16 18:36:06 2010 From: geert at xs4all.nl (Geert Lovink) Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 18:36:06 +0200 Subject: CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS: Video Vortex Amsterdam - March 11-12, 2011 Message-ID: <87208862-3E8E-43F7-9BFC-5C908E921B5A@xs4all.nl> CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS: Video Vortex Amsterdam - March 11-12, 2011 Video Vortex is coming back to Amsterdam! Having contributed to the dialogue about the ever increasing potential or online video through five international events since 2007, the publication of the Video Vortex Reader and the current production of a second one, the Institute of Network Cultures will host Video Vortex #6 on March 11-12, 2011. Video Vortex #6 will include a conference, artist presentations (talks/ performances/exhibition) and hands-on workshops. WE INVITE Internet, visual culture and media scholars, researchers, artists, curators, producers, lawyers, engineers, open-source and open-content advocates, activists, and others to submit abstracts, preferably within the themes listed below. SUBMIT PROPOSAL + BIO Please send an abstract of a maximum 500 words outlining your proposed talk, and a short biography of a maximum 200 words. SEND TO: rachel(at)networkcultures(dot)org DEADLINE: Monday, October 11, 2010. MORE INFORMATION Video Vortex: http://www.networkcultures.org/videovortex/ Institute of Network Cultures: http://www.networkcultures.org Sign up for Video Vortex Discussion list here: http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/videovortex/discussion-list Or email: rachel(at)networkcultures(dot)org __________________________ VIDEO VORTEX #6 THEMES - Open Everything and the Challenge of Cash What is the ultimate open video? What are the new ways to produce and distribute online video as open? And what are the limits of openness online? Why would you share your content or code, what?s in it for you? What are the key economic questions for video start-ups? How can they combine a culture of openness and sharing, while attending to the need to generate income in order to keep producing and pay the rent? What are some of the examples of best practice: what are they, who are they, where are they? Does government policy have a role, or should it be left up to the uneven geography of informational peers to generate new protocols for content distribution? - From Dead Collection to Dynamic Database Now that museums, distributors and TV channels have put their collections online, what is the next phase for these digitalized public archives? How can ?the audience? be involved, in order to avoid a dead online collection with zero comments? Moreover, what forms of social dynamism can be critically forged in the default rush towards greater participation? Who controls the database, and is there a role for designers in developing database aesthetics? How to jump through the hoops of copyright legislation, format compatibility and the spatial culture of consumption and production? Once collaboration comes into play, what impact do conflicting skill sets, different modes of knowledge production and varying social desires have? - Attack Amateur Aesthetics! This theme seeks to tackle the tenuous relationship between amateur and professional video production, particularly with respect to the question of ?quality?. Have amateur and professional video grown closer or are they still in competition? Given Andrew Keen?s and Jaron Lanier?s critiques of amateur content, is it possible for the quality of video to be improved? How can cultural value or worth be understood in this expansive realm of video? What aesthetics, techniques, genres, structures, and so on, exist in the professional realm of online video, compared to the amateur? Now that professional advertising campaigns seek that ?raw? amateur look, and the amateur experimentation tries to produce high quality produced work, what should professional education in this field be aimed at? - Art and Activism What are the political and artistic strategies of online video? Are there powerful platforms available for videos in the realm of art and activism? How do artists and activists deal with and reflect on the nature of online video, with its guerrilla, amateur, viral, remix and lo-fi characteristics? How is online video being used as a (grassroots) political tool, and conversely the ways in which authoritative powers understand and use video against activist actions? What are the new ways of launching political content effectively when everything aims to be viral? And where is the radical and artistic answer to TED Talks? - Big Players and the Politics of Appropriation Who are the big players in the world of online video? How are corporations and governments using online video? What kind of guerrilla marketing strategies are companies adopting, appropriating amateur aesthetics and making use of the possibilities of online video for its easily viral nature? How are cinema and television companies dealing with the large-scale use of online and mobile video? And how to respond to the rise of 'national webs' and the new enclosures of the cable/telecom packages and TV set-top boxes? - Platforms, Standards and the Trouble with Translation This theme seeks to draw forth experts who will offer strong interventions regarding various platforms and channels proliferating on the internet that contribute to the ecology and culture of online video. These include, but are not limited to: Skype, streaming video technologies, Foursquare, Seesmic, Qik video, Netflix, immediate news channels online etc. The theme focuses on the problem of the translations across platforms that arise to due to conflicts in standards. The geo-cultural, and often the national, limits to open sharing of online content are also significant. How do users and producers get around the limits of these borders? How do they work under the radar or tunnel through the firewall in the face of censorship and content control? Or do people simply submit to the powers that be? ______________________________ Video Vortex 6 is organized as part of Culture Vortex, a research and innovation program on public participation in online cultural collections, organized by the INC and partners MediaLAB Amsterdam, Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid, Netherlands Media Art Institute, Virtual Platform, and VPRO, and five participating cultural organizations. Culture Vortex is funded by RAAK-Public program and the Innovation Alliance Foundation. More info: http://www.networkcultures.org/culturevortex/ From minx at bway.net Sat Sep 18 21:03:16 2010 From: minx at bway.net (Perry Bard) Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 15:03:16 -0400 Subject: Man With A Movie Camera:The Global Remake Fall news Message-ID: More news for MWAMC Best Perry an essay on MWAMC here http://www.ejumpcut.org/currentissue/FeldmanVertov/index.html Toronto Film Festival September 9 - 19 2010 in the program Future Projections http://tiff.net/ Wikitopia Hong Kong September 11-19 2010 http://videotage.org.hk/wikitopia/?p=608 International Festival of Contemporary Arts - City of Women Ljubljana, 10- 19th of October 2006 Share Festival Torino November 2-7 2010 - where it is nominated for an award http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/2010/08/torinos-share-festival-2010/ The work won Honorary Mention for the Liedts-Meesen FoundationTechnological Award exhibition at Zebrastraat Ghent April 17 - June 20 http://www.perrybard.net http://dziga.perrybard.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The first issue features a varied and interesting selection of academic videos on the topic of What is Academic Video? Please visit the journal on www.audiovisulathinking.org or contact the editors: inges at hum.ku.dk The second Call for Videos about Rights and Wrongs in the Digital Age is now also open. _______________________________________________ The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ ------ Einde van doorgestuurd bericht From margreet at networkcultures.org Wed Sep 22 20:09:08 2010 From: margreet at networkcultures.org (Margreet Riphagen) Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 20:09:08 +0200 Subject: 100 GREATEST HITS OF YOUTUBE IN 4 MINUTES Message-ID: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGOIzsNZaPQ to bad, the music is not really my taste... -- ADDRESS: Institute of Network Cultures HvA Interactive Media, room 05A07 Rhijnspoorplein 1 NL-1091 GC Amsterdam POSTAL ADDRESS Institute of Network Cultures HvA Interactive Media, room 05A07 PO BOX 1025 NL-1000 BA Amsterdam http://www.networkcultures.org t: +31 20 5951866 f: +31 20 5951840 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From rachel at networkcultures.org Wed Sep 29 15:05:52 2010 From: rachel at networkcultures.org (Rachel Somers Miles) Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 15:05:52 +0200 Subject: Platforms, Standards and the Trouble with Translation session - Video Vortex 6, Amsterdam Message-ID: Dear Video Vortex community, *Are you an expert of the ins and outs of various online video platforms, applications, technologies etc.? *Are you well-versed and interested in presenting about Skype, Chatroulette, online video streaming, Foursquare, Seesmic, Netflix, and immediate online news channels, just to name a few. *Are you active in exploring and discussing the problem of translation that exists across these platforms, to name but one example. *Are you interested in contributing to a critical conversation that continues to expand the exploration of online video beyond Youtube? ********* As most of you know, the INC recently put out a call for the upcoming Video Vortex 6, Amsterdam event on March 11 & 12, 2011. While we've been receiving some really interesting proposals for talks, and the deadline for abstracts is not until October 11th, 2010, we're currently on an active hunt for people to contribute to the session: 'Platforms, Standards and the Trouble with Translation.' as described in the call: This theme seeks to draw forth experts who will offer strong interventions regarding various platforms and channels proliferating on the internet that contribute to the ecology and culture of online video. These include, but are not limited to: Skype, Chatroulette, streaming video technologies, Foursquare, Seesmic, Qik video, Netflix, immediate news channels online etc. The theme focuses on the problem of the translations across platforms that arise to due to conflicts in standards. The geo-cultural, and often the national, limits to open sharing of online content are also significant. How do users and producers get around the limits of these borders? How do they work under the radar or tunnel through the firewall in the face of censorship and content control? Or do people simply submit to the powers that be? ********** If you are interested in offering an abstract, please check out the original call here, for the submission format. If you know of anyone you think could offer a great contribution, send us ideas to rachel(at)networkcultures(dot)org and pass along the message! Abstract Deadline: October 11, 2010. And of course, we're still interested in receiving proposals for the other sessions, so check out the original call, and send us your abstracts! Looking forward to hearing from you. Rachel -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From and at engagemedia.org Thu Sep 30 03:48:59 2010 From: and at engagemedia.org (And) Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 21:48:59 -0400 Subject: Platforms, Standards and the Trouble with Translation session - Video Vortex 6, Amsterdam In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4CA3EC8B.1080703@engagemedia.org> Hi there, interesting timing. I'm at an event in NYC today and tomorrow about this exact topic. You might want to have a look around the wiki. http://subsummit.universalsubtitles.org/index.php?title=Main_Page http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23subsummit Cheers And. On 29/09/10 9:05 AM, Rachel Somers Miles wrote: > > Dear Video Vortex community, > > *Are you an expert of the ins and outs of various online video > platforms, applications, technologies etc.? > > *Are you well-versed and interested in presenting about Skype, > Chatroulette, online video streaming, Foursquare, Seesmic, Netflix, > and immediate online news channels, just to name a few. > > *Are you active in exploring and discussing the problem of translation > that exists across these platforms, to name but one example. > > *Are you interested in contributing to a critical conversation that > continues to expand the exploration of online video beyond Youtube? > > ********* > > As most of you know, the INC recently put out a call for the upcoming > Video Vortex 6, Amsterdam > event on > March 11 & 12, 2011. > > While we've been receiving some really interesting proposals for > talks, and the deadline for abstracts is not until October 11th, 2010, > we're currently on an active hunt for people to contribute to the session: > > 'Platforms, Standards and the Trouble with Translation.' > > as described in the call: > > This theme seeks to draw forth experts who will offer strong > interventions regarding various platforms and channels proliferating > on the internet that contribute to the ecology and culture of online > video. These include, but are not limited to: Skype, Chatroulette, > streaming video technologies, Foursquare, Seesmic, Qik video, Netflix, > immediate news channels online etc. The theme focuses on the problem > of the translations across platforms that arise to due to conflicts in > standards. The geo-cultural, and often the national, limits to open > sharing of online content are also significant. How do users and > producers get around the limits of these borders? How do they work > under the radar or tunnel through the firewall in the face of > censorship and content control? Or do people simply submit to the > powers that be? > > ********** > > If you are interested in offering an abstract, please check out the > original call here > , for the > submission format. > > If you know of anyone you think could offer a great contribution, send > us ideas to rachel(at)networkcultures(dot)org and pass along the message! > > Abstract Deadline: October 11, 2010. > > And of course, we're still interested in receiving proposals for the > other sessions, so check out the original call > , and send > us your abstracts! > > Looking forward to hearing from you. > > Rachel > > > > ----- > > 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 seth.keen at rmit.edu.au Thu Sep 30 05:54:51 2010 From: seth.keen at rmit.edu.au (Seth Keen) Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 13:54:51 +1000 Subject: Video and Participatory Cultures: Writing, Rhetoric, Performance, and the Tube Message-ID: <744C2B67-2CB3-42AA-9800-4DEE0E56DED9@rmit.edu.au> http://enculturation.gmu.edu/Video-and-Participatory-Cultures In this special issue of Enculturation, we invited scholars to explore the ubiquity of video and participatory cultures. We started our own investigation into this theme in a panel presentation, ?YouTube U.: Home Video Goes to College? at the Conference on College Composition and Communication in New Orleans in 2008. In our work, we considered the limitations of viewing YouTube merely as a broadcasting platform and argued that YouTube should be regarded within the context of an ever-changing and growing networked ecology. We decided our questions and conclusions might be best extended in an on-line journal setting like Enculturation, especially as possible contributors could link to and engage with examples of video directly. best Seth Keen --- Lecturer, Media School of Media and Communication RMIT University office: 9.4.43 (city campus) tel: (61 3) 9925 3017 sethkeen.net/blog -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From minx at bway.net Thu Sep 30 23:53:42 2010 From: minx at bway.net (Perry Bard) Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 17:53:42 -0400 Subject: http://www.onedayonearth.org/ Message-ID: http://www.perrybard.net http://dziga.perrybard.net