On October 10-11 2008, the third Video Vortex event will take place in Ankara, Turkey, organised by Bilkent University (Department of Communication and Design), in cooperation with the Institute of Network Cultures. The event will feature a two-day international conference, evening program, live performances and new media art exhibition. As a follow-up to the Amsterdam conference, held in January 2008, and the Brussels conference, held in October 2007, Video Vortex Ankara aims to continue and deepen the debates, while bringing together a wide range of scholars, artists and curators as well as lawyers, producers and engineers.

The deadline for submissions is June 15 2008, please find the call for participation here.

We are very pleased to announce that audio and video documentation for all Amsterdam Video Vortex sessions are now available on this website. The files can be found on the Documentation page. Each presentation is available to be viewed individually as a flash video. The Documentation page also contains all presentations as mp3 audio files. These can be played in your Internet browser, or be downloaded. Many thanks again to everyone who helped make Video Vortex a successful event!

Video Vortex Amsterdam has ended. The INC thanks all speakers, audience, funds, crew and technicians for their participation in making it a memorable event!

Video Vortex has been blogged extensively by the tireless Masters of Media bloggers: http://mastersofmedia.hum.uva.nl/

Pictures taken at the event can be found on Flickr, feel free to join the photo pool and upload your own Video Vortex photographs: http://www.flickr.com/groups/videovortex/pool/

Audio and video documentation will become available shortly, please keep an eye on the conference website or join the Video Vortex discussion list, which will be continued after this conference:
http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/videovortex_listcultures.org.

We hope to see you all at future events,
INC and Video Vortex team

Much like poetry slamming the use of short video fragments has become a dominant mode in visual culture. Where are the video files found and how are they used and played with? Is ‘video slamming’ the new way of watching audiovisual files? This evening session is all about the new ways of watching, using, and playing with moving images, such as scratching, sampling, mixing, (meta)tagging and recommending.Presented by Sabine Niederer and Michael Stevenson

20.00 Screenings: YouTube favourites

21.00 Presentations of video databases and VJ software. With Killer TV, Rosa Menkman, Tatiana de la O, and Emile Zile.

21.30 Performances by Rosa Menkman, Tatiana de la O, and Emile Zile.

Today, the Video Vortex conference started at PostCS11. We’ve closed registration, tickets are available at the venue.
Hope to see you there!

The conference is blogged by the Masters of Media at http://mastersofmedia.hum.uva.nl. Conference photography by Anne Helmond: http://www.flickr.com/photos/video_vortex/. Video documentation of the conference will soon be available at http://www.networkcultures.org/archive/.

On Thursday January 17, the Video Vortex vlogging workshop will be hosted by Seth Keen, the Videodefunct Collective and Showinabox at the Netherlands Media Art Institute.

Videodefunct and Showinabox: Hitting vlogging with a hammer
date: Thursday Jan 17 from 12.00 – 17.00
place: Workspace in the Netherlands Media Art Institute, Keizersgracht 264 Amsterdam

A workshop presented in two parts that looks at knocking vlogging into shape and bashing it into oblivion. The videodefunct collective focus on poetic approaches towards the way video is presented and curated by inverting the blog interface. Showinthebox aim to improve vlogging accessibility and aesthetic control with a user-friendly toolkit. Both projects use the open source blogging application WordPress and question whether vlogs need to move beyond the constraints of blogs.

1200 – 1400 Videodefunct (Seth Keen and Keith Deverell)
1400 – 1600 Showinabox (Jay Dedman and Ryanne Hodson)
1600 – 1700 Vlogging panel discussion

more information:
http://www.montevideo.nl
http://www.sethkeen.net/blog/
http://greyspace.com.au/blog/
http://www.videodefunct.net/
http://jaydedman.com
http://ryanedit.blogspot.com
http://ryanishungry.com
http://showinabox.tv/

Please note: Register for the workshop by contacting malka@nimk.nl!

Registration for Video Vortex in PostCS11 in Amsterdam on 18 and 19 January 2008 has started. Day tickets can be obtained for € 25,- (students € 20,-) and passepartouts are available for € 50,- (students € 40,-). Please take a look at the registration page for more information. The content of the conference program can be found here.

Video documentation for all presentations at the Video Vortex Brussels conference on 5 October 2007, can now be found on the Argos blog. Also, the Masters of Media reported on the conference on their blog. Pictures by Rosa Menkman can be found on the Video Vortex Flickr page.

Curator for One Day is part of the Video Vortex exhibition. During the whole period of Video Vortex the Netherlands Media Art Institute is making its whole collection available to the public. Through the Institute’s online catalog one can make a selection from the more than 2000 video works. On the website, fragments of 30 seconds can be viewed of the works, to see the whole work a visit to the mediatheque is necessary. By means of a specially developed interface one can choose a maximum of six video works to be shown on a selected date. The only condition is that a curatorial statement is given for the selection. This statement and the selected video works are then screened as part of the exhibition for one entire day. All the selections will be archived.

To become ‘Curator for One Day’ in the Video Vortex exhibition, visit www.curatorforoneday.nl and follow the instructions:
- Make a selection of 6 works from the collection.
- Add email, name and statement to your selection.
- Choose a date in the calendar shown on your ‘My Show’ page.

The Video Vortex program kicked of with an event in Brussels on October 5 2007, at Argos. The event, titled Video Vortex: Responses to YouTube, included a seminar with presentations by: Geert Lovink (Introduction), Lev Manovich, Adrian Miles, Tomas Rawlings & Ana Kronschnabel, Peter Horvath, Simon Ruschmeyer, Peter Westenberg, Keith Sanborn and Johan Grimonprez, and was moderated by Sabine Niederer. The programme was curated by Stoffel Debuysere. The Masters of Media blogged the event at http://mastersofmedia.hum.uva.nl. Pics taken by Rosa Menkman can be found on the Video Vortex Flickr page.