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.
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.
Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam.
video vortex exhibition I, 20-10-2007 until 02-12-2007
The exhibition video vortex I is the Netherlands Media Art Institute’s response to the Web2.0 phenomenon. Web2.0 stands for power to the user and democracy for everyone. It has led to innovative forms of media use in which an open and playful collaboration can lead to critical positions and new ideas.
The Netherlands Media Art Institute seizes upon these developments with a new exhibition model. Stimulation and participation within network environments is the point of departure. In addition to presenting existing installations, short workshops and presentations are given every day. In some cases the artworks form the starting point for a workshop, while in other cases the medium used is the subject of a workshop. Collective experience and building shared knowledge is an important focus in all the projects. In this manner, in the form of continual exchange of ideas, culture can change, renew itself and survive.
The first exhibition opened on Friday, October 19 with a FLOSS Party!!! FLOSS stands for Free/Libre/Open-Source Software. FLOSS Manuals provide instructions for open source software, and, in addition, seek to make sharing informatie about software easier. http://nl.flossmanuals.net/
More information.
