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!