(updated on May 17, 2009)

VIDEO VORTEX 4 IN SPLIT,
SCHEDULE 21 – 23 May 2009

///DAY ZERO: THURSDAY 21 MAY 2009

17:00 Screenings 1
Location: Kinoteka Zlatna Vrata
Trip – Natalie Bookchin (63 min.)
Q&A – Natalie Bookchin (Los Angeles), (20 min.)

19:00 Opening evening
Location: Multimedia Cultural Center
19:00 Word of Welcome by Geert Lovink, Miranda Veljačić and Dan Oki
19:10 Introduction speech by Lev Manovich (San Diego)
20:00 Exhibition opening with food/buffet
21:00 Emile Zile – Post-It Kino Performance
21: 45 Nenad Vukušić Sebastijan – VJ Performance

///DAY ONE: FRIDAY 22 MAY

Video Vortex Conference
Location: Multimedia Cultural Center

9:45 – 11:30 Tele-Image Research Strategies (Moderator Sabine Niederer)
- Andreas Treske (Ankara)
- Nathalie Bookchin (Los Angeles)
- Dalibor Martinis (Zagreb)
Discussion

COFFEE

11:45 – 13:45 The Database (Moderator Tomislav Medak)
- Maarten Brinkerink (Amsterdam)
- Kuros Yalpani (Munich)
- Albert Figurt (Rome)
- Alejandro Duque (Zurich)
Discussion

LUNCH

14:30 – 16:30 Video Art meets Web Aesthetics (Moderator Leila Topić)
- Vera Tollmann (Berlin)
- Vito Campanelli (Napoli)
- Sarah Késsene (Gent)
- Linda Wallace (Sydney/Amsterdam)
Discussion

BREAK

17:30 – 18:45 Screenings 2
Location: Kinoteka Zlatna Vrata
Shelly Silver – In complete world (53 min.)
Q&A – Shelly Silver (New York), (20 min.)

19:00 CONFERENCE DINNER

21:00 – 22:30 SCREENING 3 (presented by Dagan Cohen)
Location: Kinoteka Zlatna Vrata
Upload Cinema, http://www.uploadcinema.nl, March 2009 Edition ‘Engineering the Body,’ (90 min.).

///DAY TWO: SATURDAY 23 MAY 2009
(First bus to the Conference: 8:45, Second bus to the Conference: 9:00)

Video Vortex Conference
Location: Multimedia Cultural Center

09:45 – 11:45 Online Video Theories (Moderator Geert Lovink)
- Jan Simons (Amsterdam)
- Gabriel Menotti (London)
- Amir Soltani (Manchester)
- Stefan Heidenreich (Berlin)
Discussion

COFFEE

12:00 – 14:00 Online Video Narratives (Moderator Brian Willems)
- Jasmina Kallay (Dublin)
- David Clark (Halifax)
- Valentina Rao (Pisa)
- Paul Wiersbinski (Frankfurt)
Discussion

LUNCH

14:45 – 16:45 Politics of the Moving Image (Moderator Petar Milat)
- Saša Vojković (Zagreb)
- David Teh (Bangkok)
- Ana Peraica (Split)
- Antanas Stancius (Vilnius)
Discussion

COFFEE

17:00 – 18:30 Social Cinema (Moderator Dan Oki)
- Perry Bard (New York)
- Evelin Stermitz (Villach/Ljubljana)
- Dagan Cohen (Amsterdam)
Discussion

19:00 PERFORMANCE
Location: Multimedia Cultural Center
- ‘Cym and the Aethernauts’ (Walkersdorf / All over the world) (performance 30 min.)

20:00 CONFERENCE DINNER

22:00 CONFERENCE PARTY
Location: KOCKA CLUB