October, 1-2, 2010, New York City
The Open Video Alliance is now accepting proposals for panels, presentations, workshop sessions, demo sessions and other programming for the next Open Video Conference.
The Open Video Conference (OVC) is a multi-day summit of thought leaders in business, academia, art, and activism to explore the future of online video not only as free and open technology but also as participatory medium.
The first Open Video Conference was host to over 800 guests, including 150 workshop leaders, panelists and speakers. Over 8,000 viewers tuned in from home to watch the live broadcast. The event earned coverage in WIRED, NewTeeVee, BBC News, Filmmaker Magazine, and The New Yorker.
This year OVC is expanding. In addition to highlighting the industry’s progress toward open video, OVC 2010 will feature inspiring talks, hands-on workshops, technology working groups, film screenings, and much more. It’s as much about the underlying technologies as the people and projects who use them.
Check out the 2009 conference program and confirmed speakers for 2010, or go here for submissions.
On May 1st in the popular website Chatroulette thousands of people watched a man hanging from the ceiling, slowly swinging, for hours and hours. It was not a real suicide but a performance by Brooklyn-based artist Franco Mattes.
Eva and Franco Mattes are already known in the contemporary art world for similar interventions done under the name 0100101110101101.ORG. This time what they wanted to achieve with their challenging ‘online performance’, as they call it, is not clear. ‘Since we live online’ declared Franco Mattes ‘than we should get used to die online’.
The action provoked many and diverse reactions: some laughed – believing it was a joke, some insulted, some took pictures,and apparently, only one called the police.
An interesting discussion on the meaning of a piece of art as such, hyperreality and spectacularization of daily life is followed on this discussion thread on rhizome.org.
To watch ‘No Fun’ go here
Still from online performance No Fun by Eva and Franco Mattes aka 0100101110101101.ORG
http://videoonwikipedia.org
Wouldn’t it be great if a Wikipedia entry could communicate the motion of a pirouette? Or the kinetic buzz of New York City’s Grand Central Terminal? Or even how to blow a raspberry?
Anyone can edit an article on Wikipedia making it a constantly growing and improving resource. But a text article can only convey so much. Right now very few articles have videos.
Video on Wikipedia is a new project combining the technology of video with the open content framework of Wikipedia. Starting now, anyone may experiment with the possibilities of collaborative video, posting it here and contributing to make the free encyclopaedia a more dynamic source of information.
Lots of videos on various topics – from everyday life to science to literature – can already be watched on the site, or on Wikipedia articles where they have been included.
So, what are waiting for?
Go to http://videos.videoonwikipedia.org and look for them!
Like the ‘special features’ commentary on a commercial DVD, the ‘YouTube Commentary Project’ is a curatorial initiative that involves injecting ideas, critique and comments recorded by artists and curators about a YouTube video of their choice. After overlaying the recorded audio onto the video, the results are then uploaded back onto YouTube and presented there.
The project is part of Artists Space’s new WebCast: internet and computer-based cultural content co-produced with artists around the world.
Below the commentary of the independent curator Sofia Hernandez Chong Cuy where she considers YouTube as a research vehicle, fan culture and a newfound Tom Cruise…
So far many interesting commentaries have been published. See them at the Artists Space YouTube channel and enjoy!
