Monthly Archives: November 2009

Video Vortex V – Day 2 – Online cinema

By margreet riphagen, November 29, 2009

What will happen to web cinema as we shift from learning to see and how to feel to learning how to participate in this new electronic space of modernity? Andrew Clay is the first speaker in the morning session and talks about web cinema; Mind the Gap! He is lecturing in Critical Technical Practices at [...]
Politics of online video Saturday, November 21, 2009 By Geert...

Video Vortex V – Day 2

By admin, November 23, 2009

Politics of online video Saturday, November 21, 2009 By Geert Lovink In his presentation the Glasgow-based Simon Yuill took us back to the 1980s and the media activism back then: films and videos produced during the miners strike and other riots and actions. This activity in the late 1990s transforms in ‘citizen journalism’. Yuill here [...]

Video Vortex V – Day 1

By sabine, November 23, 2009

System Flaws and Tactics After the opening speech by Bram Crevits (Cimatics) and Geert Lovink (Institute of Network Cultures), the 5th edition of Video Vortex kicked off at the amazing Atomium in Brussels. The first session addressed System Flaws and Tactics. This session was inspired by the inherent errors, disabilities and restrictions of online video [...]
Op woensdag 9 december 2009 vindt in De Balie in...

Dag van de kunstkritiek

By margreet riphagen, November 16, 2009

Op woensdag 9 december 2009 vindt in De Balie in Amsterdam een symposium plaats over de staat van de kunstkritiek. Het symposium bestaat uit twee delen, een middag- en een avondprogramma. Het middagprogramma is gewijd aan de beeldende kunstkritiek, het avondprogramma aan kunstkritiek in bredere zin. Middag: ‘Critics Floating in the Virtual Sphere’ De digitale [...]