The Video Vortex #9 flyer is out now

By serenawestra, January 30, 2013

The flyer of the 9th edition of Video Vortex is out now. Re:assemblies of Video will be held between the 28th of February and the 2nd of March 2013 in Lüneburg, Germany

Save the date, Video Vortex #9 Lüneburg

By margreet riphagen, September 12, 2012

http://videovortex9.net/ All too often the (theoretical) discourse on moving images and online video is out of sync with the actual field of video culture and its most current phenomenologies and developments. Therefore we want to gather videos of all shades with the help of “navigators,” people we trust to point out and profile some of [...]

Video Vortex Reader II: moving images beyond YouTube – new INC publication

By rachel, March 8, 2011

Video Vortex Reader II: moving images beyond YouTube About the book: Video Vortex Reader II is the Institute of Network Cultures’ second collection of texts that critically explore the rapidly changing landscape of online video and its use. With the success of YouTube (‘2 billion views per day’) and the rise of other online video sharing [...]

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Video Vortex Reader II: Call for Contributions

By sabine, March 5, 2010

In response to the increasing potential for video as a significant form of personal media on the Internet, the Video Vortex program examines key issues that are emerging around the independent production and distribution of online video content. With the rise of YouTube and alternative platforms, the moving image on the Internet has become expansively [...]

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 [...]

Video Vortex Split pictures

By sabine, May 25, 2009

The INC delegation just got back from the Video Vortex event in beautiful Split, Croatia. A big thank you to the organizers for arranging this fruitful conference and exhibition: Dan Oki, Miranda Veljačić, Toni Mešrović, Dinko Peračić and Sandra Sterle, the Film and Video Dept. of the Acadamy of Arts at the University of Split, [...]

Video Vortex Reader: Responses to YouTube

By margreet riphagen, October 9, 2008

The Institute of Network Cultures proudly presents its fourth reader: Video Vortex Reader: Responses to YouTube To be launched on Friday October 10, 2008, at Video Vortex 3 in Ankara!! http://std.comd.bilkent.edu.tr/videovortex/ The Video Vortex Reader is the first collection of critical texts to deal with the rapidly emerging world of online video – from its [...]