VIDEO VORTEX 10 ISTANBUL – ART, ACTIVISM, ARCHIVES BAU GALATA,...

Call for Participation: Video Vortex #10 in Istanbul, September 19-20, 2014

By Miriam Rasch, May 20, 2014

VIDEO VORTEX 10 ISTANBUL – ART, ACTIVISM, ARCHIVES BAU GALATA, DEPO İSTANBUL AND SALT GALATA 19-20 SEPTEMBER 2014 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION The 10th annual meeting of Video Vortex is to be hosted in Istanbul at three adjacent institutions all involved in this year’s topics: art, activism and archives. The two-day event of workshops, speaker-led sessions, […]

Interview with artist Albert Figurt

By martaburugorri, April 7, 2014

Albert Figurt is an Italian musician and video-maker who constantly tries to understand the way we look at things. Albert has been previously involved in Video Vortex taking part of the conferences in Split and Brussels in which he has always combined theory and performance as a way to creatively approach and express his […]

Cinemagraphs, an animated reality

By martaburugorri, March 11, 2014

In this post I want come back to Cinemagraphs and add some more thoughts about this visual phenomenon located halfway between photography, video and animation. Although Cinemagraphs might seem like a very novel visual case they actually have a lot in common with many of the characteristics of early cinema and animation; they both have […]

Some notes on Luminous Flux exhibition

By martaburugorri, February 26, 2014

Luminous Flux is the current exhibition at Arti et Amicitiae (Amsterdam) where you can see the works of seven London based-artists that focus their artistic practice on the interrelation between video, installation and sculpture. The exhibition proposes a linear walk through the pieces which are located in very spacious and individual rooms (except of […]

Vertical Cinema at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

By martaburugorri, February 11, 2014

Vertical Cinema comes to Amsterdam. The programme, comprising ten new 35mm films for a vertical Cinemascope screen, will be presented at the Stedelijk Museum over four consecutive nights. The screenings will be accompanied by expanded lectures and a workshop on the Synchronator device. Find full information in verticalcinema.org […]

Luminous Flux

By martaburugorri, February 10, 2014

Don’t miss this week the upcoming exhibition Luminous Flux at Arti et Amicitiae. The Private View is on Friday 14 February from 8 – 10. They have also organised a symposium on video art, new media and the changing status of the image after the internet on Sunday 16 February from 2 – 5 […]

Memes for contemplation: cinemagraphs

By martaburugorri, February 7, 2014

Cinemagraphs are ones of those Internet memes that became really popular during 2013, however, they are a very particular case: cinemagraphs are actually posing questions on the boundaries between photography and video and therefore coming up with a very fresh and needed perspective for digital aesthetics . A cinemagraph is something between photography and […]

Trapped in repetition: reflections on GIFs and Peter Land

By martaburugorri, January 30, 2014

In the following posts I will focus on the spread of the video loop in our social networks, but in this post specifically I would like to look at one of the digital image formats that have gained a lot of popularity during the last two years; the GIF. TheGraphics InterchangeFormat is a bitmap […]

Ursula Endlicher is a New York based artist that...

Interview with artist Ursula Endlicher

By martaburugorri, January 20, 2014

Ursula Endlicher is a New York based artist that works in the intersection between Internet, performance and multimedia. She is well-known for translating HTML language into movement in the form of choreographies although she is generally interested in the new and possible ways of interpreting media systems and data. Ursula sees the World Wide […]

Erica Scourti is a London based artist who creates visual...

Interview with artist Erica Scourti

By martaburugorri, January 10, 2014

Erica Scourti is a London based artist who creates visual art projects mainly consisting of performative actions and audiovisual pieces that deal with the notion of self-mediation. She  explores the subject’s construction in the networked regime by means of looking into the not visible structures of the World Wide Web.  As a result, she is […]