Book Launch: Video Vortex Reader II

Rachel Somers Miles and Geert Lovink addressing the authors and audience during the launch of the second Video Vortex reader. Photo by Anne Helmond.

On Saturday, the 12th of March 2011, a few minutes before six, the second Video Vortex reader was being presented to the audience of the sixth edition of the Video Vortex conference. Editors Geert Lovink and Rachel Somers Miles invited the contributors to the second volume, who were present en masse, to celebrate the launch of the book on stage.

Rachel Somers Miles. Photo by Anne Helmond.

Rachel Somers Miles and Video Vortex Reader II Contributors. Photo by Anne Helmond.

Rachel Somers Miles, Video Vortex Reader II Contributors and Geert Lovink. Photo by Anne Helmond.

Video Vortex Reader II contributors. Photo by Anne Helmond.

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

By Miriam Rasch, May 20, 2014

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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 […]