Koen Leurs on the Constitution of Identity by Moroccan-Dutch Youth Through Their Use of YouTube

By serena, March 18, 2011

By Stijnie Thuijs After praising the wonderful lunch that was sure to revitalize the Video Vortex audience, Koen Leurs introduces his topic: the YouTube use of Dutch-Moroccan youth, born in the Netherlands but with natively Moroccan parents. Leurs explains how the right-wing politics in Holland are casting a shadow of negativity on the former immigrants [...]

Video Vortex #6 Beyond Youtube Conference

By leditup, March 17, 2011

Last Friday Led It Up attended the Video Vortex #6 conference @ Trouw. The entire day was about different elements of the online video ‘vortex’ we live in these days. Various speakers showed examples of projects they were involved in and we learned a bit more about online video art, open source, platforms and aesthetics. [...]

Pinkpop press conference

By leditup, March 16, 2011

We just visited the Pinkpop press conference at Paradiso, where Jan Smeets announced the names of the bands attending the festival in June. Giel Beelen was presenting and opened the afternoon in a nice fashion with the guys from Blaas of Glory. The goal of our visit was to speak to Jan and convince him [...]

Video Vortex #6 workshop .. our WINNING videos

By leditup, March 16, 2011

Last Thursday Led It Up participated in the Video Vortex #6 workshop: Remixing and Re-Use of Open Video Collections. Led by Maarten Brinkerink from Sound & Vision and artsists Emile Zile and José Miguel Biscaya, students and interested creatives used open source material from Open Images to create their own videos. Use of chronological narrative [...]

In Conversation with Natalie Bookchin (part 1)

By Janice Wong, March 15, 2011

(Part 1 of 2) Artist Natalie Bookchin took time to talk to Geert Lovink about online video and her artistic practice at yesterday's Video Vortex #6 in Amsterdam.

In Conversation with Natalie Bookchin (part 2)

By Janice Wong, March 15, 2011

(Part 2 of 2) Artist Natalie Bookchin took time to talk to Geert Lovink about online video and her artistic practice at yesterday's Video Vortex #6 in Amsterdam.

Online Video as a Political Tool: Sam Gregory on Video Activism and Advocacy

By Janice Wong, March 15, 2011

Sam Gregory, program director at WITNESS presented his thoughts on using online video as a political tool at Video Vortex #6 in Amsterdam yesterday.

Led It Up: project update

By leditup, March 15, 2011

After one and a half months participating in the MediaLab things are getting clearer. Our assignment is part of the Culture Vortex project. The aim for this big project is; to encourage public participation in online cultural (heritage) collection. There are different collections of public material but there are not so much ways of online [...]

Goodbye Chris!

By leditup, March 15, 2011

Yesterday we had to say goodbye to our MediaLab manager Chris Boven. It was a nice afternoon @ Canvas with drinks and bitterballen. As a parting gift Chris got a DJ case filled with musicfrom friends and colleagues. Good luck with your new job, Chris!

Arjon Dunnewind: Content with Context

By serena, March 14, 2011

By Stijnie Thuijs Being the festival, artistic and general director of Impakt, Arjon Dunnewind is in charge of a database of art related content for which he has to decide the most appropriate way of uploading to the web. An important factor to take into account, he explains, is that the audience on the web [...]