On October 10-11 2008, Bilkent University Department of Communication and Design, in cooperation with the Institute of Network Cultures, will organize the 3rd Video Vortex event in Ankara, Turkey. Video Vortex 3 Ankara Edition will feature a two-day international conference, an evening program, live performances and a new media art exhibition. The program will be available soon at http://std.comd.bilkent.edu.tr/videovortex/
Themes of Video Vortex 3 Ankara Edition will be: Navigating the database, p2p, art online, visual art, innovative art, participatory culture, social networking, political economy, collaboration and new production models, censorship, YouTube, collective memory, cinematic and online aesthetics.
Video Vortex 3 Ankara Edition is an extension of the Video Vortex project by the Institute of Network Cultures in Amsterdam. Video Vortex Ankara is a follow-up to the Amsterdam conference, held in January 2008, and the Brussels conference, held in October 2007. It aims to continue and deepen the debates, while bringing together a wide range of scholars, artists and curators as well as lawyers, producers and engineers.
N.B. in October the Institute of Network Cultures will launch the Video Vortex Reader, edited by Geert Lovink and Sabine Niederer.
Please see the Video Vortex project site https://www.networkcultures.org/videovortex for more information about previous editions, as well as the Video Vortex discussion list. Information about subscription to this list can be found at http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/videovortex_listcultures.org. The Video Vortex 3 Ankara Edition website and blog, containing the latest information, is online at http://std.comd.bilkent.edu.tr/videovortex/.
For inquiries regarding participation, contribution or submission of related works, please check the call for participation.