(Sub)versioning – the contraction of the Situationist ’subversion’ and the common IT practice of ’versioning’ – might best describe the practice of the artists in this session. They approach online video as a means for subtle restructuring of existing popular media and as a basis for investigating new modes of constructing and relating meaning brought about by the Internet.
The first artist is Constant Dullaart (NL) Dullaart. He is an artist and teaches at the Gerrit Rietveld academy, and curates several events in Amsterdam such as the Lost and Found evenings.
Constant shows various work of himself and other artists he admires.
Contemporary semantics, overview of the undermentioned
http://www.constantdullaart.com/cs/
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Chris Coy
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Joel Holmberg (active on nestnet / prosurfers)
http://joelholmberg.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=section&layout=blog&id=5&Itemid=56
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Dennis Kopf – Bootyclipse (2007)
In the summer of 2007, a German rapper and a debutant net artist Dennis Knopf opened a channel on YouTube that he named Bootyclipse. Every video broadcasted on that channel consists of those candid moments, prolonged to 40-60 seconds. Dennis has collected fragments from more than twenty videos where a girl who is going to shake her booty in front of a camera has not appeared in the frame yet, and looped these moments, leaving the music to play in real time.
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Martijn Hendriks, collected only the comments of the video of the hanging of Saddam Hoesein
http://martijnhendriks.com/untitledblackvideo/
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Constant Dullaart
Shows a video of trying how to stabilize a earthquake in China. The first comments were that Constant should not have used a disaster to make a video out of it. Afterwards he received a lot of compliments.
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Harm van den Dorpel
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Second speaker in this session was Albert Figurt (IT) He was born 28 years ago in Italy, where he studied piano, cinema and mass media theories. Before leaving his homeland, he worked as director and screenwriter, both for TV and on independent projects. Ever since the spring of 2007 he lives in Amsterdam, co-operating in theatrical-musical projects and working as a free-lance video editor and filmmaker. He loves to put theory in practice, but also to act theoretically.
Download here the lecture of Albert.
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As last Constant Dullaart shows recently developed own work.
Domain Name Readymades by Constant Dullaart
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Video the disagreeing internet
http://www.thedisagreeinginternet.com/
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With the video mentioned aboven Constant is mentioned in the list as Google hacks, while his video is not really a hack.
On the disagreeing video, there is now also the agreeing internet. Not made by Constant though.
New project: