OUT NOW: Emotive Images Educational Toolkit

By Tommaso Campagna, December 21, 2020

Digital visual cultures come with an abundance of more playful, ironic, and emotive imagery, such as GIFs, memes, and emojis. Just as we have studied the prominence of cat videos in the first edition of Video Vortex, we grant importance to this playful side of digital visual culture. GIFs and memes can be tools in [...]

Watch Albert Figurt’s Desktop Narrative Workshop here

By Tommaso Campagna, December 9, 2020

Albert Figurt is an Italian video-artisan, independent researcher and Video Vortex member. In this series of videos, which are recordings of his Desktop Narrative Workshop he gave on the 3rd of November in 2020, he gives a practical introduction to the art & craft of “screencast storytelling” – or how to come up with some [...]

Workshop Interfacing Amsterdam’s Colonial Histories

By Tommaso Campagna, November 26, 2020

During this workshop, we ideate and explore tactics to turn iconic buildings into visual gateways that address Amsterdam’s stakes in historical trade routes and slavery. By appropriating physical and digital access points and interfaces, we turn them into potential tactical tools to highlight our city’s problematic past. Using fast prototyping techniques we will test out [...]

Tactical Visual Culture x The Hmm: watch all 8 talks here

By Chloë Arkenbout, November 24, 2020

To kick off our new research project Tactical Visual Culture, we partnered up with The Hmm for a special event. For our first theme ‘Video Witnessing’ we invited 8 speakers, including researchers, artists, performers, and viral TikTok creators, to share their vision on what the state of online video is, on the 19th of October, [...]

Reporting The Hmm at Tactical Visual Culture

By Maisa Imamovic, November 11, 2020

We’ll start soon! is streaming on the screen of tonight’s live event: The Hmm at Tactical Visual Culture, while I’m changing my font to Helvetica. The sound of Synth Sinatra gives a feeling that what will follow is, indeed, exciting. Margarita Osipian, tonight’s moderator, introduces us to The Hmm’s guest programmer, Sepp Eckenhaussen, who guides [...]

The Interface as Playground: Albert Figurt’s Desktop Narratives

By Marijn Bril, November 11, 2020

On November 4, 2020 the INC and the Visual Methodologies Collective had the pleasure to host a Desktop Narrative Workshop by Albert Figurt, an Italian video-artisan, multi-instrumentalist, independent researcher, and Video Vortex member. Since a large part of our lives seem to happen within the constraints of the screen, the ‘Desktop Narrative’ is a welcome [...]

Desktop Narrative Workshop

By Tommaso Campagna, October 28, 2020

Date and time: Tuesday, November 3rd, 2-6 pm. Location: Online On the 3rd of November, Albert Figurt, an Italian video-artisan, multi-instrumentalist and independent researcher and Video Vortex member, gives a practical introduction to the art & craft of the desktop narrative: in the span of one afternoon, you will learn about the insights and workflow [...]

Speakers at The Hmm @ Tactical Visual Culture Complete

By Chloë Arkenbout, October 26, 2020

To kick off Tactical Visual Culture, we partner up with The Hmm for a special event. 8 speakers, including researchers, artists, performers, and viral TikTok creators, that are working, making, and thinking around the theme of ‘video witnessing’, share their vision on what the state of online video is. Let us introduce them to you. [...]

New Project – Tactical Visual Culture – Kick Off

By Tommaso Campagna, October 22, 2020

Tactical Visual Culture @ The Hmm To kick off our new research project Tactical Visual Culture, we partner up with The Hmm for a special event. 8 speakers, including researchers, artists, performers, and viral TikTok creators, share their vision on what the state of online video is. Date and time: Wednesday, October 28th, 8-10 pm [...]