VeniVidiVortex: Closing Party 10.03

Program Out Now!

Download here the program for the VVV closing party.

Reflecting on our growing digital culture and its increasing audiovisual presence in our daily lives, artists CONSTANT DULLAART, ANJA MASLING, GIORGI TABATADZE, EMILE ZILE, and YELLOW GOOGLE HEAD AND MACACOSTAILEY and DJ 4LCH3MY (aka Katja Novitskova), reveal the possibilities and playfulness of online video to explore, appropriate, and create.Slamming, mixing, melding, mashing, stalling, freezing and buffering will ensue as artists drawing from moving images on the Web beckon you into the vortices of our online video world. From the live collision of video clips to the manipulation of the YouTube interface, the Institute of Network Cultures welcomes you to a closing night of visual sensory over-load through performances and projections.

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