Tonight at 20:00 Video Slamming @ PostCS 11

Much like poetry slamming the use of short video fragments has become a dominant mode in visual culture. Where are the video files found and how are they used and played with? Is ‘video slamming’ the new way of watching audiovisual files? This evening session is all about the new ways of watching, using, and playing with moving images, such as scratching, sampling, mixing, (meta)tagging and recommending.Presented by Sabine Niederer and Michael Stevenson

20.00 Screenings: YouTube favourites

21.00 Presentations of video databases and VJ software. With Killer TV, Rosa Menkman, Tatiana de la O, and Emile Zile.

21.30 Performances by Rosa Menkman, Tatiana de la O, and Emile Zile.

Download Now: Video Conferencing-Infrastructures, Practices, Aesthetics

By Geert Lovink, December 12, 2023

Video Conferencing – Infrastructures, Practices, Aesthetics Edited by Axel Volmar, Olga Moskatova and Jan Distelmeyer Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld, 2023 Download the book for free here: https://www.transcript-publishing.com/978-3-8376-6228-3/video-conferencing/ Video conferencing – what a peculiar way of coming together online via applications like Zoom, BigBlueButton, etc. Since the COVID-19 pandemic has reorganized existing methods of exchange and turned [...]

Report of Video Vortex #13: Pause, Play and Reset

By Geert Lovink, May 28, 2021

Documentation of Video Vortex #13: Play, Pause, Reset On May 27, 2021 a two hour ‘hybrid’ VideoVortex event took place in Rome, live from the rooftop of the John Cabot University in Rome and on Zoom. Around 50 people participated. You can read the announcement and the program here. Part of the group gathered in [...]

Join Us at the Video Vortex Hybrid Event: Play, Pause and Reset (Thursday May 27)

By Geert Lovink, May 25, 2021

Video Vortex Hybrid Event: Play, Pause and ResetThursday, May 27, 2021, 06:00 PM CEST – 08:00 CESTTo compensate for the real life events that we are all missing so much, the VideoVortex community gathers during a hybrid event that happens both online and in the courtyard of John Cabot University in Rome. Organized and hosted by [...]