Posts By: Miriam Rasch

Video Vortex XI: Call for Responses 23-26 February, Kochi-Muzeris, Kerala,...

Video Vortex XI: Call for responses 23-26 February, Kochi-Muzeris, Kerala, India

By Miriam Rasch, December 1, 2016

Video Vortex XI: Call for Responses 23-26 February, Kochi-Muzeris, Kerala, India Video Vortex XI: Video in Flux Video technology has radically altered the ways in which we produce, consume and circulate images, influencing the aesthetics and possibilities of moving image cultures, as well as yielding a rich body of scholarship across various disciplines. Given its [...]

Andreas Treske: Video Theory, published by Transcript Verlag

By Miriam Rasch, April 20, 2015

Now available from Transcript Verlag: Also check the accompanying playlist on YouTube! Video Theory: Online Video Aesthetics or the Afterlife of Video Video is a part of everyday life, comparable to driving a car or taking a shower. It is nearly omnipresent, available on demand and attached to nearby anything, anywhere. Online Video became something [...]

Video Vortex #9: Have a look at the projects

By Miriam Rasch, March 4, 2013

        Saturday afternoon, March 2, 2013 Check out the lovely projects which were discussed! Cornelia Sollfrank, Giving What You Don’t Have: Giving What You Don’t Have – Trailer from coco castro on Vimeo. Survival Kits, an artistic project by Deborah Ligorio Andrew Clay: Insert Yourself Here: A Social Presentation About Social Film [...]

Video Vortex #9: Breaking the frame in theory and practice

By Miriam Rasch, March 4, 2013

        Saturday, March 2, 2013 In his Breaking the Frame talk, Vito Campanelli takes Vilém Flusser’s philosophy of photography as a starting point for thinking about a theory of online video. Flusser described how photography or imagery was contained by categories covering the culture like a net, where we only see what comes [...]

Video Vortex #9: Video theory – data and perspective

By Miriam Rasch, March 4, 2013

        Friday afternoon, March 1, 2013 Joshua Neves opens the Friday afternoon dedicated to Video Theory. Does video really resist theory, like is said so often? Multiplicity, assembly, vortex as models for video indeed resist the specificity and singularity mostly associated with theoretical models. Lets look at some possible ‘videographies’, for example [...]

Video Vortex #9: Protest and anti-protest, hero and anti-hero, amateur and pro

By Miriam Rasch, March 1, 2013

        Friday, March 1, 2013 Web video has lost its innocence and incorporates notions of subversions and empowerment, says Sascha Simons. Web videos function as a medium of testimony, of the witness. A witnessing that needs to be repeated and confirmed again and again. The video as a testimonial medium of course [...]

Video Vortex #9: The art or the end of video

By Miriam Rasch, March 1, 2013

        Thursday, February 28, 2013 The future is back: new visions for film on the web – under this title the panel presents the art and practice of film makers in this era of online video. What are the film makers doing and how do they realize the possibilities in their work? [...]

Video Vortex #9: Beth Coleman – Tweeting the Revolution

By Miriam Rasch, February 28, 2013

Thursday, February 28, 2013 The opening keynote is by Beth Coleman from MIT. In ‘Tweeting the revolution’ she talks about the rhetoric of activism, how collective histories of collective action take shape in the networked media. How do the public and the civic, but also the poetic, constitute themselves on these media like Twitter and [...]

Video Vortex #9: 28 February – 2 March 2013, Lüneburg, Germany

By Miriam Rasch, December 20, 2012

    Video Vortex #9 28 Feb. – 2 March 2013 Lüneburg, Germany Centre for Digital Cultures Leuphana University Networked video has entered a new phase and become part of major configurations. The days of pioneers and amateurs seem to be over, as do the old worlds of professional broadcasting networks: Digital technologies have professionalized [...]