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The Video Vortex #9 flyer is out now

By serena, January 30, 2013

The flyer of the 9th edition of Video Vortex is out now. Re:assemblies of Video will be held between the 28th of February and the 2nd of March 2013 in Lüneburg, Germany
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Video Vortex #9 Lüneburg: Call for contributions

By serena, May 21, 2012

Video Vortex #9 – Re:assemblies of Video   Video Vortex #9, Re:assemblies of Video, is conceived and hosted by the Moving Image Lab and Post-Media Lab of the Innovation Incubator at Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany. The conference will be held from February 28 until March 2, 2013. The call for contribution is open until 31 [...]
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Video Vortex #8 The Politics, Cultures and Art of Online Video

By serena, February 7, 2012

Video Vortex #8 will be held May 17th-19th, 2012 in the The Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, Croatia Call for contributions We are pleased to announce that the 8th edition of Video Vortex will take place at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb, Croatia, between the 17th and the 19th of May, 2012. So [...]

Evening Screening with Artist Natalie Bookchin

By serena, March 18, 2011

By Serena Westra As the final event of  the sixth Video Vortex, YouTube lovers, video artists, and enthusiasts of all types were invited to enjoy an evening screening and discussion with media artist Natalie Bookchin. The screening was held in SMART Project Space Amsterdam, hard to find but a great location. On Tuesday March 15th, [...]

Koen Leurs on the Constitution of Identity by Moroccan-Dutch Youth Through Their Use of YouTube

By serena, March 18, 2011

By Stijnie Thuijs After praising the wonderful lunch that was sure to revitalize the Video Vortex audience, Koen Leurs introduces his topic: the YouTube use of Dutch-Moroccan youth, born in the Netherlands but with natively Moroccan parents. Leurs explains how the right-wing politics in Holland are casting a shadow of negativity on the former immigrants [...]

Arjon Dunnewind: Content with Context

By serena, March 14, 2011

By  Stijnie Thuijs Being the festival, artistic and general director of Impakt, Arjon Dunnewind is in charge of a database of art related content for which he has to decide the most appropriate way of uploading to the web. An important factor to take into account, he explains, is that the audience on the web [...]

Ben Moskowitz: Video of the Open Web, Not Just on the Open Web

By serena, March 13, 2011

By Serena Westra The second speaker of the Platforms, Standards & the Trouble with Translation Civil Rights session is Ben Moskowitz. For the second time in a year, the first time was in November for the Ecommons conference, he came all the way from the USA to join us. Moskowitz works for the Mozilla Foundation [...]