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 [...]

Telling the Bigger Video Story-Interview with Natalie Bookchin by Geert Lovink

By Geert Lovink, April 28, 2020

Natalie Bookchin’s work is synonymous with the Video Vortex network and the rise of YouTube. Whereas we got to know each other’s work in the turbulent net.art late nineties years, this particular story started with a DVD I got from Natalie, containing The Trip (2008), a video collection of early YouTube fragments, which Natalie reassembled [...]

Interview with Judit Kis on the (Media) Art of Vulnerability and Care by Geert Lovink

By Geert Lovink, April 13, 2020

The Hungarian artist Judit Kis was one of the artists who gave a performance during Video Vortex #12 in Malta, in September 2019. This is where I was introduced to her very personal work. In the following months I engaged with her work and decided to approach her for an (email) interview. In an artistic [...]

Call for Lectures/Theory Presentations VideoVortex XII, Malta, September 27-28, 2019

By Geert Lovink, December 19, 2018

VideoVortex, an artistic network that deals with the aesthetics and politics of online video, will gather again, this time in Malta, for a two day conference/event and a separate exhibition. If you want to get involved, contribute to the conference, exhibition or screening program, please send us a proposal before 31 Januari 2019.

VideoVortext XI: Three posters

By Geert Lovink, February 17, 2017

VideoVortex XI Final Program (23-26-2-2017, Kochi, India)

By Geert Lovink, February 9, 2017

Video Vortex XI — Video in Flux: Art, Activism & Archives 23-26 February 2017 Hotel 18, Fort Kochi & Mill Hall, Mattancherry, as part of the Sristi Outpost,  a collateral of the Kochi-Muzeris biennial. Thursday, 23 February 2017 @ Hotel 18, Fort Kochi Registration: 9.00-10.00 am Introduction to Video Vortex XI: 10.00-10.30 Geetha Narayanan (Founder-Director, [...]