Man With a Movie Camera: The Global Remake “This film...

PERRY BARD: INTERPRETING DZIGA VERTOV

By ceciliaguida, June 10, 2010

Man With a Movie Camera: The Global Remake “This film is an experiment in cinematic communication of real events without the aid of intertitles, without the aid of a scenario, without the aid of theatre. This experimental work aims at creating a truly international language of cinema based on its absolute separation from the language [...]

October, 1-2, 2010, New York City The Open Video Alliance...

OPEN VIDEO CONFERENCE

By admin, May 19, 2010

October, 1-2, 2010, New York City The Open Video Alliance is now accepting proposals for panels, presentations, workshop sessions, demo sessions and other programming for the next Open Video Conference. The Open Video Conference (OVC) is a multi-day summit of thought leaders in business, academia, art, and activism to explore the future of online video [...]

ARTIST COMMITS SUICIDE ONLINE AS A WORK OF ART (WELL…, SORT OF)

By admin, May 19, 2010

On May 1st in the popular website Chatroulette thousands of people watched a man hanging from the ceiling, slowly swinging, for hours and hours. It was not a real suicide but a performance by Brooklyn-based artist Franco Mattes. Eva and Franco Mattes are already known in the contemporary art world for similar interventions done under [...]

http://videoonwikipedia.org Wouldn’t it be great if a Wikipedia entry could...

VIDEO ON WIKIPEDIA – It’s time for change!

By admin, May 19, 2010

http://videoonwikipedia.org Wouldn’t it be great if a Wikipedia entry could communicate the motion of a pirouette? Or the kinetic buzz of New York City’s Grand Central Terminal? Or even how to blow a raspberry? Anyone can edit an article on Wikipedia making it a constantly growing and improving resource. But a text article can only [...]

Like the ‘special features’ commentary on a commercial DVD, the...

YOUTUBE COMMENTARY PROJECT

By admin, May 19, 2010

Like the ‘special features’ commentary on a commercial DVD, the ‘YouTube Commentary Project’ is a curatorial initiative that involves injecting ideas, critique and comments recorded by artists and curators about a YouTube video of their choice. After overlaying the recorded audio onto the video, the results are then uploaded back onto YouTube and presented there. [...]

Audiovisual Thinking is a pioneering forum where academics and educators...

Audiovisual Thinking

By admin, April 29, 2010

Audiovisual Thinking is a pioneering forum where academics and educators can articulate, conceptualize and disseminate their research about audiovisuality and audiovisual culture through the medium of video. International in scope and multidisciplinary in approach, the purpose of Audiovisual Thinking is to develop and promote academic thinking in and about all aspects of audiovisuality and audiovisual [...]

In response to the increasing potential for video as a...

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS: Video Vortex Reader II

By sabine, March 5, 2010

In response to the increasing potential for video as a significant form of personal media on the Internet, the Video Vortex program examines key issues that are emerging around the independent production and distribution of online video content. With the rise of YouTube and alternative platforms, the moving image on the Internet has become expansively [...]

We were very happy with the large amount of people...

Full video report of Video Vortex V

By admin, January 26, 2010

We were very happy with the large amount of people attending the latest Video Vortex conference in Brussels. However, for those of you who could not make it, there is a full video report of all presented lectures to be found here. Cimatics festival was hosting the 5th Video Vortex conference. Two years after its [...]

Location: Atomium, Brussels 20-21 November 2009 Video Vortex V is...

Video Vortex V: The Moving Image Online

By sabine, October 11, 2009

Location: Atomium, Brussels 20-21 November 2009 Video Vortex V is organized by Cimatics festival 2009 in cooperation with the Institute of Network Cultures in Amsterdam and supported by KASK (Faculty of Fine Arts, University College Ghent) and the Center Leo Apostel (CLEA). On November 20-21 2009, Cimatics festival is hosting the 5th Video Vortex conference. [...]

Some of you heard it already in Split: the 5th...

5th edition of Video Vortex in Brussels

By admin, June 2, 2009

Some of you heard it already in Split: the 5th edition of the Video Vortex conference series will be held in Brussels. Video Vortex V is announced for November 20-21 2009, and will be hosted by the Cimatics festival. Previously Video Vortex conferences were held in Brussels, Amsterdam, Ankara and Split. With this second Brussels [...]