Interview with media artist Jeremy Bailey

By martaburugorri, December 12, 2013

Jeremy Bailey is Toronto based media artist that focuses his practice on the interaction between his own built software and his body, exploring actions and gestures with which he integrates himself with the virtual. He tests his augmented reality bodies by means of video performances that take the form of internet video tutorials; all of [...]

Imagining the future: fictional Google Glass videos on YouTube

By martaburugorri, December 3, 2013

In this blogpost I want to show how the near launch of Google Glass for the average user is making emerge a series of parodying science-fiction videos on YouTube; a look into the future and a reflection of the fast changes that are coming. Nevertheless, this is nothing new, since the beginning of time humans [...]

Participatory Glicht Art projects by Benjamin Gaulon & Martial Geoffre-Rouland

By martaburugorri, November 25, 2013

Although Glitch movement is gaining a lot of popularity it is still something unknown or technically not reachable for those of who don’t have much knowledge on digital data compression techniques. In this blogpost I want to present some of the works of Benjamin Gaulon, a French media artist who produces what I would [...]

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Thinking about topics for next Video Vortex

By martaburugorri, November 13, 2013

Now that we are at the beginning of planning next Video Vortex we should start reflecting on future topics that next conference will cover. It is now time for suggestions of any type, so please feel free to do it! Below you can find gathered some of the first discussions suggested by people involved [...]

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 [...]