Online Video Art: Roel Wouters and Conditional Design

By caroline, March 13, 2011

In his presentation on online video art and the design of fluid digital environments, graphic designer and project director Roel Wouters introduced the audience to interactive projects which include dynamic media such as web video and animation to install crowdsourced performances. With his collegues Luna Maurer, Jonathan Puckey and Edo Paulus he has published the Conditional Design Manifesto, which is based on the work of his collective called Conditional Design and emphasizes the idea of following processes in the digital realm rather than its products.

Joining the Online Video Conversation? The Presence of Institutional Actors on YouTube

By Geert Faber, March 13, 2011

By Geert Faber The second day of the Video Vortex conference at Trouw in Amsterdam. In the seventh session Patrícia Dias da Silva, a PhD Fellow in Social Sciences at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, talks about how YouTube has been embraced by European institutional actors, and how YouTube is reaching out [...]

Photos from Video Vortex 6

By admin, March 13, 2011

The whole Video Vortex 6 photoset can be found on Flickr. Please join us by tagging your Video Vortex photos with vv6 and adding them to the Video Vortex Photo Pool.

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 [...]

Dr. Michael Strangelove – “Any Moment Will be a Youtube Moment”

By caroline, March 12, 2011

In his talk on the cultural value of amateur video, the author, scholar and artist Michael Strangelove explained how amateur productions will gain greater value due to their potential of challenging the meaning of things, their subvertion of capitalist modes of production and their use by individuals as tools for self-representation of the world.

It’s not a Dynamic Database… It’s a Dead Collection? [Temporarily Unavailable]

By Geert Faber, March 12, 2011

By Geert Faber The second day of the Video Vortex conference started with the session ‘It’s not a dead collection, it’s a dynamic database’ covering a next phase of digitalizing and distributing video archives. The first presentation of the day is from Mél Hogan who talks about the rise and fall of three large online video [...]

Vito Campanelli and the Memetic Contagion of Aestheticized Objects

By Nicola Bozzi, March 11, 2011

Vito Campanelli's presentation of his own Web Aesthetics. How Digital Media Affect Culture and Society (published by NAi) was one of the few theoretical ones in a very visual and demo-ridden Video Vortex edition. In his work, the Italian scholar reduces important phenomena like social and peer-to-peer networks to their historical premises, laying the foundations for an organic aesthetic theory of digital media. His intervention outlined his conceptual framework, providing the common denominator to the examples analyzed in the book.

Dagan Cohen and Upload Cinema: Taking YouTube to the Big Screen

By Nicola Bozzi, March 11, 2011

By Nicola Bozzi Upload Cinema is a monthly video spree that quite literally takes the most valuable YouTube gems to the big screen. That is, the not-so-big one of the Uitkijk, the smallest and coziest movie theater in Amsterdam. Dutch creative director Dagan Cohen and cinema programmer Barbara de Wijn started the initiative because they [...]

Online Video Aesthetics: Florian Schneider talks about the Open Source Documentary

By Catalina Iorga, March 11, 2011

By Catalina Iorga German filmmaker, media artist and activist Florian Schneider ambitiously set out to present a mission statement for a novel type of documentary, the open source mode, and launched into a highly theoretical and somewhat cryptic talk that contained a few guidelines on how this transition can be made, but lacked any clear [...]

Evan Roth: Freedom, Art & Gifs

By marc, March 11, 2011

Artist Evan Roth received a degree in architecture from University of Maryland and a MFA from the Communication, Design and Technology school at Parsons The New School for Design. His work focuses on tools of empowerment, open source and popular culture. Roth describes his own work as a middle zone between open source and pop [...]