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Video Vortex V: DAY I

13.30 Introduction
by Geert Lovink

14.00 System Flaws and Tactics
Moderator: Andreas Treske

Liesbeth Huybrechts/Rudi Knoops
Brian Willems
Rosa Menkman
Johan Grimonprez

17.30 Q&A

20.30 Video Vortex Evening Programme at Les Brigittines

Video Vortex V: DAY II

10.00 Online Cinema
Moderator: Andreas Treske

Andrew Clay

10.45 Categories of Enactment / Strategies of Resistance

Keith Sanborn
Stefaan Decostere

12.00 Lunch Break

13.30 Artist Practices: (Sub)Versioning
Moderator: Vera Tollmann

Oliver Laric & Aleksandra Domanovic
Constant Dullaart

15.00 Politics of Online Video
Moderator: Sabine Niederer

Simon Yuill
Elizabeth Losh
Stephen Crocker

17.00 Closing Q&A

Extra: You’re invited at the opening night of Cimatics festival 2009 at Beursschouwburg with audiovisual concerts by AGF (DE) and TVestroy (CA).

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Video Vortex V: DAY I

13.30 Introduction
by Geert Lovink

14.00 System Flaws and Tactics
Moderator: Andreas Treske
Video channels, platforms and formats impose strict structures on how you can interact with them. This session is inspired by the inherent errors, disabilities and restrictions, often conducting our behavior but in this case inspiring and exposing new insights.

Liesbeth Huybrechts/Rudi Knoops
Play That Video, All Work and No Play Makes Jack a Dull Boy

Brian Willems
Blindness: The Inability of YouTube to Read Itself

Rosa Menkman
Glitch: From Artifacts to Filter. The Tipping Point of Failure

Johan Grimonprez
It’s a Poor Story If It Only Works Backward

20.30 Video Vortex Evening Programme at Les Brigittines
Film screenings, artist presentations and an audiovisual performance by Kurt D’haeseleer.

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Video Vortex V: DAY II
10.00 Online Cinema
Moderator: Andreas Treske
Similar to his essay ‘BMW Films and the Star Wars Kid: ‘Early Web Cinema’ and Technology’ in the recently published ‘Cinema and Technology’, Andrew Clay provides an in-depth approach of online cinema.

Andrew Clay
Web cinema: Mind the Gap!

10.45 Categories of Enactment / Strategies of Resistance
Both lecturers have been contributing to the previous Video Vortex Reader. They are both artists and theoreticians and share a common attitude of resistance. In this session they will update and further expand their previous contributions to Video Vortex.

Keith Sanborn
Beyond YouTube.world

Stefaan Decostere
Impact, Complicity, Fascination

12.00 Lunch Break

13.30 Artist Practices: (Sub)Versioning
Moderator: Vera Tollmann
(Sub)Versioning – the contraction of the Situationist ‘subversion’ and the common IT practice of ‘versioning’ might best describe the practice of the artists in this session. They approach online video as a means for a subtle restructuring of existing popular media and a basis for investigating new modes of constructing and relating meaning brought about by the Internet.

Constant Dullaart
Curated Work- Part I

Albert Figurt
Notrecame de Paris

Constant Dullaart
Own Work- Part II

15.00 Politics of Online Video
Moderator: Sabine Niederer
In a dispersed society, with a seemingly vanishing of mass culture, online video is challenging traditional channels of public communication, oppositional media. A session providing us with some remarkable case-studies and research-projects about participatory communication, the White House and citizen journalism.

Simon Yuill
Citizen Journalism vs Oppositional Media

Elizabeth Losh
The White House’s Use of YouTube and the Reactions of Privacy Advocates

Stephen Crocker
Filmmaking and the Politics of Remoteness

17.00 Closing Q&A

Extra: You’re invited at the opening night of Cimatics festival 2009 at Beursschouwburg with audiovisual concerts by AGF (DE) and TVestroy (CA).