Posts Tagged: amsterdam

Evening Screening with Artist Natalie Bookchin

By serena, March 18, 2011

By Serena Westra As the final event of  the sixth Video Vortex, YouTube lovers, video artists, and enthusiasts of all types were invited to enjoy an evening screening and discussion with media artist Natalie Bookchin. The screening was held in SMART Project Space Amsterdam, hard to find but a great location. On Tuesday March 15th, [...]

Koen Leurs on the Constitution of Identity by Moroccan-Dutch Youth Through Their Use of YouTube

By serena, March 18, 2011

By Stijnie Thuijs After praising the wonderful lunch that was sure to revitalize the Video Vortex audience, Koen Leurs introduces his topic: the YouTube use of Dutch-Moroccan youth, born in the Netherlands but with natively Moroccan parents. Leurs explains how the right-wing politics in Holland are casting a shadow of negativity on the former immigrants [...]

Online Video as a Political Tool: Sam Gregory on Video Activism and Advocacy

By Janice Wong, March 15, 2011

Sam Gregory, program director at WITNESS presented his thoughts on using online video as a political tool at Video Vortex #6 in Amsterdam yesterday.

Arjon Dunnewind: Content with Context

By serena, March 14, 2011

By  Stijnie Thuijs Being the festival, artistic and general director of Impakt, Arjon Dunnewind is in charge of a database of art related content for which he has to decide the most appropriate way of uploading to the web. An important factor to take into account, he explains, is that the audience on the web [...]

Book Launch: Video Vortex Reader II

By nick, March 14, 2011

On Saturday, the 12th of March 2011, a few minutes before six, the second Video Vortex reader was being presented to the audience of the sixth edition of the Video Vortex conference. Editors Geert Lovink and Rachel Somers Miles invited the contributors to the second volume, who were present en masse, to celebrate the launch [...]

Annelies Termeer on InstantCinema.org

By nick, March 14, 2011

Annelies Termeer was the third speaker during the lecture themed It’s Not a Dead Collection, It’s a Dynamic Database. She is ad interim head of digital presentation at the EYE Film Institute, formerly known as the Film Museum. The project she is affliated with is called InstantCinema. The goal of the website is to facilitate [...]

Sandra Fauconnier on Video Art Distribution and the NIMk Collection

By nick, March 14, 2011

Sandra Fauconnier spoke about her role - concerning video art distribution - within the Netherlands Media Art Institute (NIMk) during Video Vortex 6, on the theme 'It's not a dead collection, it's a dynamic database'.

Joanne Richardson on the Critical Distance in Political Filmmaking

By Sjoerd Tuinema, March 13, 2011

By Sjoerd Tuinema Video artist Joanne Richardson (GER) was invited to give a presentation in the session called “Online Video as a Political Tool”, beginning her talk with a critical look at the terms ‘online’, ‘political’ and ‘tool’. As Marx had wrote in the Economic Transcript, a social revolution will “not get to the next [...]

Video Activism and Online Distribution in Post-New Order Indonesia

By Ryanne, March 13, 2011

By Ryanne Turenhout On the second day of Video Vortex at the Trouw in Amsterstam, Nuraini Juliastuti and Ferdiansyah Thajib explored how video activist in Indonesia, appropriate a variety of distribution strategies. They began with a brief historical overview giving brief a historical overview of video activism in Indonesia. They continued with a mapping of [...]

Andrew Lowenthal on the Need for Indymedia Movements

By Ryanne, March 13, 2011

By Ryanne Turenhout On the second day of Video Vortex at the Trouw in Amsterdam Andrew Lowenthal addresses the issues of how to use and distribute video politically and how do you do that independently and autonomously. Andrew Lowenthal began by giving an overview of what EngageMedia has been doing over the past six years. [...]