Posts Tagged: videovortex6

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. [...]

Florian Cramer: Bokeh Porn Poetics, On the Internet Film Genre of DSLR Video Camera Tests

By Rania (Ourania) Dalalaki, March 13, 2011

By Ourania (Rania) Dalalaki Florian Cramer (media theorist, director of the Piet Zwart Institute) participated in the first day of Video Vortex to provide the audience with an insightful overview of the  Bokeh Porn concept. In his presentation he introduced us to Bokeh Porn as a subculture within online video aesthetics and the associations that connect [...]

Holmes Wilson on Universal Subtitles: Collaborative, Volunteer Subtitling for any Video on the Web Using Free Software

By Rania (Ourania) Dalalaki, March 13, 2011

By Ourania (Rania) Dalalaki The importance of subtitles is an undeniable fact for Holmes Wilson, co-founder of the Participatory Culture Foundation. Through the foundation’s  latest open source, software-based project Universal Subtitles, the creative staff of the foundation argues that subtitles urgently need to support the vast universe of online videos. What is Universal Subtitles? Universal [...]

Teague Schneiter on Preserving Indigenous Heritage with IsumaTV

By Sjoerd Tuinema, March 13, 2011

By Sjoerd Tuinema In Friday’s first session called “It’s Not a Dead Collection, it’s a Dynamic Database”, media archivist and researcher Teague Schneiter (US/CA) took off with an elaboration about the ‘IsumaTV‘ project she’s currently working on. The people behind this initiative aim to set up an accessible infrastructure for streaming and uploading video content [...]

Internet Censorship in Turkey and Online Video

By Diana Soto De Jesús, March 13, 2011

By Diana Soto de Jesús As if the Internet Gods had planned it all along, Ebru Baranseli gave a report on the current situation of Internet censorship in Turkey right on the World Day Against Cyber Censorship. According to Baranseli, a professor of graphic design at Anadolu University, until 2001 Turkey’s government had a “hands [...]

“There should be more room for fun in art” – Animated Gif Mashup Studio Workshop with Evan Roth

By Anna Jacobs, March 13, 2011

By Anna Jacobs Last Thursday (10-03) I attended a workshop about animated gif mashups led by the artist Evan Roth. Twenty minutes before the start of the workshop the room was already filled with enthusiastic students, no doubt because of Evan’s well-documented reputation when it comes to lively workshops. The audience included a variety of [...]

Online Video Art: Ashiq Khondker and Eugene Kotlyarenko Play with the Diegetic Desktop

By Catalina Iorga, March 13, 2011

By Catalina Iorga Ashiq Khondker and Eugene Kotlyarenko’s presentation was the most entertaining and confusing of the first day of Video Vortex #6. To begin with, their collaboration took place exclusively on the internet, after Ashiq contacted the artist to interview him about a series of videos he shot entirely with screen capture software and [...]

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.