Geert Lovink on Thu, 6 Dec 2007 18:54:44 +0100 (CET)
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<nettime-ann> registration open for videovortex, amsterdam, january 18-19, 2008
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- Subject: <nettime-ann> registration open for videovortex, amsterdam, january 18-19, 2008
- From: Geert Lovink <geert@xs4all.nl>
- Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 10:18:17 +0100
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Dear nettimers,
as we expect a lot of audience, it is important to register now if you
want to come to Amsterdam to attend the Videovortex event/conference on
January 18/19: http://www.networkcultures.org/videovortex/?page_id=12
Here is the program: http://www.networkcultures.org/videovortex/
Friday January 18, PostCS11
09.30 Doors open, coffee and tea
10.00 Welcome
10.15 - 12.30 Opening Session
Moderator: Geert Lovink
Tom Sherman
Geoffrey Bowker
Florian Schneider
12.30 - 13.30 Lunch
13.30 - 15.30 Online Video Aesthetics
Moderator: Patricia Pisters
Helen Kambouri
Andreas Treske
Tal Sterngast
Stefaan Decostere
15.30 - 15.45 Coffee, tea
15.45 - 17.45 Alternative Platforms and Software
Moderator: Seth Keen
Matthew Mitchem
Valentin Spirik
Philine von Guretzky
Jay Dedman
Saturday January 19, PostCS11
10.00 - 12.00 Cinema and Narrativity
Moderator: Sonja de Leeuw
Thomas Elsaesser
Jan Simons
Dan Oki
Rosemary Comella
12.00 - 13.00 Lunch
13.00 - 15.00 Curating Online Video
Moderator: Vera Tollmann
Patrick Lichty
Emma Quinn
Thomas Thiel
Sarah Cook
15.00 - 15.15 Coffee, tea
15.15 - 17.15 Participatory Culture
Moderator: Monique van Dusseldorp
Tilman Baumgärtel
Dominick Chen
Ana Peraica
20.00-00.00 Evening programme: Video Slamming
Opening Session
YouTube made 2006 the year of Internet video. The video content is
produced bottom-up, with an emphasis on participation, sharing and
community networking. But inevitably, like Flickr being consumed by
Yahoo, Google purchased YouTube. What is the future for the production
and distribution of independent online video content? How can a
participatory culture achieve a certain degree of autonomy and
diversity outside mass media? What is the artistic potential of video
databases and online filmmaking?
Online Video Aesthetics
Looking at the videos on YouTube, what aesthetics do we find? Is there
a homogeneous style that mainly builds on eyewitness tv, candid camera
formats and webcam diaries? And now that music videos and commercials
increasingly resemble video art, can we define how artistic practices
influence the look of online footage? Is YouTube a medium and platform
in itself for art works, or is it merely used as a promotional device?
Participatory Culture
Web 2.0 promises new levels of participatory culture in which all users
are producers, sharing their homemade content with their networks of
friends. In this utopian approach, the user has the potential to
overcome centralized top-down media and create dialogue. To which
extent can this be considered citizen journalism? Is the increased user
participation a sign of a new socio-political culture or is it a mere
special effect of technological change?
Cinema and Narrativity
Do fragmented video databases lead to new narratives and genres? Does a
database like YouTube evoke new media skills or rather contemporary
conditions such as ADD? Against the latter, scholars have put the
ability of users to reassemble short stories into larger new
narratives. The bricolage is assembled by the end-user, not the
producer. Does this add up to a new cinematic experience?
Curating Online Video
From 16mm film and video to the Internet and back, artists have always
used the moving image to produce critical and innovative work. This
session will explore early examples of Internet video and investigate
how artists and curators have responded to the YouTube challenge.
Online video databases seemingly are the ideal artist portfolio online,
with unlimited uploads and a massive audience. MySpace is inhabited by
bands and musicians, but why don’t video artists and filmmakers occupy
YouTube? On the other hand, where would this leave the curator?
Alternative Platforms and Software
This session will investigate developments in the field of open source
software in creating alternatives to proprietary software like Windows
Media Player. Through investigating Peer2Peer alternatives and open
licenses, both users and programmers aim to create a truly distributed
network, in which content can freely float around without having to use
centralized servers and sign strings of user agreements.
Evening programme: Video Slamming
Much like poetry slamming the use of short video fragments has become a
dominant mode in visual culture. Where are the video files found and
how are they used and played with? Is ‘video slamming’ the new way of
watching audiovisual files? This evening session is all about the new
ways of watching, using, and playing with moving images, such as
scratching, sampling, mixing, (meta)tagging and recommending.
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