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Argos, Centre for Art & media, and The Institute of Network Cultures
(INC) present:
Video Vortex: Responses to YouTube
CONFERENCE
ARGOS, Brussels
Fri 05.10.2007 11:00
Over the past years the moving image has claimed an increasingly
prominent place on the internet. Thanks to a wide range of
technologies and web applications it has become possible, not only to
record and distribute video, but to edit and remix it on-line as
well. With this world of possibilities within reach of a multitude of
social actors, the potential of video as a personal means of
expression has arrived at a totally new dimension. How is this
potential being used? How do artists and activists react to the
popularity of YouTube and other ‘user-generated-content’ websites?
What is the impact of the availability of massive on-line images and
sound databases on aesthetics and narrativity? How is Cinema, as an
art form and experience, influenced by the development of widely
spreading internet practices? What does YouTube tell us about the
state of art in visual culture? And how does the participation
culture of video-sharing and vlogging reach some degree of autonomy
and diversity, escaping the laws of the mass media and the strong
grip of media conglomerates?
This Video Vortex conference is the first in a series of
international events, aimed at critical research and reflection
surrounding the production and distribution of on-line video content,
at the instigation of the Institute of Network Cultures (INC).
Speakers: Lev Manovich, Nora Barry, Keith Sanborn, Tomas Rawlings &
Ana Kronschnabl, Simon Ruschmeyer, Peter Westenberg, Johan
Grimonprez. Others tbc.
Moderated by Geert Lovink (Institute of Network Cultures)
www.networkcultures.org
www.argosarts.org
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Video Vortex is part of OPEN ARCHIVE#1, a series of programs and
events in which Argos mines the archive, reflecting and presenting a
range of responses to the argos collections as well as considering
the nature of the contemporary archive, media and memory.
Please note: on Sa 06.10.2007, the day after 'Video Vortex', Argos
organizes the conference ‘Media, Memory and the Archive’, with
Richard Rinehart, Steve Dietz, Josephine Bosma, Oliver Grau, Charlie
Gere, Wolfgang Ernst, Jean-François Blanchette
More info soon
argos
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