::fibreculture:: VIDEO VORTEX conference Brussels // ARGOS // 05.10.07

[Stoffel Debuysere @ argos]

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



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