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Maarten Brinkerink, organizer of the "Remixing and Re-Use of Open Video
Collections" Workshop. Photo by Anne Helmond.
Just a day before the much awaited sixth edition of Video Vortex, students, media
producers, video amateurs and overall new media enthusiasts are gathering in the
Netherlands Media Art Institute to indulge their geeky tendencies in some open video
remixing and experimenting.
In the context of the Open Images project, participants of this workshop will get creative
with material from the Netherlandsʼ public broadcasting archive, to make their own short
videos. Weʼve now just started and this is the goal of the day: each and everyone of the
participants needs to make a short (1 minute) movie by the end of the day.
But first things first. Who is responsible for all this?
The workshop is organized by Maarten Brinkerink project manager of the Netherlands
Institute for Sound and Vision and it is lead by mixed media artists and Emile Zile and
José Miguel Biscaya.
And so, amidst the tangle of ethernet cables providing the much needed internet
connection, the workshop begins.
As we present each other it becomes clears that a lot of participants have some
experience with video editing but no experience whatsoever with open source video. To
which Emile clarifies that thereʼs quite a difference between video editing experience and
experience working with samples and remixing.
José describes what weʼll do today as making a college, something that most likely
everyone is familiar with even if only from his/her kindergarden days. He explains that
sampling is about taking something out of its context and doing something else with it,
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