Video Vortex Reader II: moving images beyond YouTube

360 Video Vortex Reader II Moving Images Beyond Youtubeappendices36121.00 – 22.30Screenings 3Presented by: Dagan CohenLocation: Kinoteka Zlatna VrataUpload Cinema, March 2009 Edition ‘Engineering the Body’ (90 min.)> Day Two: Saturday, May, 23, 2009Video Vortex ConferenceLocation: Multimedia Cultural Center09.45 – 11.45Online Video TheoriesModerator: Geert LovinkJan Simons (Amsterdam), Gabriel Menotti (London), Amir Soltani (Manchester),Stefan Heidenreich (Berlin)12.00 – 14.00Online Video NarrativesModerator: Brian WillemsJasmina Kallay (Dublin), David Clark (Halifax), Valentina Rao (Pisa),Paul Wiersbinski (Frankfurt)14.45 – 16.45Politics of the Moving ImageModerator: Petar MilatSaša Vojkovic (Zagreb), David Teh (Bangkok), Ana Peraica (Split),Antanas Stancius (Vilnius)17.00 – 18.30Social CinemaModerator: Dan OkiPerry Bard (New York), Evelin Stermitz (Villach/Ljubljana), Dagan Cohen (Amsterdam)19.00PerformanceLocation: Multimedia Cultural Center‘Cym and the Aethernauts’ (Walkersdorf / All over the world) (performance 30 min.)22.00Conference PartyLocation: KOCKA CLUBVideo Vortex VBrusselsNovember 20-21, 2009Location: Atomium, BrusselsIn collaboration with the Cimatics Festival, KASK HogeschoolGent and CLEAProgram by Bram Crevits and Stoffel Debuysere.Two years after its first edition, Video Vortex returned to Brussels, this time hosted in one ofthe great icons of mid 20th century modern architecture, the Atomium. It could be read as are-baptism of this symbol of the atomic age into a symbol of network culture.Over the preceding two years Video Vortex – focusing on the status and potential of the movingimage on the Internet – had visited Amsterdam, Ankara and Split, growing out into anorganised network of organisations and individuals. The second Brussels edition headed foran interim report and asked some participants of the first Video Vortex editions and publication,as well as new ones, to reflect on recent developments in online video culture.Over the past years the place of the moving image on the Internet has become increasinglyprominent. With a wide range of technologies and web applications within anyone’s reach,the potential of video as a personal means of expression has reached a totally new dimension.How is this potential being used? How do artists and other political and social actors react tothe popularity of YouTube and other ‘user-generated-content’ websites? What does YouTubetell us about the state of contemporary visual culture? And how can the participation cultureof video sharing and vlogging reach some degree of autonomy and diversity, escaping thelaws of the mass media and the strong grip of media conglomerates?About Cimatics:This 7th edition of the Cimatics festival again went at full throttle with contemporary imageand network culture. As a festival for digital culture it puts the focus both on art, media, designand music in a mix of concerts, film-screenings, exhibitions, workshops, conferences,public interventions and parties. Cimatics 2009 was spread out all over the city of Brussels.For 10 days and nights it was be hosted by numerous venues, both underground and above.It intends to be a citywide international festival for advanced creativity, a node where grassroots,underground and pop or art become mixed in an exciting cultural mash-up.> November 20, 2009: Day I13.30Introductionby Geert Lovink14.00System Flaws and TacticsModerator: Andreas TreskeLiesbeth Huybrechts/Rudi Knoops,Brian Willems,Rosa Menkman,Johan GrimonprezVideo channels, platforms and formats impose strict structures on how you can interact with