[spectre] Fwd: Video Vortex #9, Lüneburg/D, 28 Feb -– 2 March 2013

[Andreas Broeckmann]

Datum: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 09:55:05 +0100
Von: Vera Tollmann <vera.tollmann at leuphana.de>


Video Vortex #9
28 Feb. -– 2 March 2013
Lüneburg, Germany
Centre for Digital Cultures
Leuphana University

http://videovortex9.net

Networked video has entered a new phase and become part of
major configurations. The days of pioneers and amateurs
seem to be over, as do the old worlds of professional
broadcasting networks: Digital technologies have
professionalized production, and do-it-yourself skills
have established new styles and formats. Tubes, channels
and domains for mobile video are part of our everyday
digital life. These tectonic shifts – from amateur and
professional to an assemblage of media creators, from
spectators to participants, and from a single viewpoint to
parallax perspectives – have given rise to effects of a
geographical and generational scope yet to be determined.
The ninth edition of Video Vortex proposes that now is a
time to re-engage with a structural and contextual
analysis of online video culture.

Two keynotes will extend the discursive field of Video
Vortex #9: Beth Coleman will re-engage local affairs with
visions of networked activism, and Nishant Shah will
unpack video at the digital turn as object, as process,
and as a symptom of the transnational flow of ideology,
ideas and infrastructure, especially in emerging
information societies in the uneven landscape of
globalization.

VV9 also features a number of performative lectures and
thematic workshops dealing with video realities. We will
follow up on the long tails of rebellion with Mosireen
Collective in Cairo and Margarita Tsomou in Athens. Boris
Traue and Achim Kredelbach, aka Jo Cognito, will discuss
YouTube’s recent forays into televisual terrain and its
delegation of organizing power to commercial “networks”
and media agencies. Boaz Levin will look at the way media
gravitates towards im-mediating events, and Miya Yoshida
will critically question familiar terminologies from
“amateur” and “user” to “prosumer” and “citizen reporter.”

In the run-up to the actual Video Vortex event,
international video correspondents have been investigating
phenomenologies of video online. After 10 joyful years of
global ubiquity, the conference will also engage with
reinventions of the local under conditions of digital
culture. A collaboration with the local video activist
collective Graswurzel.tv, whose activities are linked with
antinuclear protests in Wendland (near Lüneburg), will
explore mobile video in (alternative) news journalism.
Artist Stephanie Hough will join with local participants
to oppose tracking and other incursions into our screen
lives by turning a public square into a stage for a mass
lip-sync.

The future of film as it fuses with video in the digital
realm, and the reconfiguration of its aesthetics,
interfaces, production and distribution, will be discussed
with Thomas Østbye and Edwin, the directors behind the
participatory film project 17,000 Islands, and explored by
Seth Keen in the domain of interactive documentary on the
web. Alejo Duque and Robert Ochshorn will analyze the
technological appearances and travesties of video, the
soft power of codecs and compression in the information
complex, and how to “interface.”

A liquid publication will go live as a sourcebook shortly
before VV9 and continue to expand during collaborative
editing sessions at the event in Lüneburg, ultimately
living on as a multifaceted publication.

The full program will be published shortly on
http://videovortex9.net

Please register for the conference and workshops here:
http://bit.ly/SGtT86
If you plan to attend Video Vortex #9, we recommend you
book your hotel early or contact us for help.

VV9 is organized by Leuphana University’s Moving Image Lab
and Post-Media Lab. A portion of VV9 also constitutes the
first part of the ANALOG event series, sponsored by the
university’s Centre for Digital Cultures.

VV9 is funded through Innovation Incubator, a major EU
project financed by the European Regional Development Fund
(ERDF) and the federal state of Lower Saxony.