[spectre] Fwd: Call for Contributions VideoVortex XII, September 2019, Malta

[Andreas Broeckmann]

Betreff: <nettime-ann> Call for Contributions VideoVortex XII, September 
2019, Malta
Datum: Thu, 20 Dec 2018 10:47:02 +0100
Von: Barbara Dubbeldam <barbara at networkcultures.org>


Call for Contributions
VideoVortex XII, Malta
Conference: September 27-28, 2019
Exhibition:  6 September until 10 November (in Gallery, space C)

Deadline: 31st January 2019
Please submit to: submissions at vv12.org
Website: http://vv12.org

VideoVortex, an artistic network that deals with the aesthetics and 
politics of online video, will gather again, this time in Malta, for a 
two day conference/event. There will be a seperate exhibtion (from early 
September to early November 2019), curated in partnership between Spazju 
Kreattiv and Video Vortex, to be held in the gallery spaces of Spazju 
Kreattiv (https://www.kreattivita.org), particularly to enable 
Malta-based participants to engage significantly with the conference 
delegates’ work before and after the conference.

We are interested in the sharing of propositions, research, 
speculations, video and film work that responds to current debates in 
film, video, media, networks, and game theory, while being particularly 
attentive to the implications that technologies of live video, virtual 
reality, augmented reality, and artificial intelligence have for the 
future of video & media cultures.

If you want to get involved, contribute to the conference, exhibition or 
screening program, please send us a proposal on submissions at vv12.org.

Topics:
1) Video cultures on social media/mobile platforms (Facebook Live, 
Instagram, Snapchat, Smart phone aesthetics)
- Streaming realtime video & streaming platforms
- Surveillance Cinema
2) Online video, activism and migration
- Automated and algorithmic filmmaking (AI), bots, online video archives
- Drone aesthetics (e.g. Wiki loves monuments)
3) Digital preservation of online video (archives / curating)
- Use of online video in the established film industry

Films, videos & curated screening programs:
Filmmakers and video artists are invited to submit work that addresses 
the themes and concepts outlined here. curators are invited to propose 
short screening programs of up to 3 hours that showcase video/film in 
response to the themes outlined.

Workshop proposals:
We invite video practitioners, artists, researchers, scientists, content 
producers and theorists to submit proposals for workshops that explore 
critical making as a mode of critique and inquiry. We are particularly 
interested in hearing from those working with virtual or augmented 
reality. If you are proposing a workshop, please indicate costs for 
materials, as these will have to be built in separately as registration 
fees. All workshop organizers will have to make their own arrangements 
for materials required.

Talks & lecture-performances:
We welcome proposals for presentations addressing the topics outlined in 
the call, as well as proposals for lecture-performances that play with 
the standard academic form of presentation.

Program committee:
Andreas Treske (Department of Communication and Design, Bilkent 
University, Ankara)
Toni Sant, Justin Galea, Daniel Azzopardi (Spazju Kreattiv, Malta)
Matthew Galea & Adnan Hadzi (Department of Digital Arts, University of 
Malta)
Barbara Dubbeldam & Geert Lovink (Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam)

Background of VideoVortex

VideoVortex is a network of video makers, geeks, activists, artists and 
researchers that work on the politics and aesthetics of online video. 
The initiative was established in 2007 by the Institute of Network 
Cultures in Amsterdam. Video technology has radically altered the way in 
which we produce, consume and circulate images, influencing the 
aesthetics and possibilities of moving image cultures, as well as 
yielding a rich body of scholarship across various disciplines. Given 
its ease of access and use, video has historically been aligned with 
media activism and collaborative work. Video is driving social media and 
the web. It is dominating the internet of things. Cameras causing 
breakdowns in networks. Online video became lifelike.

Rapidly changing technological formats implicate the urgent need to 
engage with practices of archiving and curation, modes of collaboration 
& political mobilization, as well as fresh comprehensions of the 
subject-spectator, actors & networks constituted by contemporary video 
and digital cultures.

Previous events:

videovortex #1: Brussels, Belgium, October 2007
videovortex #2: Amsterdam, the Netherlands, January 2008
videovortex #3: Ankara, Turkey, October 2008
videovortex #4: Split, Croatia, October 2009
videovortex #5: Brussels, Belgium, November 2009
videovortex #6: Amsterdam, the Netherlands, March 2011
videovortex #7: Yogyakarta, Indonesia, July 2011
videovortex #8: Zagreb, Croatia, May 2012
videovortex #9: Lüneburg, Germany, February 2013
videovortex #10: Istanbul, Turkey, September 2014
videovortex #11: Kochi, India, February 2017

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