[spectre] (fwd) website of Video Vortex #9 (Feb. 28-March 2, Lueneburg) online now

[Andreas Broeckmann]

from: Vera Tollmann (vera.tollmann at gmx.net)

Hi,

the website of Video Vortex number 9 is online now.

http://videovortex9.net/

All too often the (theoretical) discourse on moving images and online 
video is out of sync with the actual field of video culture and its 
most current phenomenologies and developments. Therefore we want to 
gather videos of all shades with the help of “navigators,” people we 
trust to point out and profile some of the groups or constellations of 
video that make up the wild and divergent currents of video culture.
While English remains the default language for international 
communication, we also look for video cultures inside Russia’s Runet, 
behind the Chinese firewall and in African countries’ active social 
(video) networks. How to search by yourself without speaking Mandarin 
or Russian? How to get outside your filter bubble? What else is there 
beyond viral video and amateur clips posted by the evening news? What 
do new forms of video look like? Is it still the so-called amateur 
behind the camera, or do we find new notions of professionalism? How  do 
different cultural uses of online media become visible?

To expand Video Vortex beyond the conference, we will augment the 
conference experience with video-related input of all sorts. Everybody 
has had personal and often erratic glimpses via channels, 
subscriptions, circles of acquaintance, specialized blogs, mailing 
lists, etc. Rather than static archives of edited files we find 
fragments, links and lists, enigmatic in unknown contexts. Tools and 
methods are as diversified as the forms of video culture itself.

We invited correspondents in Tokyo, Athens, Moscow, Lagos, Beijing and 
other places to observe and select videos from their local spheres,  and 
to comment on their specific grammar. We are interested in video  clips 
such as glitches, mashups, activist recordings, tutorials, news  clips 
and media criticism as a way of understanding local politics, 
technologies, visual culture – and languages.

The conference will take place from February 28 to March 2, 2013 in 
Lueneburg, near Hamburg.

Please save the date.

Best,
Vera