Fri 05.10.2007 11:00 - 19:00

Over the past years the moving image has claimed an increasingly prominent place on the internet. Thanks to a wide range of technologies and web applications it has become possible, not only to record and distribute video, but to edit and remix it on-line as well. With this world of possibilities within reach of a multitude of social actors, the potential of video as a personal means of expression has arrived at a totally new dimension. How is this potential being used? How do artists and activists react to the popularity of YouTube and other ‘user-generated-content’ websites? What is the impact of the availability of massive on-line images and sound databases on aesthetics and narrativity? How is Cinema, as an art form and experience, influenced by the development of widely spreading internet practices? What does YouTube tell us about the state of art in visual culture? And how does the participation culture of video-sharing and vlogging reach some degree of autonomy and diversity, escaping the laws of the mass media and the strong grip of media conglomerates?

This Video Vortex conference is the first in a series of international events, aimed at critical research and reflection surrounding the production and distribution of on-line video content, at the instigation of the Institute of Network Cultures (INC).

JOHAN GRIMONPREZ, PETER HORVATH, LEV MANOVICH, ANA KRONSCHNABL & TOMAS RAWLINGS, ADRIAN MILES, SIMON RUSCHMEYER, KEITH SANBORN, PETER WESTENBERG. We're sorry to inform you that NORA BARRY cancelled.

Introduced by Geert Lovink. Moderated by Sabine Niederer.

Co-production with Institute of Network Cultures

Language: English. Please register via info@argosarts.org (subject line: "Video Vortex" + name). You can find info on location and accomodation here.

20:30 VIDEO VORTEX screenings
The Conference will be followed by a selection of exceptional, witty and provoking Internet videos, compiled for the occassion by international and local guests.

In the context of the conference we asked some people to compose a program of Internet video works, as a source of inspiration and reference. Watch the programs here

part of OPEN ARCHIVE #1 and Cinema in Transition

11:00 Welcome
11:15 Lev Manovich
12:00 Adrian Miles
12:45 Walking lunch
13:30 Thomas Rawlings & Ana Kronschnabl 
14:15 Peter Horvath
15:00 Simon Ruschmeyer
15:45 Coffee
16:15 Peter Westenberg 
17:00 Keith Sanborn
17:45 Johan Grimonprez 

19:00 Walking dinner & drinks
20:30 screenings