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Video Vortex, an artistic network concerned with the aesthetics and politics of online video, gathered again in Malta for a two-day conference. We were in particularly focussing on bringing new research, theory and critiques of online video– in addition to questions around its integration with social media – to Malta. These proceedings are an edited collection of assembled and annotated video essays living in two instantiations: an online version – located on the web at https://vv12.org, and an offline version – stored on a server inside a VHS case.

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Publisher

Institute of Network Cultures
https://networkcultures.org/

 

Year

2021

 

Editors

Adnan Hadzi

Andreas Treske

Geert Lovink

Sabrina Calleja Jackson

 

Tech Team

Harris Niavis (MaziZone Programmer)

Andrea Rota (Server Administrator)

 

Producers

University of Malta

Fondazzjoni Kreattivita

Institute of Network Cultures

 

Cover Design

Raquel Eulate

 

Assembly On-Demand

OpenMute Press

 

ISBN

978-1-906496-85-2

Supported and Funded by

Ministry for Finance Malta

Collective Awareness Platforms for Sustainability and Social Innovation (CAPSSI)

The Mazi project was funded through the European Union’s Horizon 2020 ICT CAPS initiative under grant agreement no 687983

 

Thanks to

Vince Briffa (University of Malta)

Toni Sant (Spazju Kreattiv)

Panayotis Antoniadis (MaziZone.eu)

Simon Worthington (OpenMute)

A boat book - computer book stored on a Raspberry Pi computer packaged in a VHS case

 

Also available as online sd card image to download.

Micro Computer Book SD image - https://archive.org/details/180905boattrpiimage

ISBN: 978-1-906496-09-8 - 9781906496098, 2019, published by University of Malta Press 

Price - Pre-assembled: €250. Postage included.

 

 

Digital Arts on the British Waterways 

This boat book documents our journey on our narrowboat ‘Quintessence’ and the development of the boattr prototype in collaboration with MAZI (for “together” in Greek), a Horizon 2020 research project. Boattr connects narrow boats to the ‘Internet-of-Things’ and allows for open wireless mesh-networking within the narrow boat community, by using affordable microcomputers. The main goal of this project is to provide technology and knowledge that aims to 1) empower those narrow boats who are in physical proximity, to shape their hybrid urban space, together, according to the specificities of the respective local environment, and 2) foster participation, conviviality, and location-based collective awareness of the canals.

This is an edited collection of assembled and annotated boat logs, photographs and video essays, manifested, in a scholarly gesture, as a ‘computer book'.

The boattr prototype was built on the MAZI toolkit and the capabilities offered by Do-It-Yourself networking infrastructures – low-cost off-the-shelf hardware and wireless technologies – that allow small communities or individuals to deploy local communication networks that are fully owned by local actors, including all generated data. These DIY networks could cover from a small square (e.g., using a Raspberry Pi) to a city neighbourhood (e.g., the Commotion Construction Kit used at the RedHook WiFi initiative) or even a whole city (e.g., guifi.net, awmn.net, freifunk.net), and in the case of boattr the UK canal network.

The boattr DIY infrastructures offer a unique rich set of special characteristics and affordances for offering local services to the narrow boat community, outside the public Internet: the ownership and control of the whole design process that promotes independence and grass-roots innovation rather than loss of control and fear of data shadows; the de facto physical proximity of those connected without the need for disclosing private location information, such as GPS coordinates, to third parties; the easy and inclusive access through the use of a local captive portal launched automatically when one joins the network; the option for anonymous interactions; and the materiality of the network itself. The prototype integrates existing FLOSS software, from very simple applications to sophisticated distributed solutions (like those under development by the P2Pvalue project, mobile sensing devices, and recent developments in open data and open hardware), allowing it to be appropriated by different non-expert users according to their respective context and use case.

 

Table of Contents

Research Journal

Adnan Hadzi

Boat Log

Adnan Hadzi & Natascha Sturny

Reflections

Natascha Sturny, Rob Canning & James Stevens

Videos

Adnan Hadzi

Images

Natascha Sturny

Resources

Franz Xaver & Anton Galanopoulos

 

Editor 

Adnan Hadzi

 

Authors Collective

Adnan Hadzi

Natascha Sturny

Franz Xaver

Anton Galanopoulos

James Stevens

Rob Canning

 

Tech Team

Harris Niavis - MAZI Programmer

Giannis Mavridis - Micro-Computer Programmer

 

Producers

Adnan Hadzi - Format Development & Interface Design

Panayotis Antoniadis - MAZI Project Manager

Mark Gaved - Coordination Creeknet

 

Quintessence Logo: H1 Reber / Buro Destruct

Cover artwork and booklet design: OpenMute Press

Copyright: the authors

Licence: after.video is dual licensed under the terms of the MIT license and the GPL3

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html

Language: English

Assembly On-demand

OpenMute Press

 

Acknowledgements

Co-Initiated + Funded by

Horizon 2020 - The EU framework programme for research and innovation

The Mazi project (2016-2018) has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 ICT CAPS initiative under grant agreement no 687983.

 

Thanks to

 

Ushi Reiter - Art Meets Radical Openness, Servus.at, Linz

Vince Briffa - Department of Digital Arts, University of Malta

Clemens Apprich - Centre for Digital Cultures, Lüneburg

Rob Canning - School of Art and Design, Coventry University

Gary Hall - School of Art and Design, Coventry University

Simon Worthington - OpenMute Press, London/Berlin

 

Size Matters: Notes towards a Better Understanding of the Value, Operation and Potential of Small Visual Arts Organisations is written by Sarah Thelwall, commissioned by Common Practice, London with support from Arts Council England. The paper seeks to articulate the value of small visual arts organisations within the wider arts ecology. The paper explores the significant potential these organisations have in the present cultural landscape and economy, also detailing the operational and investment challenges they face in realising this. Finally, it advocates a reconsideration of present assessment and investment practices. Common Practice, London is an advocacy group working for the recognition and fostering of the small-scale contemporary visual arts sector in London. The group aims to promote the value of the sector and its activities, act as a knowledge base and resource for members and affiliated organisations, and develop a dialogue with other visual art organisations on a local, national and international level. Download the ebook: Size Matters mobi for kindle... Size Matters epub for other ereaders... ISBN 978-1906496661 Date of Publication: 7/2011 42 pages

Finally in print!! - the seminal work of post-dystopian elegiac apocalypse fiction from acclaimed sub-Beckettian Charlie Weaver Rolfe - funny, sad and maybe true!!

 

ISBN 9781906496326

Date of Publication: 24/4/2009

176 pages