<synthesis> ++just out++ VideoVortex Reader 3: Inside the YouTube Decade

[Maisa Imamović]

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On Thu, 11 Jun 2020 at 12:47, Geert Lovink <geert at xs4all.nl> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> we’re proud to present INC Reader #14, the one that kept me of sane during
> the isolated and desperate Corona months of early-mid 2020.
>
> Soon we hope to let you bring you the news that a printed version will be
> available: the search for funds is on!
>
> For the time being you can order a print-on-demand copy through Lulu,
> download the epub or pdf version for free through the URLs below.
>
> Best from Geert
>
> —
>
> Video Vortex Reader III: Inside the YouTube Decade
>
> Edited by Geert Lovink and Andreas Treske
>
> INC Reader #14
>
> Download it here, as e-pub, pdf or print-on-demand (via Lulu):
>
>
> https://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/video-vortex-reader-iii-inside-the-youtube-decade/
>
> What is online video today, fifteen years into its exponential growth?
> What started with amateur work of YouTube prosumers has spread to virtually
> all communication apps: an explosion in the culture of mobile sound and
> vision. Now, in the age of the smart phone, video accompanies, informs,
> moves, and distracts us. Are you addicted yet? Look into that tiny camera,
> talk, move the phone, show us around — prove to others that you exist!
>
> Founded in 2007, Video Vortex is a lively network of artists, activists,
> coders, curators, critics, and researchers linked by the exchange of ideas,
> materials, and discussions both online and offline. Video Vortex has
> produced two anthologies, a website, a mailing list, 12 international
> conferences, several art exhibitions, and more to come as the internet and
> video continue to merge and miniaturize.
>
> The first Video Vortex reader came out in 2008, followed by a second in
> 2011. This third anthology covers the turbulent period from Video Vortex #7
> (2013) in Yogyakarta, across the meetings that followed in Zagreb,
> Lüneburg, Istanbul, Kochi, and finally Malta in 2019, where the foundations
> for this publication where laid before its production began in the midst of
> the corona crisis.
>
> The contributions herein respond to a broad range of emerging and urgent
> topics, from bias in YouTube’s algorithms, to the use of video in
> messaging, image theory, the rise of deepfakes, a reconsideration of the
> history of video art, a reflection on the continuing role and influence of
> music video, indy servers, synthetic intimacies, love and sadness, artist
> videos, online video theory in the age of platform capitalism, video as
> online activism, and the rise of streaming. Click, browse, swipe, like,
> share, save, and enjoy!
>
> Contributors: Annie Abrahams, Ina Blom, Natalie Bookchin, Pablo deSoto,
> Ben Grosser, Adnan Hadzi, Judit Kis, Patricia G. Lange, Hang Li, Patrick
> Lichty, Geert Lovink, Gabriel Menotti, Sabine Niederer, Dan Oki, Aras
> Ozgun, Daniel Pinheiro, Rahee Punyashloka, Oliver Lenore Schultz, Peter
> Snowdon, Andreas Treske, Colette Tron, Jack Wilson, Dino Ge Zhang.
>
> Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam 2020
>
>
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