<videovortex> event in luxemburg (fwd by vera tollmann)

[Geert Lovink]

> http://www.mudam.lu/index.php?article=518

Saturday, 26 April 2008 10am-6pm

Mondo Youtube

This day-long session brings together several artists who have explored 
the participatory potential of mainstream media such as advertising, 
the Internet, reality television, video games, MySpace and YouTube. 
Given the increasingly profit-driven nature of most of these formats, 
is it possible for a challenging culture of call-and-response to exist 
within these nascent public spheres, or inevitable that all criticism 
and innovative thought introduced into these new formats will 
immediately be instrumentalized towards commercial ends? Invited 
artists will supplement discussions of their own work with examples of 
mainstream media that have interested them, influenced them, or into 
which they have actively intervened.

with:
Cory Arcangel, New York
Matthieu Laurette, Paris
Bjørn Melhus, Berlin
Guillaume Paris, Paris
Gabriel Lester, Amsterdam/Brussels