<videovortex> Video Vortex 3 Ankara Edition - Call for participation

[Andreas Treske]

Video Vortex 3 Ankara Edition - Call for participation



On October 10-11 2008, Bilkent University Department of Communication  
and Design, in cooperation with the Institute of Network Cultures,  
will organise the 3rd Video Vortex event in Ankara, Turkey. Video  
Vortex 3 Ankara Edition will feature a two-day international  
conference, evening program, live performances and new media art  
exhibition.



As video is becoming a significant form of personal media on the  
internet, this conference and new media event aims to examine the key  
issues that are emerging around the independent production and  
distribution of online video. We are witnessing the merging of  
television and the Internet at an unprecedented speed. Video Vortex 3  
Ankara Edition, similar to the former Video Vortex conferences, will  
contextualize the latest developments through presenting continuities  
and discontinuities in the artistic, activist and mainstream  
perspective of the last few decades. Unlike the way online video  
presents itself as the latest and greatest, there are long threads to  
be woven into the history of visual art, cinema and documentary  
production. The rise of the database as the dominant form of storing  
and accessing cultural artifacts, has a rich tradition that still  
needs to be explored. How will we navigate through continuous  
expanding spaces of moving images? Will there be a technological  
paradigm shift, and how will this shift be narrated? What responses do  
are artists, activists, filmmakers and media producers have to the  
dynamic and controversial world of online video? How are institutions,  
groups and individuals coping with the potentialities of freely  
distributed video content?



Themes of Video Vortex 3 Ankara Edition will be: Navigating the  
database, p2p, art online, visual art, innovative art, participatory  
culture, social networking, political economy, collaboration and new  
production models, censorship & YouTube, collective memory, cinematic  
and onlin

e aesthetics.



Video Vortex 3 Ankara Edition is an extension of the broader Video  
Vortex project by the Institute of Network Cultures in Amsterdam.  
Video Vortex Ankara is a follow-up to the Amsterdam conference, held  
in January 2008,  and the Brussels conference, held in October 2007.  
It aims to continue and deepen the debates, while bringing together a  
wide range of scholars, artists and curators as well as lawyers,  
producers and engineers. At present, the organizers are in contact  
with Geoffrey Bowker, Donato Totaro, Jaromil, Steve Wilson, Vera  
Tollmann, Basak Senova, Angela Melitopoulos, Aras Ozgün and Michael  
Verdi, just to name a few.



We are currently finalizing the program and aim to start press release  
at the end of May. To keep up with our progress, please see http://www.networkcultures.org/videovortex 
  as well as the Video Vortex discussion list. Information about  
subscription to this list can be found at http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/videovortex_listcultures.org 
. The Video Vortex 3 Ankara Edition website and blog, containing the  
latest information, will be online soon.



For inquiries regarding participation, contribution or submission of  
related works, please contact Andreas Treske at treske at bilkent.edu.tr.
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