<videovortex> Reminder: deadline call for contributions 5 Feb 2009

[Sabine Niederer]

Dear all,
just a quick reminder that the call for contributions for Video Vortex  
Split closes on February 5, 2009.
The call is pasted below and available online at www.networkcultures.org/videovortex 
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Ciao, Sabine

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CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS: VIDEO VORTEX 4
On 22-23 May, 2009 the fourth edition of Video Vortex will take place  
in Split, Croatia. The Department of Film and Video at the Academy of  
Arts University of Split and Platforma 9.81 will organize the event,  
in collaboration with the Institute of Network Cultures in Amsterdam.  
After previous events on online video and responses to YouTube in  
Brussels, Amsterdam and Ankara, this event will focus on the moving  
image on the Web.

We invite contributions for the following themes:

Telepresence and Web Aesthetics
Video meets Web aesthetics: how is the phenomenon of ‘telepresence’  
incorporated in various art forms, such as music, theater, visual  
arts, literature and cinema? What are underlying aesthetics and what  
are the specific interface contexts?

Social Cinema
Has cinema found its way onto the Web? Did it change the essential  
features of cinema? What are the new possibilities of collaborative  
production? Does the future of film museums and cinematheques lie in  
online cinematic databases?

Architecture and Moving Image
Online video offers an immense database of moving images, which could  
be displayed in urban public space. What are the existing  
cinematographic visions of the future of the moving image in public  
space? (In films such as Blade Runner, Minority Report, Children of  
Men, etc.) Which visions can be directly implemented, and which will  
remain film scenography?

Video Sharing
What are the standards and alternatives for sharing, licensing and  
hosting moving images on the Web? This theme explores issues around  
the distribution, licensing, collaborative production, and video  
hosting.

Technology and politics of the moving image
What is the future of visual browsers? How does moving image  
production relate to cultural, technological and political dominance?  
Open standards and codex politics. Surveillance issues.

Literature and video online narrative
Narrative strategies on the Web. From screenplay writing with  
hypertext, the broadcasted self and narrative avatars to collective  
narrative processes leading to Web literature, tag based video  
narrativity, public journalism and performative real-time literature.

Please send in a 500-word abstract and a short bio to Dan Oki (danoki  
[at] xs4all.nl) before February 5, 2009.

During the Video Vortex in Split we will present five cinema events:
1) upload cinema 2) mobile phone cinema 3) social cinema 4) cinematic  
data base 5) performative cinema