<videovortex> quick brussels report

[Geert Lovink]

Dear all,

it was again a pretty amazing experience this time at Video Vortex 5  
in Brussel.

On Friday afternoon there was lots of audience, on satuday morning  
pretty empty and then it filled up again in the afternoon.

The Atomium location was stunning, to say the least. Thanks to Bram  
and the other crew of the Cimatics Festival that continues in Brussels  
for another week or so.

I myself I am quite in favour to have more focussed sessions. We have  
to decide together which topics will be discussed in which editions.  
The Brussels scope was a bit too broad to my taste. But then, the mix  
was absolutely right: arts, activism and politics, theory, with plenty  
of links to film.

Margreet, Sabine and I blogged VV 5 and the report will become  
available on the INC site later on today or tomorrow.

There was a delegation of three from Budapest and we're going to give  
it a serious try to have a VV 6 there in May 2010 as part of the VJ  
festival there.

Because of the short time and lack of space there was hardly any  
possibility for the VV steering committee to gather. Nonetheless,  
there is all sorts of things happening. To have five conferences, a  
reader, exhibitions and so many p2p collaborations happening is an  
impressive trackrecord anyway.

By late January you can expect a call for the VV 2 reader, which we're  
planning to produce, here at INC, over the course of 2010.

Greetings from the still not yet that cold Amsterdam in heavy rain,

Geert