<videovortex> Summary of posible topics

[Marta Burugorri]

Video Vortex #10


Hello everyone! Now that we are at the first steps of next Video Vortex it would be good to start discussing what could be the main topics and issues to consider for next conference. I contacted some of you asking for some suggestions and I gathered all the feedback received below as well as some personal notes and artists working around those issues. Thank you for those who contributed with proposals and please feel free to do it for those who would like to. These are are not final topics at all, just a first way to open the discussion. 

First of all, related to the general topic Andrew Clay noted that Video Vortex #10, `1´ and `0´, are binary numbers in the digital system. In the denary system '10' is ‘2’, so it could also be Video Vortex 2 or 2.0 but as he holds, that might not be a happy association given the force and connotations of the Web 2.0. 

Video activism

Andreas Treske proposes to look at the events in Istanbul (Gezi park) and the right wing scene in Athens as well as videos of Syria, Libanon, Egypt, Algerie as political mash ups.

[He also suggests some possible collaborators if next Video Vortex is carried out in Instanbul: http://sinefilmelisb.blogspot.nl/ (new media department- Kadir Has University) http://www.documentarist.org/ (Istanbul film festival) http://www.modeistanbul.org/ / http://www.amberplatform.org/en/ ]

Mashs

Political mashes

Darren Salomon is a composer that created a collaborative and music web project (In B Flat) by simultaneously playing up to 20 videos in YouTube. He has another project called "maker music" in which he puts Youtube music videos on Google maps - music attached to specific locations-. http://darrensolomon.com/web.html

Videos of affinity
 
Overvisibility and undervisibility

In this sense, Vera Tollmann is currently working on labor behind moving images, like who is editing Google speech to text subtitles for deaf people.

Natalie Bookchin tells me about her new work "long story short" where she is using tools of online video to tell and share stories that we don’t usually on line from people invisible online –those living in deep poverty in the US. (…something Wendy Chun may somewhat point to in what she calls the "frenzy of and decline in visual knowledge" and that Hito Steyerl 　talks about in "Spam of the Earth" where she writes about the 　disappearing of images of real people and the undoing of the link between representation and politics. Vera)

Video as software

An artist of interest: 

Ursula Endlicher: Her focus lies in translating the social and structural components of the Web into choreography for performances, into installations and objects. She creates videos with this HTML movements and has several works concerning around this issue. http://ursenal.net





Andrew Claysuggests to look at Kember and Zylinska’s ‘creative media project’, and to consider the three following ideas:

1.Feedback – being retrospective and forward-thinking, being creative with media in the media itself

2.Noise – interference in ‘how things are’, the consideration of ‘something else’ the creation of forms ‘ever-new’, the ‘unknown new’, or getting beyond the ‘new-as-the-ever-same’ (something that is not really new in Walter Benjamin’s terms).

Glitch art : Nick Briz is a Chicago based media artist who works with experimental new media, glitch art and remix-culture. He also organises the GLI.TC/H international conference & festival http://nickbriz.com Interview in Rhizome.org : http://rhizome.org/editorial/2013/jul/15/artist-profile-nick-briz/

Vera Tollmann shared to me this booklet writen by Boaz Levin and two more artists: http://adamkaplan.net/Twilight.pdf (Adam Kaplan - Daniel Herleth - Boaz Levin) They write about aesthetics, digital video and databases and Youtube and economics. Adam Kaplan: http://www.adamkaplan.net/

　

3.The closeness of technology and the technicity of video– mobile apps, camera phones, webcams.

It might be interesting to start thinking what will bring Google Glass video, it is expected to be launched later this year. 

Hybrid spaces

Here an artist of interest: 

Jeremy Bailey: is a media artist that works betweeen video, computing, performance and the body using parody and satire as a way of expression. http://jeremybailey.net

Vine / Instagram video

Apss such as Vine and Instagram video might be interesting as well. Some of the current dicussions around Vine -6 seconds video- is the force of the loop, especially when it comes to violence scenes it is having some controversy. One example was the vine massively spread of the Boston marathon explosion: https://vine.co/v/bFdt5uwg6JZ

Scott Blake is an american based artist who works with barcodes and videos. That is to say, he makes portraits with barcodes which activate videos. In some of his works the loop has a great force http://www.barcodeart.com/artwork/index.html

James Bridle: he has an Instagram project called Dronestagram in which the captures google maps locations of places where drone strikes events have been going on. He later shares this pictures on Instagram network next to some valuable information about the incident.(In this case it is not video but photography)

http://www.furtherfield.org/features/interviews/machine-visions-james-bridle-drones-bots-and-new-aesthetic 

Erica Scourti is a greek artist that explores communication, conection and identity through autobiographical experience. She also has some work concerning Instagram video but in general she works on new media topics.  http://www.ericascourti.com/art_pages/artwork.html


Finally, as a general suggestion Vera Tollmann proposes  for next conference to organise a more workshop-like format.


Regards,


Marta
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