<videovortex> changes at INC, towards a central email list

[Gianluca Del Gobbo]

Ciao Geert,
very curious about Video Vortex #13 in Rome in 2021 let me know more if you
can.

best

Gianluca
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On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 8:55 AM Geert Lovink <geert at xs4all.nl> wrote:

> Dear VideoVortex members,
>
> there’s a lot to report. First of all, in 1-2 weeks the third Video Vortex
> will be ready! The publication will become available as a pdf and epub and
> as a print on demand via Lulu. I will try to find money for a print edition
> but that’s not certain yet.
>
> There are still ideas to do a Video Vortex #13 in Rome in 2021. More on
> that later.
>
> Then there is the fate of this email list. For many years the traffic has
> decreased to, at best, one post a week, mostly announcements with zero
> discussion. It can hardly be called a community channel (half of those
> posting were from me anyway).
>
> Over the years our INC research unit has been shrinking. Now we’re facing
> another change with Inte, Patricia and Inte leaving. To simply matters, and
> to reduce our focus on the dead medium called email, I have decided to
> centralize all INC email lists into one in the hope that it will create a
> synthesis of topics and approaches (between INC topics such as search,
> money, aesthetics, activism etc.) and create a more lively discussion. Will
> it be a dead cat bounce? We’ll see.
>
> Needless to say, this hurts a bit but the evidence is overwhelming, have a
> look at the VV list archive, if you like:
> http://listcultures.org/pipermail/videovortex_listcultures.org/.
>
> Soon I post the announcement here and then you can decide if you want to
> subscribe to the new list. We will not resubscribe anyone automatically.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Best, Geert
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