<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><p class="Body" style="tab-stops:35.45pt 70.85pt 106.3pt 5.0cm 177.15pt 212.6pt 248.05pt 283.45pt 318.9pt 354.35pt 389.75pt 425.2pt 460.65pt"><br></p><p class="Body" style="tab-stops:35.45pt 70.85pt 106.3pt 5.0cm 177.15pt 212.6pt 248.05pt 283.45pt 318.9pt 354.35pt 389.75pt 425.2pt 460.65pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt">Video Vortex 3 Ankara Edition - Call for participation</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="Body" style="tab-stops:35.45pt 70.85pt 106.3pt 5.0cm 177.15pt 212.6pt 248.05pt 283.45pt 318.9pt 354.35pt 389.75pt 425.2pt 460.65pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="Body" style="tab-stops:35.45pt 70.85pt 106.3pt 5.0cm 177.15pt 212.6pt 248.05pt 283.45pt 318.9pt 354.35pt 389.75pt 425.2pt 460.65pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="Body" style="tab-stops:35.45pt 70.85pt 106.3pt 5.0cm 177.15pt 212.6pt 248.05pt 283.45pt 318.9pt 354.35pt 389.75pt 425.2pt 460.65pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="Body" style="tab-stops:35.45pt 70.85pt 106.3pt 5.0cm 177.15pt 212.6pt 248.05pt 283.45pt 318.9pt 354.35pt 389.75pt 425.2pt 460.65pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt">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 cont</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt">roversial world of online
video? How are institutions, groups and individuals coping with the
potentialities of freely distributed video content? <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="Body" style="tab-stops:35.45pt 70.85pt 106.3pt 5.0cm 177.15pt 212.6pt 248.05pt 283.45pt 318.9pt 354.35pt 389.75pt 425.2pt 460.65pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="Body" style="tab-stops:35.45pt 70.85pt 106.3pt 5.0cm 177.15pt 212.6pt 248.05pt 283.45pt 318.9pt 354.35pt 389.75pt 425.2pt 460.65pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt">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</span></p><p class="Body" style="tab-stops:35.45pt 70.85pt 106.3pt 5.0cm 177.15pt 212.6pt 248.05pt 283.45pt 318.9pt 354.35pt 389.75pt 425.2pt 460.65pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt">e aesthetics. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="Body" style="tab-stops:35.45pt 70.85pt 106.3pt 5.0cm 177.15pt 212.6pt 248.05pt 283.45pt 318.9pt 354.35pt 389.75pt 425.2pt 460.65pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="Body" style="tab-stops:35.45pt 70.85pt 106.3pt 5.0cm 177.15pt 212.6pt 248.05pt 283.45pt 318.9pt 354.35pt 389.75pt 425.2pt 460.65pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt">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,<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>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. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="Body" style="tab-stops:35.45pt 70.85pt 106.3pt 5.0cm 177.15pt 212.6pt 248.05pt 283.45pt 318.9pt 354.35pt 389.75pt 425.2pt 460.65pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="Body" style="tab-stops:35.45pt 70.85pt 106.3pt 5.0cm 177.15pt 212.6pt 248.05pt 283.45pt 318.9pt 354.35pt 389.75pt 425.2pt 460.65pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt">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 <a href="http://www.networkcultures.org/videovortex"><span style="color:#000099">http://www.networkcultures.org/videovortex</span></a> as
well as the Video Vortex discussion list. Information about subscription to
this list can be found at <a href="http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/videovortex_listcultures.org"><span style="color:#000099">http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/videovortex_listcultures.org</span></a>.
The Video Vortex 3 Ankara Edition website and blog, containing the latest
information, will be online soon. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="Body" style="tab-stops:35.45pt 70.85pt 106.3pt 5.0cm 177.15pt 212.6pt 248.05pt 283.45pt 318.9pt 354.35pt 389.75pt 425.2pt 460.65pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="Body" style="tab-stops:35.45pt 70.85pt 106.3pt 5.0cm 177.15pt 212.6pt 248.05pt 283.45pt 318.9pt 354.35pt 389.75pt 425.2pt 460.65pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt">For inquiries regarding
participation, contribution or submission of related works, please contact
Andreas Treske at <a href="mailto:treske@bilkent.edu.tr"><span style="color:#000099">treske@bilkent.edu.tr</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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