<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><p align="">CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS: Video Vortex Reader II</p><p align="">In response to the increasing
potential for video as a significant form of personal media on the Internet,
the Video Vortex program examines key issues that are emerging around the
independent production and distribution of online video content. With the rise
of YouTube and alternative platforms, the moving image on the Internet has become expansively
more prominent and popular. As a
wide range of technologies is now broadly available, the potential of video as
a personal means of expression has reached a totally new dimension.</p><p align="">Following the
success of the first Video Vortex reader (published late 2008, second edition,
4000 copies in total), recent Video Vortex conferences in Ankara (Oct. 2008),
Split (May 2009) and Brussels (Nov. 2009) have sparked a number of new
insights, debates and conversations regarding the politics, aesthetics, and
artistic possibilities of online video. Since these issues develop with the
rapidly changing landscape of online video and its use, we want to open up a
space once again for interested people to contribute to this critical
conversation in a second issue of the Video Vortex reader.</p><p align="">POSSIBLE
TOPICS</p><p align="">Taking its
lead from the first reader, and based on the issues raised at the latest three
Video Vortex conferences, as well as recent developments, possible topics
include:</p><p align="">Theories of
online video and Web cinema // Politics of online video // YouTube and the
state of contemporary visual culture // Database aesthetics // Video art meets
web aesthetics // Autonomous participatory culture for art and activism //
Artist engagement with ‘user-generated-content’ sites: content and architecture
// Changing modes of video distribution and what this means for artists and
activists // Open-source and open-content initiatives // Alternatives to
proprietary standards // Censorship and YouTube // The ethics and politics of
indigenous knowledge and online video // The use of online video within
government practices (election campaigning, censorship etc.) // Democracy,
citizen journalism and online video // Social Cinema // Educational practices
and online video in the classroom // New and changing economic models //
Google, YouTube and the economics of online video // Commercial objectives
imposed by mass media on user-generated and video-sharing databases // Effect
of ubiquitous online video practice on cinema, television and video art.</p><p align="">WE INVITE</p><p align="">Internet,
visual culture and media scholars, researchers, artists, curators, producers,
lawyers, engineers, open-source and open-content advocates, activists, Video
Vortex conference participants, and others to submit materials and proposals.</p><p align="">FORMATS
</p><p align="">We welcome
interviews, dialogues, essays and articles, images (b/w), email exchanges,
manifestos, with a max of 8,000 words. For scope and style, take a look at the
previous INC readers (Video Vortex Reader, Urban Screens, Incommunicado Reader,
MyCreativity Reader) and the style guide
at: <a href="http://www.networkcultures.org/_uploads/videovortex_styleguide.pdf">http://www.networkcultures.org/_uploads/videovortex_styleguide.pdf</a></p><p align="">This
publication is produced by the Institute of Network Cultures in Amsterdam and
will be launched early 2011.</p><p align="">DEADLINE: May
10, 2010</p><p align="">SEND CONTRIBUTIONS TO: rachel(at)networkcultures(dot)org </p><p align="">____________</p><p align="">MORE
INFORMATION</p><p align="">Video Vortex:
<a href="http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/videovortex/">http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/videovortex/</a></p><p align="">INC readers: <a href="http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/portal/publications/inc-readers/">http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/portal/publications/inc-readers/</a></p><p align="">Or email: rachel(at)networkcultures(dot)org</p><p align=""><br></p><p align="">ABOUT THE
READER SERIES</p><p align="">The INC
reader series are derived from conference contributions and produced by the
Institute of Network Cultures in Amsterdam. They are available (for free) in
print and pdf form on <a href="http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/portal/publications/inc-readers/">http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/portal/publications/inc-readers/</a></p><p align="">Previously
published in this series:
</p><p align="">INC Reader
#5: Scott McQuire, Meredith Martin, and Sabine Niederer (eds.), Urban Screens Reader, Amsterdam:
Institute of Network Cultures, 2009. The Urban Screens Reader is the first book
to focus entirely on the topic of urban screens. A collection of texts from
leading theorists, and a series of case studies that deal with artists’
projects, and screen operators’ and curators’ experiences, offering a rich
resource at the intersections between digital media, cultural practices and
urban space.</p><p align="">INC Reader
#4: Geert Lovink and Sabine Niederer (eds.), Video Vortex Reader: Responses to YouTube, Amsterdam: Institute of
Network Cultures, 2008.
The Video Vortex Reader is the first collection of
critical texts to deal with the rapidly emerging world of online video – from
its explosive rise in 2005 with YouTube, to its future as a significant form of
personal media.</p><p align="">INC Reader
#3: Geert Lovink and Ned Rossiter (eds.), MyCreativity
Reader: A Critique of Creative Industries, Amsterdam: Institute of Network
Cultures, 2007.
The MyCreativity Reader is a collection of critical research
into the creative industries. The material develops out of the MyCreativity
Convention on International Creative Industries Research held in Amsterdam,
November 2006 (no longer available in print; pdf online).</p><p align="">INC Reader
#2: Katrien Jacobs, Marije Janssen and Matteo Pasquinelli (eds.), C’Lick Me: A Netporn Studies Reader,
Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2007.
C’lick Me: A Netporn Studies
Reader is an anthology that collects the best material from two years of debate
from The Art and Politics of Netporn 2005 conference to the 2007 C’Lick Me
festival (no longer available in print; pdf online).</p><p align="">INC Reader
#1: Geert Lovink and Soenke Zehle (eds.), Incommunicado
Reader, Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2005.
The Incommunicado
Reader brings together papers written for the June 2005 event, and includes a
CD-ROM of interviews with speakers (no longer available in print; pdf online).</p><p align=""><br></p><p align="">ABOUT VIDEO
VORTEX EVENTS</p><p align="">Video Vortex V: Brussels, Belgium (November 20-21, 2009) was
organized by Cimatics festival 2009 in
cooperation with the Institute of
Network Cultures in Amsterdam and supported by KASK (Faculty of Fine Arts, University College Ghent)
and the Center Leo Apostel (CLEA).</p><p align="">Video Vortex IV: Split, Croatia (May 22-23, 2009) was organized
by The Department of Film and Video at the Academy of Arts University of Split
and Platforma 9.81, in collaboration with the Institute of Network Cultures in
Amsterdam.</p><p align="">Video Vortex III: Ankara, Turkey (October 10-11, 2008) was
organized by Bilkent University Department of Communication and Design, in
cooperation with the Institute of Network Cultures.</p><p align="">Planned
Events: Video Vortex Budapest (Oct. 2010), Leicester, Amsterdam (March 2011),
Croatia (September 2011).</p></div><div apple-content-edited="true"> <div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>______</div><div><br></div><div>Rachel Somers Miles</div><div>Publications + Projects</div><div>Institute of Network Cultures</div><div><br></div><div><div><div>t: +31 (0)20 595 1865</div><div>f: +31 (0)20 595 1840</div><div><br></div><div>Office Hours: Tues, Weds, Thurs 9:30-17:30</div><div><br></div><div><a href="mailto:rachel@networkcultures.org">rachel@networkcultures.org</a></div></div></div><div><a href="http://www.networkcultures.org">www.networkcultures.org</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></body></html>