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Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica">Video Vortex Conference in Amsterdam |
11-12 March 2011<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
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mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">On the 11<sup>th</sup> and 12<sup>th</sup> of March
2011 a next conference about Video Vortex will be organized in TrouwAmsterdam.
Conference themes are:</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
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mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">Online Video
Aesthetics; It’s not a Dead Collection, it’s a Dynamic Database; Country
Reports; Platforms, Standards and the Trouble with Translation; Online
Video as a Political Tool; and Online Video Art. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
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minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">The following speakers have confirmed
their participation: </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial">Natalie Bookchin,</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
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Florian Cramer, Sandra Fouconnier, </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial">Sam Gregory,</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:
Cambria;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial">Nuraini
Juliastuti,</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:13.0pt;
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Dias da Silva,</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:13.0pt;
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12.0pt;font-family:Arial">Ferdiansyah Thajib en Holmes Wilson.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
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mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; ">On Thursday the 10<sup>th</sup> of
March, the Insti<span class="hps">tute</span> <span class="hps">for</span> Sound
and Vision (in collaboration with INC and NIMk) organizes two workshops at
NIMk. These workshops offer participants the opportunity to gather hands-on
experience with online video. <span class="hps">Participants</span> <span class="hps">can</span> <span class="hps">work</span> <span class="hps">in different</span>
<span class="hps">creative</span> <span class="hps">workshops</span> <span class="hps">and</span> play with a range of <span class="hps">online</span> <span class="hps">video</span> <span class="hps">tools</span> <span class="hps">and</span> <span class="hps">technologies.</span> <span class="hps">Facilitated</span> <span class="hps">by</span> <span class="hps">experts</span>, the <span class="hps">topics
are</span>: <span class="hps">remixe</span> <span class="hps">and</span> <span class="hpsatn">re-</span>use of open <span class="hps">video</span> <span class="hps">collections</span>, <span class="hps">open source</span> <span class="hps">webcasting</span> <span class="hps">and</span> participatory <span class="hps">video</span> <span class="hps">production</span>. <span class="hps">On</span>
<span class="hps">Saturday evening the 12<sup>th</sup> of March, performances and</span>
<span class="hps">video</span> <span class="hps">projections</span> will take <span class="hps">place during an evening program</span>.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
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<span class="hps">More</span> <span class="hps">information</span>:<br>
</span><a href="http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/videovortex/6amsterdam"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial">http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/videovortex/6amsterdam</span></a><span class="hps"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
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mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial"><br><span class="hps">The registration for the conference is now open</span>:<br>
</span><a href="http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/videovortex/6amsterdam/info/tickets"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial">http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/videovortex/6amsterdam/info/tickets</span></a><span class="hps"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
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<span class="hps">This</span> <span class="hps">conference</span> <span class="hps">is
taken place within the</span> <span class="hps">SIA</span>-<span class="hps">RAAK
Publiek program Culture Vortex</span>. Culture <span class="hps">Vortex</span> <span class="hps">is</span> <span class="hps">an</span> <span class="hps">innovation</span>
<span class="hps">program</span> <span class="hps">to</span> <span class="hps">encourage</span>
<span class="hps">public</span> <span class="hps">participation</span> <span class="hps">in</span> <span class="hps">online</span> <span class="hps">cultural</span>
<span class="hps">collections</span>.<br>
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<span class="hps">Consortium</span> <span class="hps">Partners</span>: <span class="hps">University</span> <span class="hps">of</span> <span class="hps">Amsterdam</span>,
<span class="hps">MediaLAB Amsterdam</span>, Insti<span class="hps">tute</span> <span class="hps">for</span> <span class="hps">Sound</span> <span class="hps">and Vision</span>,
Netherlands Media <span class="hps">Art</span> Institute, <span class="hps">Virtual</span>
<span class="hps">Platform</span>, <span class="hps">VPRO</span>, <span class="hps">Amsterdam</span>
<span class="hps">City</span> <span class="hps">Archive</span>, <span class="hps">Museum</span>
<span class="hps">Boijmans van</span> <span class="hps">Beuningen</span>, <span class="hps">IDFA</span>, <span class="hps">and the</span> <span class="hps">International</span>
<span class="hps">Urban</span> <span class="hps">Screens</span> <span class="hps">Association</span>.<br>
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<span class="hps">More</span> <span class="hps">information</span>:<br>
</span><a href="http://networkculture.org/culturevortex"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial">http://networkculture.org/culturevortex</span></a><span class="hps"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
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<span class="hps">Sponsors</span>: <span class="hps">Foundation</span> <span class="hps">Innovation Alliance</span>, <span class="hps">University</span> <span class="hps">of Amsterdam</span>, University of Applied Science, Domain <span class="hps">Media</span> Creation <span class="hps">and Communication</span>, <span class="hps">and</span> <span class="hps">Mondriaan</span> <span class="hps">Foundation</span>.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; "> </span></p><div><br></div><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
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Video Vortex Reader</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
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the success of the first Video Vortex Reader, The Institute of Network Cultures
will launch the second Video Vortex reader during the Video Vortex conference, to
be held on the 11<sup>th</sup> and 12<sup>th</sup> of March 2011. It’s a
publication dedicated to examining significant issues that are surfacing around
the production and distribution of online video content.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; "> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
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first reader, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Video Vortex Reader:
Responses to Youtube</i>, is available as a free pdf on the INC website: </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
Helvetica"><a href="http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/portal/publications/inc-readers/videovortex/">http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/portal/publications/inc-readers/videovortex/</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
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10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica">The
content table of the publication will be published online at the beginning of
January 2011 on the blog: </span><span lang="NL" style="font-size:10.0pt;
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mso-ansi-language:NL"><a href="http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/videovortex/vv-reader">http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/videovortex/vv-reader</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
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information:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><a href="http://networkcultures.org/videovortex"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
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"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; 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><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; ">ADDRESS:</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; ">Institute of Network Cultures</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; ">HvA Interactive Media, room 05A07</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; ">Rhijnspoorplein 1</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; ">NL-1091 GC Amsterdam</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; "><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; ">POSTAL ADDRESS</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; ">Institute of Network Cultures</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; ">HvA Interactive Media, room 05A07</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; 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