<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(26, 26, 26); ">The 9th edition of Video Vortex will start this Thursday in Lüneburg!</span></font></p><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; ">Video Vortex #9</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; ">Re:assemblies of Video</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; ">28 Feb. – 2 March 2013</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; ">Lüneburg, Germany</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; ">Centre for Digital Cultures</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; ">Leuphana University</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(26, 26, 26); font-family: Arial; "> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(26, 26, 26); font-family: Arial; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(26, 26, 26); font-family: Arial; ">The conference asks </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(26, 26, 26); font-family: Arial; ">how can we analyze and compare assemblages of online video? </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); "> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; ">Besides speakers, performances and workshops we already announced - among them</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; "> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; "><b>Beth Coleman </b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; ">and </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; "><b>Nishant Shah</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; "> - we would like to introduce to you a further set of speakers and topics:</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); "> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; "><b><br></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; "><b>Joshua Neves, Gabriel Menotti </b></span><span style="font-family: Arial; ">and<b> Filippo Spreafico</b> find different ways to organize filters and frameworks for glimpses of online video. Neves pleads for adopting new thinking for each video assembly, a multiplicity of video theories. The method of Menotti <span style="color: rgb(26, 26, 26); ">to access the videosphere is through curation. Even more hands-on is Spreafico’s</span> video montage, which simultaneously shows his „local“ and „personal“ view on information.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(26, 26, 26); font-family: Arial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; "><span style="font-family: Arial; "><br></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(26, 26, 26); font-family: Arial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; "><span style="font-family: Arial; ">Along the activism-journalism-civic media axis, <b>Sascha Simo</b>ns scrutinizes the phenomenon of amateur video witnesses along lines of </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; "> circulation, credibility, and mobilization</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; ">. <b>Margarita Tsomou</b> takes the protests on Syntagma Square in Athens in 2011 as her familiar example to explore the visual affectivity of bodies and<span style="color: rgb(26, 26, 26); "> social spaces in </span>a performance lecture.</span></span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; ">Besides covering movements of majorities inserting itself in existing social structures, video can be seen as a literal social beast reflecting the dark side of amateur video production</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; ">. <b>Nelli Kambouri </b>and<b> Pavlos Hatzopoulos</b> look at the blistering video propaganda of the Greek fascist party Golden Dawn.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); ">At this critical stage, contested video networks have to deal with attempts to subsume cultural production and consumption under brand and corporate authorities. Coders and developers of <b>VLC</b>, <b>FFmpeg</b>, <b>Pan.do.ra</b> and <b>P2P Next</b> gather at Video Vortex to exchange concepts and strategies </span><span style="font-family: Arial; ">to keep video formats, codecs and archives available to the commons.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; ">Video as part of the learning sphere is likewise contested: MOOC(s) are rising as a new promise for democratizing education or just as effective market reach. <b>Hybrid Publishing Lab</b> and guests from <b>Coventry University</b> will discuss critically how <span style="color: rgb(26, 26, 26); ">videos get re-embedded and re-annotated in teaching platforms.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; ">Financing<span style="color: rgb(26, 26, 26); "> of film, television and video projects reflects the logics of the new <span>assemblages</span>. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(26, 26, 26); font-family: Arial; ">Media industry and users alike are expecting multiplatform-ready narrative forms. Three case studies of the <b>Moving Image Lab</b> mirror these challenges and will be discussed alongside <b>Dystopia</b>, an interactive web film, to reflect what new terrains and demands are showing up in media production.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); ">Andrew Clay</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); "> translates the challenge of social media right within a format of academic presentation. Surrounded by three video projectors and using the interaction of participants, he will immerse a talk on social film into the format social film. The social force of copresence and sharing in a state of crisis is what interests <b>Deborah Ligorio</b> in her art project Survival Kits.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; ">Certainly social video is about the mirroring of social visions. This February in Cairo, the artists <b><span style="color: rgb(26, 26, 26); ">Kaya Behkalam</span></b><span style="color: rgb(26, 26, 26); "> and <b>Azin Feizabadi</b> together with curator <b>Jens Maier-Rothe</b> conceived a performative lecture on the very notion of »projection«. </span><b>Jasmina Metwaly</b> from Mosireen Collective – who organized Tahir Cinema, open air projections of mobile video during the egyptian revolution –, will respond with her insights and experiences in facilitating and screening political video.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; ">How much citizen reporters rely on personal engagement, skills and persistence, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; ">is shown by</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; "> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; ">the film <b>High Tech Low Life </b>by <b>Steve Maing</b>, a cinematic portait of two Chinese video bloggers.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; ">Video Vortex #9 in general traces new digital video culture, its users, spectators and producers by looking at criss-cross effects between neighboring domains, tracks and turfs of video. <span style="color: rgb(26, 26, 26); ">The way users made digital culture a part of their real life is illustrated in the ‚video meme’ "Digital Natives" by artist <b>Renée Ridgway</b>.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Participants: Beth Coleman, Seth Keen<span style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'">, </span>Edwin, Thomas Østbye, Andreas Treske<span style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'">, </span>Stephanie Hough<span style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'">,</span> <span style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Martin Katić</span>, Theresa Steffens, Arndt Potdevin<span style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'">, </span>Robert M. Ochshorn<span style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'">, </span>Nan Haifen<span style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'">, </span>Viola Sarnelli<span style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'">,</span> Boris Traue, Achim Kredelbach , Dalida María Benfield, Renée Ridgway<span style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'">,</span> Gabriel S Moses, Nishant Shah, Margarita Tsomou<span style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'">,</span> Sascha Simons<span style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'">,</span> Nelli Kambouri, Pavlos Hatzopoulos, Joshua Neves, Gabriel Menotti, Filippo Spreafico, Caroline Heron<span style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'">, </span>Jonathan Shaw<span style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'">, </span>Jan Gerber<span style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'">, </span>Sebastian Luetgert<span style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'">, </span>Johan Pouwelse<span style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'">, </span>Sebastian Luetgert<span style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'">, </span>Sascha Kluger, Jamie King<span style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'">, </span>Stefano Sabatini<span style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'">, </span>Peter Snowdon , Miya Yoshida<span style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'">, </span>Boaz Levin<span style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'">, </span>Azin Feizabadi<span style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'">, </span>Kaya Behkalam<span style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'">, </span>Jens Maier-Rothe<span style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'">,</span> Jasmina Metwaly, Left Vision, Katja Grundmann, Graswurzel.tv , Björn Ahrend, Timo Großpietsch, Vito Campanelli , Robert M. Ochshorn, Alejo Duque<span style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'">,</span> Lucía Egaña Rojas, Andrew Clay<span style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'">, </span>Stefan Heidenreich, Deborah Ligorio<span style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'">,</span> Cornelia Sollfrank, among others</font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12px; "><br></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><br></font></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; ">The full program can be found here on </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(8, 77, 229); "><a href="http://videovortex9.net/">videovortex9.net</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; ">VV9 is organized by Leuphana University’s Moving Image Lab and Post-Media Lab. A portion of VV9 also constitutes the first part of the ANALOG event series, sponsored by the university’s Centre for Digital Cultures.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; ">VV9 is funded through Innovation Incubator, a major EU project financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and the federal state of Lower Saxony. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; "><br></span></div></body></html>