<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"><base href="x-msg://1263/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 1em 0px; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.15; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; z-index: 0; "><span style="font-size: 12px; "><span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">From: </span></span></span>IOCOSE <<a href="mailto:contact@iocose.org">contact@iocose.org</a>></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 1em 0px; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.15; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; "><span style="font-size: 12px; "><span id="docs-internal-guid-2976c069-e148-a18b-4f88-a5e0d1100c11"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">We are quite excited as this month we joined the TAJ Residency program and SKE gallery in Bangalore, India. The sun is shining here, and this gives us plenty of energy to continue exploring the dark side of YouTube…</span></span></span><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 1em 0px; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.15; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; "><span style="font-size: 12px; "><span id="docs-internal-guid-2976c069-e148-a18b-4f88-a5e0d1100c11"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">On Thursday 27th November we are going to organise the 2014 edition of the <a href="http://iocose.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=030eac1a555b2162ca5ff471c&id=f558261d38&e=d69d780943" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(32, 32, 32); ">NoTube Contest</a>. The 2014 edition will be hosted by the <a href="http://iocose.us9.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=030eac1a555b2162ca5ff471c&id=c2a50c6856&e=d69d780943" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(32, 32, 32); ">Centre for Internet and Society</a> (CIS) of Bangalore and will be a fierce battle between local competitors.</span></span></span><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 1em 0px; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.15; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; "><span style="font-size: 12px; "><span id="docs-internal-guid-2976c069-e148-a18b-4f88-a5e0d1100c11"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">The NoTube Contest is a competition where participants are asked to find and submit the less valuable video they can find on YouTube. </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">There are three main criteria </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">for the</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "> evaluation of each submission: NoTube videos should show no clear reason to be made, published or even watched. This excludes funny videos, LoLcats, viral or any other video with an identifiable narrative, set of keywords or tags. The previous edition took place at the Influencers festival in Barcelona, Spain, and the final winner was Elena Lopez Martin with the video ‘<a href="http://iocose.us9.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=030eac1a555b2162ca5ff471c&id=d781cfab04&e=d69d780943" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(32, 32, 32); ">Doing Nothing</a>’.</span></span></span></p><span style="color: rgb(32, 32, 32); font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "></span><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 1em 0px; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.15; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; "><span style="font-size: 12px; "><span id="docs-internal-guid-2976c069-e148-a18b-4f88-a5e0d1100c11"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">On December 4th we will participate at the C(h)roma show, curated by Marialaura Ghidini and Tara Kelton. The exhibition will take place at the Croma electronics megastore at 100 Feet Road in Bangalore. We'll bring our </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "><a href="http://iocose.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=030eac1a555b2162ca5ff471c&id=0b6ea41215&e=d69d780943" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(32, 32, 32); ">FirstViewer Television</a>, an online streaming of zero-views videos from YouTube.</span></span></span></p><span style="color: rgb(32, 32, 32); font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "></span><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 1em 0px; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.15; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; "><span style="font-size: 12px; "><span id="docs-internal-guid-2976c069-e148-a18b-4f88-a5e0d1100c11"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">The day after, December 5th, First Viewer Television will also be presented at roBOt Festival in Buenos Aires, Argentina, at L’Usina de l’Arte. On November 29th we will take part at the finals of the <a href="http://iocose.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=030eac1a555b2162ca5ff471c&id=f1be68c5f3&e=d69d780943" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(32, 32, 32); ">Premio Francesco Fabbri </a>for contemporary art (Treviso, Italy), in the ‘Contemporary Photography’ section, with ‘<a href="http://iocose.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=030eac1a555b2162ca5ff471c&id=a17225e0f4&e=d69d780943" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(32, 32, 32); ">Drone Selfies</a>’.</span></span></span></p><span style="color: rgb(32, 32, 32); font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "></span><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 1em 0px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; "><span id="docs-internal-guid-2976c069-e148-a18b-4f88-a5e0d1100c11"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.15; background-color: transparent; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">We hope to see you at one of these events.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px;"><font color="#202020"> </font></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.15; background-color: transparent; font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Sending you good wishes from India,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 1em 0px; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.15; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-size: 12px; "><span id="docs-internal-guid-2976c069-e148-a18b-4f88-a5e0d1100c11"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">IOCOSE</span></span></span></p><div><br></div></body></html>