<videovortex> videovortex Digest, Vol 45, Issue 5

[Jennifer Chan]

 1. Re:  videovortex Digest, Vol 45, Issue 2 (G.H. Hovagimyan)
Hi all,

I'm an artist, curator and scholar of video art from Toronto/Syracuse. I have curated at both artist run centres and alternative exhibition spaces in Toronto. I am interested in ideas of contexts and methods of how to present online videos in real space as well as how people/communities curate videos in the virtual realm. 

I recently curated a mashup of Internet videos that was installed in an apartment gallery. 
www.butchergallery.com/video2.html 

I am interested in "2. Youtube as Archive or the Question of Dynamic Database vs.  
> Static Collection:" 
"3. Beyond Keen and Lanier: Critique of the Amateur:" "4. Video Activism" and "6.Artist Perspective"

Perhaps this is a bit of a dead horse but I am always thinking of new ways/sites (real/virtual) to curate online video or net art, and strategies to get institutional support/ funding for it as many festivals feel as if these videos are not as valuable if the text is already on the Web.
I do believe that YouTube videos should be archived as on a few occasions my videos or my friends' ones have been unreasonably removed. 

As a video artist I am informed by viral and amateur aesthetics. I am interested in emerging and transgressive uses of technology (video and new media), and do research on the underbelly of the Internet (efukt, 4chan) and the limits of expression on YouTube. I'd be thrilled to talk about this and will be presenting a seminar on antisocial online video at the Open Video Conference coming October. I'm concerned about what it means to watch and produce these base things on the Web. Anyone interested in a session on ethics and individuality, or a sampling of trash?

With respect to Video Activism, I'm sure there's to say about this as I'm from Toronto and most of my peers only understood the severe breach of civil rights due to videos of G20...

All best,

Jennifer Chan
http://www.jennifer-chan.com

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> Hi All,
> My artists collaborative  Artists Meeting Have been doing a series of  
> curated you tube events.  Theve have bee very successful We've done  
> these in Hereford England for the Static 3 festival, In Germany at the  
> Dokfest in Kassel, and several times at Postmasters Gallery in New  
> York.  The group pick a theme and then everyone chooses videos. There  
> are 14 members in the group so the range is quite interesting.  We  
> then have two people curate the results to make a concise program. We  
> also have an open bar so that people can socialize.  Barbara London,  
> the video curator from MoMA remarked that the vent was the freshest  
> thing she'd seen in a long time.  We've also used you3b that was  
> created by Jeff Krouse from Eyebeam here in New York. you3b is a tool  
> to create youTube tryptychs.  We consider these events and the use of  
> youTube video to be a digital *objet-trouv?* You can see some  
> documentation here -- <http://www.artistsmeeting.org/index.php/Exhibition-Documentation/ 
>> 
> We would be able to come to Amsterdam and do a youTube party and a  
> talk about Artists Meeting if that makes sense for you all.
> /gh
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