<videovortex> videovortex Digest, Vol 130, Issue 1

Thu Nov 8 13:07:39 CET 2018

Below is my submission for the next VV, our experimental drone documentary:

Points of Presence

Few users of social media and mobile devices recognise how their everyday
swipes, likes, and retweets mobilises a global megastructure that spans the
earth, impacts ecologies, and plunges under the sea. This experimental
20-minute video submerges the audience in the socio-ecological tangles of
the materiality of the internet. It shows what can been seen and mediates
the unseen. The video focuses not on the consumerism surrounding digital
culture but rather on the symbiotic relationship between information
infrastructure and the geographic, geologic, oceanographic, and atmospheric
elements, immersing the audience in the textures, sounds, vertical vision,
of the digital ecology of the North Atlantic. 'Points of Presence', through
tracing several undersea cables, reveals how the internet is a material
political object intertwined with the natural environment, human labour,
and the mobility of data. The film was shot by Adam Fish (Lancaster
University) and Bradley L. Garrett (University of Sydney) in Iceland, Faroe
Islands, Shetland Islands, and London. It was edited by Adam Fish and
Oliver Case (both Lancaster University) Bradley L. Garrett (University of
Sydney). The score is by Jon Christopher Nelson at the University of North
Texas College of Music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTg0KNAHdRM

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> From: Adnan Hadzi <a.hadzi at gold.ac.uk>
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> Subject: <videovortex> first announcement:, videovortex xii, malta,
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> first announcement:
> videovortex xii, malta, september 27-28, 2019.
> more on www.networkcultures.org/videovortex.
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> possible topics:
> - drone aesthetics
> - videocultures on the social media platforms: instagram, snapchat
> - online aesthetics in the age of 5g and mobile 4k
> - streaming video & streaming platforms
> - automated filmmaking, algorithmic filmmaking, bots, online video &
> archives
> - videofication of the web
> - selfies -> animation -> videos
> - aerial imagery (drones / satellites)
> - wiki loves monuments
> - artificial intelligence (ai) prediction of moving image
> - locative media with beacons
> - look at the film industry in relation to the politics of video vortex
> - heritage & immersive spaces
> - digital preservation (archives / curating)
> - involve malta film commission, see: https://maltafilmcommission.com/
> - involve heritage malta, see: http://heritagemalta.org/
> - currently working on the inquisitor's palace augmented reality
> project, see:
> http://heritagemalta.org/museums-sites/the-inquisitors-palace/
> - working on wonders of the world as a google card board tour, see also:
> https://vr.google.com/tourcreator/
>
> there will be a seperate exhibtion (from early september to late october
> 2019, exact dates tba), curated in partnership between spazju kreattiv
> and video vortex, to be held in the gallery spaces of spazju kreattiv
> (https://www.kreattivita.org), particularly to enable malta-based
> participants to engage significantly with the conference delegates' work
> before and after the conference.
>
> if you want to get involved, contribute to the conference, exhibition or
> screening program, please propose contributions here to our mailinglist.
> we aim at putting together a conference comittee towards the end of the
> year.
>
> provisional program committee:
> adnan hadzi (department of digital arts, university of malta)
> toni sant (spazju kreattiv, malta)
> andreas treske (department of communication and design, ?.d. bilkent
> university, ankara)
> geert lovink (institute of network cultures, amsterdam)
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> all the best,
> geert, andreas, toni, adnan
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> background of videovortex
>
> videovortex is a network of video makers, geeks, activists, artists and
> research that work on the politics and aesthetics of online vode. it was
> established in 2007 by the institute of network cultures in amsterdam.
> video technology has radically altered the way in which we produce,
> consume and circulate images, influencing the aesthetics and
> possibilities of moving image cultures, as well as yielding a rich body
> of scholarship across various disciplines. given its ease of access and
> use, video has historically been aligned with media activism and
> collaborative work. video is driving social media and the web. it is
> dominating the internet of things. cameras causing breakdowns in
> networks. online video became lifelike.
> rapidly changing technological formats implicate the urgent need to
> engage with practices of archiving and curation, modes of collaboration
> & political mobilisation, as well as fresh comprehensions of the
> subject-spectator, actors & networks constituted by contemporary video
> and digital cultures.
> we are interested in the sharing of propositions, research,
> speculations, video and film work that responds to current debates in
> film, video, media, networks, and game theory, while being particularly
> attentive to the implications that technologies of live video, virtual
> reality, augmented reality, and artificial intelligence have for the
> future of video & media cultures.
>
> films & curated screening programmes:
> filmmakers and video artists are invited to submit work that addresses
> the themes and concepts outlined here. curators are invited to propose
> short screening programmes of up to 3 hours that showcase video/film in
> response to the themes outlined.
>
> workshop proposals:
> we invite video practitioners, artists, researchers, scientists, content
> producers and theorists to submit proposals for workshops that explore
> critical making as a mode of critique and inquiry. we are particularly
> interested in hearing from those working with virtual or augmented
> reality. if you are proposing a workshop, please indicate costs for
> materials, as these will have to be built in separately as registration
> fees. all workshop organisers will have to make their own arrangements
> for materials required.
>
> panel discussions:
> we seek proposals for 2.00 hr panels and round tables including a
> maximum of three papers of 30 mins each, along with a chair, who may
> also present a paper.
>
> individual papers & lecture-performances:
> we welcome suggestions for individual paper presentations addressing any
> of the topics outlined in the call, as well as proposals for
> lecture-performances that play with the standard academic form of
> presentation.
>
> previous events:
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> videovortex #1: brussels, belgium, october 2007
> videovortex #2: amsterdam, the netherlands, january 2008
> videovortex #3: ankara, turkey, october 2008
> videovortex #4: split, croatia, october 2009
> videovortex #5: brussels, belgium, november 2009
> videovortex #6: amsterdam, the netherlands, march 2011
> videovortex #7: yogyakarta, indonesia, july 2011
> videovortex #8: zagreb, croatia, may 2012
> videovortex #9: l?neburg, germany, february 2013
> videovortex #10: istanbul, turkey, september 2014
> videovortex #11: kochi, india, february 2017
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