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ATOMIUM - BRUSSELS
20 - 21 NOVEMBER 2009

On November 20-21 2009, Cimatics festival
is hosting the 5th Video Vortex conference.
Two years after its first edition, Video Vortex
returns to Brussels, this time taking place in
one of the great icons of mid 20th century
modern architecture: the Atomium.
The past two years, the conference series
- which focuses on the status and potential
of the moving image on the Internet -
has visited Amsterdam, Ankara and Split,
growing out into an organised network of
organisations and individuals. Time for an
interim report, perhaps. We asked some
participants of the first Video Vortex editions
and publication, as well as new ones, to
reflect on recent developments in online
video culture.
Over the past years the place of the
moving image on the Internet has become
increasingly prominent. With a wide range
of technologies and web applications
within anyone’s reach, the potential of
video as a personal means of expression
has reached a totally new dimension. How
is this potential being used? How do artists
and other political and social actors react
to the popularity of YouTube and other‘user-generated-content’ websites? What
does YouTube tell us about the state of
contemporary visual culture? And how can
the participation culture of video-sharing
and vlogging reach some degree of
autonomy and diversity, escaping the laws
of the mass media and the strong grip of
media conglomerates?
DAY I: Friday 20 Nov
13h30 Introduction by Geert Lovink
14h00 System flaws and tactics
Video channels, platforms and formats
impose strict structures on how you can
interact with them. This session is inspired by
the inherent errors, disabilities and restrictions,
often conducting our behaviour but in this
case inspiring and exposing new insights.
- Liesbeth Huybrechts/Rudi Knoops (BE)
‘Play that video, all work and no play
makes Jack a dull boy.’ Both Huybrechts
and Knoops teach at the Media & Design
Academy in Genk.
- Johan Grimonprez (BE)
‘It’s a poor story if it only works backward.’
Grimonprez is an international renowned artist
best known for his seminal DIAL H-I-S-T-O-R-Y.
- Rosa Menkman (NL)
‘From Artifacts to filter. The Tipping point of
failure.’ Menkman is an artist and is currently
doing a PhD at the KHM on the subject
of Artifacts.
- Brian Willems (CR)
‘Blindness: the inability of YouTube to read
itself’. Brian Willems teaches literature and
media culture at the University of Split.
17h30 Q&A
20h30 Video Vortex at night
On Friday night everyone is invited in
the centre of Brussels at Les Brigittines for
an evening programme with:
- Filmscreening programme
by Stoffel Debuysere and María Palacios Cruz
- Artist presentations
by Constant Dullaart and Albert Figurt
- Audiovisual performance
by Kurt D’haeseleer & Tuk

DAY II: Saturday 21 Nov
10h00 Online cinema
What will happen to web cinema as we
shift from learning to see and how to feel
to learning how to participate in this new
electronic space of modernity?
- Andrew Clay (GB)
‘Web cinema: Mind the Gap!’ Andrew Clay
is lecturing in Critical Technical Practices
at De Montfort University, Leicester and
programme leader of BSc (Hons) Media
Technology in the Faculty of Computing
Sciences and Engineering.
10h45 Categories of enactment
/ Strategies of resistance
The two speakers have been contributing
to the previous Video Vortex Reader. They
are both artists and theoreticians and share
a common attitude of resistance. In this
session they will update and further expand
their contributions to Video Vortex.
- Keith Sanborn (US)
‘Beyond YouTube.world’. Sanborn is
media artist and theoretician focusing
on the investigation of public images and
private perceptions with great interest in “user-generated-content” and web footage
in general.
- Stefaan Decostere (BE)
‘Impact, complicity, fascination’. Decostere
is a Belgian artist and has been producing
documentaries for tv since ‘79. In ‘99 he
founded CARGO, a foundation for creation
and development with media.
12h00 Lunchbreak
13h30 Artist practices: (sub)versioning
(Sub)versioning - the contraction of the
Situationist ’subversion’ and the common IT
practice of ’versioning’ - might best describe
the practice of the artists in this session.
They approach online video as a means
for subtle restructuring of existing popular
media and as a basis for investigating
new modes of constructing and relating
meaning brought about by the Internet.
- Oliver Laric (TR) & Aleksandra Domanovic (RS)
Berlin based artists Laric and Domanovic
two of the co- founders of the platform
VVORK. Their work has been the subject of
numerous presentations at previous Video
Vortex conferences.
- Constant Dullaart (NL)
Dullaart is an artist and teaches at the Gerrit
Rietveld academy, and curates several
events in Amsterdam such as the Lost and
Found evenings.
15h00 Politics of online video
In a dispersed society with a seemingly
vanishing mass culture, online video
is challenging traditional channels of public
communication, oppositional media.
A session providing us with some remarkable
case-studies and research-projects about
participatory communication, the White
House and citizen journalism.
- Simon Yuill (GB)
’Citizen Journalism vs Oppositional Media’.
Simon Yuill is an artist based in Glasgow,
was involved in hacklabs and Free Media
Labs and has written on aspects of Free
Software and cultural praxis.
- Elizabeth Losh (US)
’The White House’s use of YouTube and
the reactions of privacy advocates’. Losh
is Writing Director of the Humanities Core
Course at the University of California and
recently published ’Virtualpolitik’.
- Stephen Crocker (CA)
’Filmmaking and the politics of remoteness’.
Crocker is associate professor of sociology
and assistent director of the Humanities
Program at Memorial University, Newfoundland.
He writes about media, social theory,
philosophy and the sociology of the image.
17h00 Closing Q&A
20h00 Opening Cimatics festival
Performances by AGF (DE), TVestroy (CA),
Boris & Brecht Debackere (BE) + party
http://www.cimaticsfestival.com
http://www.networkcultures.org/videovortex
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SINCRONIE FESTIVAL : DATA
EVELINA DOMINITCH & DIMITRI GELFAND
LECTURE + VIDEOSCREENING + CONCERT
15 DECEMBER 2009 - TEATRO ARSENALE MILAN
Sincronie is a festival of contemporary and experimental music born in 2003. As in the past, this 2009 edition is developed from a theme too, which will be the relationship between music and number. The third event of the festival program focuses on a critical reflection of the relationship between contemporary art and science in relation to digital, electronic and analog technologies, based on mathematical processes, numbers, abstractions and logical formulas. The event is curated by Marco Mancuso for Digicult and focuses on the work of Portable Palace, duo composed by Soviet artists Domnitch Evelina and Dmitry Gelfand. A presentation of their work will be followed by a Videoscreening devoted to some examples of artists who work, through different techniques, to relationship between sounds and images generated by physical, chemical, mathematical, electromagnetic, and nanoscale phenomena. The performance 10000 Peacock Feathers in Foaming Acid will conclude the night.
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VIDEOSCREENINGS - PLATEAUX FESTIVAL
VISUAL MUSIC / +39:CALL FOR ITALY
20 - 21 NOVEMBER 2009 - TURUN (POLAND)
Plateaux Festival is a 4-day festival, 19.-22.11.2009 in Torun and Bydgoszcz (Poland), presenting the newest and most interesting multimedia artists, praised and prize-winning audiovisual art, experimental films, electronic and electro acoustic music and vj-art. Digicult was included in the program of the festival with 2 videoscreening, curated by Claudia D'Alonzo (+39:Call for Italy Videoscreening) and Marco Mancuso (Visual Music). The screenings will be project on the nights of Friday 20th of November and Saturday 21st of November. The +39:Call for Italy videoscreening is the video selection taken from the seminal project +39:Call for Italy, while Visual Music is the screening extract from the original long selection curated for Dissonanze 06
+39:Call for Italy: Videoscreening Critical Text
Visual Music: Critical Text
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CONFERENCE: STELARC & MARCELI' ANTUNEZ ROCA
23-26 OCTOBER 2009 - LUGANO
The remixed Beauty, the event dedicated to Marcel.lí Antúnez Roca and Stelarc,
pioneers in using interactive and robotics technologies in
live performances is the first of a three-year programme
(2009-2011) of interdisciplinary festivals, productive
labs, workshops and discussions with international
guests. Marcel.lì Antùnez Roca, one of the founders of Fura dels Baus, and Stelarc, australian artist and performer, will present shows and performances, will host workshops for young artists and will meet each other for the first time to share their artistic paths and researches within hybridization, sistematurgy, cyborg. Meeting with: Pier Luigi Capucci, Tommaso Trini, Marco Mancuso, Carlo
Infante, M.G. Mattei
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Sea, the company operating Milan airports presents"La Porta di Milano", a new architectural project for realizing a work of art that will contribute towards changing the appearance of Malpensa airport. SEA, the company that manages the airports of Milan, would like to inform you that the deadline for the Competitive Tender Notice with regards to the presentation of the ideas and construction proposals to create a new grand scale project at Malpensa Airport, has been postponed from Monday 20th July 2009 to Monday 21st September 2009. La "Porta di Milano”, which will come to life between the airport and the Malpensa Express railway station, will be an area of great creative impact, a perfect blend of art and architecture, with which Milan will welcome the whole world in an entirely original manner: a sensorial itinerary pointing straight to the heart and mind of the travellers. The notice of competition, with the object of involving not only the Italian but also the international world of architecture and design, plans to create a space with a high aesthetic value, virtually representing the door to the city of Milan. An estimated 1.7 million Euro is planned to be invested in completing the entire work.
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TRANSMEDIALE.10
BERLIN:
02-07 FEBRUARY 2010
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At the House of World Cultures, transmediale.10 FUTURITY NOW! explores how internet evolution, global network practice, open source methodologies, sustainable design and mobile technology form new cultural, ideological and political templates. From 2 - 7 February 2010 - in an emblematic year for past images of the future - the festival presents conferences, workshops, screenings, performances and exhibitions dedicated to the identity crisis the future seems to be experiencing. transmediale.10 invites artists, scientists, media activists, thinkers and visionaries to ask not what the future has in store for us, but what do we have in store for the future?
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SONIC ACTS XIII
AMSTERDAM: 25 FEBRUARY - 25 MARCH 2010
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Since its inception in 1994, the annual Sonic Acts festival has questioned, examined, assembled and exhibited contemporary and historical developments at the cutting edge of art, technology, music and science. The thirteenth edition of Sonic Acts will take place in Amsterdam from 25 February to 25 March 2010 in Paradiso, De Balie, Netherlands Media Art Institute/Montevideo (NIMk) and Steim.
The title of this edition of Sonic Acts, The Poetics of Space, is a translation of La poétique de l’espace, a book by the French philosopher Gaston Bachelard, published in 1958. In it, Bachelard meticulously explains the influence of space and architecture on the individual, making an implicit plea for a new form of architecture founded on experience and imagination, rather than science and functionality.
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FOODPOWER
MILAN: 02 FEBRUARY 2010
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Tuesday the 2nd of February 2010 at 5.30 PM Dissapore presents Beggar’s Food | I’m Hungry / Are You Hungry?, a performance developed by the artist Franca Formenti and created in collaboration with the director of Dissapore, Massimo Bernardi. The event was triggered by FoodPower, a project created by Franca Formenti in 2007 and developed into a series of actions and performances through which to re-think about food, intended as a core instrument of power mechanisms. FoodPower is a work in progress of actions and situations that involve the audience and professionals of the world of food, creative incursions that act on the various ways of experiencing food and the behaviour that it creates.
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CALL FOR ARTISTS AND PROJECTS
This sections is developed in collaboration with Sagasnet - http://www.sagasnet.de/. Sagasnet is an independent non profit network for professionals engaged in the development and production of interactive narrative content that sprang from a training initiative funded by the European MEDIA Training Programme.
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