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ARGOS, Centre for Art & Media in Brussels, presents two international
conferences:
Video Vortex: Responses to YouTube // 05.10.2007
Media, Memory and the Archive // 06.10.2007
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Video Vortex: Responses to YouTube
Fri 05.10.2007 // 11:00 - 19:00
Over the past years the moving image has claimed an increasingly
prominent place on the internet. Thanks to a wide range of
technologies and web applications it has become possible, not only to
record and distribute video, but to edit and remix it on-line as
well. With this world of possibilities within reach of a multitude of
social actors, the potential of video as a personal means of
expression has arrived at a totally new dimension. How is this
potential being used? How do artists and activists react to the
popularity of YouTube and other ‘user-generated-content’ websites?
What is the impact of the availability of massive on-line images and
sound databases on aesthetics and narrativity? How is Cinema, as an
art form and experience, influenced by the development of widely
spreading internet practices? What does YouTube tell us about the
state of art in visual culture? And how does 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?
This Video Vortex conference is the first in a series of
international events, aimed at critical research and reflection
surrounding the production and distribution of on-line video content,
at the instigation of the Institute of Network Cultures (INC).
Speakers: Johan Grimonprez, Peter Horvath, Lev Manovich, Adrian
Miles, Tomas Rawlings & Ana Kronschnabl, Simon Ruschmeyer, Keith
Sanborn, Peter Westenberg
Introduced by Geert Lovink. Moderated by Sabine Niederer.
Co-production with Institute of Network Cultures (INC)
www.networkcultures.org
The Conference will be followed by a selection of exceptional, witty
and provoking Internet videos, compiled for the occassion by some of
our guests.
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Media, Memory and the Archive
Sat 06.10.2007 // 11:00 – 19:00
How will generations after us look back on artistic production of the
20th and 21st centuries? Media formats, operating systems, software
and hardware, browsers and the internet as we know it today will have
evolved beyond recognition, both in shape and in use. What strategies
might be used to transpose technology-based works, variable, hybrid
and ephemeral by nature, to an unknown and unpredictable future? How
can intent, context and experience be recorded and permanently
interpreted? The archiving process does not merely represent an
attempt to preserve some notions, it also implicates that others will
be forgotten. What is relevant for preservation? What is the impact
of used models, technical structures and tools on the construction of
cultural memory? How does information travel through time, now that
the world is being (re)presented and organised more and more as a
database, dynamic and networked? How will museums and other memory
institutions cope with these new paradigms and what is the role media
artists and we ourselves might have in the structuring of public memory?
Speakers: Josephine Bosma, Jean-François Blanchette, Steve Dietz,
Wolfgang Ernst, Charlie Gere, Oliver Grau, Richard Rinehart
Moderated by Marleen Wynants (CROSSTALKS, VUB)
Co-production with PACKED
www.packed.be
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Curated by Stoffel Debuysere. In the context of OPEN ARCHIVE #1
(ARGOS) and Cinema in Transition (a collaboration between IAK/IBK,
ARGOS, ARTCENTRE VOORUIT, MEDIA Desk Belgium-Flemish Community and
Flanders International Filmfestival Ghent ).
more info: www.argosarts.org
Stoffel Debuysere
www.argosarts.org
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skype: stoffeldebuysere
phone: +32 2 229 00 03
mobile: +32 496200605
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