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18/10/2007

Video vortex

Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam

The Netherlands Media Art Institute's response to the Web2.0 phenomenon

The exhibition video vortex is the Netherlands Media Art Institute's response to the Web2.0 phenomenon. Web2.0 stands for power to the user and democracy for everyone. It has led to innovative forms of media use in which an open and playful collaboration can lead to critical positions and new ideas.

The Netherlands Media Art Institute seizes upon these developments with a new exhibition model. Stimulation and participation within network environments is the point of departure. In addition to presenting existing installations, short workshops and presentations are given every day. In some cases the artworks form the starting point for a workshop, while in other cases the medium used is the subject of a workshop. Collective experience and building shared knowledge is an important focus in all the projects. In this manner, in the form of continual exchange of ideas, culture can change, renew itself and survive.

The Netherlands Media Art Institute has recently emerged as an experimental place where projects with a participatory aspect can be presented: in other words: do it yourself, with others! The artists are responding to developments such as YouTube, MySpace and Blogger, mobile video telephones and the influence of live webcam streams.

Some examples:

'Curator for One Day' For the duration of the project everyone can take on the role of curator. For this period the Netherlands Media Art Institute is making its whole collection available to the public. Through the Institute's online catalog one can make a selection from the more than 2000 video works. By means of a specially developed interface, in the gallery space one can choose a maximum of six video works to be shown on a day one selects. The only condition is that a rationale be given for the selection. This statement and the video works selected are then screened for the rest of the visitors for a whole day.

Graham Harwood (UK) – Netmonster. How is a network image created? NetMonster is a software developed by Graham Harwood (Mongrel / Mediashed). The software was developed to generate, edit and continually update content. The outcome is a complex of visual compositions comprised of results from internet searches. Collectively individuals build a 'networked' image that consists of a collection of pictures and texts that come from all over the internet.

Giselle Beiguelman (Brazil) – Sometimes. Giselle makes degenerative video that disintegrates and changes as a result of input from the users. Video images that were made with a mobile telephone can be edited with a keyboard and mouse in the exhibition space. After that a new montage is created live, in which the order of the original frames changes.

Beatrice Valentine Amrhein (France) – Video Lustre. For Beatrice Valentine Amrhein the mobile telephone symbolizes intimacy, intrusiveness and directness. She sees the video in the mobile telephone as her third eye, with which she looks at reality in a different way. She also employs the low resolution that is inherent to the medium in order to alter our perception. The installation Video Lustre is comprised of dozens of mobile telephones that hang from the ceiling like a chandelier. The mobile videos show various fragments of the body in close-up. A new interpretation of the body is created through this netwerk of mobile telephones.
Walczak & Wattenberg (Sweden & ???) - NoPlace. People are creating and collecting information all over the world. Blogs, online photo albums and social bookmark pages such as del.isio.us supply an enormous diversity of data. The installation No Place uses the raw material from all these data streams to create various versions of a paradise. New worlds are created, built up in an architecture that refers to the future.
Check the website for the precise dates and times!

Participating artists:
Beatrice Valentine Amrhein - http://www.beatricevalentineamrhein.com/
Giselle Beiguelman - http://www.desvirtual.com/
Susan Collins- http://www.susan-collins.net/
Jonathan Harris & Sepandar Kamvar http://www.number27.org http://www.stanford.edu/%7Esdkamvar/
Graham Harwood, Mediashed / Mongrel- http://netmonster.mongrel.org.uk
MW2MW (Marek Walczak & Martin Wattenberg) - http://noplace.mw2mw.com/proposal/
Sonic()bject - http://www.sonicobject.com/

During the opening, Friday, October 19: FLOSS Party!!!
FLOSS stands for Free/Libre/Open-Source Software. FLOSS Manuals provide instructions for open source software, and, in addition, seek to make sharing informatie about software easier. http://nl.flossmanuals.net/

Mobile Art
Saturday 20 October
Presentations by artists that show work in the exhibition Video Vortex will tell about the background and ideas of their work.
Artist Grahame Weinbren will give an introduction: http://www.grahameweinbren.net
Participating artists:
Susan Collin: http://www.susan-collins.net
Giselle Beiguelman: http://www.desvirtual.com
Rory Solomon: http://rorysolomon.com & http://noplace.mw2mw.com

Start: 13.30
Entrance: 4,- (studenten 2,50)
Reservations: 020 6237101 info@montevideo.nl

video vortex & Museum Night
Saturday, November 3

YouTube DJ/VJ performance: “A wild ride through the biggest audiovisual jukebox ever”
Max Schneider and Alex Fahl demonstrate that short video fragments are the dominant art form in our visual culture. They use the open content of You Tube: scratching, sampling, mixing, meta tagging, or “Video Slamming”!

Video Vortex workshops
Diverse short workshops: MobVideo and Uploading, led by artists. Get to know your mobile telephone in new ways!

video vortex II
December 7 – February 3, 2008
In video vortex II there will be attention for the other side of the ‘democratic’ movement. What is the reaction of artists to this democratization process? How much does the democratic movement differ from previous radio and television utopias? How can an artist preserve his autonomy and diversity outside the mass media? Is the amateuristic aesthetic the new genre? How can we develop a form of criticism and a critical practice that is not patronizing, but which still goes beyond the level of an anecdotal diary? Previoius examples of internet video are investigated, and a look will be taken at how (and how much) Dutch artists are reacting to developments such as YouTube, mobile video and webcam use.

Video Vortex is a collaboration of the Institute of Network Cultures with Argos Brussels and the Netherlands Media Art Institute in Amsterdam.

Programme:
5 October 2007: Video Vortex Symposium
Location: Argos, Brussels
Curated by: Stoffel Debuysere
Speakers: Nora Barry, Johan Grimonprez, Peter Horvath, Lev Manovich, Adrian Miles, Tomas Rawlings & Ana Kronschnabl, Simon Ruschmeyer, Keith Sanborn, Peter Westenberg. Moderator: Geert Lovink
More information: http://www.argosarts.org

20 October 2007 - 3 February 2008: Video Vortex Exhibition
Location: Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam
Curated by: Annet Dekker
Artists: Beatrice Valentine Amrhein, Giselle Beiguelman, Susan Collins, Jonathan Harris & Sepandar Kamvar, Graham Harwood, MW2MW, Sonic()bject, Park 4DTV, Rabotnik, Volkskrant Oog, Charlotte Leouzon & Johan Gimonprez, Nancy Mauro-Flude, Martin Takken, Curator for One Day a. o.
Opening: 19 October 2007, 17:00 FLOSS Party by Adam Hyde!

18-19 January 2008: Video Vortex Conference
Location: PostCS 11, Amsterdam
Editorial team: Geert Lovink, Sabine Niederer, Shirley Niemans.
Research by: Seth Keen, Vera Tollmann.
More information: http://www.networkcultures.org/videovortex/

Thanks to:
VSBfonds
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Amsterdams Fonds voor Kunst

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Mobile Art
Artist presentations Video Vortex
20-10-2007
Giselle Beiguelman, Susan Collins, Rory Solomon

Presentations by artists that show work in the exhibition Video Vortex will tell about the background and ideas of their work.
Artist Grahame Weinbren will give an introduction.

Grahame Weinbren is a pioneer in interactive cinema. His installations have been exhibited widely internationally including the Whitney Museum of American Art, LAMOCA, the Guggenheim Museum, the Berlin Film Festival, and the Centre Georges Pompidou with commissions including the National Gallery of Art, the City of Dortmund, and the InterCommunications Center of Tokyo. Weinbren has published and lectured internationally on cinema, interactivity, and new technology, and is editor of the Millennium Film Journal. http://www.grahameweinbren.net

Artist’s presentation by:
Susan Collins
Susan Collins is one of the UK’s leading artists working with digital media. For the past decade the collision between the real and the artificial or virtual has been a key area of investigation. Collins works across public, gallery and online spaces. Susan Collins has been Head of the Slade Centre for Electronic Media (SCEMFA) at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London since 1995. http://www.susan-collins.net

Giselle Beiguelman
Giselle Beiguelman is a new media artist and multimedia essayist who teaches Digital Culture at the Graduation Program in Communication and Semiotics of PUC-SP (São Paulo, Brazil). She has been developing art projects for mobile phones ('Wop Art', 2001), praised by many media sites and the international press and Beiguelman's work appears in important anthologies and guides devoted to digital arts. http://www.desvirtual.com

Rory Solomon
Rory Solomon works together with Marek Walczak and Martin Wattenberg at the installation NoPlace of which a beta version if shown in the exhibition the final installation will be presented as part of the Olympics 2008 in Beijing. http://rorysolomon.com & http://noplace.mw2mw.com

Entrance: 4,- (students 2,50)
Start: 1:30 p.m.
Please make reservations: 020 6237101 info@montevideo.nl


Susan Collins
Giselle Beiguelman, Sometimes

Netherlands Media Art Institute
Keizersgracht 264 - Amsterdam

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