Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb, in collaboration with Association Kazimir in Split and the Institute of Network Cultures in Amsterdam, is organizing an international conference of theorists, artists and experts for new media, especially for online video, under the title Video Vortex, which is set to take place on May 17-19 in Zagreb.
This platform deals with a recent phenomenon that has a considerable presence on the Internet (Vimeo, YouTube, Facebook).
Moving pictures (film/video) and internet are in the process of defining their dynamic and creative mutual relations, and therefore the conference will focus on the content of changes in contemporary art and film, but also in wider cultural, social and technological fields.
The initiator of the Network is a prominent new media theorist Geert Lovink from the Institute of Network Cultures in Amsterdam; previous conferences were held in Brussels, Amsterdam, Ankara, Split, and other cities. The Zagreb Conference is an important turning point, because for the first time the conference is supported by a big museum institution such as MSU. After the Zagreb Conference, the following ones will take place in Berlin, New York, and Paris. About thirty speakers will participate in the proceedings of the conference, divided in six panels: Contemporary Art and online video, Theoretical discourses on the contemporary shift in the digital moving image, Social network and online video in the region, The perspective of online cinema, Artists talk about their own work and research in online video, and Technological aspects and new developments of online video.
Participants of the Conference:
Seumas Coutts, Annelies Termeer, Sabina Salamon, Laurence Rickelts, Bojana Romić, Riczhard Kluszchinsky, Andreas Treske, Dagan Coen, Janos Sugar, Peter Perg, Damir Nikšić, Sandra Sterle, Gabriel Menotti, Jan Simons, Nina Koll, Miklos Peternak, Dalibor Martinis, Natalie Bookchin, Annie Abrahams, Maartin Brinkerink, Miha Colner, Richard Vickers.
The exhibition:
Concurrently with the Conference an exhibition will be held, with works that were created through the participative processes in internet networks, i.e. as authorial videos prepared for online distribution: Liu Wei, Perry Bard, Flag metamorphosis, Janos Sugar, Sandra Sterle, Natalie Bookschin, Dalibor Martinis, Damir Nikšić, Annie Abrahams. Curator: Tihomir Milovac. Curators for online video selection: Vera Tollman, Sarah Kesenne, Christiane Paul, Perry Bard, Brian Willems, Hebert Patrick & Alexandra Juhasz.
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