VideoChronic: Video Activism and Video Distribution in Indonesia (2009)
Filed under report | Tags: · activism, democracy, indonesia, media activism, politics, tactical media, video, video art
VideoChronic publication is the result of a collaborative research project charting how activists are engaging with video technologies in Indonesia, addressing some of the issues of technology-mediated social movements, and exploring the potential and limitations of online video distribution.
The past decade in Indonesia has seen a dramatic increase in the use of video as a social change tool by community, campaign and activist organisations. Access to the tools for producing video have become increasingly democratised over this period, and rapidly adopted. Since the fall of Suharto’s New Order regime, space has been opened up for a host of new media projects to emerge. Individuals and organisations dealing with issues such as the environment, human rights, queer and gender issues, cultural pluralism, militarism, poverty, labour rights, globalisation and more have embraced video as a tool to communicate with both their bases and new audiences.
What groups are currently active in producing social and environmental video in the archipelago? What are the histories of that work? How is it currently being distributed? How are activists thinking they might approach distribution in the future?
Key researchers: Ferdiansyah Thajib M.A. and Nuraini Juliastuti M.Sc.
Project Manager & Editor: Andrew Lowenthal
Publisher: KUNCI Cultural Studies Center and EngageMedia, Nov 2009
ISBN: 978-0-646-52000-1
140 pages
Licensed under Creative Commons: Attribution, Non-Commercial, Share-Alike 2.5 Australia
Geert Lovink, Rachel Somers Miles (eds.): Video Vortex Reader II: Moving Images Beyond YouTube (2011)
Filed under book | Tags: · aesthetics, human rights, internet, media activism, network culture, online video, politics, theory, video, video art, youtube
“Video Vortex Reader II is the Institute of Network Cultures’ second collection of texts that critically explore the rapidly changing landscape of online video and its use. With the success of YouTube (’2 billion views per day’) and the rise of other online video sharing platforms, the moving image has become expansively more popular on the Web, significantly contributing to the culture and ecology of the internet and our everyday lives. In response, the Video Vortex project continues to examine critical issues that are emerging around the production and distribution of online video content.
Following the success of the mailing list, the website and first Video Vortex Reader in 2008, recent Video Vortex conferences in Ankara (October 2008), Split (May 2009) and Brussels (November 2009) have sparked a number of new insights, debates and conversations regarding the politics, aesthetics, and artistic possibilities of online video. Through contributions from scholars, artists, activists and many more, Video Vortex Reader II asks what is occurring within and beyond the bounds of Google’s YouTube? How are the possibilities of online video, from the accessibility of reusable content to the internet as a distribution channel, being distinctly shaped by the increasing diversity of users taking part in creating and sharing moving images over the web?”
Contributors: Perry Bard, Natalie Bookchin, Vito Campanelli, Andrew Clay, Alexandra Crosby, Alejandro Duque, Sandra Fauconnier, Albert Figurt, Sam Gregory, Cecilia Guida, Stefan Heidenreich, Larissa Hjorth, Mél Hogan, Nuraini Juliastuti, Sarah Késenne, Elizabeth Losh, Geert Lovink, Andrew Lowenthal, Rosa Menkman, Gabriel Menotti, Rachel Somers Miles, Andrew Gryf Paterson, Teague Schneiter, Jan Simons, Evelin Stermitz, Blake Stimson, David Teh, Ferdiansyah Thajib, Andreas Treske, Robrecht Vanderbeeken, Linda Wallace, Brian Willems, Matthew Williamson, Tara Zepel.
Publisher Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, 2011
Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial No Derivative Works 3.0 Netherlands License
ISBN 9789078146124
378 pages
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Comment (0)Limina No. 1: Unidentified Narrative Objects – New Video Production and New Media Art (2010) [Italian/English]
Filed under journal | Tags: · internet, italy, media theory, new media, new media art, video, video art
This journal is the first of a series written by members of the Ph.D Planetary Collegium M-Node, and published by NABA Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti Milano. The series will be a collection of reflections and observations by the Ph.D researchers who are part of the programme, and by interpreters of the contemporary digital culture.
The Ph.D Planetary Collegium is an international network of research based on the rapport between art, design, philosophy, technology and science, which welcomes researchers from all over the world. It has been founded by Roy Ascott, a pioneer in telematic and cybernetics art, whose work has developed in the fields of arts, technologies and consciousness.
Questo volume inaugura una serie di testi di ricerca realizzati a cura del Programma dottorale Phd Planetary Collegium – M-Node ed editi dalla Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti di Milano. Una raccolta di riflessioni e di osservazioni realizzate dai ricercatori che partecipano al programma e da interpreti della cultura digitale contemporanea.
Editor: Francesco Monico
Scientific advisory committee: Francesco Monico, Derrick De Kerchkove , Antonio Caronia, Pier Luigi Capucci
Publisher M-Node, NABA Libri, Milan, May 2010
ISBN 978-88-95286-07-5
212 pages
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