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Netherlands Media
Art Institute

Video Vortex.2
December 8, 2007 - February 3, 2008
opening: Friday, December 7, 5:00 p.m.

Participating artists:
Johan Grimonprez & Charlotte Léouzon, Martijn Hendriks, Jaap de Jonge, Meta.Live.Nu presents DFM RTV INT, Nancy Mauro-Flude, Oog Volkskrant Online, Park 4DTV, Rabotnik, Sonic()bject, Martin Takken,
Thomson & Craighead
http://www.montevideo.nl

Video Vortex is a collaboration among the Netherlands Media Art Institute, the Institute of Network Cultures and Argos, Brussels.

Video Vortex.2 is a sequel to the Video Vortex exhibition that responded 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 open and friendly cooperation stimulates critical reflection and new ideas. In Video Vortex.2 attention is given to a different side of the democratic movement. How are artists reacting to this democratization process? To what degree does the democratic movement in Web 2.0 differ from previous utopias around radio and television? How can artists retain their autonomy and diversity outside the mass media? Is the esthetic of amateurism the new genre? Once again, artists will be responding to Web2.0, with special attention this time being given to the Dutch/Belgium situation.

Video Vortex Workspace
In the Workspace everyone can get acquainted with open and free software (FLOSS, in collaboration with Derek Holzer), Vlogging (under the guidance of Seth Keen), network mapping (Govcom.org), take part in the Furtherfield Visitors Studio and more. See http://www.montevideo.nl for the latest program.

Curator for One Day http://www.curatorforoneday.nl
Once again everyone can become a curator in Video Vortex.2. With the aid of a specially developed website six video works can be chosen from the collection of the Netherlands Media Art Institute. On the day indicated this selection is then presented in one of the exhibition spaces at the Institute as a component of the exhibition. Using the Institute’s online catalog, or by visiting the mediatheque, a selection can be made from 2000 video works. Thirty-second fragments from the works are found on the website; to see the whole work it is necessary to visit the mediatheque. The only condition is that the selection be accompanied by an explanation of why it was made. For a whole day the rest of the visitors to the exhibition then can see this statement and the video works. Every Thursday a special guest presents his or her choice, with:

Friday, December 7: Macha Roesink (director, Paviljoens, Almere)
Thursday, December 13: Esma Moukthar (freelance art critic)
Thursday, December 20: Ulay (artist)
Thursday, January 10: Kelli Dipple (webcasting curator, Tate Modern, London)
Thursday, January 17: David Garcia (artist, teacher and writer)
Saturday, January 19: Sabine Niederer (Institute of Network Cultures)
Thursday, January 24: Maria Rus Bojan (freelance curator)
Thursday, January 30: Mirjam Coelho (Brakke Grond)

With thanks to: David Garcia (advisor), VSBfonds, Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst, Powered by BeamSystems

Netherlands Media Art Institute
keizersgracht 264
1016 EV Amsterdam
The Netherlands
http://www.montevideo.nl

The Institute for Network Cultures presents:

Video Vortex: Responses to YouTube
18-19 January 2008
International Conference
PostCS11 in Amsterdam

In response to the increasing potential for video to become a significant form of personal media on the Internet, this conference examines the key issues that are emerging around the independent production and distribution of online video content. What are artists and activists responses to the popularity of ‘user-generated content’ websites? Is corporate backlash imminent?

After years of talk about digital conversions and crossmedia platforms we are now witnessing the merger of the Internet and television at a pace that no one predicted. For the baby boom generation, that currently forms the film and television establishment, the media organisations and conglomerates, this unfolds as a complete nightmare. Not only because of copyright issues but increasingly due to the shift of audience to vlogging and video-sharing websites as part of the development of a broader participatory culture.

The Video Vortex conference aims to contextualize these latest developments through presenting continuities and discontinuities in the artistic, activist and mainstream perspective of the last few decades. Unlike the way online video presents itself as the latest and greatest, there are long threads to be woven into the history of visual art, cinema and documentary production. The rise of the database as the dominant form of storing and accessing cultural artifacts has a rich tradition that still needs to
be explored.

The closing session on Saturday evening will explore the way VJs and media artists are accessing and using online archives. Under the banner of Video Slamming, this evening is all about the new ways of watching, using, and playing with moving images, such as scratching, sampling, mixing, (meta)tagging and recommending.

Themes: Online Video Aesthetics // Participatory Culture // Cinema and Narrativity // Curating Online Video // Alternative Platforms and Software // Video Slamming

Speakers: Tilman Baumgärtel, Geoffrey Bowker, Dominick Chen, Rosemary Comella, Sarah Cook, Jay Dedman, Stefaan Decostere, Thomas Elsaesser, Helen Kambouri, Philine von Guretzky, Patrick Lichty, Matthew Mitchem, Dan Oki, Ana Peraica, Emma Quinn, Florian Schneider, Tom Sherman, Jan Simons, Valentin Spirik, Tal Sterngast, Thomas Thiel and Andreas Treske

Limited seats available, so register now!
http://www.networkcultures.org/videovortex

Project Arts Centre

AURÉLIEN FROMENT
CALLING THE ELEPHANT
15 DECEMBER, 2007 - 26 JANUARY, 2008
OPENING 6PM, FRIDAY 14 DECEMBER
Project Arts Centre
39 East Essex Street
Temple Bar
Dublin 2
Ireland
+353 (0)1 881 9613/14

http://www.project.ie

A magician in Aurélien Froment’s film Théâtre de Poche, like the forgotten Human Card Index — Arthur Lloyd, who could produce almost any kind of printed item from one of his pockets on request, conjures images into the air telling a cyclical tale. The sequences being performed have something of the quality of a child’s film - there’s a rabbit and a hat and a turtledove-duck - but one in which the innocently clear images belie the careful navigation of its own construction. Set within the gallery, the new film is one of the characters in a cast of odd bed-fellows. The Jack of Hearts and the Jack of Spades turn on their heel and disappear into the blackness, while a Prompter searches through his things for a magazine with forgotten images. Théâtre de Poche, Volume 1 — the first publication in a series of new interview scripts — introduces us to an architect, a retoucher and a puzzle maker, continuing the exploration of Théâtre de Poche the film. One after another, t
hey sustain an ongoing vaudevillian conversation.

It is an exhibition in which individual works might reveal something of each other, where characters are shadowed by caricatures, and through which the gallery transforms into both a stage and a screen.

Prompter (softly) — Hey!
Aurélien — Hey?
Prompter (softly) — You talking to me?
Aurélien — You talking to me?
Prompter (softly) — What’s that supposed to mean?
Aurélien — What’s that supposed to mean?
Prompter (softly) — Say, stop repeating everything I say.
Aurélien (muttering) — Say, stop repeating everything I say!
Jack of Spades and Jack of Hearts (in unison) — If you please, Aurélien. …He’s not repeating everything you say, you’re the one responding to his prompts. You only say what he wants you to say.
Prompter (muttering) — They’re right, those knaves. I’ve got a script to follow, it’s my job. I’m afraid that’s just the way it is.
Aurélien — A script to follow? Ok, I think I understand, I didn’t mean to ruffle you. Have you been in there a long time?
Prompter — Of course. I live here. Seen from above, it may not look like much, but down here it’s pretty roomy. You should come have a look. What’s more, I have everything I need here. All my books. What’s more, I’ve got my tape recorder.
Aurélien — Tape recorder?
Prompter — That’s right. One day I completely lost my voice, and I realized I could use a tape recorder as an understudy — an understudy for a prompter, just think of it! I also use it during the plays, to record myself when I prompt and now I have a great collection of complete blanks of memory. Everyone has their own way of passing the time.

(Excerpt from Théâtre de Poche, Volume 1)

Aurélien Froment has recently shown in Twice Told Tales, Galerie Michel Rein, Paris 2007, In the Stream of Life, Betonsalon, Paris 2007, A Hole in the Life, Store, London 2006, Mercury in Retrograde, de Appel, Amsterdam 2006, Of Any Actual Person Living or Dead, with Ryan Gander, Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers, 2005 and continues to work and show with Store
Gallery, London.

Gallery Dialogue:
15 DEC, 4PM with Aurélien Froment and curator, Tessa Giblin
15 JAN 08, 4PM with Jonathan Carroll

Calling the Elephant has been generously supported by the Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaí-on, Mairie de Paris and CULTURESFRANCE. With thanks to Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers.

Théâtre de Poche and Théâtre de Poche, Volume 1 are produced by Project
Arts Centre.

Closed for Joyeux Noël: Mon 17 Dec; Sat 22 Dec - Wed 2 Jan
Gallery open by prior appointment between 29 Dec - 2 Jan: email gallery@project.ie

Forthcoming at Project Arts Centre:
Rosa Barba and David Malkjovic 17 FEB - 15 MAR 08
Jeremiah Day and Simone Forti 27 MAR - 26 APR 08

Please contact publicist, Aisling McGrane for further information and images: aisling@project.ie or curator, Tessa Giblin by contacting the gallery.

Rijksakademie
Research Residency

Rijksakademie Research Residency
call for entries

http://www.rijksakademie.nl

The Rijksakademie Research Residency in Amsterdam is an international research and production place for talented, professional artists from all over the world. The Rijksakademie is more than a residency. It has extensive technical facilities, a library, artists’ documentation and art collections. In addition the Rijksakademie offers material basic facilities such as a studio, a work budget, mediation with accommodation and grants.

There are some fifty studios where resident artists work for one to two years on research, experiments, projects and production. Confrontation with diverse cultures and advice by renowned international artists, exhibition makers, theoreticians and technical specialists promote the deepening, expansion and acceleration of artistic practice. Practical experience has revealed that a work period at the Rijksakademie has the greatest effect three to five years after graduation.

Resident artists pursue every medium and technique: painting, drawing, graphics, photography, sculpture, video, film, sound and digital media. Links with other areas are also explored such as architecture and public space, theatre, music, literature and diverse scientific disciplines.

Application
Each year approximately twenty-five artists are invited for a residency. Artists can apply for a residency from January to December 2009 by using the online application form. The deadline for application is 1 February 2008.

More information: http://www.rijksakademie.nl