Month: September 2016

Posted on by adnan Announcement, news, presentations, publications, Report, reports, research

after.video at the indefinite vision symposium @ whitechappel art gallery

after.video will be presented during the indefinite vision
symposium @ whitechappel art gallery, see:
http://www.whitechapelgallery.org/events/indefinite-visions/ (before the
symposium during a workshop on methodologies – see schedule below ->
after.video is in the 4-5.30pm slot)

WORKSHOP: THE AUDIOVISUAL ESSAY WHITECHAPEL GALLERY, LONDON

WEDNESDAY 22nd JUNE

11.30am-1pm. Forms
Themes:
Audiovisual essay forms (close analysis, artistic/poetic montage,
supercut/thematic montage, ‘interstitial’).
Techniques: temporal manipulation, overlays, split-screen, voice-over
Audiovisual essays as supplements to written scholarship and as core
methodology.
Questions:
What types of scholarship are audiovisual essays suited (and not suited) to?
What more could audiovisual essay achieve critically and aesthetically?
11.30-11.45. Presentation: Kevin B. Lee on the current state of the art
11.45-12. Presentation: TBC
12-12.30. Break-out discussions
12.30-1. Group discussion

1pm-2pm. Lunch

2pm-3.30pm. Contexts
Themes:
Role within film journalism, as a critical tool
Role within teaching, as a heuristic tool
Relationship with film-making (‘theory’ vs ‘practice’)
Relationship with artists’ film and video
Questions
How to further incorporate audiovisual essays into mainstream scholarship
via academic legitimation (e.g. increasing publishing opportunities)?
via refinement of the form and its methodologies?
via databasing?
How does the audiovisual essay fit within current copyright law in the
UK and beyond?
Do different distribution models (e.g. peer-reviewed, ‘self-published’,
programmed by cultural gatekeepers) suit different kinds of audiovisual
work?
2.30-2.45. Presentation: Catherine Grant on videographic film studies
and academic publishing
2.45-3. Presentation: David Rodowick on negotiating film theory and film
practice
3-3.30. Break-out discussions
3.30-4. Group discussion

3.30pm-4.00pm. Break

4.00pm-5.30pm. Methodologies
Themes
Terminology (video essay, audiovisual essay, videographic film studies,
digital film studies)
Alternative technologies and methodologies:
Quantitative:
data analysis (e.g. cinemetrics, ECGs and eye tracking)
visualisation – e.g. Volumetric Cinema, Software Studies Initiative
Qualitative:
Annotation (e.g. Popcorn.js, ANVIL, Lignes de Temps)
Creative:
Critical media art (e.g. after.video)
Interactive documentary
Questions
How can audiovisual essay production be connected to adjacent, less
prevalent, digital humanities activities?
What can be learnt from the use of digital technologies in other
humanities disciplines?
What models of collaboration could help audiovisual film scholarship
develop in scope, complexity, and impact?
4.30-4.45. Presentation: David Verdeure on adjacent methodologies
4.45-5. Presentation: Richard Misek on adjacent technologies
5-5.30. Break-out discussions (open)
5.30-6. Group discussion

Viewable during breaks:
Don’t Look Now: paradoxes of suture (interactive video on Mac laptop)
After.Video Assemblages (videos on Raspberry Pi)
Notes on Blindness: Into Darkness (VR experience, at Close Up Film Centre)

 

Posted on by d.tv Deptford.TV, news, Report, reports, research, ReSynced

reTransmission

YT has recently rekindled contact with Indymedia activist network members as part of an initiative to build a new hosting platform, an Activist Media Proxy – AMP.

Little in the way of social documentary, street protest and public information material exists outside of the youtube/googleplex. Of the many attempts to change assumptions, Engagemedia and Undercurrents have lead the way.

Our hope is that in collaboration with activist media makers and producers, further good use can be made of this vibrant social history, to review past action and inform on current struggles.

The first move of the founding group has been to appoint a coordinator and gather together an information base, to establish communication and suitable support framework. With this foundation in place is has been possible to activate new services to begin working with the existing video collections, present tools for annotation and prepare selections for review.

Please visit the AMP project wiki for more information.

The video, audio and text archives will be stored in a web accessible database. Pan.do/ra offers the combination of media processing, context annotation and collaboration management tools needed. Several other media collections are being drawn together in London using this same great system.

Community archives are reactivated at Maydayrooms events where documents are scanned and media resources organised. Their collection features a selection of period film and event documentary, available over their local area network, alongside an extensive document catalogue for researchers to explore.

A complete set of the DAU film sequences, it’s huge image collection of period artifacts and extensive wardrobe as worn during filming and by residents of Kharkiv, features in their intranet media project. The DAU feature film is itself now due for release in 2017 the centenary of the Russian revolution.