Category: News
Yochai Benkler: democratic media
Seen at the Open Video Conference: Yochai Benkler’s keynote introducing the conference. A warm felt plea for collaboration, exchange and a democratisation of media. And one of the few presentations that were launched from a Linux system. Here’s a bootleg audio reording from a heavily echoing NYU law school auditorium. http://osvideo.constantvzw.org/wp-content/uploads/yocai_benkler.ogg If you prefer to […]
Further reading, NewsGabriella Coleman: The Politics and Poetics of DeCSS
Witnessed during the Open Video Conference in NY, 19 june 09, The Politics and Poetics of DeCSS: Featured Talk – (5:25 PM – 5:45 PM) Here’s an audiorecording in ogg/vorbis of the firy and energising talk given by Gabriella Coleman on the moral and ethical importance of the DeCSS tool. She makes beautiful links between […]
Further reading, NewsZimmermann + Latrive
Jeremie Zimmermann and Florent Latrive talked during the debate ‘Are we all pirates’, part of the Imaginary Property program in Cinema Nova, Brussels. “There is not a week going by without media attention for the dangers of “piracy”, which is depicted as an attack on creativity and innovation, an harassment of cultural heritage of authors […]
Copyrights and licenses, Films and Projects, NewsArticle: Blender, working in 3d
Sumit Sarkar, a visual artist whose character based artwork takes the form of digital and canvas paintings, digital sculpture, and aerosol art, was invited to write Blender: working in 3d for the Digital Artists Handbook. The article offers a helping hand to anybody who would like to start working with Blender. Written by an artist […]
Editing software, Manuals, NewsArticle: Video editing with OS tools
“Video editing with open source tools”, a new article written by Valentina Messeri and Eleonora Oreggia, has been added to the Digital Artists Handbook. After a quick-step through the most common workflow (capture, edit, manipulate, export), the article ‘showcases’ quite a number of available FLOSS video softwares, mostly for time-line editing, which is quite useful […]
Editing software, Manuals, NewsVideo tag in Dailymotion: Flash out the door
Download Firefox 3.5 beta next to your current browser, follow this link, and see a flash free version of Daily motion, which uses the html < video > tag instead of Flash.
NewsImaginary property
When you are in Brussels between May 15 and June 07 2009, do not forget to check out the excellent program of Cinema Nova on Intellectual property and its alternatives. 16 days filled with great debates, demo’s, music, performances and films films films, including Osvid favorites such as: RIP: A remix manifesto, Sita sings the […]
NewsSéance Vidéothèque Nomade Libre
Samedi 28 mars Barricade, centre culturel en résistance – 15/21 rue Pierreuse – Liège 19h30 – entrée libre Séance Vidéothèque Nomade La journée du libre commence à 14h et se poursuivra jusqu’à tard dans la nuit. Dans le cadre de cette journée l’asbl Barricade nous a proposé d’intervenir avec La Vidéothèque Nomade. Nous avons décidé […]
Films and Projects, NewsTelevisie ‘kijken’ is een mensenrecht
Source: newspaper De Standaard dinsdag 03 maart 2009 OOK BLINDEN HEBBEN RECHT OP TELEVISIE Omdat televisie ‘kijken’ een mensenrecht is, moeten de Vlaamse omroepen hun programma’s ook toegankelijk maken voor doven en blinden. Er ligt een voorstel van decreet op tafel. In Vlaanderen leven zo’n 800.00 mensen met een auditieve en bijna 200.000 mensen met […]
Further reading, News2008: Man with a movie camera
Image left: Vertov, image right uploaded by Jerome Ming, Hanoi Man With a Movie Camera: The Global Remake is a participatory video-work to which people around the world are invited to contribute by capturing videos that interpret the original shots of Vertov’s film Man With A Movie Camera and upload them to the website. The […]
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