Open Source Video

Séance 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 de constituer une séance autour de deux créations réalisées sous licence libre. Le fameux documentaire danois Good copy bad copy (Ralf Christensen, Andreas Johnsen et Henrik Moltke) sera accompagné par le court métrage de L. L. De Mars : Qu’est-ce que le copyleft?
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Televisie ‘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 een visuele beperking. Televisie is een dominante factor in de tijdsbesteding van de gemiddelde Vlaming. Het belang van de toegankelijkheid van tv-programma’s via ondertiteling, gebarentaal, audiobeschrijving en auditieve ondertiteling, kan niet worden overschat, zegt een groep politici die een voorstel van decreet heeft ingediend. Bovendien zijn toegankelijker programma’s ook nuttig voor een veel bredere groep van kijkers, zoals ouderen en licht mentaal gehandicapten.
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2008: 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 website contains every shot in Vertov’s 1929 film. A viewer on the website displays both original and newly uploaded shots playing side by side. The uploaded shots are rotated each day.

The original Man with a movie camera is in the public domain and can be found on Archive.org

Perry Bard, the artist who initiated the project, answered some questions in a short email exchange.

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Open Video Conference

Open Video Conference: call for proposals
** Submission deadline: March 19 **

We are now accepting proposals for panels, workshop sessions, demo sessions, and other programming for the inaugural Open Video Conference in New York. Join us and over 400 participants during our groundbreaking two-day conference and make your imprint on the online video space. 

Visit http://openvideoalliance.org/proposals/ to make a submission.
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Harley Totally Busted

Ross Rudesch Harley contributes an article titled “From Open Circuits to Open Distribution: Can Video Artists Adopt FLOSS Strategies as their own?” to FLOSS+ART , an indispensible resource book for artists interested in Free Software, published by OpenMute and edited by Goto10 FlOSS+ART “critically reflects on the growing relationship between Free Software ideology, open content and digital art”.
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Between shared practices ….

Towards new modes of creating documentary: between shared practices, normalisation and diversification is the title of this years professional days taking place in the framework of documentary festival Cinema du Reel hosting two panels around online sharing. In this context, the morning session: In search of new practices: production and distribution of open source video, will focus on free licenses, open standards and exchange protocols, open source as productive creative forces.

Find an English description here.

Full program (FR) is here.
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Valdez & Wreckage

The memorable video remixes of State of the Union-speeches, made by Texas based video artist Aaron Valdez can be found on his website..
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Open Mail to the Lumiera Community

(Fwd. from the Piksel mailinglist, thanks Hadrian)

Dear Lumiera Community
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Lumiera is a huge project, we will depend on every possible
contribution. Sitting and waiting for other people to finish it would
bring us nowhere, and if people want to use it they will need to
consider to contributing; every little step counts. We need help, not
only with the work itself but also, we need help to cultivate a growing
community around the project. This would provide a big motivation for
everyone else, and help the project as a whole to grow and take on more
contributors. We, the main programmers, are currently overladen by all
kinds of tasks which could be very easily taken up by others!
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Your Own Private Pirate TV Station

On thursday 20-11-08 members of media collective !Mediengruppe Bitnik gave a workshop demonstrating how to quickly build a short range Television station from readymade electronic parts that are easily available in your local electronics store.
Building the broadcast station allows you to broadcast through the ether, the broadcast can be received on TV’s or VHS recorders with an antenna-in. This DIY broadcast station costs around 200 euro’s to make.
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Collaborative Online Video Workshop notes

Lilia Perez and Željko Blaće both connected to the Imaginary Property research group at the Jan van Eyck Academie; a dutch Post-Academic Institute for Research and Production on Fine Art, Design, Theory, joined the Collaborative Video workshop which took place from 17-23.11.2008 in Brussels and have been on/off blogging/reporting on “this second international workshop organized to mediate know-how transfer in this field both between int. software/service developers/maintainers/educators and (primarily local) content producers/users.” Their reports are posted on the Imaginary property blog
Thanks L + Z !

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