(This article was cross-posted on the Video Vortex conference blog.) From video artist Joanne Richardson (GER) was invited to give a presentation in the session called “Online Video as a Political Tool”, she immediately had problems with the terms ‘online’, ‘political’ and ‘tool’. As Marx had wrote in the Economic Transcript, a social revolution will [...]

(This article was cross-posted on the Video Vortex conference blog.) In Friday’s first session called “It’s Not a Dead Collection, it’s a Dynamic Database”, media archivist and researcher Teague Schneiter (US/CA) took off with an elaboration about the ‘IsumaTV‘ project she’s currently working on. The people behind this initiative aim to set up an accessible [...]