VIDEO VORTEX.2 WORKSPACE

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2 Feb 2008

During Video Vortex.2 the Netherlands Media Art Institute reveals a new identity as an experimental place presenting projects which demand public participation, or: do it yourself, with others! In addition to showing installations that already exist, various workshops and presentations will be given in the WORKSPACE, especially set up for that purpose. Each week a different organization takes charge of the WORKSPACE, with projects in which you can join in and take part, from free software to mobile telephone, video, napster and vlogging workshops.

VisitorsStudio (Furtherfield.org 2003-) is an networked, many to many, real-time art project created and distributed live in real-time across the Internet. Participants link together at the same time and mix and remix audio-visual files. The VisitorsStudio artware is also an always-on, open, social space. As they work together, live conversations between participants (identified by their moving cursor arrows) become a part of the performance- along with comments and heckling from the audience.