Pionirski časopis za akademski video (članke i eseje u formi videa) o temama audiovizualnosti, komunikacije, politike, aktivizma i medija.
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Guest editor: Dr. Cecilie Givskov, University of Copenhagen, Department of Media, Cognition and Communication
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Images of Global Militancy: Reflections on Affect, Memory and Embodiment Assistant professor Maple Razsa Colby College, USA |
In this video essay Maple Razsa reflects on the place of images of violence in a documentary he recently completed about ethnographic fieldwork within activist milieus. He considers his disavowal of dominant representations of anarchist violence before addressing activists’ own preoccupation with videos of physical confrontation. In conclusion Razsa evokes how the circulation of images of activists subjected to state violence might create strong affective bonds among geographically distant activists.
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Orders Are For Fools to Wear (Ordner hænger man på idioter) Gry Bak Jensen, Casper Andersen, Hans Eric Christian Møller and Camilla Solkær Buskov, University of Copenhagen |
The Arabian Spring saw people of the Middle Eastriot and revolt against their despotic leaders. These same leaders have throughout the years been bestowed the highest and most prestigious honour of Denmark‘the Order of the Elephant’ (Elefantordenen) by the Danish Queen in appreciation of their “good effort" to society. Inspired by a quote from the Danish Author and Satirist P.A. Heibergs (1758-1841): ‘Orders are for fools to wear’ this video essay asks why we bestow honours on dictators? The film journeys across time and place to investigate who have received the Order of the Elephant.
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Schizophrenic State Guli Silberstein |
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The Battlefield of (in)visibility Ph.D. Candidate, Rune Saugmann Andersen, Centre for Advanced Security Theory, University of Copenhagen |
In this academic video essay Rune Saugmann Andersen argues that there is a close connection between what is visible and what is invisible in media coverage of the violent transformations of the Middle East. As research, it elaborates on the idea of a visual battlefield and that a substantial part of any conflict will be the visualization of that conflict. As an activist document, it asks the viewer to actively question the visibility of international affairs as represented in mainstream media, invites citizens to actively counteract the oligopolies of visuality and views in foreign news coverage and seek out the alternative visibilities that available if one cares to look for them.
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10 Tactics for Turning Information into Action Faith Bosworth Tactical Technology Collective |
This film documents 35 inspiring stories of how rights advocates around the world have used information and new technologies to campaign. The film covers tactics such as how to mobilise people, present complex data, amplify personal stories, visualise a message, and use humour to communicate a message. In addition to being streamed here, the film is available in 25 languages and has been screened at 200 cultural and advocacy events in more than 60 countries.
 
Federico Fellini said 'Film is a dream for the waking mind.' In this video essay Hearing uses his performative practice as an academic film-maker to explore and document connections between our sleeping and our waking minds and considers how this could be developed. What might be the constraints which would influence 'academic' or 'professional' directions in developing this idea? What might be the different directions for each trajectory? And how does this illuminate the different discourses of consciousness in his own life as an academic and a programme-maker?
Human beings have always wanted to leave permanent marks. They have
pursued making history, pursued being remembered, and pursued eternal
identity and the ability to live forever. A long time ago something
special had to be done to leave a permanent mark and only few people
became famous. Today, in the world of network information economy
everybody can leave permanent marks and through digitalization everybody
has the opportunity to be remembered. This film focuses on this
development and takes the visitor through the past, present and future -
and raise the question: Do you live forever today?
This video merges the object of study, in this case a TV advertisement for the Spanish market, with key data resulting from analysis of its semantic, semiotic and aesthetic characteristics. In this way, the work ends exactly were it started, as a video to be dismantled and analyzed, creating a new kind of format, halfway between the visual, graphic and textual, to complement and illustrate in a more intuitive and suitable way the paper that results from the analysis.
This video essay is a microethological study of the transduction of a
virtual world (the PC game Age of Mythologies) into the actual world
play of children with toys and water. The video is constructed from an
audio recording and a sequence of still photographs of the play event.
It traces the shaping of actual play by simulated worlds and their
conventions, fictions and virtual physics.
This video essay uses classical cultural theory as well as current
internet research to address the relationship between the cultural
industries and the increasingly active and tech-savvy audiences of the
21st century. Is there always a clear-cut division between capitalist
media institutions on the one side and a pirating audience on the other?
What space is there for remix culture and other potentially copyright
infringing activities in the discourse of digital content monetization?
This video is the first exemplar of a genre Nørgård has called 'research
music videos.' The videos are produced on the basis of her own
empirical fieldwork and have become a way to acknowledge the existence
and significance of the computer player's corporeal locomotion within
the game research community. By connecting The Beastie Boys' Body Movin'
with videos of players' bodies in motion Nørgård was able to call forth
and activate the researchers' own body memory as their bodies instantly
and pleasurably recognized gaming as a 'body moving' that drags
digitality out into reality.
This documentary is one of the outcomes of a two-year research project
into the precarious work situation of dancers and musicians in the UK. A
major focus for us has been the extent to which the present copyright
regime adequately addresses the production of experiential works in
which performance plays a major role – music and dance being the cases
in point.
On mediation, authenticity and documentarism. 
Reflections on the visualization of abstract relationships and features,
such as those related to sustainable development and global warming.
This video essay also raises questions about how to represent
simulations that we do not fully trust.
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Visualizing a Plenitude Economy Center for a New American Dream |
The animation provides a vision of what a post-consumer society could look like, with people working fewer hours and pursuing re-skilling, homesteading, and small-scale enterprises that can help reduce the overall size and impact of the consumer economy. This video essay is made by the American non-profit organization Centre for a New American Dream that aims to challenge the "more is better" definition of the American dream.
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Boogie Street
Thommy Eriksson , Chalmers University of Technology
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A visual text critically reflecting on levels of intimacy and privacy
raised by Google Street and adjacent technologies, and a meta-text
reflecting on the incorporation of copyrighted media into academic
discourse.
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rex : ren
Thommy Eriksson , Chalmers University of Technology
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Digital remediation recreates a semi-physical/virtual event – a rock
concert – and reflects on the academic usage of copyrighted material.
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Remediation
Miles Joseph, Norwich University College of the Arts
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Remediation explores a number of themes visible within my work,
its subject matter is to look at the moral ambiguities of artists use of
visual sampling and found footage in order to create new works.
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A Plagiarism Adventure
Stian Hafstad, Jade Haerem Aksnes, Bergen University
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A joyful, tongue-in-cheek take on copyright and plagiarism.
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Visual Culture Video Essays
Jennifer Julian Johnson, Eric Paison and Tom Connelly
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This collage of three student videos is from the course “Visual Research
Methods” at the graduate program in Cultural Studies at Claremont
Graduate University (course instructor Professor Alexandra Juhasz and
project coordinator Ana Thorne).
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Untitled 2010
Alejandro Schianchi , University of Tres de Febrero
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The project involves the creation of abstract images and sounds
generated by computer with successive deformations, the first with basic
three-dimensional shapes and the second with wave modulations. The code
becomes as important as the resulting images and sounds, exhibiting it
to reveal how they were made, to create variations (remixes), and mainly
as an alternative way of distributing audiovisual works.
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Remixing Culture
Miné Salkin , University of British Columbia
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Today's digital world has presented itself with problems of ownership in
relation to music production and distribution on the Internet. Focusing
on electronic dance music, this project examines the close relationship
between music and technology, and the influence that each exerts on the
other.
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Killer Fashion Revolution
Linda Kronman , Aalto University, School of Art and Design, Media Lab
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"Killer Fashion Revolution" is a project that consists of artistic
workshops, a participatory media-art installation and a wiki based
on-line platform. On all these levels, workshop, installation and
on-line, participants can explore how a lot of our street fashion has
its origins in war. Participants are encouraged to become "Killer
Fashion Revolutionists" and transform clothes related to war into
garments and artifacts that promote human rights. "Killer Fashion
Revolutionists" are fashion hacktivists.
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Endless semiosis
Thommy Eriksson, Chalmers University of Technology
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The symmetrical relation between the written text and the visual text,
seen as an example of endless semiosis. A video essay based on semiotic
viewpoints on text and images.
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Signs, texts and contexts
Thommy Eriksson, Chalmers University of Technology
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A video essay based on semiotic viewpoints on text and images.
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Hidden stories
Sandra Abegglen, Goldsmiths, University of London
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Small pieces of paper, text and thoughts left in places we all need to visit.
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Max with a keitai
Max Schleser, Limkokwing University of Creative Technology, London
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This experimental
documentary explores Japanese metropolitan centres through the lens of a
mobile phone and captures a newly emerging mobile phone video
aesthetic, which surfaced and characterised mobile videos in the years
2005-2008.
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Noter-cam de PARIS
Albert Figurt, Institute of Network Cultures, NimK
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In a formula: proliferation of digital cameras with LCD preview-screen +
the act of touristic framing = multifaceted & redundant
postcard-ism (in famous public spots).
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Loop
Tal Udi, Hadassah College, Jerusalem
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In the digital age we come across many narratives that are not linear
and we get a chance to construct them the way we choose – this video is
an open invitation to do that.
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The Object
Alan MacLaughlin, Napier University, Edinburgh
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Reflections on mediations, remediations and contexts.
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Take me to a place outside
Martha-Cecilia Dietrich, University of Vienna / University of Manchester
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Drawing on anthropologically informed theories of perception and
imagination this project explores the relationship between the 'real'
and the 'unreal', the physical and the imagined, and the in and the
outside - as rendered through the experience of incarceration.
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Audiovisual Thinking
Oranit Klein, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
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We are surrounded by images and technology enables us to create and
publish images very easily. In this video I used images of this
journal's advisory and editorial board members in different contexts as a
comment on our role as creators of visual images in an age
of participatory culture.
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Audiovisual Thinking
Paul Kerr, Metropolitan University, London
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Audiovisual Thinking is a leading journal of academic videos about
audiovisuality, communication and media. The journal is a pioneering
forum where academics and educators can articulate, conceptualize and
disseminate their research about audiovisuality and audiovisual culture
through the medium of video.
International in scope and multidisciplinary in approach, the purpose of
Audiovisual Thinking is to develop and promote academic thinking in and
about all aspects of audiovisuality and audiovisual culture.
Advised by a board of leading academics and thinkers in the fields of
audiovisuality, communication and the media, the journal seeks to set
the standard for academic audiovisual essays now and in the future.
Video submissions are welcome from all fields of study and, as one would
expect, the main criteria for submissions are that the discussion and
thinking are conveyed through audiovisual means. Submit your video here.
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