Dear AIR-members, we’re proud to announce the Video Vortex #12 conference and screening program in Malta, September 26-29, 2019. Exhibition: September 13 until October 27, 2019 (in Spazju Kreattiv) Website: http://vv12.org <http://vv12.org/> If you are interested to attend the event and contribute to the discussions, please contact the vv12 team for details about accomodation etc.: submissions@vv12.org <mailto:submissions@vv12.org> VV XII conference registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/video-vortex-xii-conference-tickets-63022752750 <https://www.eventbrite.com/e/video-vortex-xii-conference-tickets-63022752750> VV XII screening registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/video-vortex-xii-screenings-tickets-63025027554 <https://www.eventbrite.com/e/video-vortex-xii-screenings-tickets-63025027554> Special: ASMR workshop https://www.eventbrite.com/e/video-vortex-xii-special-asmr-workshop-tickets-... <https://www.eventbrite.com/e/video-vortex-xii-special-asmr-workshop-tickets-63027029542> Schedule of Video Vortex #12 Conference: Day 1: Thursday - September 26, 2019 15:00: Video Vortex Pre-Screening: Dance: Please refer to the screening pages for the detailed screening schedule 17:00: Opening of Video Vortex Conference by Geert Lovink Wilfried Acricola di Cologne: Curated screening - The W:OW 18:15: Meet the Video Vortex Artists Vince Briffa: OUTLAND Ryan Woodring: The oldest new structure Q&A with video vortex artists: Werther Germondari & others TBA 19:00: Opening Lecture & Performance @lbert figurt: Lecture: Desktop Horror Annie Abrahams, Lisa Parra and Daniel Pinheiro: Performance: DISTANT FEELINGS #6 Day 2: Friday - September 27, 2019 09:00: Welcome, Registration & Coffee 10:00: Session 1: Online Video Theory I Trine Bjørkmann Berry: Video Then and Now: A Comparative Analysis of Early and Late Videoblogging Andrew Clay: The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. Oakley in the Land of the Video Bloggers Karla Brunet: Online Video Cartography Ana Peraica: Disinterested and Dead: Spinning Visual Media Reporting Events 12:00: Break 13:00: Session 2: Activism Donatella della Ratta: The vanished image: who owns the archives of the Arab uprisings? Aishwarya Viswanathan: Staged Fear: Real and Imagined Audiences of Mob Lynching Videos in India Confusion of Tongues: Moving Membranes 15:00: Break 16:00: Session 3: Streaming & Platforms Dino Ge Zhang: A Theory of Livestreaming Video Andreas Treske and Aras Ozgun: Narrative Platforms: Towards a Morphology of New Audience Activities and Narrative Forms Tomasz Hollanek: The Netflix Clinic: (experi)Mental Entertainment in the Age of Psychometrics Antonia Hernandez: There's something compelling about real life’: early webcam tropes on current sexcam platforms Special: ASMR workshop (parallel session on invitation only) Lucille Calmel & Damien Petitot: Soft Screens Soft Skins Soft: an ASMR workshop 18:00: Break 20:00: Video Vortex evening screening Please refer to the screening pages for the detailed screening schedule Day 3: Saturday - September 28, 2019 09:00: Welcome, Registration & Coffee 09:30: Special: Breakfast Screening Colette Tron: Screening: Digital images and films, what’s the matter? 10:00: Session 4: Online Video Theory II Colette Tron: Digital images and films, what’s the matter? Mitra Azar: From Selfie to Algorithmic Facial Image Jack Wilson: PLAYING FROM ANOTHER ROOM Chris Meigh-Andrews and Vince Briffa: EDAU Artists' Film and Video Study Collection 12:00: Break 13:00: Session 5: Experiments in Aesthetics Dan Oki: The Absence of Telepresence Hiroko Kimura-Myokam: Video hosting service as a presenting space and a repository Patrick Lichty: Not Really Like Being There Richard Misek: A Machine for Viewing: a virtual reality video essay 15:00: Break 16:00: Session 6: Workshops/lecture on tech issues Pablo Núñez Palma and Bram Loogman: Jan Bot Heiko Recktenwald: Montage der Sensationen Adnan Hadzi and Oliver Lerone Schultz: VV12 after.video book Special: ASMR workshop (parallel session on invitation only) Lucille Calmel & Damien Petitot: Soft Screens Soft Skins Soft: an ASMR workshop 18:00: Closing Ceremony Andrew Alamango: Magna Żmien (Time Machine) Judith Kis: Practices Beyond the SELF Day 4: Sunday - September 29, 2019 14:00: Replay Day Please refer to the screening pages for the detailed screening schedule Schedule of Video Vortex #12 Screenings: Day 1: Thursday - September 26, 2019 15:00: Pre-VV12 Screening: Dance Rita Barbosa: Error 500, 1:44 Daniela Lucanto: When I dance, 67 min. Vito Alfarano: I have a dream, 38:20 Day 2: Friday - September 27, 2019 20:00: Screening I: Structures Adam Fish: Points of Presence, 18:46 Albert Merino: Bestiary, 5:10 Lotte Louise de Jong: BRB, 5:25 Esther Polak and Ivar van Bekkum: Go Move Be, 9:50 Samantha Harvey: Auto tune me, 4:31 21:00: Screening II: Internet, Sadness, Love Andres Azzolina: Puntomov, 15:15 Glasz DeCuir: Yes I saw an angel, 2:37 María José Ribas: Torremolinos Match, 8:51 Pedro Gomes: Mutilated Dreams, 10:22 Salvador Miranda: Aim Down Sights, 7:30 22:00: Screening III: Myself Any Other Night Sofia Braga: I stalk myself, 13:26 María José Ribas: Seismographical, 2:03 Zimu Zhang & Zheng Lu Xinyuan: Just like any other night, 29:33 Day 4: Sunday - September 29, 2019 14:00: Screening I: Structures Adam Fish: Points of Presence, 18:46 Albert Merino: Bestiary, 5:10 Lotte Louise de Jong: BRB, 5:25 Esther Polak and Ivar van Bekkum: Go Move Be, 9:50 Samantha Harvey: Auto tune me, 4:31 15:00: Screening II: Internet, Sadness, Love Andres Azzolina: Puntomov, 15:15 Glasz DeCuir: Yes I saw an angel, 2:37 María José Ribas: Torremolinos Match, 8:51 Pedro Gomes: Mutilated Dreams, 10:22 Salvador Miranda: Aim Down Sights, 7:30 16:00: Screening III: Myself Any Other Night Sofia Braga: I stalk myself, 13:26 María José Ribas: Seismographical, 2:03 Zimu Zhang & Zheng Lu Xinyuan: Just like any other night, 29:33 17:00: Screening IV: The W:OW Wilfried Acricola di Cologne: Curated screening - The W:OW (ca 60 min.)