Video Vortex Satellite Meeting

Indonesia has seen an explosion of video practices and organizations since the arrival of affordable platforms for production and distribution. To date, much vital work has been done – in ground-up networks devoted to art and digital culture, social activism and participatory media – to survey this diverse activity, its growing purchase on the public sphere, and the challenges faced. But as DV is absorbed into the mainstream media-scape, what are the crucial technical, social and aesthetic strategies for a politics of video going forward? Which are the exemplary videos, video-makers, and organizations, and why? And what histories have shaped the medium, that have yet to be written into the discussion? This event will gather key thinkers from video’s diverse constituencies in Indonesia, and innovative practitioners from abroad, for exchange and focused discussion that will take the discourse on video in Indonesia beyond overviews.

EVENT OUTLINE
1. Workshops (19 July) - A series of workshops dedicated to video practice in a networked world, conducted by Andreas Treske (DE/TR), OK Video Festival (Reza 'Asung' & Henry Foundation), and Emile Zile (NL/AU; TBC)

2. Screenings and Presentations (19-22 July) - Invited video-makers and network representatives, from Indonesia and abroad, will give public presentations of their organizations and projects, as well as live performances in collaboration with cells button festival. The Indonesian Visual Art Archive (IVAA) will also host a screening of key video works from their collection (with roundtable discussion) at its newly opened space.

3. Conference (20-21 July) - Video in Indonesia: histories, aesthetics, networks
2 days of seminars examining video and video art cultures in Indonesia, via four frameworks: Video as/in Art History; Video Aesthetics; Alternative Histories of Video; and Video Networks. Speakers include Ade Darmawan (ruangrupa), Agung Hujatnikajennong (Selasar Sunaryo Art Space and ITB), Thomas Berghuis (University of Sydney), Aminuddin TH Siregar (ITB), Hafiz (ruangrupa), Ronny Agustinus (critic, Jakarta), Forum Lenteng and Engage Media.

4. Public Lecture (date TBC) - Video Spheres and Bubbles, a public lecture on the applied aesthetics of video by filmmaker and theorist, Andreas Treske, at Universitas Sanata Dharma.

... and much, much more!

In conjunction with cells button #5 - Yogyakarta International Media Art Festival, 15-23 July