11.28.2007

Our youngsters don't care about privacy

Today the results of a research amongst youngsters about online privacy were published. An insight in our target group... 53% of the target group (youngsters from 12 - 18 years old) don't mind that their contactinformation on online communities is public for everyone. 62% realizes that they can be identified by everyone through their contactinformation that is visible for everybody. 33% doesn't want that everyone can see their personal information.

More results can be find on the following link:
http://www.molblog.nl/online/6118

Stranger Festival Video Competition

11.27.2007

London brings it on

From our European research we got some really interesting input from London. In the previous message i already posted two video's. I made a selection from the most interesting websites:

http://www.vvvv.org
vvvv is a toolkit for real time video synthesis. It is designed to facilitate the handling of large media environments with physical interfaces, real-time motion graphics, audio and video that can interact with many users simultaneously.

http://www.generatorx.no/
The Generator.x project is a conference, exhibition and weblog examining the role of software and generative strategies in current digital art and design. On the weblog you can find nice examples of different art projects and designs where software is the media.

http://www.thelightsurgeons.co.uk/
Although this site is not running yet it is interesting to click on the blog and read about the light surgeons. They pioneered in live mixed media performance. It's nice to check out the video's and photo's on the blog. Let's wait for the full site. I'm curieus...

http://squa.re
This website is mend as liberation for like-minded, luxury-focused people who live an inspiring lifestyle. Squa.re offers unique content in luxury, style, travel and nightlife. I think it is a good example of niche marketing that might grow out to a succes.

This is an selection from some interesting organisations:
http://www.optronica.org
Optronica is a London based visual music festival in collaboration with British Film Institute. Two screening programme's were also shown on the STRP festival in Eindhoven.

http://www.dfuse.com/
D-fuse is a London collective of artists who explore a wide range of creative media. Their work had been shown in musea and festivals all over Europe. Also they have worked with different musicians, such as Beck and Alter Ego but als with classical composers.

http://www.onedotzero.com/
One dot zero is a cross-media production company and an acclaimed international network of events. They work mostly in London but there installations are also shown in the rest of Europe and other countries like Seoul.

11.26.2007

Video's from England

These are two music video's we got from a contact in London. Although they are not user generated they are two nice examples of remarkable video's. I really like the last one from Vitalic and Pleix.



Spanish video

From our Spanish contact we got the following contribution. There is A TV program called "Silent" about trends. They put videos representing silence at the end of each program.
Their website looks pretty interesting. Unfortunately my spanish is not so good so for me it is quite incomprehensible...

http://blogs.ccrtvi.com/silenci.php

This is an video art festival:

http://www.loop-barcelona.com

Danish organisations / video artists and directors

From our European research we got an contribution from Denmark.

Interesting organisations working with video are:
- Copenhagen dokumentary festival: CPH:DOX
- Zentropa - Lars von Triers film company

A few good danish video artists and directors are:
- Super 8
- Phie Ambo
- Anders Morgenthal

11.21.2007

What the big shots are doing?

Looking into this conference programme might be useful in the sense that it gives us an idea what the old, mainstream players are doing related to diversity.
Migration&Integration (actually happening tomorrow) in Paris with the patronage of European Broadcasting Union, Sarkozy, Council of Europe and the EU.

Max Cornelissen hacks 'erop los'

On this youtube channel you can find the video's from Max Cornelissen. Although the video's are used to promote IT educations and therefore not fully user generated i did want to show you these. The link is: http://www.youtube.com/user/maxcornelisse

This is a very funny one:

11.20.2007

Online torture video festival

Egyptian bloggers are setting up an online video festival during the Cairo filmfestival with torture video's. During the festival that takes place from nov. 27th till dec. 7th controversial torture methods by security services will be shown.