Skilled media artists create new works out of public domain footage from Library and Archives Canada. MORE

BY MARTIN LEDUC. TORONTO (CINEMA MINIMA) — Toronto’s Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MOCCA) will be holding their anual Videodrome Audio/Visual battle on April 17th, 2010.  Here’s some description from dropframevideo:
The Video Battle is a competition of audio/visual media work, the A/V battle, the VIDEODROME. Developed from the idea of the hip hop DJ battle, artists will throw down fast and hard attempting to out flash each other… MORE

BY MARTIN LEDUC. TORONTO, CANADA (CINEMA MINIMA) — I got to help collect some of the videos that were playing throughout the Open Video Conference.  The conference took place on June 19-20, 2009.  It brought together an impressive collection of professional stakeholders involved with online video. Their aim was to bring video technology up to the standards of accessibility and decentralization that are currently available for blogs and… MORE

BY MARTIN LEDUC. TORONTO, CANADA (CINEMA MINIMA)  — The Yale Law School and its partners in the Open Video Alliance are seeking to bring together about 400 participants for a conference in New York.  The organizers hope to bring online video up to the standards of accessibility and decentralization that we’ve reached with other forms of web communication (blogs, email, etc…).

The conference is accepting submissions of movies and video art… MORE

BY MARTIN LEDUC. TORONTO, CANADA (CINEMA MINIMA) — The TILT digital art festival in Perpigan France is teaming up with  the artists at Addictive TV and the curators from Cinefeel.org to launch an online video remix contest. The winner gets 1000 euros.

The submission deadline is March 10, 2009.  TILT organizers are encouraging the use of public domain video footage for your submissions.

More details available here:  http://www.tilt-festival.org/en/online.php

BY MARTIN LEDUC. TORONTO, CANADA (CINEMA MINIMA) — Totalrecut.com has gathered a community of over 350 video remixers — artists whose work consists of re-edited and manipulated video clips.

The site bills itself as a “one stop shop for all things remixed.” It has a growing gallery with over 500 remixes so far, and a section for editing tutorials. It hosts a forum and and a blog on video remixing… MORE

BY MARTIN LEDUC. TORONTO, CANADA (CINEMA MINIMA) – YouTube has changed their default player to a 16:9 aspect ratio, and the site’s users have gotten uncharacteristically vocal about the damage this has done to their old 4:3 uploads. The YouTube blog typically receives under 100 comments per post, but in 2 days, over 1000 comments have been posted about the widescreen player. Among the criticism and praise for… MORE

BY MARTIN LEDUC. TORONTO, ONTARIO CANADA (CINEMA MINIMA) — The second session of CopyCamp will take place 2008 April 29 – 30 in Toronto. The conference treats art, copyright, and the Internet. It follows an “unconference” model in which activities would be organized by all participants online via wiki, or spontaneously at the event. The 2006 CopyCamp had brought together a number of… MORE