[IMC-Video] FWD: Open Video Conference

[Steev Hise]

This looks possibly interesting and relevant.  Any IMC folks planning  
on being there?

> Open Video Conference, June 19-20, NYC
> 40 Washington Square South (NYU Law School)
> http://openvideoconference.org
>
> Register now @ http://openvideoconference.org/registration/
>
> on Twitter/Identi.ca: @openvideo
> on Facebook: http://is.gd/xeL8
>
> The Open Video Conference is a two-day gathering of thought leaders  
> in technology, business, public policy, art, and activism from  
> around the world to explore the future of the moving image.
>
> Thanks to a proliferation of tools for recording, editing, and  
> distributing video online, anyone can be a broadcaster. Sites like  
> YouTube are bursting at the seams with user-created content.  
> Individuals armed with cell phone cameras are effectively citizen  
> journalists. And emerging artistic forms like video commentary and  
> remix/mashup create new vocabularies for creative and political  
> expression.
>
> Yet as the medium matures, we face a crossroads. Will technology and  
> public policy support a more participatory culture—one that  
> encourages and enables free expression and broader cultural  
> engagement? Or will online video become a glorified TV-on-demand  
> service, a central part of a permissions-based culture? Web video  
> holds tremendous potential, but limits on broadband, playback  
> technology, and fair use threaten to undermine the ability of  
> individuals to engage in dialogues in and around this new media  
> ecosystem.
>
> Highlights
>
> Bestselling author Clay Shirky will give a talk about the disruptive  
> effects of the web. Harvard Professor Jonathan Zittrain (TBC) will  
> moderate a discussion on industry perspectives with Boxee CEO Avner  
> Ronen, Blip.tv CEO Mike Hudack, and representatives from YouTube and  
> Adobe. Lizz Winstead, activist and co-creator of The Daily Show,  
> will discuss web video as political commentary. Legendary hacker Jon  
> Lech Johansen (DVD Jon) will address data portability. Mozilla,  
> makers of the Firefox web browser, will highlight what it’s doing to  
> cement open video standards. You’ll hear from Anthony Falzone— 
> executive director at Stanford’s Fair Use Project and counsel to  
> graphic artist Shepherd Fairey—about the new battle lines drawn  
> around fair use. Voices from the blogosphere, public media, and  
> traditional media will explore the ways to make their content work  
> in an open video ecosystem. Josh Silver, executive director of Free  
> Press, will highlight the ways telecom policy hinders independent  
> media, and much more.
>
> This is just a peek—have a look at our schedule page for more  
> details:http://www.openvideoconference.org/agenda.
>
> In addition to two full days of high-profile programming, you can  
> expect a slate of workshops and behind-the-scenes technical working  
> groups with leading edge video developers from projects like VLC,  
> Ogg Theora, GStreamer, Blender, PiTiVi, Miro, Kaltura, Firefox, and  
> many more. This event should interest anyone with a stake in art,  
> culture, technology, policy, journalism, or online business.
>
> Registration
>
> Registration entitles you to all conference benefits: talks and  
> presentations, workshops, screenings, two lunches, and a cool  
> afterparty featuring video turntablists Eclectic Method. Plus you’ll  
> get to mingle with thought leaders in online video and take home a  
> cool bag of schwag! Don’t wait—register at http://www.openvideoconference.org/registration 
> .
>
> Organizers
>
> Our conference co-organizers are Participatory Culture Foundation,  
> Yale ISP, iCommons, and Kaltura. Our partners include Mozilla,  
> Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard, Free Press,  
> Creative Commons, Big Think, NYU Information Law Institute,  
> Intelligent TV, The WorkBook Project, FGV Brazil CTS, NEXA Italy,  
> and more.
>
> For more information, contact conference at openvideoalliance.org
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