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The winner of the NoTube Contest is the participant who manages to find the most valueless video on YouTube.

A video uploaded on YouTube is generally oriented to a large audience, has a simple narrative and can be easily categorized.
A NoTube video, instead, fails in every promise and contradicts viewers' expectations for a meaningful experience. A good NoTube video cannot be summarized, does not offer any keyword for searching it, is not linked by any other web site, has not been discussed and cannot be discussed.

A good submission to the NoTube Contest makes it difficult to answer these three basic questions:
1) Why has this video been produced?
2) Why has this video been published?
3) Who should be interested in watching this video?


The NoTube Contest 2010 is now over. The jurors have cast their votes. The world has a new winner. Franco 'Bifo' Berardi, Konrad Becker and Patrick Lichty, after close inspection, came to the conclusion that there could be only one winner.
We are proud to announce that the 2010 winner of the NoTube Contest is

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Matthieu Grimault

'Too late night in Tel Aviv'



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Our most sincere congratulations!

Here are the jury comments:

K.Becker: ‘Hardly visual information, and mysterious - the drawback is that it provides a descriptive title - but the transcript of conversation adds extra meaninglessness...’

Patrick Lichty: ‘When considering the finalists, I found it difficult to evaluate in terms of utter valuelessness, abjection, and non descriptness. Anything with a figure in it engendered far too much affect or desire to contextualize the mis en scene. The winner, “Too Late in Tel Aviv" gave just enough information to establish a theme, but gave absolutely no context nor real visual information to give it any depth".

Bifo: ‘From any point of view this is the most effective, which means the most unreadable, the most a-significant, which means the best expression of the present, which means the best expression of “nothing”. Nothing is the core of it: darkness and a small light, which are neither hope, nor a possibility or a way out, but just nothing. By a philosophical point of view this is the deepest nothing I ever saw. Especially because all this happens in the outskirts of Tel Aviv, and this is absolutely evident reading the image, which is dark’.

Matthieu Grimault is the new NoTube Contest champion.

Here is a nice overview of the shortlisted videos.

Please enjoy 'Domestic Standing Ovation', a fine selection of some of the best applications we received.

Last but not least, the winning video repeated 'ad nauseam'.

See you in 2011!