• Introducing
• NoTube Contest
• An Empty Postcard
• 1-view video
• first view television and API
• Related events
• Publications

Introducing

In an age obsessed with digital preservation, constantly growing databases, search engine optimization and unlimited encyclopedias, the NoTube is here to investigate in the dark side of meaning production.

NoTube Contest

2009-ongoing: contest, website
http://NoTubecontest.com

Rules:
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?

Winner 2011 edition http://www.notubecontest.com/year/2011
Jury: Geoff Cox, Constant Dullaart, Marisa Olson.

Winner 2010 edition http://www.notubecontest.com/year/2010
Jury: Konrad Becker, Patrick Lichty, Bifo.

Winner 2009 edition http://www.notubecontest.com/year/2009

An Empty Postcard

2011, webpage
http://or-bits.com/05truth/05io.php

In ‘An empty postcard’ (2011), the viewer is invited to watch and share a series of valueless videos from YouTube. Sharing, a buzzword of Web2.0, is thus reversed in its meanings. It is exaggerated in its promises but doomed to result in an overload of empty noise.
Or-bits gallery, 2011

1-view video

2012, DVD low definition, 27h, 23s
photo dvd cover: Janne Tervonen
http://vimeo.com/38059338

The 1-view Video is a celebration’s video recorded only for the winner of the NoTube contest 2011, Kasia Cieplak-Mayr von Baldegg

First viewer television and first view API

2012, webpage, API
http://www.iocose.org/FirstViewerTV
http://www.iocose.org/apis/firstview.json
https://github.com/iocose/FirstViewerTV

'First-viewer Television' generates a playlist of 0-views videos through IOCOSE's 'firstview' API. The API is generated every 20 minutes by the firstviewer.rb class. .

Related events

Shift festival
Raise your flag! Speed show Barcelona
Orbits gallery
Jeu de paume
BYOB Venice, internet pavillon

Pubblications

flash art
wired