IOCOSE proudly presents the NoTube Contest
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 can not be summarized, does not offer any keyword for searching it, is not linked by any other web site, has not been discussed and can not 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 does not award video makers. It is about exploiting the YouTube search engine and find, in its meanders, what was not supposed to be found.
How close can we get to pure emptiness?
Why are we producing and saving these messages?
In an age obsessed with digital preservation, constantly growing databases, search engine optimization, unlimited encyclopedias, the NoTube Contest is here to investigate in the dark side of meaning production.
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The NoTube Contest 2010 is now over. The jurors have cast their votes. The world has a new winner.
IOCOSE chose five finalists. They were
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Elsa Denoux - pfiou!
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Matteo Vezzali – Video007
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Matthieu Grimault - Too late night in Tel Aviv
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Chiara Fumagalli - lara 000000000000000000000000000000000000000
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François Barré - max le casos
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Here is a nice overview of the shortlisted video
http://www.notubecontest.com/final.php
Out of this fine selection, the jury had the hard task of choosing the most valueless submission. 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’
Konrad 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.
