A deep dive into the world of video and digital aesthetics recalling and exploring everything from the beauty of instability in video signals (that wonderful chaos when things glitch) to how we experience video in our daily lives (even cats watching TV!). In an age of algorithmic automation and technological advancement, video’s ability to convey meaning is as captivating as it can be fleeting, rendering video ever vital.
A foundational study of online video as a cultural and aesthetic form — examining how video survives, mutates, and finds new life in the age of networked screens, platforms, and ubiquitous moving images.
By Ulus S. Baker, edited by Aras Özgün and Andreas Treske. A collection exploring the intersections of affect theory, media, and sociological inquiry.
Edited by Geert Lovink and Andreas Treske. A critical anthology examining ten years of YouTube's transformation of video culture, aesthetics, and online communities.
Notes on smartphones, video, and cathedrals — exploring the spiritual and architectural dimensions of contemporary video and mobile media culture.
Group exhibition curated by Vince Briffa. Work shown: Girl in the Water. An inquiry into the limits and failures of measurement — what escapes quantification, what resists the logic of metrics.
A sound work exploring Beuys' concept of Euroasia — Europe and Asia as a shared, utopian entity — through sound images, samples, spoken texts, and voice collages. Created with Aras Özgün for the international podcast series marking the 100th anniversary of Joseph Beuys' birth.
With Aras Özgün. Critically evaluating emerging distribution models — open access platforms, subscription services, and NFT/crypto-based platforms — and arguing that the key concept for film and media arts should shift from "distribution" to "circulation."
With Aras Özgün. Examining how streaming platforms restructure the temporal, spatial, and relational dynamics of audience activity through what the authors term "microcasting" — and how this strips viewership of its collective, public essence.
With Aras Özgün. A commentary on how narrative platforms and cinematic universes are reshaping the relationship between storytelling structures and contemporary audiences in the age of platform capitalism.
Andreas Treske is a filmmaker, media artist, and author writing about online video aesthetics and culture. He graduated from the University of Television and Film, Munich, where he also taught film and video post-production.
His international exhibitions of interactive media works and short films have screened at festivals worldwide. His co-directed feature documentary Takım Böyle Tutulur screened in over 50 Turkish cinemas in 2005. He served as picture editor on the cinema documentary Mustafa (2008) and co-produced Black, Not Gray: Ankara Rocks! (2016).
He is the Chair of the Department of Communication and Design at I.D. Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, and has been engaged with the Video Vortex Network since 2008.
"We are no longer just watching video; we are inhabiting it. My practice moves from the analysis of the screen to the aesthetics of instability — clearing away cinematic norms to find poetry in the invisible."
Current courses taught at the Department of Communication and Design, Bilkent University —
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