Video Vortex: Andrew Lowenthal programme

Andrew Lowenthal is a media and technology activist based in Melbourne, Australia. He is the co-founder of EngageMedia, a video sharing site focussed on social and environmental issues in Southeast Asia, Australia and the Pacific. EngageMedia also produce Plumi, a free software video sharing platform. In 2006 EngageMedia coordinated Transmission with Rome’s Candida TV, a global meeting of social justice online video distribution projects.

In his other work Andrew collaborates with the Tactical Technology Collective producing a series of free and open source multimedia toolkits. His video work has screened at the National Gallery of Indonesia and the Centre for Contemporary Art in Glasgow among others.

www.engagemedia.org

Watch his programme here