Hi Kelly & all,
This is an interesting discussion. We've been tapping into our own
community at Furtherfield in regard to one of our projects called
VisitorsStudio. Exploring technical and Content Development of a
Real-time online platform for a while now.
http://www.furtherstudio.org/live/
In respect of Kelly's mention about use of an online community, we've
been lucky that we have had various groups of people (online and
offline) who have worked with us in testing out the facility, as well as
artists within our own, connected community using it as a platform to
promote their own real-time activities.
We have been looking at KEYWORX http://www.keyworx.org/ lately and
highly recommend it. Also another platform that is worth exploring is
UpStage http://www.upstage.org.nz/ by Avatar Body Collision.
What we wanted to acheive with VS was an art-based software that was
accessible and usable. A place where people can mix each other's work in
real-time and online, and broadcast while creating their live
audio-visual mixes, from anywhere in the world. And facilitate a series
of audio-visual events in public spaces-virtual and physical. Networking
participative audiences, as well as explore issues around intellectual
copyright and audience=artist=curator, mixing these role models up at
the same time. Art is created by an audience, by the curators and the
artists together. Of course, we also have events on the VS, where people
actually watch artists make work-live as well.
We were also interested in introducing an environment that broke down
the usual one-way process of mediation. By passing the 'turn a video/DVD
on and watch someone else's work - like watching television, a one-way
channel'. We came up with 'why not become part of that work and add your
own creative voice into the mix, literally.' Collaboratively developed
by artists, programmers, critics and curators, with significant
contributions by audiences new to net art and members of online art and
technology forums, this platform has grown organically in response to
their participation. Additions and enhancements to its functionality,
usability and communication are made to accommodate and extend the
artistic aspirations of its users.
This has helped us engage in various conceptual and cultural issues, and
also frame the project in such a way that we can make the software
platform either adapt/conform and be flexible to specific or general
needs and functions. Change according to whoever is using, either
collaboratively or singularly.
>archives are only available to download for a period of time after the
live broadcast - then automatically deleted.
We intend to have everything worth archiving, archived- in fact we are
also creating it into dynamic desktop aplication as well.
The VisitorsStudio is a live multi-user online arena for production,
display and discussion of audiovisual, screen based work. Visitors
experiment and respond to each others' dancing-cursors and can also
chat, while uploading, mixing and exhibiting their own compositions -
still images- jpg's, mp3 audio and flash animations. It has been used
regularly by our community, artists and a younger generation- who seem
to take to it very quickly.
Comprising of two main parts. The User interface was designed and
programmed as a series of modules, using Flash MX. The backend is
written in Perl, using a socket server for live interaction and MySQL.
At present it is a Flash construction and we are actually building (at
this very second as we speak) version 2. Which has many new server-side
additions, that will support the community/users needs. Will discuss
them another time. We already have 3 institutions who are asking us to
build a version of it onto their own server, for their own communities,
where students and visitors and artists can work either together
(networked) , individually or in groups.
We are also going to create an open source version (pending funding).
VisitorsStudio has also been used as an interview platform, where
visitors/critics can observe real-time, live online mixes of an artists
work, whilst discussing. It is also used as a performance space by the
community of Furtherfield's sister site 'furthernoise.org' for sonic
artists and musicians including Jodi Rose [Australia], MikroKnytes?
[USA] and Scott Taylor, Mr Mutton_deluxe [UK] and masny more...
Already, many artists and media-labs in the UK, USA, Australia, Balkans
and Brazil have worked with VisitorsStudio as a global platform for live
audio-visual jamming events including Autolabs Tactical Week:end
(Brazil) and furtherfield's collaborative response to the Republican
National Congress, 'Dissension Convention' featuring over 20
internationally located artists and broadcast live at Postmasters
Gallery [NY]. http://www.furtherfield.org/dissensionconvention/
We are moving it all over to a brand new server in a few weeks, and the
bandwidth will be unlimited, which will be quite interesting in respect
of how much further we can push it, with inclusion of live Quicktime
files as well. So there are plenty of paradigms to choke on here, in
regard to intellectual copyright, mixing traditional roles within the
art related field.
john cage- the happiest people are the ones with their hands on the piano...
marc
I guess the thing about these types of models/platforms - reminiscent of
community television or radio in the traditional sense... Is that they
require a community: to support and facilitate them. Communities take
quite a bit of feeding to initiate and sometimes to maintain - they can
of course just explode somewhere on their own, due to a common interest
or goal, facilitating group action and participation - but I don't think
they necessarily automatically evolve around an online interface without
some encouragement and a certain amount of viral communication.
I am familiar with the make-tv example as I used to work with these guys
(active ingredient) when they were running 'moon radio'
http://www.moonradio.co.uk/docs/index.php I expect that when the have
time and energy they will be helping to get things started and raise
awareness about the project. The launch of the software/online interface
coincided with another major commission they were doing for the Radiator
Festival - so I too look forward to seeing what evolves there. One of
the very clever things about this example is that it has boundaries - as
to how much is going on simultaneously, and how much is archived on the
hosting server afterwards - archives are only available to download for
a period of time after the live broadcast - then automatically deleted.
TV Swan Song - I believe was curated. I was working at Site Gallery, who
were a remote node of the project, when it was live... And actually I
also believe that they underestimated the technical resources required -
and much of the event was not accessible to an audience due to the
servers not coping with traffic.
Make-tv differs from the irational and frequency clock examples, as it
is flash based. These other two are using open software platforms -
which leads us back to the big question of how open do we want to be and
what exactly do we mean by that?
Another thing these models allow for in general, is a ready made online
interface, such that the 'content' producers only have to worry about
the actual broadcast - and not expend additional energy and resources on
building the interface for that project by project.
Here is another example from FACT in Liverpool
http://www.fact.fm/index.php This is a one off project example, which
facilitates content producers by providing production resources and
workshops for young people, there is an onsite interface which allows
them to upload content - it isn't a wide open access project - instead
it is focussing on a specific 'community'. Which to a degree adds
something, by facilitating an environment where unskilled people are
able to develop and get support. It also moves in another direction -
which encourages remixing of existing programmes contained in the
archive. Looking towards the model advocated by Creative Commons and the
BBC Creative Archive.
Cheers
Kelli Dipple
Webcasting Curator
Digital Programmes / Education & Interpretation
Tate
www.tate.org.uk/onlineevents
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Subject: Re: [NEW-MEDIA-CURATING] tv&broadcasting
..on Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 01:23:28PM +0000, Sarah Cook wrote:
>> Manu (et al),
>> Thanks for this.
>> I've been thinking about the model of broadcast (or is it a platform
>> not a model?) for the distribution of new media art projects...
>> Nina Pope and Karen Guthrie's TVSwansong project raised some questions
>> around this type of live time-slot-based programming (see for instance
>> the results of the symposium archived at
>> http://www.swansong.tv/symp.htm)
>> 56kBastard Television is also an intriguing 'show' that gets around the
>> question of bandwidth (http://www.56k-bastard.tv/)
>> I'm also interested to see how the project http://www.make-tv.net/
>> develops - it seems quiet so far but it is such a simple and genius
>> idea to set up a 48 'station' where people can log in, broadcast their
>> live video performance, then capture it from the archive.
>> I'm sure there are lots of examples of radio/streaming audio projects
>> that fit into this lineage (irational's www.radio90.fm, radioqualia's
>> frequency clock, http://radioqualia.va.com.au/freqclock/ are the two
>> great ones that spring to mind) but i'd like to know what's different
>> about these more recent open vs. curated broadcast models.
>> Any thoughts anyone?
heyho
some of this might come up during this (largely organised and streamed
via V2 at http://www.v2.nl/live): EXPLODING TELEVISION
On 26 January 1926, television pioneer John Logie Baird gave a first
successful public demonstration of image transmission. Eighty years
later, the International
Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) brings you Tea Time TV, a series of guest
interventions, talks, workshops and telepresentations streaming from
Satellite of Love,
the headquarters of a veritable TV commune located at Witte de With,
center for contemporary art, and TENT. Center for Visual Arts.
As televisions traditional role is changing under influence of new
distribution forms and online TV, renewal and experiments are necessary.
Exploding Television
examines the role which artists can play. During ten days, television
will be made, lived, seen, reinvented, and debated. Broadcasting units
Ambienttv.net
(London), CAC TV (Vilnius), Orfeo TV Telestreet (Bologna), and De
Taalpolitie (Rotterdam/Brussels) will be producing live television.
Furthermore, in association
with the VPRO, Exploding Television will be manifesting itself online
via the Internet.
The Tea Time TV sessions are online streamed events, each afternoon in
the Auditorium (2nd floor) of Witte de With and TENT during the festival
period. In addition
to Tea Time TV, Satellite of Love hosts TV dinners with warm meals and
elaborate screening programs.
For most recent update, see www.explodingtelevision.net
Thursday 26 January, 18:00 hrs
SATELLITE OF LOVE
Exhibition opening
Friday 27 January, 15:00 hrs
DIY_TV
DIY_TV will focus on the growing phenomenon of independent microTV
broadcasters.
The Italian microTV movement, Telestreet, started as a loose group of TV
micro-broadcasters that first went to air in Italy in 2002 in a
neighborhood station based
in Bologna. These loosely affiliated broadcasters share an enthusiasm
for exploring the socializing power of free-to-air video (TV)
broadcasting. Often their
content is sourced from the independent content archives such as V2V and
the Italian viral video distribution project NGV. However, in the words
of their
manifesto, "Television must be considered a new prosthesis and an
extension of the net [...] the horizontally of the net must meet the
'socializing' power of
television."
In the words of David Garcia "[Telestreet] are squatting the shadows or
blank spots which terrestrial broadcasters cannot reach." They not only
make their own
content, but also their own transmitters and antenna. Dedicated to the
socializing power of broadcast television, the project has provided an
important inspiration
for many Italian media activists, and has fueled a movement dedicated to
the development of critical approaches to localized production and
distribution of TV.
With Franco Berardi (rekombinant.org), Hanna Harris (ISEA2004), Annalisa
Pelizza (Telestreet), and moderator Rob van Kranenburg (Virtueel Platform).
Saturday 28 January, 15:00 hrs
SILENT_TV
Tetsuo Kogawa (Tokyo Keizai University)
Workshop leader: Adam Hyde (streamingsuitcase / r a d i o q u a l i a)
Silent_tv will be a tele-matic workshop on how to build your own tv.
For many years Tetsuo Kogawa has taught workshops, showing people how to
build their own FM transmitters from simple electronic components. These
workshops also
provoke those involved to consider the technical, political, and social
ramifications electromagnetic broadcasts. By building transmitters the
workshop
participants inevitably deconstruct broadcasting, challenging their own
notions of what broadcasting is now and what it could be.
For silent_tv Kogawa will take a rare break from his primary love,
radio, to lead a "Build your own TV" workshop. Participants will build
their own television
transmitters from basic electronic components and use the transmitters
to broadcast content made at the Satellite of Love open door studios. No
experience in
electronics is necessary to attend this workshop, and all materials will
be provided.
Registration for this workshop via <[log in to unmask]> is necessary as there
will be a limited number of places available. All parts and tools
provided gratis.
Sunday 29 January, 15:00 hrs
GATED_TV
Gated_tv will deal with copy right issues vs open archives, open source,
open archives
What new potential does digital television usher in for the creative
viewer? While the BBC is opening up their archive for visitors, and
initiatives such as The
Internet Archiveš (www.archive.org) keep Net memory in an active state
of flux, a shrinking violet of a standards body is crafting a new regime
of restrictions,
molding televisions future into its own likeness. Europe's imminent
broadcast flag could ban open source for digital TV, short-circuit the
devices in your living
room and shackle us into being a truly captive audience. As disregarded
consumers weve much to fear from behind the closed doors of the DVB
(Digital Video
Broadcasting Project), an industry-led consortium and self-enthroned
standards adoption nanny, mandating world-wide across every channel of
television broadcast.
If viewing behavior can be monitored and recording severely restricted,
who ends up watching whom is this genuinely an issue restricted to
merely upholding a
lexicon of copyrights?
With Cory Doctorow (Electronic Frontier Foundation), Juha Huuskonen
(Pixelache), Jennifer Rigby (BBC Creative Archive), Syb Groeneveld
(Creative Commons
Netherlands), Rachel Baker (Ambienttv.net and Arts Council of England),
and others. Moderated by Christiaan Alberdingk Thijm (IP Lawyer).
Monday 30 January, 15:00 hrs
TRUTH_TV
TRUTH_TV will bring together several artists to discuss their work
exploring the nature of truth as represented by television.
"To distinguish enemies from friends we have to depend on our own
personal interpretation of fragmented pieces of (visual) information
sent to us by the media. In
principle every single piece of third hand information is a lie..."
Geert Mul's (Rotterdam) project MATCH MAKER applies algorithms to pixel
to find matches between
thousands of satellite broadcast images, pairing images that share
formal composition similarities. Mul's work questions the role of
composition and its role in
constructing truth within the television frame.
The Yes Men are culture jammers that have successfully sold lies to the
media. They have recently passed themselves off as representatives on
BBC news of Dow
Chemicals, the owner of Union Carbide, and claimed responsibility for
the Bhopal Disaster.
Perry Bard is a New York artist who's working with electronic media. Her
recent public video installations are site specific and address cultural
history and
memory often involving local community members in the production
process. Bard's current work is about the US intervention in Iraq, and
has examined the role of
the media in the US elections.
With Geert Mul (artist), Perry Bard (artist), and The Yes Men (culture
jammers). Moderated by Stephen Kovats (V2_Institute for the Unstable Media).
Tuesday 31 January, 15:00 hrs
DISH_TV
DISH_TV will deal with satellites and the constellations around global
television.
Etymologically, television is a Greco-Roman hybrid of far and sight and
as anyone can easily verify via earth.google.com, few swathes of
territory are left
unmapped or visually undefiled. But to whom does this Gods eye view
belong? On 28 December, Europe launched its own Galileo satellite as a
"civilian"
counterbalance to the American militarys GPS-system. When will Africa
ever join this race to the outer orbits? And whats the deeper
teleological prop to the
television apparatus? Isnt it just another explicit chapter in a longer
media-historical preponderance upon surveillance technologies? Not so
long ago,
satellite-imagery remained something restrained to movie industry light
and magic (e.g. Enemy of State, 1999), but its already become one of
televisions stylistic
tropes. Where does this leave the artist? How can we challenge this
already ubiquitously innocuous technology and its accompanying baggage
of eidetic imagery?
DISH_TV will dive into the question of satellites and the constellations
around global television, with Mark Bain (simulux), Menno Grootveld
(Rabotnik TV), Mauzz
(DDS), Ewen Chardronnet (elipse). Moderated by Adam Hyde (r a d i o q u
a l i a).
Wednesday 1 February, 15:00 hrs
AVANT_TV
AVANT_TV will deal with the ambiguous interaction between art and
television.
Televisions birth pangs coincided with the very height of modernist art,
the boom of non-objective suprematism also occurring during the mid
twenties. Although the
nascent medium was subsequently adopted by national institutions,
recognized as being an ideal carrier for transmissions of social and
cultural thrust, artists
aspirations to dent the flow of info-entertainment has remained
marginal. Only with the advent of consumer-video and a significant
re-tooling could artists begin
responding on something of their own terms. Now that programs even
featuring art are becoming next to invisible amongst even the most
high-minded of public service
broadcasters, the available technology is such that artists can
potentially create their own channels, narrow-casting or unicasting
their own personal vision of
television. This is a look on how television became art practice, and
how art can feedback into television practice.
With Raimundas Malasauskas (CAC TV), David Garcia (N5M), and Ian White
(Whitechapel Gallery). Moderated by Emily Pethick (CASCO Projects).
EXPLODING TELEVISION
Dates: Friday 27 January Wednesday 1 February 2006
Location: Witte de With/TENT., Witte de Withstraat 50, Rotterdam
Admission: 3.50 (reduction 1.75), includes entrance to Satellite of
Love exhibition
Website: www.explodingtelevision.net
Curatorial team: Edwin Carels, Adam Hyde, Stephen Kovats Special thanks
to all participating artists and television units, V2_, Institute for
the Unstable Media, Stifo (Stimuleringsfonds voor Nederlandse Culturele
Omroepproducties), HGIS-Cultuur, Mondriaan Foundation, Witte de With,
VPRO Digitaal, Apple, Dutchview, Tiscali, and the French Embassy in The
Netherlands.
>> Sarah
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 25 Jan 2006, at 23:24, _manu Luksch wrote:
>>
>
>>> >...apologies to abuse the low traffic period on this list to give
>>> >info
>>> >about
>>> >a show, but I think it s very interestingly put together from a
>>> >curatorial
>>> >point of view, since - the topic being television & broadcast -
various
>>> >groups have been invited to run live studio and tv activities, then
>>> >there
>>> >are installations and more typically 'media arty' formats, but the
>>> >show also
>>> >negotiated access to tv channels to show works, plus talks, online
>>> >streams
>>> >etc.
>>> >
>>> >Here s some links:
>>> >
>>> >Satellite of Love
>>> >-> http://www.wdw.nl/project.php?id=116
>>> >
>>> >Exploding Television
>>> >-> http://www.explodingtelevision.net
>>> >
>>> >(Our contribution:
>>> >
>>> >VBI [voluptuously blinking eye]
>>> >-> http://www.ambienttv.net/content/?q=vbi
>>> >
>>> >Microtel
>>> >-> http://projects.lektrolab.com/microtel/)
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >Best, manu
>>> >
>>> >-
>>> >-
>>> >
>>> >____________________________________________/
>>> >___________________manu Luksch____/
>>> >Friedmanng. 36/6, A-1160 Vienna, skype: manulita
>>> >t (+43 1) 23 67 177 m (+43) 650 9977 988
>>> >__________http://www.ambientTV.NET____________/
>>> >
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