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| [Nettime-nl] Preliminary Program: net.congestion - International Festival ofStreaming Media |
beste nettime-nl'ers, Wij zijn verheugd u het voorlopig programma van net.congestion - International Festival of Streaming Media, te kunnen presenteren, dat van 6 t/m 8 oktober 2000 in Amsterdam plaats zal vinden. ( http://net.congestion.org ) We hebben geprobeerd dit programma zo accuraat mogelijk samen te stellen, maar het blijft voorlopig en kan dus nog enigszins veranderen of enkele kleinere fouten bevatten. Het defintieve programma hopen we in de tweede helft van september te publiceren. Wij hopen velen van u in Amsterdam te mogen verwelkomen. vriendelijke groet, eric _______________________________ p r e l i m i n a r y p r o g r a m net.congestion International Festival of Streaming Media De Balie, Paradiso, Melkweg, De Waag, Montevideo/TBA Amsterdam, October 6 - 8, 2000 ----------------- Introduction ----------------- net.congestion, the first international festival of streaming media in The Netherlands, is the result of the collective effort of a broad coalition of Dutch and international cultural & media organisations, artists and media tacticians. The festival is devoted to new forms of broadcasting and live programming that have emerged around the Internet (the so-called "streaming media"). The festival presents and explores the use of streaming media as an artistic and tactical (social / political) medium, i.e. the points where artistically challenging work and socially relevant content meet. The main venues will be Paradiso, De Balie and Melkweg, creating a unique festival infrastructure around the Leidse Plein in the heart of Amsterdam. Montevideo and the Society for Old and New Media (De Waag) will act as important workshop locations. The festival will be a showcase of the most exciting and innovative artistic and tactical streaming media projects from around the globe. The program includes performances, concerts, club events, public presentations and debates, the 'Media Bank' (a public do-it-yourself media space), walk-in studio's that give the audience a chance to see the artists and technicians at work and interact with the live programs as they are being made, workshops and seminars. A large part of the festival will actually happen in the media; on the Internet, in local and national radio broadcasts, via cable television, satellite, and any other (trans-) national medium that the festival manages to seize upon. The festival will be a meeting point for various artistic and tactical communities who do not regularly meet each other. It aims to give new incentives to these communities, create new lasting structures for co-operation, and encourage the development of fresh ideas and improved technology in this field. While commercial forces dominate the main-stream development of the field, net.congestion will instead create a public platform for the multitude of innovative artistic and tactical initiatives that have emerged around streaming media. The web site address http://net.congestion.org ------------------------------------ Content of this Document: ------------------------------------ The preliminary program contains the following sections: - On-Line Events - Off-Line Events - Performances, Evening Programs & Club Nights - Artist Presentations - Panels & Debates - Workshops & Seminars __________________________________ Tickets, Prices & Contact Information: Day-Tickets: DFL 35,- Passepartout: DFL 65,- (prices include evening programs) __________________________________ Reservations: e-mall: congestion@ balie.nl Tel.: +31.20.55 35 100 General Enquiries: net.congestion c/o De Balie Kleine Gartmanplantsoen 10 1017 RR Amsterdam Contact: Lucas Evers Tel. +31.20.553 51 51 Fax. +31.20.553 51 55 e-mail: congestion@balie.nl http://net.congestion.org ______________________________ ------------------------ ON-LINE EVENTS: ------------------------ For net.congestion the events happening in the media space are equally important as the events taking place in the real physical space in Amsterdam. The online aspect of the festival will be both a reflection of the activities in real space as well as an event in itself. * Festival Web Site The web site accompanying the festival will be a networked 'event space', with a large collection of streaming tools for the public to experiment with, documentation of the content collected for the festival, the content itself, and information about streaming media. The most recent information about the festival and the program updates can be found at the festival web site: http://net.congestion.org * Streamed Events All the public discussions will be streamed live for free access over the internet. In addition we intend to have online participation by invited remote guests. These contributors will present their work or thoughts to the panel discussion by way of live streamed video and audio, direct to the presentation rooms. Links to all live streams produced @ net.congestion can be found at: http://net.congestion.org/live * Hybrid Broadcast Events The festival would like to follow the model for hybrid broadcasting as established by DDS' Virtual Media Lab. Within a small but open environment we wish to melt different streaming and broadcasting media, to form hybrid outputs online, on air, and via satellite. The public is welcome to occupy this space while this occurs, and of course there will be plenty of opportunity for participation by the online public. The output of these hybrid broadcasts will also be displayed throughout the festival venues, both visually and audibly. Check the web site for details! * Remote Participation The festival is organised in close co-operation with a large and very international community of artists, media producers and activists scattered across the planet. It is obvious that it will not be possible for all these people and groups to visit the festival in person. The very nature of the festival, however, turns this liability into an opportunity. The net offers manifold possibilities for remote participation in live events, for re-mixing, co-creation, and mediated presentations. These remote contributions on-line will therefore add an important decentralised dimension to the festival. Special remote connections will a.o. be set up with the electrofringe festival in Newcastle, Australia, the Integrated Media Programme at CalArts in Los Angeles, and WMF Club & Tresor in Berlin. ------------------------- OFF-LINE EVENTS: ------------------------- A unique festival infrastructure in the heart of Amsterdam will create the backbone of the streaming media festival. The famous concert and club spaces Paradiso and Melkweg, and De Balie - centre for culture and politics, all located within two minutes walking distance from each other, will be the main venues for the festival. These venues will host a diverse series of public events and presentations. * Walk in Studio A walk in studio for broadcast and streamed representation of the real space events will be created in the small hall (kleine zaal) of Paradiso. The public is welcome to walk through this space and observe the artists and technicians at work. The aim of this studio is to reduce and demystify the live content production process and offer the public the opportunity to see and understand this process. The studio will host interviews, music and sound sessions, and a series of micro performances, all sent out live over the net and other cross-connected media. Hosted by Bellissima (Amsterdam) Location: Paradiso (Kleine Zaal) - Continuous * The Media Bank A major component of the festival will be 'The Media Bank', an exhibition medium presenting and contextualising diverse streaming video and audio projects from around the world. The Media Bank will exhibit work enabled by the new open distribution channels created by streaming media. In its early manifestations, streaming media catalysed a dynamic flurry of production in arts and music communities, leading to novel media formats as net.radio and web-tv. This early artistic activity was quickly followed by the tremendous interest of tactical media initiatives, which work in a more decidedly social and political context. Later, club cultural scenes and documentary film makers began to experiment with streaming media. Recognising that these creative and tactical projects are seldom seen by large audiences, The Media Bank aims to provide a dynamic platform for artists, documentary makers, activists and other media producers to show their work to the diverse and critically engaged on-site festival audience. The Media Bank will offer visitors of the festival a chance at a first hand experience of streaming media. The Media Bank will comprise a centralised collection of computers connected to a localised server, running specially designed piece of software which will present and play back archived streaming video and audio. Audiences will be able to select and experience artists' works, online documentaries, activist videos, demonstrations and instructive material, and other streaming projects. net.congestion are now calling for proposals of projects to exhibit in The Media Bank. Email <qualia@xs4all.nl> for more information. Location: De Balie (Grote Zaal) - Continuous * Performances, Evening Programs & Club Nights The cross-over terrain between new music, dance and club culture, and media culture is investigated through a series of club events, live concerts and performances. Live programming via the Internet is becoming highly popular in club and concert-spaces. The performance and club events will bring together distinguished performers from the contemporary music and club scene, as well as young innovative musicians, sound and performance artists who produce challenging work in this new field. These evening programs of net.congestion are a diversified mix of experimental performances, concerts, live net events produced at three of Amsterdam's most famous cultural venues: Paradiso, De Balie and Melkweg. - Opening Event - Zadruga (.yu) The Belgrade artist collective Zadruga has been invited to design the opening event of the festival. On the Friday evening Zadruga will transform the theatre spaces of De Balie into a multi-sensory total environment that fuses high- and low-tech interfaces in the space with Zadruga is a collective of visual artists, musicians, writers, cartoonists, and do-it-yourself new media specialists, with a great experience in creating both small and large scale public happenings bordering between contemporary arts and club culture. Date: Friday, October 6 - 20.00 Location: De Balie - net.radio.web.tv.night A global re-mix, sound, music & image exchange: Exactly at midnight on Saturday night a global net.audio.web.video jam session will start, in which artists dispersed around the globe will continuously repurpose each others sound and image materials streamed live over the net. A fascinating exploration of the dynamics of the networked communication space in sound and image. The net.radio.web.tv.night is hosted by Xchange, the net.audio network (http://xchange.re-lab.net), who in the past conducted a series of similar exercises, using net.audio (net.radio.nights). For net.congestion this concept will be expanded to include images for the first time. Date: Saturday, October 7th @ midnight Location: Mediabank - De Balie - Club Nights The nightly club programs venture into the heart of the Berlin techno scene, with live connections and DJ/VJ exchanges with famous Berlin clubs WMF and Tresor on Saturday in Paradiso & Melkweg . The Sunday night will dive into the Hip Hop scene's massive net-presence, including a live free-style session between Paradiso Amsterdam and the Media Buro in Philadelphia, as well as the world's first ever live streamed break-dance instruction class. Date: Saturday & Sunday October 7 & 8 Location: Paradiso & Melkweg * Performance Night @ Melkweg (The Max) A selection of internationally renown performance and media-artists will create a unique performance program involving all kinds of streaming technologies and streaming components on the Saturday night in the main hall (The Max) @ Melkweg. The performance will include: - Sarah Teitler & Jade Jossen (New York) - The Silent Show with Sound Puppet Theatre Show streamed live over the net. - Snowcrash (.nl) - Tokyo A co-operative real-time performance between an Amsterdam band and a singer in Tokyo - Arcangel Constantini (Mexico City) Bakteria - Live interactive visual music performance & audience installation - F5 (Riga) - eset - Software Performance Date: Saturday October 7 - 21.00 Location: Melkweg * Special Event: O + E a connected concert between Amsterdam & London De Waag, Society for Old and New Media, together with Audiorom present: O + E: a connected concert between Amsterdam and London using KeyStroke. KeyStroke is a multi-user crossmedia synthesizer developed at Waag Labs. Date: 7 + 8 October Location: NEMO Oosterdok 2. Starting time 9.30pm. Admission by special ticket only: Dfl.20 / 16.50 Ticket reservation: tel. 020 - 531 3118 or tel. 557 9898 More info: http://www.keyworx.org / http://www.waag.org --------------------------------- ARTIST PRESENTATIONS: --------------------------------- Leading individual artists and artist collectives around the globe are invited to present and comment their work. These presentations include: - Rachel Baker, Irational / TM Selector, London - Nora Barry, The Bit Screen (festival), Narberth (Wales) - Ad de Bont, Radio Interference, Amsterdam - Bruno Beusch & Tina Cassani, TNC Network, Paris - Tim Boykett, Times Up, Linz - Heath Bunting, World Service, non-located - Arcangel Constantini, Mexico-City - Nick Crowe, UK - Walter van der Cruisen, streaming ascii, Berlin - Dimos Dimitriou, Athens - Heidi Grundman, Kunstradio, Vienna - Alexander Gubas, Zadruga, Belgrade - Zina Kaye & Mr. Snow, Laudanum.net, Sidney - Thomax Kaulmann, OMA - Open Meta Archive - Lev Manovich, microcinema - Peter Notari, Pararadio, Budapest - Gordon Paunovic, net.aid / FreeB92, Belgrade - Radio Active, Zagreb - Kate Rich, Fall Out Radio, London - Mike Riemel, Border2000, Berlin - Rasa Smite & Raitis Smits, Xchange / Ozone, Riga - Borut Savski, Radio Student Ljubljana - Martin Thompson, Nervous Objects, Sidney - Krassimir Terziev, Interspace, Sofia - Vencislav Zankov, Zetm@g, Sofia Location: Media Bank - De Balie -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- OVERVIEW OF PANELS & DEBATES, WORKSHOPS & SEMINARS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- (Time tables will be announced shortly) -------------------------------- PANELS AND DEBATES: -------------------------------- I - "The changing shape of things that flow" - Narrative Streams (The Network is the Narrative) Online media streams are multiplying access points to the already explosive proliferation of narratives. In the face of a general consensus that we are living a provisional and in-deterministic reality, supported by new media whose databases allow for multiple trajectories, there is something almost joyously perverse in the unflagging popularity the classical narrative, with its fixed geometry of beginnings, middles and endings of heroes and villains. Despite modernist experiments and the technology of the database the narrative (along with the image) remains one of our societies dominant way of knowing in which propositions unfold through progression, through temporal sequence. The panel's presentations and discussion will seek to clarify the way in which these and other longstanding questions about the relationship between the net and the narrative are both heightened and popularised by the emergence of streaming. Participants: Lev Manovich (remote presentation), San Diego Nick Crowe, Manchester Norra Barry, The Bit Screen, Narberth (USA) Fabian Wagminster, Argentina / Los Angeles Chair: David Garcia - Bandwidth Aesthetics An artist lead discussion about whether quality is important in audio and video streaming, or whether we can consider 'low quality' streams an aesthetic and a choice. How does the emergence of broadband internet affect the accessibility of the net for artists and audience. Is the narrow band net.cast a more favourable option? Participants: Alexander Gubas (Low Fi Video), Belgrade Rasa Smite & Raitis Smits, Ozone - train project, Riga Walter van der Cruijsen (streaming ascii), Berlin Menno Grootveld, Lost & Found, Amsterdam Repr. Integrated Media Programme, CalArts, USA Chair: Honor Harger - The Hybrid Media Show A dazzling show of successful and innovative hybrid media formats from around the globe, interfacing the networked media with traditional broadcasting formats, and fusing the digital with the analogue. The show is followed by a debate on the ratio of hybridisation of digital and analogue media. What are the tactical advantages of creating hybrid fusions of digital and non-digital media? Does it lead to new models of media production and distribution? How can hybridisation help to reach new and larger audiences? Presentations: Frequency Clock TwenFM Radio B92 / ANEM live.dds.nl/TV Interface Pirate Radio - Howard Jones Kotmale Community Radio, Sri Lanka Radio 90, Susan Kennard TV 3000, Hans Kerkhof [tbc] Host: Micz Flor - target.audience=0 A panel discussion by leading streaming artists about whether they create for a particular audience or if the process of streaming is an end in itself. Are artists really interested in "communication" with an audience or is there something at stake which escapes the traditional broadcasting formats? How do artists treat the Internet, as an extension of the old media or as a media space with a new quality of its own? Participants: Rasa Smite (xchange) Heidi Grundman (Kunstradio) Representative of Atomfilms.com [tbc] Eric kluitenberg Raul Maorroquin Chair: David Garcia - Web Documentaries Documentary film is discovering the web. How do documentary filmmakers use the new channels? Is the web an alternative for mainstream distributors, commercial interest and censored mass media channels? How is the content of documentaries affected by the new outlets? A series of presentations of on-line documentary projects produced by a new generation of documentary film makers, followed by a panel discussion by some of the 'early experts' of this new field. Participants: Manu Luksch, Ambient TV, London Femke Wolting, Submarine, Amsterdam Sandra Damato, Montreal Peter Wintonnick, Necessary Illusions, Montreal Alain Fountain, London Phillip Peacock [tbc] II - "Streaming Media for Social Change" - Tactical Streams How can streaming media contribute to address issues of vital social, political and human concern with a wider audience? Is the net the appropriate channel to give voice to the voiceless, or is the threat of ghettoisation paramount? Many people feared that with the emergence of streaming technology, broadband internet, and the fusion of internet and broadcasting the celebrated democratic, open and decentralised character of the Internet is sacrificed to create the ultimate entertainment machine. Recently, however, it turned out that many of the aspirations of the entertainment industry were not met with the ring of the cash box. Meanwhile a host of alternative outlets and fringe media players emerged who exploit the tactical potential of streaming media. The panel presents and explores exemplary initiatives and challenging models of tactical uses of streaming media. Participants: Gordon Paunovic, FreeB92, Belgrade Kantor Berita Radio 68H, Jakarta, Mr. Santoso Bruce Girard, Comunica.org Arun Metha, New Delhi Radio 21, Pristhina Howard Jones, International Humanitarian Aid Concern, London Translocal communites: Gay & lesbian activism Chair: David Garcia - Campaigning Streaming media has become an ever more important tool for social and political campaigns. This has become clear during recent anti-WTO / G8 actions such as the recent protests in Seattle, Washington, and this September in Prague, but also in immanent crisis situations such as the Kosovo conflict (helpB92 & FreeB92), or most recently in the counter-campaign to the US Presidential elections media machine (MicroRadio Network). A careful look at how these campaigns are constructed. How successful are they? What are the limitations of this new type of global (micro-) media campaigns? IndyMedia Network, FreeSpeech TV, Boulder (USA) Albana Shala, Open Channels for Kosovo / Press Now Adbusters [tbc] Gilberto Cutrupi, Greenpeace International, Amsterdam Manse Jacobi, Boulder (Colorado) Supersphere, Chicago Electrofringe, Newcastle Australia (remote presentation) Chair: Eric Kluitenberg - Intellectual Property Stands Trial: The Court Case Paradiso - Grote Zaal From our public prosecution office: "We accuse Intellectual Property, on the over a 100 years old grounds that property is theft. We maintain that the hostaging of knowledge and information, which should be free, under the guise of Intellectual Property is an unacceptable detriment to the development of our cultures and societies." On the Saturday afternoon the main hall of Paradiso will be transformed into a temporary court room. While the legal battles against Napster, MP3.com, Scour.net and others rage on, the net.congestion festival wishes to reverse the charges. Who is operating in the public interest here? As a reply to the legal theatre in court rooms world-wide, net.congestion holds its own trial and puts Intellectual Property on the stand. In front of our honourable upper judge, and a strictly impartial jury, we will call a series of expert witnesses to testify for and against the current practices of copyright and the legal protection of intellectual property. The positions represented in the court case will include: Prosecutors expert witnesses on: - Copyleft and the freedom of information - Open Source - Public Licensing Expert witnesses for The Defence on: - the rights of authors / artists - the interests of publishers - the music industry The proceedings of this court case will be carried out on the Saturday afternoon and streamed live over the internet in its entirety. The verdict of the jury and the sentence by the judge will be pronounced the next day, on Sunday afternoon in the same location. - Open Streaming Alliances A panel on open source for streaming, new models, approaches, networks and ideas. Can an open streaming architecture be conceived of that will allow for the creation of a public domain channel for not-for-profit and non wealthy organisations and individuals; a necessary channel for effective and global streaming, without interruptions and "net congestion" errors? Participants Jesse Reynolds, Adelaide Dimos Dimitriou, Balkan Streaming Alliance, Athens Thomax Kaulmann, Open Meta Archive - OMA / OVA / Orang, Berlin Heath Bunting, World Service / Irational.org, non-located Alan Steed, HugeCaster, Chair: Drazen Pantic - Protocols & Alternatives A discussion about alternative streaming technologies other than quicktime, microsoft, real & mp3. What open source tools exist for streaming? Participants: Lynn Winbarger, free-expression.org, USA René Liethof, xs4all, Amsterdam Pit Schultz, Mikro ev, Berlin ogg Vobris [tbc] Daniel Ockeloen, Submarine, Amsterdam Andreas Broeckmann, V2_organisation, RotterdamBerlin - Shifting the Frame: Alternative Audio-Visual Networks This panel reviews different modes of distributing media, which are not technically streaming, but replicate the functions of streaming media. Do viral networks such as bulletin boards and newsgroups that create alternative distribution channels provide a viable alternative to streaming? Is streaming technology really the killer-app? Participants: Rene Leithof, xs4all, Amsterdam Igor Djordjovic, Corrosion, Belgrade M Bone (remote presentation) [tbc] Erik Huizer (Gigaport) [tbc] - net.congestion - The Doom Scenario The future of the Internet with streaming technology is its ultimate break-down. With only 6% of the web sites containing streaming content, but being responsible for no less than 56% of the total net.traffic, a certain prediction for the future can be made: If streaming truly becomes the fashion for the future, and no self-respecting web site can do without it, the net is certain to breakdown in complete congestion. In this panel the title of the festival will be addressed, and it will give 10 good reasons why streaming is NOT going to happen! Participants: Michaël van Eeden (De Waag) James Wallbank (Redundant Technology Initiative) [tbc] Gerry McGovern, New Thinking, Dublin [tbc] Chair: Andreas Broeckmann III - Industry Standards - Commodifying Culture An overview of the movements within the commercial and corporate streaming media sector. This includes an evaluation and critique of the present and future strategies of Internet Service Providers, Portal Sites, Search Sites, Telecommunications, Broadcasting, Hardware, Operating System, and Music industries. Main question: Where do 'we' get content? Participants: David Sinden / Lux, London Atom Films / Representative [tbc] Andrew Bullen, Amsterdam William Rowe (Protein) Upe van Leeuwen (NOB-interactive), Hilversum Chair: Alan Fountain - Tune in or Download A panel discussion on user behaviour in the age of convergence: How the audience consumes media, what a media consumption space is and how we interact with media appliances. Questions asked and discused include: 'do we want to watch a computer or interact with our television'? What format is going to prevail? What kind of user behaviour is expected? Participants: Stuart Nolan [tbc] Zina Kaye, Laudanum, Sidney, Australia Andy Stamp, Bastard TV, Sheffield Susan Kennard, Radio 90 / Banff Centre, Canada Chair: John Wyver (Illuminations, London) - The art of making money With the new reign of globalized neoliberalism, countries with a tradition of government support for the arts are forced to cut budgets. some online artists are making money selling their content to advertisers online, while others give away their product to the "public domain." can artists create authentic and unbiased work in a hyper-competitive marketplace? can a balance be struck between the financial needs of the creator and the market demands of the consumer that respects the creative process? are there viable non-government non-commercial altenatives to general electric or the national endownment for the arts? Participants: David Guez, Paris Joe Pezzilo [tbc] Arun Mehta, New Delhi Chair: Manse Jacobi - Toy Show The Toyshow will be a presentation of the latest, most interesting, and sometimes useless gadgets produced for streaming media. These are largely commercial products produced at this very early era of 'internet appliances'. These machines articulate some of the strange and wonderful visions of the future for how the internet and broadcast media will integrate with everyday life. Products included are: portable streaming media players, internet radio appliances, remote controlled streaming encoders, and wireless-controlled-net.radio-software-tuners (!)... Chair: Adam hyde ----------------------------------------- WORKSHOPS AND SEMINARS: ----------------------------------------- The workshops and seminars are primarily intended for practitioners and hence will require a base level of understanding of streaming media. As one of the important aims of the festival is to provide an opportunity for streaming media organisations and individuals to develop their practice, we wish to offer moderate and advanced courses. The workshops will be moderated by invited international experts. * Introductory Workshops: - What is Streaming Media? Presented by: Cees Voss [tbc] & Martin Thompson 2 hours Why does streaming media exist? This workshop examines what streaming media is from a technical perspective. Topics include unicasting, multicasting, RTSP, Quicktime, Real, WindowsMedia, MPEG, bandwidth, and a short look at some broadband initiatives. - net.radio beginners guide Presented by: Rasa Simte, Raitis Smits & Rachel Baker 3 hours This workshop is aimed at introducing those that have no experience with streaming media to the basic concepts and practices of streaming live audio. Participants will learn how to set up a small mixing desk with simple audio sources, how to take the audio source into a computer, and how to configure the encoding software to stream live on the internet. - How to stream video - a beginners guide Presented by: Gerbrand Oudenaarden (Engage!), Anton Bensdorp (rel.nl) 3 hours This workshop is aimed at introducing those that have no experience with streaming media to the basic concepts and practices of streaming live video. Participants will learn how to set up a video camera, how to take the video source into a computer, and how to configure the encoding software to stream live on the internet. - Producing on-demand streaming material Presented by: David Guez, Jesse Reynolds & Marcel Brouns (D:on) The workshop deals with ways in which existing audio and video materials can be presented on-line. Issues considered are a.o. how to convert existing audio and video materials into streaming files, how to create on-line video and audio archives, and how to create audio and video on-demand services for non-commercial purposes. Software Workshops: - Software Development I: Interfaces & Customised Players - Visual Basic Presented by: Ray Selby & Nic Limper 3 hours Basic principles of Visual Basic and how to make customised Real and WindowsMedia players. The workshop will also explore how to embed streaming media content with web pages, and how to create media tools with standard web browsers. - Software Development II: Interfaces & Customised Players - Java 3 hours How to use the JMF Java packages to develop your own streaming applications. - Audio and Video Compression Presented by: Paul Stellingwerff (Transtec) 2 hours What is compression and why is it necessary? The focus of this workshop is to give participants a basic understanding of video and audio compression theory and techniques. - Scripting Presented by: Heath Bunting, Micz Flor & Jaanis Garancs 3 hours What is scripting (vs programming)? An introductory look at how PERL can be used in your streaming media applications including a look at the World Service by Heath Bunting as a case study. - The Power of the database Presented by: Tomax Kaulmann & Walter van der Cruyssen A workshop about interesting and dynamic uses of database driven sites that offer streaming content. --------------- SEMINARS: --------------- - Legal Constraints A seminar about the legal requirements and constraints surrounding streaming media, the relationship between traditional broadcasting legislation and the new streaming media, and general concerns of freedom of expression, patenting, copyright and the freedom of information. What kind of challenges does streaming media present to copyright, freedom of information, and broadcasting legislation world-wide? The battle over Napster has outlined the stakes for the game: Is the future media landscape going to be dominated by the copyright protected interests of the main-stream media players, or by the representatives of free speech on the word-wide networks? How about the position of the artist? Participants: Pit Schultz Ted Byfield, nettime, New York Repr. Bytesize (MTV) [tbc] - Hybridising Media A seminar that looks at the practical questions of how to connect analogiue and digital electronic media. The seminar will explore a series of case studies presented by experienced practitioners in this field, including James Stevens, Mauzz (DDS) Heath Bunting (radio 90), Toek (DFMrtv), and Adam Hyde (frequency clock). Chair: Susan Kennard - Wireless Streaming A discussion about methods and techniques of wireless webcasting. The mobile net.cast reporter has been around as an idea for quite some time. various prototypes have already been developed. But also the idea of non-located mobile media-art projects has been a continuous fantasy. An appraisal at the dawn of mobile internet. Participants: Steven Wray, EDT, USA Supersphere (Chicago) Hans Kerkhof, TV 3000, Amsterdam Gerbrand Oudenaarden, Engage!, Utrecht James Stevens, Consume.Net, London - Streaming & Privacy What privacy issues are at stake with streaming media. What are the implications of a landscape littered with web cams for our personal privacy? How can the personal sphere in the age of streaming technologies be protected? Participants: Maurice Wessling, Bits of Freedom, Amsterdam Sjoera Nas, Xs4all, Amsterdam Channel 4 repr. (Big Brother UK) - [tbc] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post-festival workshops hosted by Montevideo & De Waag: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Due to the limited number of places available, these workshops are essentially closed to the general audience. Should you have a strong particular interest in participating in any of these workshops, we advise you to contact the organisers of the festival as soon as possible at: congestion@balie.nl - Open Source Streaming Alliance Hosted by Drazen Pantic @ Montevideo A workshop to develop the idea and install a local Amsterdam node for an open network of connected mirror streaming servers for cultural and tactical streaming media projects world-wide. - Will streaming media be a new dimension in creative interactive European community building rather than just a ubiquitous extension of passive consumer entertainment ? A two day seminar hosted by De Waag which will investigate the solutions available and suited to help develop streaming, fused media into the creative medium it can be. For the first day, October 9th, festival participants are invited to discuss not only platform- and distribution-network related issues raised at the festival, but also some of the main topics which will be elaborated during the second day(October 10th). These issues are: * the interface : its flexibility for streaming media, the browser vs the player * the tools : which available solutions enable media-creation * the content : which types of interesting European content are there or need to be invented ? The second day (by invitation-only) will take into account the results of the discussions during day 1 and explore them in more depth. (Further information will be made available in the final program and on the net.congestion web site.) ----------------- COLOPHON: ----------------- * Participating Organisations De Balie Bellissima D:on DDS DFM rtv Int. HKU - Faculty for Media & Technology, MFA/PHD Program Kunst En Televisie Stichting (K.E.T.S.) Melkweg NOB-interactive Paradiso r a d i o q u a l i a Radio 100 De Waag XS4ALL * Organisers / Editorial Team Initial Concept: Adam Hyde Editorial Team: Adam Hyde Eric Kluitenberg Honor Harger David Garcia Geert Lovink (reader) Galit Eilat (media bank) Production: Lucas Evers (co-ordination) Patrizia Baldin (publicity & assistant producer) Gerbrand Oudenaarden (technical co-ordination) Justin Kniest (Paradiso) Kees Brienen (Paradiso) Boris van Vorstenbosch (Melkweg) Aske Hopman (De Waag) Robert de Geus (Montevideo TBA) ______________________________________________________ * Verspreid via nettime-nl. 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