[spectre] streets, stories, faces

[Milo¹ Vojtìchovský]

Announcement and Invitation for collaboration




Saturday - Sunday, September, 27, and 28, 2003

from 2 p.m. - 9 p.m.

RadioJeleni, TeslaTV, StreetTV present




Streets, Stories, Faces

free speech on distance made by and for homeless




Open Software - Open Doors - Open Borders - Open Eyes




two days of immersive program around relations home-shelter- prison

Live broadband communication channel between Prague, Amsterdam, Brussel,
Linz, Wilno, etc.

(Project of Contemporary Sound and Media Art from The Netherland)

prepared by: Guy van Belle, Mirek Drábek, Tomá¹ ®i¾ka, Milo¹ Vojtìchovský,
Jan Dufek, and others.

supported by: The Royal Embassy of The Netherlands, in collaboration with de
Waag - Society for Old and Media, Center for Contemporary Art Prague,
Experimental space NoD, mamapapa o.p.s., Nový Prostor, Homeless Performance
Group Je¾ek a Èí¾ek, and others.




Portals of Experimental Space No D(imension) get open for 2 days for
visitors, viewers and participants from streets, homes, shelters and
terminals from many venues across the world. Via the electronic network we
can listen, talk, share and exchange our lived experiences. The program is
produced by/for those who are mostly excluded from benefits of communication
technology, are surviving on the society margins and, criminalized and
victimized by massmedia manipulation. Multilayer electronic bridge connects
people without (and with) homes, without (and with) ID, without (and with)
passports and without (and with) chances to travel, mostly without money,
and far from the opportunities offered by the new united and "liberated
Europe". Flow of images, sounds and texts covers individual stories,
captured faces and messages can circulate via fiberglas pipes from one city
and its outskirts to other cities and back, from homes to shelters, from
shelters to prisons.




The goal of the pilot broadcast is to raise questions concerning shifts
between the notions home - shelter - prison and to shed light on variety of
living conditions of various citizens across nations. A stream of
prerecorded pictures and sounds will be exchanged as well as live presented
during the event. Sounds and texts recorded by people living on the streets
linked with improvised happenings, meals, performances on site. A temporary
autonomous TV studio from cardboard and scratch will be built for this very
occasion in NoD, serving as a symbolic amplifyer for voices seldom heard in
the cultural or artistic contexts. To accept diversity and solidarity means
to try to comprehend wide range of languages and dialects, even if one
doesn´t understand the words.




Technical requirement: you can see and listen to the program if you are
connected to internet by opening window on http://www.radiojeleni.cz/live,
you need first to download free program Realplayer,
http://uk.real.com/index.html or Quicktime
player.http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/

Environment for sharing and communication is open software www.keyworx.org,
which runs on MacIntosh,. a Multi-User Cross Media Synthesizer - a
distributed application that allows multiple players to generate, synthesize
and process images, sounds and text within a shared realtime environmentIt
If you are interested to share the broadcast, please write for technical
details Guy van Belle guy at waag.org




About cheap and open souce tools for streaming you can learn from:

Mpeg4Ip - an open source implementation of MpegIV and Divx. It provides a
number of tools to create streaming content on Windows, Apple and Linux as
well as a live Divx streaming tool for Linux

http://mpeg4ip.sourceforge.net

Open Source Darwin Streaming Server (DSS) is an implementation of the
QuickTime streaming server developed by Apple. The creators of Mpeg4ip have
closely worked together with the people who have build the DSS. The Darwin
server has also relaying capabilities. This gives the ability to distribute
streams across a worldwide network. http://developer.apple.com/darwin

Dyne cdrom is packed with audio and video tools. These tools are pre
configured to make them easily usable by end users. By booting a workstation
with the cdrom, a workstation can be turned into a streaming studio.
http://dynebolic.org

Ffmpeg a complete solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. It
includes libavcodec, the leading audio/video codec library. FFmpeg is
developed under Linux, but it can compiled under most OSes, including
Windows. http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net

All packages are open source and under development and are used by a wide
audience. They all make use of open source software and as a result of this,
content can be created and distributed without any licensing problems or
costs. Together they provide tools for a high quality streaming platform.




Info: Milos Vojtechovsky

Jan Dufek, Petr Stehno

RadioJeleni

Jeleni 9

118 00 Praha 1

Czech Republic

tel 00420 224373178

email: milos at fcca.cz

jan at radiojeleni.cz

petr.stehno at fcca.cz




references




http://www.fcca.cz

http://www.radiojeleni.cz

http://www.arachne,cz

http://www.czfree.net/home/index.php

http://www.streamingalliance.org/

http://dynebolic.org

http://www.montevideo.nl

http://9.waag.org/frontend.html?content=http://9.waag.org/cgi-bin/nine.pl

http://www.t0.or.at/t0

http://opencultures.t0.or.at/

http://aspin.asu.edu/hpn/index.html

http://www.speakeasy.org/~anitra/activism/homelessness/index.html

http://anitraweb.org/homelessness/

http://www.indymedia.org

http://www.nationalhomeless.org/

http://www.designcommunity.com/discussion/6660.html

http://www.homelessarchive.org/synopsis.html

http://urbantv.it/