[spectre] tv-tv launches

[Geert Lovink]

> From: Simon Sheikh <post at simonsheikh.net>
> Date: 28 February 2005 9:33:42 PM
> Subject: tv-tv launches
>
> tv-tv will be on the air March 2, 2005. tv-tv is a new tv-project 
> created by a group of artists and cultural producers, aiming to 
> establish a fantastic-living-critical counter-public platform in 
> Copenhagen, Denmark.
>
> tv-tv invites you to join the party and first live transmission on 
> Thursday, March 3, from 10pm onwards. There will be a bar and djs. The 
> live transmission will be from 11pm till 1am. tv-tv’s studio is 
> located in Folkets Hus, Stengade 50, 2200 Copenhagen N.
>
> Tv-program week 9:
>
> Tuesday March 1., 23.00 - 01.00: Highlights from TV STOP.
>
> Wednesday March 2., 23.00 - 00:30: tv-tv will be broadcasting; the 
> story of the project will be presented..
>
> Thursday March 3., 23.00 - 01:00: Live transmission and party.
>
> tv-tv will be sending regularly on Kanal København (TV STOP/UNG TV) 
> tuesdays btw.. 11pm and 1am, wednesdays btw 11 and 12:30 pm and 
> thursdays btw. 11pm and 1am. Check in on www.tv-tv.dk.
>
> tv-tv consists of Kristina Ask, Stine Eriksen, Joachim Hamou, Kent 
> Hansen, Henriette Heise, Christian Hillesøe, Ulla Hvejsel, Jakob 
> Jakobsen, Marie Reynolds, Katya Sander, Simon Sheikh and Lukas 
> Swenninger.
>
> tv-tv manifesto
>
> tv-tv is everyone’s television. Today it has become easy to produce 
> tv. Technical innovation has it made possible to produce television 
> with your own equipment. We will use and misuse all possible tools to 
> make tv. tv-tv is broadcast quality on our terms: everyone can make 
> tv.
>
> tv-tv is self-organized tv, neither the state's apparatus nor the 
> market's tv. tv-tv is a network of independent producers who all are 
> longing to make tv. tv-tv wants to break the traditional monopoly of 
> the means of production and right to broadcast.
>
> tv-tv is publicness. We see tv as an active part of the public sphere 
> in which society is mediated. tv-tv is an effort to produce another 
> public sphere.
>
> tv-tv is investigating tv. we want to experiment with tv, make time 
> for an investigation of tv’s possibilities and break with the rhythms 
> offered by most tv channels. We will refuse ratings based 
> generalizations of what people want, and rather investigate tv as a 
> setting for communication. We want to break the monotony that 
> characterizes tv today.
>
> tv-tv is tv of the everyday. With tv-tv we will create a public based 
> on everyday experience in Copenhagen and around the world. tv-tv will 
> be a station with a short distance between being on the street and 
> being on the air. We shall attempt a direct and diverse mode of 
> address, taking its point of view in the passions we encounter and the 
> abilities we establish.
>
> tv-tv is critical tv. We do not aim to reflect society, and we will 
> try to abolish the 'viewer’ as a passive consumer. We will not just 
> produce tv: we will produce tv-tv.