[spectre] may you live in interesting times webcasts

[msdm]

may you live in interesting times, Cardiff Festival of Creative Technology,
28-30 October 2005
http://www.mayyouliveininterestingtimes.org/programme_tenant.html
 
Tenantspin
28(5:00pm) and 29 (4:30pm) Oct 2005 / Canton Labour Club, Llandaff Road,
Cardiff
 
Project Outline
Tenantspin participants and staff are travelling to Cardiff to facilitate
and present a series of keynote webcasts around the subject of community and
open broadcasting.
 
Programme
Fri 28th
5 to 5.45pm
Using the Superchannel
Tenantspin will specifically reflect upon the Superchannel webcasting
community, as developed by Danish artists¹ Superflex. ŒUsing the
Superchannel¹ is being researched and presented in collaboration with the
new Bridgend-based Superchannel Y.I.K.E.S.T.V. and artist Fee Plumley, a
driving force behind the development of webcasting in both North West
England and Wales.
 
Facilitator: Fee Plumley
Contributors:
Tenantspin - Mavis Thomas(tenant) & John McGuirk(tenant), Patrick Fox
(Staff) & Kathryn Dempsey (Staff)
Y.I.K.E.S.T.V - Kris Davies (Staff) 6 participants
 
6 to 6.45pm
>From Community Content to Citizen Media
Recent news events have seen massive increase in content created by members
of the public. From mobile phone images of the London bombings, through to
independent weblogs, and short films made by non-media professionals,
everyone potentially has direct access to the media. People have been
submitting `user-generated content` to websites for years, but the
availability of production technology and the skills to use it are more
widespread than ever before. Is this really a shift in the whole way that
media are produced, or is it just flavour of the month? What are the
implications for the creation of the information society, and how will `big`
media respond? We`ll take a look at the different kinds of content out there
and try to draw some conclusions about where it`s going in the future.
 
Facilitator: Iain Tweedale, Direcotr, BBC New Media
Contributors:
Phil Hurst, Media Trust Cymru, a project that helps charities and voluntary
organisations in Wales get their message across via the media -
www.mediatrust.org
 
Leigh Gripton, Shape-it.org, an internet-based community TV channel and
website. It has been created by Rhondda Cynon Taf Borough Council -
www.shape-it.org
 
Robin Moore, Producer, BBC Wales, a Welsh news, sport, music, education and
local content website including Where I Live - www.bbc.co.uk/wales
 
 
7 to 7.45pm
Civil Imagination
What is meant by Civil Imagination? What are its forms? Is the term usefully
distinguished from Civic Imagination? What role, if any, does it have to
play in shaping our experience of the public realm? These are starting
points, which will be used to open a conversation by an invited thinkers,
artists and members of public organisations of Wales. This discussion has
developed from Artstation¹s practice ­ placements and collaborations.
 
Facilitators: Glenn Davidson & Anne Hayes, Artists, Artstation -
www.artstation.org.uk
Contributors:
Mark Palmer, UWE /Watershed Fellow in VR Interactive Programming and
Philosophy - http://amd.uwe.ac.uk/amd/index.asp?pageid=433
Nicholas Tresilian, Ex Broadcaster ­ classic FM/ Art Historian and writer
Robert Owen, Head of External Relations for Countryside Council for Wales -
http://www.ccw.gov.uk/
Jim Poole, Director - Cynnal Cymru Sustainability Forum for Wales/Prof at
the University of Wales - http://cynnalcymru.org/
Julie Russel, Cultural Tourism Coordinator/Wales Tourist Board -
http://www.visitwales.com/
Renee Lertzman, Researcher Ecology theorist and writer
www.chronogram.com/issue/2004/09/wholeliving/
 
Tenantspin
29 Oct 2005 / 4:30 pm / Canton Labour Club, Llandaff Road, Cardiff
Project Outline
 
4.30 to 5.15pm
Technological Subversion
This session will discuss some of the ways in which developments in
technology have encouraged communities and groups to broadcast, become
connected and share information technologically. The session will explore
the motivation for developing `independent` outlets and content and how this
might develop in the near future.
 
Facilitator: Helen Sloan, Director, SCAN ­ www.scansite.org
 
Contributors:
 
Steve Fossey. Founder of Guerilla TV (art/media installation and networking
project), co-founder of Digital Matrix and Arwain. Steve now: lectures
around Wales; consults for the BBC and the Scarman Trust; works on a number
of community projects and VJ`s at clubs and festivals around the UK.
 
Matthew Yeomans, director of Custom Communication, Journalism on demand
through online contract publishing and blog reporting -
www.customcommunication.co.uk
 
Rachel Murphy, Researcher, Smart Clothes and Wearable Technology Research
Group - www.artschool.newport.ac.uk/smartclothes
 
 
5.30 to 6.15pm
Citizenship to Bowville: Electronic tagging, performance and citizenship ­
bio-glitches in the security network.
In August 2004 as the Home Office prepared to test the efficiency of
electronic tagging systems developed by major UK security companies, Paula
Roush got herself electronically tagged as a three-day durational
performance.  Commissioned by [SPACE] London, the locative media performance
used off-the -shelf purpose built equipment that simulated the official
electronic tagging system to create a fictional game during which people
were allowed to vote for and follow the movements of Marion Manesta
Forrester to become a citizen of Bowville. One year later, when electronic
tagging is again in the news and the focus of heated debate, Marion Manesta
Forrester returns to discuss electronic tagging, performance and citizenship
with a group of invited guests with varying professional and personal
experiences of electronic tagging.
 
Facilitator: Paula Roush, Artist, founder mobile strategies of display &
mediation www.msdm.org.uk
and bowville www.bowville.net
Contributors:
Tonia Carless, Architect and Lecturer at Oxford University; areas of
interest: regeneration of Cardiff Bay area, spatial politics of exclusion
and immigrant communities, Bute Town, public-led artistic interventions
Harold Thimbleby - Professor of Computer Science at Swansea University,
Director of the Future Interaction Technologies (FIT) Lab at Swansea
University. The FIT Lab is in the Department of Computer Science -
www.cs.swansea.ac.uk/~csharold
 
6.30 to 7.15pm
STAR Radio: Play/Back
STAR RADIO Playback:
STAR Radio is a situation specific radio project in the Splott, Tremorfa,
Adamsdown and Roath areas of Cardiff. www.starradio.org.uk
 
Facilitator: Zoë King, Senior Project Manager, CBAT - an independent public
art consultancy working with artists as catalytic agents in urban
regeneration schemes - www.cbat.co.uk
 
Contributors:
Jennie Savage, Organiser and Artist - www.starradio.org.uk/
www.jenniesavage.co.uk
Heath Bunting and Kayle Brandon, Artists - www.irational.orgMarcia Farquhar,
Artist - www.marciafarquhar.com
J Maizlish, Artist - www.marseillefigs.org
Dominic Thomas, Artist- www.mundusloci.org