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**STRATEGIES OF SHARING: THE DEPTFORD.TV PROJECT* *
How can we produce collaborative work within a creative or artistic context? Which are the complexities of such an undertaking? Which are the strategies of sharing?

Deptford.TV is a research project on collaborative film-making initiated by Adnan Hadzi in collaboration with the Deckspace media lab, Bitnik collective, Boundless project, Liquid Culture initiative, and Goldsmiths College. The project started on September 2005. It is an online media database documenting the regeneration process of Deptford, in South-East London. Deptford.TV functions as an open, collaborative platform that allows artists, filmmakers and people living and working around Deptford to store, share, re-edit and redistribute the documentation of the regeneration process.

Deptford.TV is an open, collaborative project, which means that:
a) audiences can become producers by submitting their own footage,
b) the interface that is being used enables the contributors to discuss and interact with each other through the database.

Deptford.TV is a form of ‘television’, since audiences are able to choose edited ‘timelines’ they would like to watch; at the same time they have the option to comment on or change the actual content. Deptford.TV makes use of licenses such as the Creative Commons and Gnu General Public License to allow and enhance this politics of sharing.

In the summer of 2006 we asked some of the contributors of the Deptford.TV project to give us feedback about their experience of working together and sharing the outcomes of this collaboration –whereas film, software, sound, live performance or other– not just with each other, but with everybody interested. Our aim was to understand and illuminate the strategies employed in various practices of sharing. As Deptford.TV is not affiliated with any one institution, we do not need to ensure any ‘politically correct’ answers. Instead, we aim to accommodate some raw, ‘un-beautified’ responses –just like the Deptford.TV database hosts rough, primary materials audiences do not normally have access to.
Visit http://www.deptford.tv

Adnan Hadzi is a filmmaker and media artist. He is currently a PhD candidate and Visiting Lecturer at Goldsmiths (Media and Communications).
Maria X [aka Maria Chatzichristostodoulou] is a performance theorist and curator of digital arts. She is currently a PhD candidate at Goldsmiths (Digital Studios and Drama), and Sessional Lecturer at Birkbeck (FCE) and WEA.

RSVP @ Spitalfields Market

Deptford.TV will present the Deptford.TV reader/diaries for the RSVP event at Spitafields Market. The diaries will also be published on this blog…
quoted from attainable utopias: RSVP is a quarterly networking event organised by the project management team at Raw Nerve. In the past RSVP has sought to strengthen the Deptford Creative industry by bringing it together in a relaxed setting. In September 2006 RSVP aims to transport the event into Central London in order to showcase Deptford’s Creative Industry. The intention is to create awareness about the wealth of creative business and talent within Deptford’s creative community. This will result in broader networking and business opportunities.

RSVP will be featured in the free LDF ‘Official Guide’ with an estimated print run of 80,000 and distributed in over 200 venues across London. RSVP will also be featured on the LDF website which, during the 2005 event, received 70,000 unique visits.

RSVP will exhibit approximately 22 Deptford designers and artists showing furniture, graphics and products. The exhibition will run from Friday 15th September to Sunday 17th September 2006, with a private view/opening on the Friday. The exhibition will be held in a purpose built space on Crispin Place, in Spitalfields’ new market, designed by Norman Foster (Fosters and partners). Like Deptford, this location has gone through a massive amount of regeneration in the past 15 years and is said to hold one of the greatest concentration of artists and craftsmen in Europe. On a normal Sunday the Spitalfields’ markets receive over 25,000 visitors.

This site will act as a satellite site for the Deptford’s creative community. It will showcase Deptford’s designers and makers, creating an awareness and curiosity for London Design Festival and Spitalfield visitors of what Deptford’s Creative community has to offer.

Deptford Design Festival Newspaper

This year, Deptford Design will be publishing a Festival newspaper.
A showcase for Deptford’s talented designers, the newspaper will contain the Festival’s programme of events and a map of where events will be taking place. There will be feature stories on high profile designers such as Committee and Based Upon. Laban and Cockpit Arts will feature in the regeneration section of the newspaper, celebrating Deptford’s changing status in London. The food section will guide people to restaurants and bars in the area – a welcome break from visiting the exhibitions.

The newspaper will be 16 pages and will be just smaller than tabloid size.
The print run will be 15,000 and it will be distributed in several locations across London:

• To Deptford and Greenwich residents
• To the Cockpit Arts mailing list (+/-3,000)
• At the RSVP event in Spitalfields, at the heart of the new Spitalfields Market
• At the London Design Festival office in the Old Truman Brewery for the length of the festival 15th-30th September 2006
• At London Design Festival information points around the capital
• At the Paddington Development Trust events in West London

London Design Festival

Established in 2002 to celebrate and promote London as the creative capital of the world, The London Design Festival (LDF) has rapidly grown to become one of the key constituents of the UK’s burgeoning festival season, along with London Fashion Week, Frieze and the London Film Festival.

Speaking at the opening of last year’s Festival, The Rt Hon Gordon Brown MP observed that:
“…(the festival) has built up a world-wide reputation for its events, its vision, for cradling the British genius”, and that “…it is a symbol of the message that I believe the LDF is sending around the world – in the new economy success does not happen by accident, it happens by design”.

The LDF has seen visitor numbers increase from 100,000 in 2003 to more than 475,000 in 2005.

The festival received widespread media coverage including over 100 articles and 11 TV and 10 radio features, adding up to £2 million in equivalent advertising spend.

Deptford Design Festival History

The Deptford Design Festival has been running since 2003 and we are now entering into our forth year as one of the main delivery partners for the London Design Festival.

• In 2003 14 Deptford design companies mounted a fairly traditional exhibition of their work which was displayed in the newly refurbished arches at Resolution Way.
• In 2004 the companies were challenged to make an exhibit from a 200 litre metal wheelie bin – the theme being Re-Use. The Deptford design companies rose to the challenge and produced a range of exhibits from a metal sofa to a working kiln.
• In 2005 the resident Deptford design companies produced a “portable table mounted exhibition” – better known as a book. Entitled ‘What’s So Great About SE8?’ the book provided acted as a showcase for the Deptford area and its talented designers.

quoted from raw-nerve:

What’s So Great About SE8?

Now in its third year, the Deptford Design Festival has become a firm local fixture, linking Deptford to the London-wide London Design Festival. In 2005 Deptford based companies decided to create a book that responds to the question ‘What’s So Great About SE8’. Raw Nerve contributed an illustrated fantasy map of area, which reveals all the weird and wonderful things that which make it such a unique place.

LINK: Deptford Map
LINK: How to buy the book

Raw Nerve Director Kieran McMillan took part in a panel at the the B.Tween Interactive Media Forum, 26th of May 2006, in the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television, Bradford. He spoke in the Creative Pioneers Session about some of Raw Nerve’s recent projects and to projects related to Deptford, such as Deptford.TV.

Deptford.TV presented on the 19th & 20th of May, 2006 the first version of the Synphony project at the made in deptford festival. A Synphony of Deptford, Laban Café, Creekside SE8, until 1510. A series of video features on Deptford. Deptford.tv is an audio-visual documentation of the regeneration process of the Deptford area in collaboration with SPC.org media lab, Bitnik.org, the Boundless.coop, Liquid Culture & Goldsmiths College. see soon www.remixdeptford.tv
As well as an open house at deckspace presenting the rough material on the Deptford.TV database.