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Deptford.TV at Open Video Conference 2010

For the second time Deptford.TV will present during the Open Video Conference in NY.

OVC2010 will take place on October 1-2, 2010 in New York City. OVC is a two-day summit to explore the future of video on the web. OVC will appeal to anyone with a stake in the future of creative expression and the moving image.

OVC is host to inspiring talks, hands-on workshops, technology working groups, film screenings, and much more. It’s as much about the underlying technologies as the people and projects who use them. Whether you are a developer, a storyteller, an entrepreneur, an academic, or just a citizen of the web, OVC will spark your imagination for what’s possible with video on the web.

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Live Stage: Images of Ebb [uk London]

The End of Something — A collection of reflections on the Global Crisis :: July 31 – August 30, 2009 :: Volume, 114-116 Amersham Vale, Deptford Police Station, New Cross, London :: Images of Ebb Workshop :: August 1; 1:00 – 5:00 pm :: Deskspace medialab. To reserve a place, please RSVP with phone number to: a.hadzi(a)gold.ac.uk (limited space!).

Images of Ebb (with Adnan Hadzi (Deptford TV) + Rob Canning (GOTO10)) will introduce participants to Sousveillance and CCTV filmmaking where material and images from the Deptford.TV archive will be edited to submissions from Sounds of Ebb. Footage taken from Deptford.TV was filmed during a previous TV hacking workshop where participants equipped with CCTV surveillance signal receivers were lead through the city by incoming surveillance camera signals. CCTV video signal receivers cached surveillance camera signals into public and private spaces and were made visible: surveillance became sousveillance. By making images visible which normally remain hidden, we gain access to the “surveillance from above” enabling us to use these images to create personal narratives of the city. The Images of Ebb Workshop will look at constructing a narrative to the Sounds of Ebb.

Sound of Ebb (a branch project of The End of Something) is an open source sound series that asks sound artists and artists working with sound to respond to the question: What is the sound of Recession? Contributions are collected internationally reflecting the affects of crisis and recession from various social contexts and geographic locations. Together the Sounds of Ebb and images from Sousveillance produce articulations of a local city in crisis with global resonances of recession.

Deptford.TV is a research project on collaborative film – initiated by Adnan Hadzi in collaboration with the Deckspace media lab, Bitnik media collective, Boundless project, Liquid Culture initiative, and Goldsmiths College. It is an online media database documenting the urban change of Deptford, in Sout 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 Deptford.

GOTO10 is a collective of international artists and programmers, dedicated to Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) and digital arts. GOTO10 aims to support and grow digital art projects and tools for artistic creation, located on the blurry line between software programming and art.

The End of Something is a critical archival project that aims create a platform for reflection on the global crisis. During August 2009, LOUDSPKR in collaboration with Volume will embark on an on-going process of accumulation to build up an archive of personal, critical and creative reflections from a local and international community. Located in the former “Archive Room” of a police station, Volume will become once again a bureau and repository for information. The archive exists both online in a ‘digital archive’ and in a physical archive at Volume. As a provisional space, the archive is perpetually incomplete and flawed. It, however, offers a space for dialogue and critical reflection on notions of crises that demand urgency as it increasingly seeps into our everyday. Through events, workshops and talks, the public will be engaged in processes of creating and imagining new narratives and understandings of a rather complex time.

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FEAR Sarai Reader 08

Deptford.TV ‘data spheres’ essay published in FEAR, Sarai Reader 08
Author/Editor : Monica Narula, Shuddhabrata Sengupta and Jeebesh Bagchi, Eds.

Sarai Reader 08 is interested in the phenomenon of fear in the form of nuclear attacks, lethal outbreak of a virus, of flash floods and freak storms, etc not as empirical facts but as cultural processes. The book aims to question how fear and anxiety shape individual and collective dispositions, how lives and social processes are designed around and against them, and what effects they have on our politics and our economy. It is especially interested in fear as language, as mode of communication, as a way of ordering and rendering the world…

… The Reader gathers to itself texts and contributions in the form of image-text assemblages that look at the transmission, generation and processing of fear on an intimate as well as on an industrial scale. They encompass mechanisms designed either to allay or intensify fear or ratchet up and down levels of anxiety and feelings of security. We see this as a beginning, and a broad range of questions and areas of interest, some of which have been touched upon this book, still remain to be unaccounted for. While Sarai Reader 08 does not claim to be exhaustive, it does aim to straddle a wide territory. The form that contributions to the Reader have taken is as varied as the content. While there are stand-alone essays, there are also reports, interviews, photographs, image-text combinations, comics, art-works, personal journal entries, research and commentaries. We believe that this diversity helps the Reader evoke responses to the idea of fear in all its myriad dimensions.

We have always viewed the Sarai Reader as a comfort zone for new and unprecedented ideas, as a space of refuge where wayward reflections can meet half-forgotten agendas. This is why we see it possible to imagine Sarai Reader 08 as setting the stage for a productive encounter with the demand for an account of the limits, margins and edges of our times.

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A Hack a Day #12: Frequency Modulations

Workshop with !Mediengruppe Bitnik (.ch /.uk)

Radio is a surprisingly straightforward media – you only need to assemble a few electronic components for a low-range broadcast with your own micro FM transmitter.

In this workshop participants soldered their own low-range FM transmitter using a predesigned printed circuit board by piradio.de (a Berlin based free radio initiative). Once assembled, this board gave every participant a 0,15 Watt transmitter with mini-jack input and USB as power source. After a brief introduction from !Mediengruppe Bitnik to some of their more recent works related to media hacking, the group experimented with different ways to use our FM transmitters: As a tactical tool, an artistic device, a communications media.

No previous soldering experience required!

!Mediengruppe Bitnik is an artists group based in Zurich, Switzerland.

Their artistic practice is focused on medial systems, mediatized realities and live media feeds which they like to manipulate and reproduce so as to give the viewer a novel and refined understanding of their mechanisms. In doing so, Bitnik aims at revealing functionalities and operational methods which allow other uses and extend the utilities of these systems.

Bitnik are currently in a three-month residency at SPACE media lab.

http://www.bitnik.org

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what the fork?

TV-Hacking

Deptford.TV runs tv hacking workshop at MakeArt Festival 2009 in Poitiers, France.

comment sniffer les cctv signals (special pour tristant + maud  :-)
une histoire des piratageTV

histoirepiratetv

montre un clip de Max headroom

Regle : tout les receivers sont des broadcaster / c’est juste une question de technologie. =>une station de TV pour 50€…..

présente deptford.TV

Présentation de http://edit.deptford.tv/

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Deptford.TV at Open Video Conference NY

Deptford.TV presented Cinelerra Server during the ‘Hack Day’ of the Open Video Conference 2009.

Today is Hack Day at the Open Video Conference. This is your chance to come out and organize a workshop, a discussion, a screening, or anything else. The building is yours!

To check out the awesome events that have already been scheduled, or to schedule your own, go to our Hack Day wiki. For example, we already have what looks to be a great Open Video in Education event with the folks at Columbia University’s Center for New Media Teaching and Learning at 12pm, and a screening of the beautiful film Sita Sings the Blues at 2pm.

Hope to see you there! Happy hacking.

– dtv method first prototype out & presented in NY
http://osvideo.constantvzw.org/

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a trail of images of Deptford

During May (12th May till 1st June), Deptford.TV will host in collaboration with CUCR, http://dek.spc.org and http://www.bitnik.org a three weeks long hands on database filmmaking workshop, in which we will do some serious tv hacking, editing and uploading to Deptford.TV, a public database of documentary film and video to help annotate the urban change in Deptford and across SE London.

We invite you to take part in 4 workshop days over the period of three weeks plus to walk with the !Mediengruppe Bitnik artists through Deptford.

The workshops are free but places are limited, to book, please send an email to a.hadzi@gold.ac.uk and state workshop days you want to attend (it is first come first serve & priority is given to those able to attend all four days).

cheers,
adnan

Programme:

*Workshop Day #1: A hack a day*
Tuesday, 12th May, 11am till 5pm (take your cameras!)

After a short introduction to Sousveillance and CCTV film making, we will set out on a walk through Deptford. Equipped with CCTV video signal receivers we will let the incoming surveillance camera signals lead us through the city. The CCTV video signal receivers will catch surveillance camera signals in public and private spaces and make them visible: surveillance becomes sousveillance. By making images visible which normally remain hidden, we gain access to the “surveillance from above” enabling us to use these images for a personal narrative of the city.

Workshop with construction manual for later DIY! Attendance free Whoever has handycam, bring it! (plus cable and fully charged battery!)).

*Workshop Day #2: Collaborative Editing*
Monday, 18th May, 11am till 5pm (take your laptops!)

Introduction into Cinelerra & pure:dyne:
“Working with digital video is part of many artistic disciplines. Besides single screen narratives, video productions can range from animation, multiple screen installation to interactive work. Still, many aspects of digital video can be traced back to the history of film. The interface of a timeline editing software such as Cinelerra shows a multitrack timeline, a viewing monitor, a bin for clips; echoing the setup of a flatbed table for editing celluloid.” (digital artists handbook)

*Workshop Day #3: Deptford.TV database*
Monday, 25th May, 11am till 5pm (take your laptops!)

Introduction into the Deptford.TV database & how to use the alternative subversion control workflow:
“When you start working with free software as a videomaker, it is likely that you need to invest some time and energy in understanding certain basics of the video production process. Sometimes this might mean you have to look for alternative workflows, to dive ‘under the hood’ of a digital tool, or reconfigure an existing solution to suit your needs. Investigating the tools you use as a video maker is an important part of the job, it can help gain insights, it can be an inspiration to explore new ways of working and imagemaking.” (digital artists handbook)

*Workshop Day #4: pic nic*
Monday, 1st June, in the afternoon (take food & drinks!)

If the weather permits we will go to Greenwich Park and screen the films on portable screens while enjoying the spring/summer, tba!

The events are free, but places are limited. *to book please email* a.hadzi@gold.ac.uk

*supported by:*
Arts Council of England http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/
LCACE http://www.lcace.org.uk/

*Further infos:*
http://deptford.tv

Deptford.TV is a project focusing on collaborative film – initiated by Adnan Hadzi in collaboration with the Deckspace media lab, Bitnik media collective, Boundless project, Liquid Culture initiative, and Goldsmiths College.

It is an online media database documenting the urban change 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.

The open and collaborative aspect of the project is of particular importance as it manifests in two ways: 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 “time lines” they would like to watch; at the same time they have the option to comment on or change the actual content. Deptford TV makes us of licenses such as the creative commons sa-by and gnu general public license to allow and enhance this politics of sharing.

*http://www.bitnik.org*

!Mediengruppe Bitnik is a media collective that became notorious, amongst others, by bugging the Zurich opera with radio transmitters and offering free live telephone broadcasts of the opera performances to the neighborhood, aesthetic hacking of movie files, and a pirate TV station based on media illegally downloaded from the Internet. The group does not understand hacking as a cult of technology geeks, but as a social intervention and practice everyone can adopt. To this end, they have been touring with their workshop series ,,A Hack a Day“, inviting and working with local and international artists.

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networkcultures09

Deptford.TV took part in the winter camp 2009 collaborating with Dyne.org & GOTO10.org

About Winter Camp
Winter Camp is an event, organized by the Institute of Network Cultures and will take place 3-7 March ‘09 in Amsterdam. Network Cultures Winter Camp will be a mix of presentations and work spaces with an emphasis on getting things done. It will be a four-day program of work spaces and plenary presentations, in which a dozen networks (each of which has 5-15 people) can work on their specific current topics.

March 3           a plenary opening in the evening
March 4 – 6     workshops & group sessions
March 7          plenary wrap up with presentations

Format
This specific format was inspired by the special cardboard box architecture with parallel workspaces, built by Paco Gonzalez for the 10th edition of the Zemos98 festival in Seville, Spain, in March 2008.
http://www.zemos98.org/spip.php?article891?rubrique=19.

Background info
When a network settles down, and is not so new anymore, it can be quite a challenge to keep it’s activity level. Should a network then transform into a so-called ‘organized network’? Organizing a network does not necessarily mean decreasing the level of spontaneity to make way for rules and hierarchy: it can provide a place for sustainable knowledge sharing and production. As Ned Rossiter argues in his book Organized Networks (2006), face-to-face meetings are crucial “if the network is to maintain momentum, revitalize energy, consolidate old friendships and discover new ones, recast ideas, undertake further planning activities, and so on.” Network Cultures Winter Camp is therefore meant for those networks and (potential) network members that need support to gather in real life, conspire, discuss and make the necessary steps forward. Winter Camp does not have an (academic) educational or training component, but there is a lot to learn.

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hack a night #11 – Our Own Private Pirate TV Session

with contributions/ performances from Serhat Köksal – 2/5BZ  (.tr),
Alexander Tuchacek (.at/.ch), Raffael Dörig (.ch), Adnan Hadzi (.uk) and
!Mediengruppe Bitnik (.ch)

Saturday, February 14th 2009, 19 p.m.
Stiftung Binz39 – Sihlquai 133, 8005 Zürich, Switzerland

http://www.binz39.ch – http://www.bitnik.org

An evening of vicious audio, fierce visuals, elated air waves and
flickering tv sets.

Found footage, online videos and sound samples blend together for an
audiovisual performance night in the name of the parasite: In his
performance project «No Pipeline NO Exotic», the istanbul artist Serhat
Köksal aka 2/5 BZ will illuminate the common cultural clichés between
Orient and Occident; With «Paradise Now – The End» Alexander Tuchacek
will reenact a moment in the history of Pop music in which the anarchic
determination to create thrilled the cybernetic controll room into
vibration; Raffael Dörig will intervene with video works; !Mediengruppe
Bitnik will explain the set-up and use of a micro pirate TV station.

The performances will take place simultaneously at the Binz39 and as a
broadcast through the micro TV station for viewers in the vicinity.

__Serhat Köksal aka 2/5 BZ: NO Pipeline NO Exotic_____________________

Serhat Köksal aka 2/5 BZ has continued to develop his multimedia project
2/5BZ, initiated in Istanbul in 1986, up until the present day,
expressing himself in a wide range of media forms. In his audiovisual
performances Serhat Köksal illuminates the common cultural clichés
between Orient and Occident in a critical and humorous way employing
collage and cut-up techniques, found film material, outdoor shots and
samples.

http://www.2-5bz.com
http://www.myspace.com/2serhat5bz

__Alexander Tuchacek: Paradise Now – The End__________________________

An attempt at a re-enactment

On the 1st of March 1969, the singer Jim Morrison called the audience to
participate through repetitive speech acts: Chaos broke loose, the stage
nearly collapsed and the concert was abandoned early.

With «Paradise Now – The End» Alexander Tuchacek sets out to trace
moments in time when effective rules and existing boundaries are
temporarily lifted; when the anarchic determination to create thrills
the cybernetic control room into vibration.

http://www.krcf.org/

__Raffael Dörig: The Artist, the Tube (and You)_______________________

Raffael Dörig will show and comment films and videos about and by
artists who concern themselves with the televison media: Artists in
dialogue with and about television set within a performance for the
television audience at our studio and at home.

http://www.interdisco.net
http://www.shiftfestival.ch
http://www.iplugin.net

__!Mediengruppe Bitnik: Your Own Private Pirate TV Station____________

With various examples taken from the history of TV Hacking,
!Mediengruppe Bitnik will illustrate the virtues of possessing your own
private pirate TV station.

http://www.bitnik.org/

// «A Hack a Day / Night» is an ongoing series of workshops and
performances which !Mediengruppe Bitnik has been organising since 2007.

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Steal this film II, Nov. 2007

Meeting the League of the Noble Peers in Sheffield during the premiere of their film Steal this film II. Jamie King explains further plans to develop financing systems for filmmakers. The Concept is called DIstributed, Supportive Payment system (DISPS). DISPS could potentially be applied to Deptford.TV

DISPS is a robust system allowing donors to make Distributed, voluntary Supportive Payments (DISPs) to creators, producers and distributors of media. DISPS is premised on the fact that free sharing of files through p2p networks is irrevocable. Under DISPS, consumers choose to make voluntary supportive payments directly to the producer without the mediation of the file/media as commodity.

Steal this film on Wikipedia:

Part one

Part One, shot in Sweden and released in August 2006 combines accounts from prominent players in the Swedish piracy culture (The Pirate Bay, Piratbyrån, and the Pirate Party) with found material, propaganda-like slogans and Vox Pops.

It includes interviews with Pirate Bay members Fredrik Neij (tiamo), Gottfrid Svartholm (anakata) and Peter Sunde (brokep) that were later re-used by agreement in the documentary film Good Copy Bad Copy, as well as with Piratbyrån members Rasmus Fleischer (rsms), Johan (krignell) and Sara Andersson (fraux).

The film [4]is notable for its critical analysis of an alleged regulatory capture[5] attempt performed by the Hollywood film lobby to leverage economic sanctions by the United States government on Sweden through the WTO. Alleged aims included the application of pressure to Swedish police into conducting a search and seizure against Swedish law for the purpose of disrupting The Pirate Bay’s BitTorrent tracker.

The Guardian Newspaper called it ‘at heart a traditionally-structured “talking heads” documentary’ with ‘amusing stylings’ from film-makers who ‘practice what they preach.’[6]. Screened at the British Film Institute and numerous independent international events, Steal This Film One was a talking point in 2007’s British Documentary Film Festival.[7]. In January 2008 it was featured on BBC Radio 4‘s Today Programme, in a discussion piece which explored the implications of P2P for traditional media.

Found material in Steal This Film includes the music of Can, tracks “Thief” and “She Brings the Rain”; clips from other documentary interviews with industry and governmental officials; several industry anti-piracy promotionals; logos from several major Hollywood studios, and sequences from The Day After Tomorrow, The Matrix, Zabriskie Point, and They Live. The use of these short clips is believed to constitute fair use.

Part two

Part Two of Steal This Film [8] (sometimes subtitled ‘The Dissolving Fortress’) was produced during 2007. It premiered (in a preliminary version) at the “The Oil of the 21st Century – Perspectives on Intellectual Property” conference in Berlin, Germany, November 2007.[9]

Thematically, part Two examines the technological and cultural aspects of the copyright wars, and the cultural and economic implications of the internet. It includes an exploration of Mark Getty‘s infamous statement that ‘intellectual property is the oil of the 21st century’. Part two draws parallels between the impact of the printing press and the internet in terms of making information accessible beyond a privileged group or “controllers”. The argument is made that the decentralised nature of the internet makes the enforcement of conventional copyright impossible. Adding to this the internet turns consumers into producers, by way of consumer generated content, leading to the sharing, mashup and creation of content not motivated by financial gains. This has fundamental implications for market based media companies. The documentary asks “How will society change” and states “This is the Future – And it has nothing to do with your bank balance”.

It was selected for the Sheffield International Documentary Film Festival,[10] South By Southwest festival in Austin, Texas, [11] and the Singapore International Film Festival [12]. It was also shown during the International Documentary Film Festival in Amsterdam [13] where Director Jamie King was a panelist and speaker presenting a rumoured Alternative Compensation project by The League of Noble Peers. Steal This Film has most recently been nominated for the Ars Electronica 2008 Digital Communities prize.[14]

Distribution

A cam version leaked soon after the preliminary premiere in Berlin.[15] Part Two had its ‘conventional’ (ie, projected rather than viewed online) premiere at the openly-organised artistic seminar in Stockholm 2007.[16] Despite the principles of the seminar itself (all aspects of which were organised via open wiki in a year long process), the involvement of Piratbyran caused controversy with the funders of the seminar, the Swedish Arts Grants Committee, who refused to allow Piratbyran‘s logo on the seminar marketing materials alongside its own. The seminar initiators’ solution was to add a black sticker dot over the logo, which was easily peeled off. Another condition given by the Committee was that an anti-piracy spokesperson be present to balance the debate.

The documentary was officially released on filesharing networks on December 28, 2007 and, according to the filmmakers, [17] downloaded 150,000 times in the first three days of distribution. Pirate Bay encouraged the downloading of Steal This Film Two, announcing its release on its blog.[18] Steal This Film Two was also screened by the Pirate Cinema Copenhagen in January 2008.[19] The documentary can also be downloaded on the official Steal This Film website.[3]

The League of Noble Peers asks for donations and more than US$5000 has been received as of January 5 2008. [20]

Language

Like Part One, Part Two is in English. However, unlike Part One, which only had subtitles in English, Part Two has subtitles in many languages due to great interest in the documentary by volunteer translators. The film has subtitles in Croatian, Danish, French, Finnish, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish and Ukrainian.

Financing

As well as funding from BritDoc, the Steal This Film series continues to utilise a loose version of the Street Performer Protocol, collecting voluntary donations via a PayPal account, from the www.stealthisfilm.com website. The filmmakers report that roughly one in a thousand viewers are donating, mostly in the range USD 15-40.

Credits

Steal This Film One and Two are credited as ‘conceived, directed, and produced’ by The League of Noble Peers. Where Part One contains no personal attribution part Two has full credits.

The League of Noble Peers are now working on a cinema release of Steal This Film.