Dossier

Streaming Media

This dossier can be seen as a continuation of the work that was started in 2000 with the preparations for the international festival of streaming media, net.congestion. The particular angle adopted by De Balie, was to look at the new cultures that arise from all forms of micro-, narrow- and broad-casting via the internet. Streaming media was seen at the time, and to a lesser extent still is, as an extension of broadcast media to the internet. Most (commercial) models and modes of understanding the new media froms derive from this idea. We consider this model unnecessarily limiting for the creative media formations that can arise when streaming media are developed imaginatively.
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De Balie is intensively using streaming media to extend its live programming in the media space. Simultaneously we are also trying to develop a critical understanding of the artistic, cultural, and democratic potential of streaming media. Streaming media has also been an exemplary domain for intense speculation and overrated expectations that collpased together with the demise of the internet economy in 2001. tekst uitklappen [ + ]
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Virtual Borders or Digital Divide?



2% of the world's population have internet access, half of them live in the US. 0.5% of the population in SE Asia have internet access. (UN Human Development Report 1999, www.undp.org/hdro)
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Two or Three Things I Know About Streaming Media



In May 1998, at the third annual conference of RealNetworks, Mitch Kapor stressed the "emotional bandwidth" in his keynote speech. He might have reluctantly argued this concept to the "poor" condition of streaming media at that time. Because the live streaming connection often has problems of congestion and interruption. But I would like to insist his concept was more idiosyncratically than he thought.
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Minima Memoranda



Walter Benjamin's idea of "philosophical salvage of scraps" gives us a basis to strategically utilize the prevailing technology toward a different way to deconstruct the power system that the technology supports.
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Zoekfilter

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Editorial net.congestion

Editorial introduction to the reader of net.congestion - International Festival of Streaming Media, Amsterdam, October 2000.
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Introduction to the net.congestion archive

Editorial of the net.congestion archive, which resides at: http://net.congestion.org
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Macromedia and Micro-media

Essay by media theorist and artist / film maker Lev Manovich, in which he investigates the scale differences of narrow cast media (such as streaming media) and broadcast media (such as television).
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The People Want the Airwaves Back

A short essay by Arun Mehta, written in the run up to the fourth Next 5 Minutes Festival of Tactical Media, which took place September 11 - 14, 2003 in Amsterdam.
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Pitch Shifting

Essay by Honor Harger and Adam Hyde, in which the memebers of r a d i o q u a l i a explore the kinships between radio art and streaming media.
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Open Source Streaming Alliance - Now!

Article by Drazen pantic that kick-started the creation of the Open Source Streaming Allinace in 2000
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Notes Towards a Free Net Radio Network

How to create a free net.radio network in 7 easy lessons, by Pit Schultz of Klubradio Berlin
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Civil Networking in a Hostile Environment:

Experiences in the Former Yugoslavia
Methods of media resistance - the example of Radio B2-92
by Veran Matic
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Two or Three Things I Know About Streaming Media

Essay by the Tokyo-based Free Radio activist Tetsuo Kogawa (2000)
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Media without an Audience

An essay by Eric Kluitenberg that explores the social dynamics of hybrid media networks, community media and a new categorisation of phatic media - transmissions that serve social and emotive purposes rather than conveying information...
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Flexible Fusion

The Economy of Attention in the prospective of a streaming media. By Calin Dan.
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Acoustic Space Re-Search.Lab

A long-term co-operation between several international artists' groups and individuals from the Xchange network.
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Internet Can Help Make Radio-Broadcasting Accessible to Indians

by Arun Mehta About the potential of the internet for community radio in India. The strategy outlined by Mehta is to by-pass the need for (English) literacy to use the internet via the combination of net.radio and local community radio.
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Mixing Media:

Broadcasting and the Internet for development and democracy
by Bruce Girard
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(c)ROSS - (c)ODEC - (c)OMPATIBILITY

Alphabetical Notes On Format Ownership, Two Types Of Digital Apparatus And The Big Bitrate Merger
by Micz Flor
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Minima Memoranda

Essay from february 1999, for Next 5 Minutes 3, on free radio and streaming media by Tetsuo Kogawa the free radio activist from Tokyo.
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Virtual Borders or Digital Divide?

by Manu Luksh
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Streaming for whom: advertiser or people?

by Dimitri Devyatkin
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HANDS ON!!!

CREATING AN INDEPENDENT MEDIA CENTER IN YOUR COMMUNITY
Excerpt from the Indymedia Center Handbook (USA, September 2000)
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