[il progetto piu' interessante saltato fuori da evianG8. /m]
http://v2v.indymedia.de/
V2V MANIFESTO
THERE'S NO REASON TO BE OPTIMISTIC
Technological innovation came along with new regimes of restricting the use of media and rebinds the liberating potential to ever more advanced systems of command and control. Technological change is always accompanied by great enthusiasm and new esthetical paradigms that in the last instance reinvent the wheels to carry forward the same old industries.
CINEMA WILL NEVER DIE
At the same time the ultimate democratisation of the cinema is really taking place through the spring of thousands of public screenings, films festivals in impossible place, squatting of old projection saloons that from the age of gold, became porno shows and then were abandoned to itself.
These places are now having a new life due to the accessibility to the technology of screenings, and to a diffuse interest in the reappropiation of people?'s own image and the use of the film language. It is not a matter of technology or aesthetics. It's a matter of initiative.
Grandpa's cinema died so many deaths, but as if by a miracle it resurrected again and again and every time it finds around himself more and more illegitimate children.
TO WHOM IT MAY BELONG
Therefore we pose the question of intellectual property: To whom belongs an image? To the one who is mapped, to the one who produced it? Or to the one who makes copies from it? Or it belongs to everybody? We know that there is no final solution to these questions. But we have learned: New films are based on new freedoms.
The freedom of the subject who knows that is filmed, and decides to let its image runs wild in the simulation realm. The freedom of the producer to distribute its own creations in the channels and with the license he or she or they choose. The freedom of the public to screen in private or in common spaces the fruits of people?s visions. The freedom of the audience to draw it's own conclusion.
This is at least an answer to the corruption of the entertainment industry and to the endless ennui of bourgeois individualism. The author is sick, and its hallucinated omnipotence is now the hands of the digital multitudes. The multitudes become the aware producers, the owners, the re-users of every image available.
RE-PLACING THE IMAGES
We believe in images with open sources: Reaccessing the cinematic heritage of other generations, broadcasting the general intellect, empowering collective story-telling, changing the views, fast sharing of content, skills and resources, enabling multiple connections between creative nodes and networks.
Production and distribution will finally merge into a process of sharing your images with others.
Virtual images that everyone can edit, change, forward, rewind and PLAY.
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A Call to Join and Contribute to the Establishment of a Video-Sharing Syndicate/Network
Project Description: For some time now the idea of utilising peer2peer structures to assemble a user-built distribution platform has been circulating. Recently, in the run-up to the G8 meeting in Evian, a concrete proposal has been made to establish a system for the sharing of video. Long-term we believe that we can assemble a sustainable and scalable platform for audio-visual materials of a critical and independent nature. This is an appeal to groups/individuals to get involved, dedicate some resources, support and expand the project generally.
Works to be distributed over the system will vary from somewhat edited footage suitable for use as a stock archive to finished documentaries/films. Each file will be accompanied by metadata in an xml .info file and produced as an searchable RSS feed for people to integrate into their own sites and published on its own website (where there will also be a manifesto, how-to's. contact info for participating groups etc.) Amongst the metadata fields will be a specification for the nature of the license under which the materials may be used (e.g. Creative Commons share-alike)
Participants in this project range from SO36 provider in Berlin to people from the No Borders network, Candida TV in Rome, New Global Vision (Italy), Radioserver (Germany), Big Noise Films (New York), Free Speech TV (Colorado), NoWarTV (Roma), Hackitectura (Spain) and individuals from Autonomedia, Mute etc. Groups in the UK, Korea, US and Switzerland have also been approached.
If you are interested in the project please get in touch immediately as actions around the g8 will commence on May 29th. Responses should include an email contact, an expression of general agreement with the aims of the project and expected contribution. Please email the mailing list at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
See below for the call for participation in Geneva and the long-term project of video file-sharing:
GENEVA03 is a temporary broadcasting studio during the g8-summit transmitting video and audio streams live from the cultural center l'usine in geneva from may 29 to june 3. The livecast will be streamed on the internet and picked up and redistributed by local and international broadcasters as well as projected in the streets and theatres of Geneva.
In order to cover the protests between Geneva, Lausanne and Anmasse in real time, media activists will work from the "everyone-is-an-expert" mobile studio van, which - with a self-adjusting bi-directional satellite dish - will provide a mobile internet connection and transmit live-footage from the roaming protests.
The GENEVA03 project is a joint effort of a growing number of video activists and independent filmmakers together with dozens of indymedia reporters, to organize and broadcast independent news coverage from the G8 events. We are currently programming a stream, that, besides the live coverage of the mass-protests, will include movies, concerts, talk-shows, vj sessions, subvertisements and other radically innovative formats.
The project is an exploration of new forms of collaboration in film and videomaking; a hybrid sending and receiving experiment crossing borders between media. In Geneva we will launch V2V, a peer-to-peer video-sharing network, which will work as both a content management and archiving system. Filmmakers, local and remote, can make contributions. They can upload their films, videos reports and roughly edited material onto more than a dozen servers, which will host the material in the P2P-networks. The V2V standard suggests a set of specifications for the encoding with half of the standard broadcast quality as a compromise between a modest upload-time and a tolerable resolution for screening, in order to facilitate the global exchange of images. At the occasion of the live stream from geneva the V2V virtual video filesharing network will be launched and beta-tested. But the project of an opensource video production and distribution network will be developed further on.
This is an open call to join in the production and distribution of the GENEVA03 broadcasts and the launch of the V2V network.
1. Take and rebroadcast the stream, or download broadcast quality video of your choice directly from the server, to rebroadcast in community screenings or on local TV, Radio broadcast, or to simply post the URL of the stream on other web-sites.
2. Upload your video and become part of the stream! Broad themes for content are: - Freedom of movement and freedom of communication (Migration, Borders, technology, copyright/left?) - Movement of movements (the view from the ground) - Control, surveillance, war We are looking for a range of formats, from documentary to comedy, from subvertisements to talk shows, vj sets to animation, and whatever you can imagine.
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