#StreamArtNetwork #HybridTogetherness #ParticipatoryTelevision
#CollaborativeStreaming #TelematicPerformances #GreenDeal #LiveWebCasting
The idea of the StreamArtNetwork (SAN) emerged together with UKRAiNATV’s weekly
live webcasts from the StreamArtStudio in Krakow (PL), in response to the
full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, just after February 24, 2022. Media
artists, activists, journalists, AV producers, DJs, and IT freaks from the
region and beyond reached out to others to pick up the stream, join, and show
solidarity. Soon after, responses came in, and collaborations started, first
and foremost to support artists in Kyiv, Lviv, Kharkiv, and other places
throughout Ukraine.
UKRAiNATV began traveling, showing up, hosting workshops and lectures using
pop-up studios in New York, Trondheim, Rome, Barcelona, Berlin, Lviv, and Kyiv
– searching for partners around the world. In early 2023, the VOID TV channel
of the Amsterdam-based Institute of Network Cultures joined, followed by the
Intermedia Budapest crew in early 2024. In the fall of 2024, a network was
established consisting of the following founding members, each running a
green-screen studio: UKRAiNATV in Krakow, the VOID in Amsterdam, Re:Frame.TV in
Kyiv, Konfluxus Collective in Budapest, CDI in Coventry, and the 3022 in
Vilnius.
The aims of the StreamArtNetwork are diverse, radical, and utopian at the same
time. The network streams together, mixing and layering, meeting in-between
platforms, localities and realities. We stream against war, neo-imperial
invasions, genocide and limited mobility. Against big-tech centralization and
neo-liberal social media monopolies with their 30-second ‘influencers’. We
invite all like-minded to join, in favor of an endless exploration of
time-spaces that we are creating together in our collective, heterogeneous
hyper-realities – in glocal, hybrid, innovative, decentralized, low-budget, and
sustainable ways, in a permanent process of learning and teaching by streaming
for change, together.
Please join the network, press <on>, connect, share your inputs and let’s
collect and exchange new knowledge, experiences, and share them back around. It’s an
open loop, a new movement based on circular aesthetic and ethic for a more
participatory, free, and open future.
SAN invites both institutional partners and smart, creative, transdisciplinary
collectives – small experimental labs, and big rich cultural entities stack in
cultivating the traditions of twentieth-century white cubes and old-school
theatre halls. Demystify and reclaim the video tech. Hack your nearby green
room or buy that green piece of textile et voilà, you’re on-air. The virtual is
material and vice-versa. The stream art network is testing new models and
initiating discussions on systemic changes regarding the production and
distribution of contemporary and digital culture, and the redistribution of
funds for its development. We will set up a green-box studio and collaborative
media lab in every cultural, educational, public, and social institution and
reclaim the internet, our archives, digital and critical culture, and direct,
equal, multi-directional communication across political, geographical and
technological boundaries.
(version 1.0, November 15, 2024)
Fouding members:
UKRAiNATV, Krakow https://ukrainatv.streamart.studio/
VOID/INC, Amsterdam https://networkcultures.org/void/
CDI, Coventry https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/cdi/
Re:Frame.TV, Kyiv https://www.instagram.com/re_frame.tv/
3022, Vilnius https://3022.place/
Konfluxus, Budapest https://www.instagram.com/konfluxus.collective/
With the support of Pacesetters, Dyne.org, Intermedia Dept Krakow, Intermedia
Dept Budapest, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, University of Warwick.
Contact x more information: [email protected] | [email protected]
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