hi randall, this looks like a great series :)
it would be super-helpful if you could provide a time-converter link on the webpage so that those of us not in PDT or EDT can easily find out what our local time is for the broadcasts. i made one for kit galloway's interview (alas, it's 3am in the morning for germany - i'll have to make do with the recording, if there will be one?): http://www.worldtimeserver.com/convert_time_in_US-CA.aspx?y=2017&mo=4&d=24&h=18&mn=0 h : ) On 18/03/17 6:50 05AM, Randall Packer wrote: > > Videofreex pioneers Skip Blumberg, Nancy Cain, and Mary Curtis > Ratcliff discuss their reinvention of television in the 1970s as a > social broadcast medium ::: Monday, March 27, 9:00pm-10:00pm (EDT-US) > (UTC-4) ::: Networked Conversations is hosted by Randall Packer ::: > live & online via Internet chat. > > Login & participate: > https://connect.ntu.edu.sg/thirdspacenetwork/ > Select “Guest,”type your name, and“Enter Room.” > > > > About the Videofreex > > The Videofreex established Lanesville TV in upstate New York in the > early 1970s, an experimental television project to forge the first > pirate tv station in America. > > In their own funky way, the Videofreex reinvented television, > reversing its power as a broadcast medium for engaging community, a > creative medium for storytelling, an artisan approach to television. > They foresaw television not as a corporate controlled delivery > mechanism for reinforcing consumerism and mainstream popular culture, > but rather as an artists’ platform for invention and social interaction. > > The Videofreex embraced radical television in their interviews with > political activists and captured alternative culture in America during > the 1970s when it wasn’t properly covered by mainstream media; they > reinvented broadcast journalism with their direct style that > challenged packaged, network television news with its slick format; > and perhaps most importantly, they saw video as a collaborative, > social medium, a people’s media: encouraging viewer participation > through the free and immediate exchange of ideas and images. > > > > Networked Conversations > > Networked Conversations is a series of live, online interviews and > discussions hosted by Randall Packer. The series features media > artists, curators, writers, and activists exploring a broad range of > social, political and aesthetic topics at the intersection of net > culture. Networked Conversations collapses geographical and cultural > boundaries via participatory Internet chat: free & open & accessible > from anywhere in the world. > > Upcoming Events > > April 24 — Kit Galloway, founder of the legendary Electronic Café > International (ECI) in Santa Monica, California > > May 13 — Annie Abrahams, pioneering Internet performance artist from > Montpellier, France. > > Third Space Network > > The Third Space Network (3SN) is an Internet broadcast channel for > live performance and conversation ::: online and global. > > For more information: http://thirdspacenetwork.com/videofreex/ > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour -- helen varley jamieson he...@creative-catalyst.com <mailto:he...@creative-catalyst.com> http://www.creative-catalyst.com http://www.upstage.org.nz *We have a situation, Coventry! <http://www.wehaveasituation.net/?p=1402>* 24 November 2016
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