March 25, 2007
Code31 + OKNOPUBLIC
Workshops + Events
Audio and video Streaming Workshop, dis-organized by /Code31/ and led by Arjen Keesmaat :: March 31-April 1, 2007.
During the second workshop within the framework of Code31's xmedk online research, we'll present a two day crash course in audio and video streaming. What does it take to send a live video stream from your desktop to the whole world. We'll learn how to configure a streaming server, take a look at different kinds of broadcasters. Deal with the technicalities: Which protocols to use? What is the difference between udp en tcp? What is with all these codecs?
We'll start low level but in a further stage, dive deeper into the technicalities of streaming: How to configure your network and deal with protocols? How your video imagery gets compressed to those coded bits and bytes? The people at rambla.be are giving us an introduction in getting your streams out in the open, reliably streaming to the bigger public.
:: partcipants :: The workshop is free and open for anyone. If you're interested in participating, send an email with short bio and motivation to ef4db at code31.lahaag.org
non-physical: This workshop is a testcase for the Code31 online research, so those who can't make it to the workshop can follow online, details will be provided on the code31 site. We will provide a live video stream and a moderated chat channel. We're looking for participants who want to join and also evaluate the setup! So, if you're interested, point your fingers to ef4db[at]code31.lahaag.org
Arjen Keesmaat is an interaction designer and media artist, graduated at the Utrecht School of Arts (The Netherlands), faculty of Art, Media and Technology, now active developing media-installations, from in concept to realisation.
Former collaborator at waag.org in the Sensing Presence - (KeyWorx, Connected / Anatomic) and the Creative Learning (ScratchWorx) departments, conducting workshops, technical realisation and development.
:: location ::
OKNO -- Koolmijnenkaai 30/34 -- 1080 Brussels -- Belgium
metro: Graaf van Vlaanderen/Comte de Flandre -- Tram18
dates/data: saturday 31/03 -- sunday 01/04 from 10am till 5pm Free coffee, tea and soft drinks.
http://code31.lahaag.org
http://okno.behttp://www.xmedk.be
With the support of / met de steun van / het VAF (Vlaams Audiovisueel Fonds) the .x-med-k. workshop series is a collaboration between okno, nadine and foam.
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OKNOPUBLIC #3 :: from 4 -> 7 april 2007
OKNOPUBLIC #03 is the result of the collaborative effort of different organisations (http://code31.lahaag.org; http://so-on.be; http://societyofalgorithm.org), initiatives, artists and residents Alejandra Perez Nunez and Dusan Barok.
During 4 days it brings together people who have an interest in looking at new ideas for creative work, willing to question their own practices. We hope some are interested in working together after these days in a context where some network based artworks can be made, from different geographical and ideological places and from different content based approaches.
The program is structured along 4 thematic days with cross-overs, and consists of project presentations and public debates, workshops, performances and an installation. Detailed program on: http://www.okno.be/?id=1053
Day 1: wednesday 4/4: from 2pm -> 6pm
Tales of a Connected City - (the last mile is the network)
The network as truly social : your neighbours stay your neighbours. A look at local mesh networks: what makes the difference between connected places and non-connected ones. What are we connecting to? A discussion about collaboration, content and techniques, setting up new structures and developing new practices for creative work.
With: Riseau Citoyen, okno, Citymine(d), bna-bbot, Rotor, An Mertens. Introduced by Pieter Heremans and Annemie Maes, moderated by Givan Bela and IRC Alejandra Perez Nunez.
Followed by a bombolong install-party: get onto the riseau citoyen!
MAI - interactive installation by Isjtar and Masato Tsutsui, daily between 7pm and 9pm
performances : from 9pm -> 11pm
Day 1: Sarah Washington and Knut Aufermann, Justin Bennett, Haraldur
Karlsson
Day 2 : thursday 5/4: from 2pm -> 6pm
on public space and sound practices
Well examine and discuss audio networks in public space. Artist networks reappropriate public space by means of sound, and comment and annotate public space by soundtags. Can we speak of hybrid transmission spaces? Do these mobile modes of exchange provoke new creative practices?
With: Tapio Mdkeld, Justin Bennett, Sarah Washington and Knut Aufermann; moderated by Annemie Maes and IRC Dusan Barok.
MAI - interactive installation by Isjtar and Masato Tsutsui, daily between 7pm and 9pm
Day 3: friday 6/4: from 2pm -> 6pm
on the reinvention of everyday practices
We will gather ideas around creativity and the reinvention of social practices. We will explore how the interest in the transformation of society can initiate the reinvention of practices that become conceived as tactical. In the Practice of Everyday Life Michel de Certeau emphasizes the particular status of ways of using and operating in the social practice or "everyday practice". He differentiates between strategies: the tools of the powerful and tactics: the art of the weak. In this meeting we will be reflecting on various approaches.
With: Apo33, Barb Huber, Alejandra Perez Nunez; Moderated by Tapio Mdkeld, and IRC Givan Bela.
performances: from 9pm -> 11pm
Day 3: Jens Brand, Apo33, elpueblodechina
MAI - interactive installation by Isjtar and Masato Tsutsui, daily between 7pm and 9pm
Day 4: saturday 7/4: from 2pm -> 6pm
A = particles-waves-streams
Can our networks become a new playground where we can meet to show-and-tell, invent, share and toy around with creativity till it becomes something to admire while there, and wonder about later... we will try to percieve how people work with audio and visual data, and how structure emerges through interaction, and build on communication to become visible and heard as a thing of shared beauty that can be different from what flikr and tube give us...
With: Haraldur Karlson, Jasna Velickovic, Bojan Fajfric, Vesna Madzoski, Jens Brand, Todor Todoroff, Maja Kuzmanovic, Nik Gaffney Moderated by Givan Bela and IRC Dusan Barok.
B = the complexity of collaboration / b22f#4 / from 7pm -> 8pm An hour of topological itudes for network pieces
MAI - interactive installation by Isjtar and Masato Tsutsui, daily between 8pm and 9pm
performances : from 9pm->11pm
Day 4: the society of algorithm, Isjtar, Masato Tsutsui and Jeroen Uyttendaele
workshops:
31/1 and 1/4: streaming workshop by code 31, arjen keesmaat and rambla
During the second workshop within the framework of Code31's xmedk online research, we'll present a two day crash course in audio and video streaming. What does it take to send a live video stream from your desktop to the whole world: we'll learn how to configure a streaming server, take a look at different kinds of broadcasters. Deal with the technicalities: Which protocols to use? What is the difference between udp en tcp? What is with all these codecs?
We'll start low level but in a further stage, dive deeper into the technicalities of streaming : How to configure your network and deal with protocols. How your video imagery gets compressed to those coded bits and bytes. The people at rambla.be are giving us an introduction in getting your streams out in the open, reliably streaming to the bigger public. Info and subscriptions: http://www.xmedk.be/index.php?id=676
4/4: riseau citoyen install party by riseau citoyen
For a detailed program and schedules : http://www.okno.be/?id=1053
okno public01 onsite
04 > 07 april 2007, daily from 2pm > 11pm
@ okno, koolmijnenkaai 30/34, 1080 Brussels . Belgium
metro Graaf van Vlaanderen / Comte de Flandres ::: tram 18
oknopublic#03 online @ http://okno.be; audiovisual streaming & IRC chats, daily from 2pm > 11pm. Check site for streaminglinks and program updates info: okno[at]okno.be
okno is supported by the Flemisch authorities, the VAF (Flemisch Audiovisual Fund) and the VGC (Vlaamse Gemeenschapscommissie)
Posted by jo at March 25, 2007 01:55 PM
