Live Cinema

There was a time when streaming meant tiny, bad quality video and huge expensive piles of equipment. Those days are over. Today, streaming can be cheap, efficient, and easy. From video conferencing to participatory TV, there are many exciting new ways to approach this technology, and plenty of untapped potential for it's creative use in live cinema.

Technical Workshop, led by Adam HydeThe technical workshop will involve learning the basics of streaming using cheap, easily available computer equipment (where possible, participants own). By the end of the workshop, all participants will be able to set up their own web streams in a variety of formats, and will understand the basics of streaming server technology. Participants will also be given all the free (Open Source) software they require to set up their own streaming servers and clients.

Production Workshop, led by Kelli Dipple

The production workshop will involve an overview of the commercially available (and open source) technologies currently used in the business world, as well as an overview of how broadband providers (such as BT and Tiscali) organise larger-scale streaming for their major clients. Also covered in this workshop will be the logistics of running a professional webcasting team in an arts/creative context and online production best practice.

Workshop Leaders Biographies:

Adam Hyde

Adam is a new profile cultural producer who is transgressing all kind of borders in his practice: the border between artist and programmer, between artist and activist, between high end art and community based peer production" (Cornelia Sollfrank).

A musician, media producer and format artist working at the convergence of broadcasting and Internet technologies, Adam Hyde has a background in independent media organizations in television and radio in New Zealand (where he founded b.net and Static Television). Now he is based in Europe, where he co-founded the Internet radio project, r a d i o q u a l i a, and HelpB92 and Open Channels for Kosovo, which assisted independent media in the former Yugoslavia. He was the initiator of Net Congestion: the International Festival of Streaming Media, held in Amsterdam in October 2000, and a co-founder of the Open Streaming Alliance, an initiative that has established several internationally distributed, networked QuickTime streaming servers for arts and cultural use. Under the name 'eset', Adam is presently developing his practice as a software artist, and has designed and built several applications including the Theory Machine and the r a d i o q u a l i a MediaBrowser. His performances as a live experimental electronica musician have also incorporated live software development as an integral and demonstrative part of the performance. He also works as Manager of Software Development, Web Development, Streaming Media, NT Hosting, and Internal Systems at XS4ALL in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.more info: http://radioqualia.net

Kelli DippleKelli is currently Webcasting Curator at Tate, London. Working on the development, programming and production of live webcasts and interface design in conjunction with Digital programmes - Tate Online and Education and Interpretation at Tate Modern and Tate Britain.

Kelli has worked for the past decade at the intersection of digital technology and performance practice under the name of Gravelrash Integrated Media, specializing in the integration of visual, interactive, communication and network technologies into live events for live audiences.

more info: http://www.macster.plus.com/gravelrash/