take over systems/connect systemsInitiate Networks, create Open Spaces
Globalisation in politics and economy makes international cooperation in the free media an content sector an urgent necessity.
After a time of experimentation with software solutions that were not always suitable for everyday use, streaming media projects are entering a new phase: the aim now is to set up politically independent preconditions and spaces for creativity and artistic activities. The yardstick for this will be continuity and presence-conditions that have been almost impossible to fulfill up to now. Countless moribund websites and software projects bear witness to that. The failure has typically been connected to a shortage of resources, but collaboration and link-ups with functioning production and publication entities make it possible to offer quality, continuity and alternatives. The more complex and comprehensive the collaboration, the greater the chance to achieve continuity.
*take over systems, connects systems* is the motto and the appeal issued to organizations, individuals and initiatives to start discussing and establishing concrete collaborative ventures.The international meeting wil focus on Open Circles (technology/ formats/ sustainable networking), On-Air Festivals (airchecks on radio for action initiatives, minorities) and the “Cultural Channel” a managed artist project
The panels will feature speeches and project presentations dedicated to a variety of issues including automatic publishing systems and metadatabanks such as <http://meta.orang.org>, multi-streaming solutions and systems of international program exchange in light of ubiquitous globalization effects.
*Cultural Channel,* an internationally-operated “independent net.radio and video programming” platform (concept: Honor Harger and Adam Hyde), will present a functioning collaboration model. The *Cultural Channel* will be launched in conjunction with Ars Electronica and continued after the festival as a managed artist project.*take over systems, connect systems* is an initiative of Radio FRO in cooperation with radioqualia (AUS) and independent radio stations in Austria, Germany and Switzerland.