The Cultural Broadcasting Archive is the digital audio archive of all the Austrian free radio stations. It facilitates a quick and flexible publication of radio programs on the internet.

TransPons is a project that develops the archive and analyzes prevailing technical conditions with regard to the access of immigrants to radio as a medium and the use of the internet as an opportunity of self-representation and self-articulation and exchange with other ethnical groups. The project tries to promote immigrants- participation on the internet and links local and European activities of intercultural media work by extending the audio archive CBA.

http://cba.fro.at
http://cba.fro.at/transpons

Virtual Borders - Documentary film project by Manu Luksch  

Virtual Borders tells the story of an Akha village headman, Abaw Buseuv, who goes on a journey from Thailand to China. He is accompanied by an Akha radio broadcaster and the filmmaker. Their aim is to attend the gathering of the Akha people and to transmit discussions about their situation and future ot the Akha people to remote mountain villages. The documentary film structure recognizes the emerging 'media loop': TV, radio, and the internet. An internet link from the meeting in China to the radio station in Thailand was established, which transmits the live discussions to the villages in the mountains. The 3 million Akha are an ethnic minority group scattered across the border regions of the five countries Thailand, Burma (Myanmar), China, Vietnam and Laos. „A film always has an end while reality continues.“

Screening “Virtual Borders”, documentary film by Manu Luksch: Stadtwerkstatt main stage; September 5th 16:00 to 18:00, subsequently public debate with artist Manu Luksch

http://www.ambientTV.NET/akha

Blind TV / Sinnlos  

Sinnlos (senseless) does not consider itself to be a “project for disabled people“, but to be a project that sees its central theme in the methods and strategies of hindrance and handicap in daily life, in society and art. Sinnlos also sees itself as a postulate for a new way of thinking and acting. With Blind TV, blind or visually impaired people have the possibility to create their radio programs independently. The program is run frequently at Radio Helsinki, the free radio station in Graz, A.

http://www.sinnlos.st
http://www.helsinki.at

CandidaTV  

Candida TV was founded in 1999 as an independent group of videomakers which produces spots, magazines, documentaries and fiction for terrestrial television, satellite and for the internet. The core group fuses the experiences of self-managed squatted community centers and technical knowledge in the field of video production. In 1999 construction of a new television channel, on air from December 1999 to February 2000 with a weekly show on a local TV station in Rome, in which people were called to send their tapes and to create a communitary TV Channel. Candida is working on the creation of an information network from below, by giving access to communication technologies to people. Organisation of practical workshop for alphabetization to video language in different cities: Rome, Barcelona, Naples, Bruxelles.

http://www.candidatv.tv
http://www.telestreet.it

YARM – Yet Another Radio Manager / YASH – Yet Another Studio Helper  

YARM is a software to manage an exact timing of radio broadcasting. It was developed by Radiofabrik and is well-suited to the demands and requirements of community radios.

The planned next step in development is YASH (Yet another Studio Helper), which will facilitate programming and signal transmission independent of where you are. Moreover an adaption of the automated and software supported studio work to the needs of disabled people will be implemented, in order to ensure a low threshold of access for the users.

http://www.radiofabrik.at