Take over cultural channel

Deutsche Version

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 focusing on
Open Circles: technology/ formats/ sustainable networking
On-Air Festivals: airchecks on radio for action initiatives, minorities and young people
Cultural Channel: managed artist project
will feature speeches and project presentations dedicated to a variety of issues including automatic publishing systems and metadatabases 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 radio control service *frequencyclock* sets up links to various content sources in the Internet, including databases, livecasts and websites; the program is relayed via the Open Source Streaming Alliance, a network of streaming servers in Amsterdam, New York and Sidney.
The objective is to initiate a research and development process to give greater visibility to art and cultural streaming content in the Internet.
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.