14.11. Remote Control workshop
(thanks lucy)
In 1932 Bertolt Brecht formulated a critique of the radio as a centralized mass media, and advocated a decentralized media structure with as many senders as receivers. Ever since, the general notion of democratic media has been, and still is, identical to people getting access to transmitting their own content. From independent grassroot TV makers to pirate radio stations or online digital platforms, the aim has been to create a perfect, democratic media structure by granting people access to the technology. Today though, with a media landscape made up of corporate internet service providers, Brecht’s visions seem to have been fulfilled. However, paradoxically enough, by venture entrepreneurs capitalizing on so called architectures of participation.
In this workshop we will try to go beyond the general notion of democratic media as a matter of access and instead re-examine the concept by itself. When broken apart, it raises questions around systems of organization and means of control. The workshop is on one side a conceptual framework for the discussion and exploration of participatory media production and the relation between code, content and execution, but also a ‚hands-on‘ introduction to simple commandline video editing. We will develop TV programmes – small scripts that executes video content in different ways. At the end of the day we will turn the space into a pirate TV channel and make a collective transmission out of our TV programming efforts.
Please bring video material and computer.
Fee: 5 euros (includes food!)
Please email m@1010.co.uk to reserve a place (strictly limited)
_____-micro_research, pickledfeet, Linienstrasse 54, Berlin 10119
U2, Rosa-Luxemburg-Pl. U8, Rosenthaler Pl.
Telephone: 3050187482.
_____-micro_research is supported by Hauptstadtkulturfonds, Berlin 2009