<videovortex> kein.tv

[Geert Lovink]

From: florian schneider <fls at kein.org>

> KEIN.TV is a virtual, temporary, three day film and video programme
> that is currently being published during the days of the G-8 meeting
> in Heiligendamm near Rostock (DE). It consists of breaking news, newly
> and on-site produced shows, recently recorded footage, a selection of
> documentaries edited at or brought to our studio as well as movies
> found in or uploaded to peer-to-peer networks. A snapshot of the
> current state of programming of the schedule for KEIN.TV is promoted
> on the KEIN.TV website, each item is linked to the sources where the
> video can be downloaded, watched and re-distributed.
>
> http://kein.tv
>
> The programme of KEIN.TV is limited to the period of the actual G-8
> summit, from June 6 to June 8, 2007. First videos are available since
> June 2, and we are going to continue working on the schedule even
> beyond the dates of the actual program.
>
> If you want to contribute to KEIN.TV, upload a film or movie or make a
> programme suggestion please get in touch with us through:
>
> info [at] kein.tv
>
> KEIN.TV is produced by videoactivists, filmmakers and artists from
> India, Brazil, Mexico, Lebanon, UK and Germany who are working in a
> studio in the harbour of Rostock. The project is hosted by ART GOES
> HEILIGENDAMM: art intervention at the G8-summit 2007
>
> http://www.art-goes-heiligendamm.net
>
> ABOUT KEIN.TV
>
> A summit is a spectacle which is organized by and in favor of the
> media. Neither those who rule nor those who protest can avoid such
> logic, but whatever they do they become part of a monstrous
> production. Conventional strategies ranging from constructive
> criticism to furious refusing come to nothing, but find themselves as
> component of an omnivorous economy of attention which pretends to
> circulate around the eight allegedly most powerful persons of this
> world.
>
> KEIN.TV is a parody, in the original sense of the word: a melody that
> is slightly misaligned and by that uncovering the mechanisms of the
> media staging due to a small delay and a certain distortion. It is not
> about humorous effects or satirical exaggerations, but about gaining
> something like common access, by relatively simple means, to the
> courtly theater of the governmental character masks.
>
> In respect of the modest ressources of the project there is, of
> course, no chance to imitate the giant media apparatus. KEIN.TV is
> trying to make the best of it and to organize in collaboration with
> media artists and media activists from across the globe some sort of
> artificial coverage of the events around the G-8 summit early June in
> Heiligendamm? A program that could be syndicated through peer-to-peer
> networks on the internet, and taken up, re-projected and
> re-broadcasted by cultural centers, galleries, museums etc.
> worldwide...
>
> KEIN.TV is an experimental arrangement which is based on the
> experiences from  independent media centers at the occasion of several
> summits during the last decade and tries to relate to even longer
> traditions of media activism. It should be understood as a platform
> for detecting and dissimenating contemporary forms of artistic and
> political expressions.
>
> The schedule of KEIN.TV is based on active, undirected participation.
> The entire archive of all programs produced during before and after
> the summit will be published on the internet in a resolution that
> allows further use and re-use. Partners, subscribers, users of the
> KEIN.TV syndicate may schedule their own customized program according
> to their specific interests and needs, and re-broadcast it through
> videoblogs, local transmission or projections.
>
> While the governmental bodies are agonizing over the protection of
> what they call "intellectual property" KEIN.TV is going to actively
> promote "open source" and "open content". The challenge will be to
> practically investigate over a short period of time, to which extent
> the strategic conjunction between a concept of radical openness and
> distributed decentralized editorial work -- given the actual technical
> possibilities -- may creatively overcome the aporias of similar
> attempts in former times. At the same time KEIN.TV tries to recover
> the long tradition of comparable projects in the art world.
>
> Reflections on the spontaneously and in ad-hoc fashions emerging
> structure which in the first place will allow and often also
> complicate something like a continuous service will become an integral
> part of the content production in KEIN.TV. The idea is that the
> multiplication of this sort of "mediations" may collide in interesting
> ways with the medially constructed immediacy and intimacy with  those
> who rule this world.
>
> The program formats of KEIN.TV should be similar to those of
> conventional TV ranging from educational programs to news and
> reportages, from a movie program, documentations and live-casts to
> talkshows and daily soaps. Within those slightly alienated formats
> KEIN.TV tries to adress the main topics of the G-8 summit and the
> counter-summit, of the protests and artist interventions.