<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Dear all,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Since March 2022 an artist-led online video initative started to operate from the art academy in Krakow called UkrainaTV. There is a website now with basic information about the initiative, including links to their work. Also a proper website is in the making. In the coming period UkrainaTV will assist artists in Kyiv to set up a similar studio. There is urgently equipment and money necessary to make this happen. There’s already a possible space and basic crew so things are moving. If you want to collaborate, donate and get involved, please contact Rom (Roman Siadkiewicz) at <<a href="mailto:dziadkiewicz@o2.pl" class="">dziadkiewicz@o2.pl</a>>.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.intermedia.asp.krakow.pl/ukraїnatv" style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;" class="">https://www.intermedia.asp.krakow.pl/ukraїnatv</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Yours, Geert & INC Team</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">—</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">About UKRAiNATV</div><div class=""><div class="vc_row-fluid nor-vc-row-container wpb_row vc_row"><div class="container"><div class="nor-row"><div class="sixteen columns nor-12"><div class="wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-6"><div class="vc_column-inner"><div class="wpb_wrapper">
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<div class="wpb_wrapper"><p class="">UKRAiNATV is an experimental, collective and cross-sectoral
project in the field of media culture. It deals with new relational
strategies and new HYBRiD production forms in the field of hybrid
PRESENCE. It’s an Internet TV station specialized in building live
audiovisual bridges, a multi-channel streaming hub, recording studio and
glocal network, all at once. And last but not least a group of people…</p><p class="">UKRAiNATV is an open collective, crew of artists, media freaks,
activists, researchers, musicians and djs from Ukraine, Poland, Belarus,
Italy and multiple other countries – persons in-needs, refugees,
nomadic artists, techno freaks, expats and migrants that do not feel
safe to express themselves freely in their own country or states (taking
this term in all meanings) and who are finding new opportunities in
these experimental frames.</p><p class="">UKRAiNATV is experimenting with tactical media and realities, mixing
used and brand new equipment and concepts, creating one-off blends of
the real and the virtual, online and offline. It is a GLOCAL, hybrid and
collective melting pot of people, machines, ideas, identities and
signals that we mix in real time and send all around the world from our
base at #StreamArtStudio, an interactive TELEViSION projected for the
future (which is in fact our presence).</p><p class="">UKRAiNATV operates in the shadow of WAR and geopolitical tensions.
But what we try to achieve is to build up SOLIDARITY, EMPATHETIC and
SAFE SPACE-TIME for endangered minorities, avatars and colorful freaks
from our intergalactic glocality.</p>
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<div class="wpb_wrapper"><p class="">We are here – on the Internet – and here – in Krakow, Poland,
Central Europe – in the hot-spot of geopolitical tensions between West
and East, the Nord and the South – mixing PRESENCE, present, past &
future – our private and intimate testimonials and social, political and
cultural contexts.</p><p class="">UKRAiNATV is also a hub for transitions – transnational, transmedial,
transdisciplinary and transcultural, off-line and on-line, connections
with OTHERS. We build up media-bridges, test and invent tools for hybrid
TOGETHERNESS. We link our activities with parallel practices all around
the world collaborating with people, collectives and institutions, for
example in Kyiv, Amsterdam, Vancouver, Milano, Warsawa, Nancy and many,
many other cities.</p><p class="">UKRAiNATV was born a few days after the 24th of February 2022, at the
start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, when full scale war began. We
have started our daily activity – production of the footage testimonies
of that time, connecting people in Ukraine, Krakow and all around the
world, doing weekly live-streams and organizing basic support during
this humanitarian crisis.</p><p class="">And lastly, UKRAiNATV is also fragile and unstable, just like our
times are. It is an artistic, social, political and research-based
project in one. We are arguably one of the poorest television networks
in the world – and among the most experimental ones.</p>
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<div class="wpb_wrapper"><p class="">The Krakow-based StreamArtStudio is the cradle for UKRAiNATV. It
is the host x lab for the #StreamArt experimentation and hybrid
production. It’s a PLACE of PRAXIS and reflection. #StreamArt is our
elaborated, original concept which treats live-streaming along with
streaming media and tools as a unique and autonomous ambient for
artistic experimentation: meeting people, time-spaces, machines and
data. The intersection of #StreamArt, virtual production and the hybrid
presence is an area in which we have been working on during an intense
process of experimentation for, at least, several years now. We develop
know-how, technologies, formats, forms and relationships. We mix the
dispositions of people, machines and AV signals.</p><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div>
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<div class="wpb_wrapper"><p class="">Firstly during the pandemic and then next, in the context of the
War in Ukraine, we intensified our practices, which were in fact already
began before lockdown and helped us see more clearly the directions of
the research and new needs, simultaneously with the development of our
main project, UKRAiNATV.</p><p class="">As it stands, we aim to create a decentralized network of similarly
operating initiatives, hubs, pop-up studios, institutions, organizations
and collectives. We are building RElationALITY 2.0 of people and
non-humans, and rebuilding INSTITUTIONALITY in a media culture context
colonized by digital feudalism. We are asking and searching for new,
emancipatory and adequate forms of production and distribution of the
contents in the field of digital culture.</p>
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