Media activists are playing with new technology hoping to expand the ways that radical media is made available...
Following a workshop on advancing mobile digital technologies at a gathering of video activists last weekend, a new idea will be tested at the the free weekly cinema that takes place at the rampART every thursday.
As more an more people have mobile phones, PDAs, iPods and other pocket devices capable of playing both audio and video, a whole new means of distributing content is emerging. With these devices often any to communicate via wireless internet or bluetooth it is possible to spread radical content in a viral fashion beyond the traditional realms of the internet.
At the rampART this thursday there will be a pilot project running that will provide an publicly accessible archive of radical video content. Anyone with a bluetooth enabled video phone should be able to browse the archive and download films of their choosing. Films available include many recent indymedia videos found on the newswire plus everyones favorite Bush and Blair mash-ups.
Having downloaded these films (typically around 1.5MB for 4mins), you can then share them with friends or strangers by bluetooth anywhere you meet.
The rampART is a squatted social centre that can be found at 15 rampart street, London E1 2LA. The free cinema starts at 8pm, every thursday and this weeks feature is Syriana, a political thriller about spys, oil and dodgy underhand dealings by big business and western governments.
As more an more people have mobile phones, PDAs, iPods and other pocket devices capable of playing both audio and video, a whole new means of distributing content is emerging. With these devices often any to communicate via wireless internet or bluetooth it is possible to spread radical content in a viral fashion beyond the traditional realms of the internet.
At the rampART this thursday there will be a pilot project running that will provide an publicly accessible archive of radical video content. Anyone with a bluetooth enabled video phone should be able to browse the archive and download films of their choosing. Films available include many recent indymedia videos found on the newswire plus everyones favorite Bush and Blair mash-ups.
Having downloaded these films (typically around 1.5MB for 4mins), you can then share them with friends or strangers by bluetooth anywhere you meet.
The rampART is a squatted social centre that can be found at 15 rampart street, London E1 2LA. The free cinema starts at 8pm, every thursday and this weeks feature is Syriana, a political thriller about spys, oil and dodgy underhand dealings by big business and western governments.
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but can we give you our videos?
25.01.2006 23:21
Nicola
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26.01.2006 01:03
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I don't know too much about bluetooth but I imagine it's possible to dump content into the open public drop box.
I have however discovered that not all bluetooth devices have the ability to browse bluetooth shared network drives so you might want to check your instruction booklets.
Don't really know what you mean by new IMC Videos but we got quite a few films converted now, including about half a dozen feature films. These are generally about 35MB so you will probably need a USB cable to get them in a reasonable speed. Most are much smaller, about 4 min converts to 1.5MB and takes less than a minute to beam across to your phone.
bring your videos too
Community LAN
26.01.2006 11:52
However, I've changed my mind and it's good to see you utilising it. I think you could be underestimating the potential of wireless technology to activists. You can set-up a virtually free distribution net using basic, off the shelf equipment, covering not just your centre but throughout the community. In effect freeing your community from ISPs and telco's massive profiteering.
Moore's law states the complexity of an integrated circuit will double in about 18 months. Technology halves in price every year and a half. Telco's and ISPs, like any other service companies based on technology, should be cutting your bills in half every 18 months, or doubling the level of service that you get, but instead they rake most of the savings off as profits.
I'm not anything to do with these people but
"Profit free broadband access can give access to high quality video media for all sections of the community such as the very young, sick, elderly, unemployed and disadvantaged. Free high speed broadband access additionally offers quality internet based face-to-face conferencing, counseling and cosmopolitan initiatives in culture and education which would otherwise for many years to come be the exclusive gift of wealthy upmarket consumers and businesses alone. Free broadband will be of enormous permanent benefit to children and young people and poorly resourced lower schools without their own telephones, ISDN or 'DSL etc."
Danny