Telestreet and NewGlobalVision achieve the “Award of Distinction” at the Linz Prix Ars Electronica
Telestreet, the Italian network of street televisions and NewGlobalVision, online video archive and distribuition project, achieved the “Award of Distinction” at the Linz Prix Ars Electronica 2005.
The Prix Ars Electronica, currently addressed towards its nineteenth edition, is the most accredited international competition concerning arts, technologies, and digital media-based social practices. The “Digital Communities” category rewards the innovative projects concerning e-democracy, digital cities and citizens’ participation. “Evaluations will honor visionary and forward-looking projects; those that display consummate social and technological innovativeness and that have been successfully set up and established. Digital Communities projects should enable human beings to enjoy the widest possible access to technology networks, and the ‘Digital Commons’” (Prix’s call for works).
The international prize represents an acknowledgment for the Telestreet and NewGlobalVision network activity in reclaiming the right of free open access of the means of communications within a country, as Italy, where the right of expression seems loosing value. The movement of “antennas toward people” aims at enabling citizens to freely use the communication channel of television not only to receive information but especially to produce it. By so doing, it places individuals in the position of closely interacting and sharing as much as of producing information. “Don’t watch TV, just do it!” is the slogan of the street televisions.
The first street television, Orfeo TV, has started to broadcast on June 21st 2002 in Bologna. Since 2002, over 150 street-tvs were born all around Italy. They transmit via ether utilizing the so-called “shadow cones” where the signals of commercial terrestrial broadcasters cannot reach because obstructed by natural or manufacture barriers.
We are dealing here with tiny street or neighbourhood televisions. The very low cost of the equipment gives everyone the opportunity of transmitting information usually not gathered by mainstream networks. Moreover, antenna broadcasting is combined with the Internet allowing the sharing of video works and the management of the circuit of the street-tvs scattered all over Italy.
The international acknowledgment allows in thinking to claim the media free access even within new grounds like digital terrestrial and wireless. Convergence between terrestrial broadcasting and internet streaming dismantles the mediascape as we know it and creates a new one on the principles of decentralization of production, decentralization of resources and decentralization of points of emissions.The theme uphold by Telestreet in Italy is going exactly toward this direction: the acknowledgment of 10% of the ether frequencies for communitarian use.
www.telestreet.it
www.ngvision.org
Orfeo Tv - Telestreet
mail:
[email protected]
NGVision.org
mail: [email protected]
Telestreet and NGVision achieve the aAward of Distinctiona at the Linz Prix Ars Electronica
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Telestreet and NewGlobalVision achieve the “Award of Distinction” at the Linz Prix Ars Electronica
Telestreet, the Italian network of street televisions and NewGlobalVision, online video archive and distribuition project, achieved the “Award of Distinction” at the Linz Prix Ars Electronica 2005.
The Prix Ars Electronica, currently addressed towards its nineteenth edition, is the most accredited international competition concerning arts, technologies, and digital media-based social practices. The “Digital Communities” category rewards the innovative projects concerning e-democracy, digital cities and citizens’ participation. “Evaluations will honor visionary and forward-looking projects; those that display consummate social and technological innovativeness and that have been successfully set up and established. Digital Communities projects should enable human beings to enjoy the widest possible access to technology networks, and the ‘Digital Commons’” (Prix’s call for works).
The international prize represents an acknowledgment for the Telestreet and NewGlobalVision network activity in reclaiming the right of free open access of the means of communications within a country, as Italy, where the right of expression seems loosing value. The movement of “antennas toward people” aims at enabling citizens to freely use the communication channel of television not only to receive information but especially to produce it. By so doing, it places individuals in the position of closely interacting and sharing as much as of producing information. “Don’t watch TV, just do it!” is the slogan of the street televisions.
The first street television, Orfeo TV, has started to broadcast on June 21st 2002 in Bologna. Since 2002, over 150 street-tvs were born all around Italy. They transmit via ether utilizing the so-called “shadow cones” where the signals of commercial terrestrial broadcasters cannot reach because obstructed by natural or manufacture barriers.
We are dealing here with tiny street or neighbourhood televisions. The very low cost of the equipment gives everyone the opportunity of transmitting information usually not gathered by mainstream networks. Moreover, antenna broadcasting is combined with the Internet allowing the sharing of video works and the management of the circuit of the street-tvs scattered all over Italy.
The international acknowledgment allows in thinking to claim the media free access even within new grounds like digital terrestrial and wireless. Convergence between terrestrial broadcasting and internet streaming dismantles the mediascape as we know it and creates a new one on the principles of decentralization of production, decentralization of resources and decentralization of points of emissions.The theme uphold by Telestreet in Italy is going exactly toward this direction: the acknowledgment of 10% of the ether frequencies for communitarian use.
www.telestreet.it
www.ngvision.org
Orfeo Tv - Telestreet
mail:
[email protected]
NGVision.org
mail: [email protected]
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