New Live Broadcasts from tenantspin at Tate Liverpool

tenantspin is shaking things up with social media & live video broadcasts from Tate Liverpool. Take part online and join the conversations. http://www.tenantspinontour.com

Official Press Release below…….


tenantspin (Liverpool's popular community TV channel) brings live video chat to Tate Liverpool as part of The Fifth Floor; a groundbreaking new exhibition running till 1st February.
tenantspin is on tour, on air and online. tenantspin has created a living, working TV Studio in the gallery, equipped with its own production office, "Diary Room" style booth, News Desk and "Interview Couch". The studio produces shows three days a week, and the rest of the time invites visitors to explore the TV studio and to make their own broadcasts.

"Audience members can watch us make TV shows, they can join in the chat shows, make and broadcast their own news or react to local news stories at the News Desk. We'll be focussing on locally important topics and inviting experts from across the city to offer comments and opinion on issues affecting us all. From the ubiquitous Credit Crunch to trendy Slow Food to topical technology; we bring the social and the local together at the Tate and online" explains Patrick Fox, tenantspin Programme Manager.

tenantspin (a Foundation for Art and Creative Technology (FACT) project) has been creating community driven broadcasts for 10 years, and has always been at the cutting edge in terms of its use of Internet Technologies. When tenantspin first launched, it used Internet Streaming service 'superchannel' to reach new audiences globally. In recent years, tenantspin has used Google Video and YouTube to publish on new platforms and find new audiences. An early adopter of social media (popularly using blogs, YouTube, and Twitter), in 2009 tenantspin is embracing a new shift in online video and is using a range of services that enable audiences to participate; to join in the conversations, to help make the broadcasts themselves.

Technologist Katie Lips from Kisky Netmedia has been working to introduce a range of new Internet services to tenantspin. "It's an experimental piece of work: we know people feel comfortable with passive TV consumption, but we wanted to explore how arts audiences might involve themselves further in our projects; both in the gallery and online. Some people are happy just watching content on the Internet, a smaller amount want to take part in creating it. tenantspin ON TOUR has enabled us to create this 'disposable TV studio' as space that exists for a short time but with long lasting impact. We're inviting audiences to make their own content, to join in a video chat, to help us create a rich, and diverse video archive encompassing many viewpoints of the people who visit and live in Liverpool."

Taking Part
Be our guest - Join the audience or the gallery - see http://www.tenantspinontour.com for show times
Watch and Chat - Our 24 Hour Internet TV Station can be found at http://www.mogulus.com/tenantspin
Produce - Watch our news and make you own at http://new.seesmic.com/tenantspinontour
Followers - for the buzz, follow us on Twitter for regular updates at http://twitter.com/tenantspin