borrowed from nettime… thought it might interest
people here.
best,
ryan
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 04:50:05 +0200
From: matteo pasquinelli <[email protected]>
Subject: <nettime> Tactical Television in Italy
Dear nextimers,
an instant-report from Italy, where a wave of tactical
televisions is rising connected to no-war mobs and new
global movement. After video activism and net activism
we can consider this a new kind of tv activism for the
number of people, energies, ideas involved.
Telestreet (http://telestreet.it) is a spontaneous
network of very-tactical street tvs (like french
proximity tvs) that broadcast lo-fi videos only few
hours a week troughout a 1000euro 400meters-range
equipment. Telestreet was born to protest against
Mister B* media monopoly: according to Italian law
they are pirate and illegal. Low-budget and
self-funded.
No War TV (http://nowartv.it) is a satellite channel
for an alternative coverage during the Iraq war (in
these day it stopped but next should start again with
another name - interesting problem). It gathers media
activists from a wide political spectrum: Indymedia,
Social Forums, "Girotondi", Mediawatch groups (like
Megachip.info) and mainstream media practioners too.
Global TV (http://tvglobal.org) is the satellite
channel from "Disobbedienti" and the Communist Youth.
They claim to be a militant partisan tv and not an
indipendent tv: a kind of I-say-what-I-think rap. They
started in Florence during but out of the European
Social Forum.
Urban TV (http://urbantv.it) is a project (where I am
involved after Telestreet) for an open access
television in Bologna and in other Italian cities,
filling the level between the street and the
satellite. If you like an attempt to bring the
here-unknown Open Channel format. It tries to face
some issues not resolved yet in other projects such
as: organisation, continous programming, content
sharing, community partecipation, european networking
(*we look for european partners*), transparent
funding, non-profit economical autonomy. For these
reasons it started a development website and write
down a manifesto.
The Manifesto of Urban Televisions reflects the
current Italian debate on media, hybridising it with
Dutch blends like Public Domain 2.0 and with some
tools from French-Italian postfordist criticism (I
like to describe Urban Tv as a postfordist media and
not only as a tactical one). I know (but I'm not
sure), all this tv hype is a deja-vu for a lot of
tactical nettimers. But I believe that the New Thing
*here* is the connection of the (big) Italian movement
with new media activism. Next stop Geneva 2003. Enjoy.
/m
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