Post Napster Audio and Video: Innovations in the Network

[Sal Randolph]

Tuesday, April 15 4:00 PM
Center for Advanced Technology at NYU
719 Broadway 12th floor (between Waverly and Washington Place)
live webcast at http://xdesign.eng.yale.edu/AVsystems
cat.nyu.edu/meaow/glocal3.ram

What are the possibilities for internet based distribution and production
of video and audio?
Napster, Gnutella and their descendant have demonstrated famously the
sheer scale of p2p filesharing systems, and the difficulties of exploiting
this for the benefit of traditional entertainment products under
traditional intellectual property regimes. However, less attention has
been paid to the emerging audio and video products and the new genres of
cultural product that exploit netbased distribution and production. This
panel will survey different experiments and projects in this realm,
specifically, projects that are designed to promote and sustain diverse
cultural resources, generating demonstrable social value.

Panelists:

Christian Nold: is the author of the Author of Mobile Vulgus, a
controversial book about politically activated crowd dynamics. He is
currently at the Royal College of Art where he is developing the Community
Edit system.

Pit Schultz lives and works in Berlin. Currently involved into radio
projects he is the cofounder of bootlab.org, klubradio.de, nettime.org,
mikro.org.

Natalie Jeremijenko is in the Faculty of Engineering, Yale University,
where she runs the Experimental Product Design program(xproduct)--a
program and courses that explore technological innovation for social
progress. She currently has an exhibition at Art in General that
demonstrates several audio and video systems designed for the notforprofit
arts sectors to promote participatory institutional agendas.

Sal Randolph lives in New York and produces independent art projects
involving gift economies and social architectures, including Free Words,
the Free Biennial and Free Manifesta. She has recently been developing new
work in the areas of open source/copyleft music distribution (Opsound) and
political organization (0pcopy).


Respondents:

Neil Seiling--former Executive Producer of PBS television series Alive
>From Off Center. A Media Arts Curator since 1978, with an emphasis on
building links between multi-disciplinary artists and their audiences
through media development. Served on inaugural panel for short films at
1995 Sundance, and NEA Film/video Panel.

Alan Toner-Studies collaborativity, and the effect of information
enclosure on cultural production and social life. Native of Dublin,
Ireland. Studied Law at Trinity College Dublin, and NYU Law School. He is
currently a fellow in the Information Law Institute at NYU Law. Member of
Autonomedia editorial collective.

Remote Respondents:.
Zeljko Blace is a co-founder of [mama], a media lab and culture club in
Zagreb. He is presently taking part in a number of projects: Kultura NOVA,
a multimedia institute organized by the European Cultural Foundation &
Open Society Institute. Zeljko has organized and curated a number of new
media events: GenArt2002, an annual exhibition, and recently Reality Check
for Digital Utopia, a digital culture encounter.

Mark Davis is an Assistant Professor in the School of Information
Management and Systems, UC Berkeley. His work is focused on creating the
technology and applications to enable daily media consumers to become
daily media producers. His research and teaching encompass the theory,
design, and development of digital media systems for creating and using
media metadata to automate media production and reuse.

Kate Rich is a sound engineer and activist. She is known to work for the
bureau of inverse technology.


THE CAT'S MEAOW LECTURE SERIES
www.cat.nyu/meaow

The NYU Center for Advanced Technology (CAT) has
partnered with Creative Time (CT) and Rensselaer's iEAR
Studios to host a series of speakers on 'Media Art or
Whatever' (MeAOW). The CAT's MeAOW is an
Artist/Technology forum that hosts speakers whose work
rethinks technological innovation and demonstrates different
possibilities for the use and promulgation of new
technologies.
The goal of this occasional series is to provide a venue
where artists can engage technologists to contest the 
visions of the future that are implicitly and explicitly 
embedded in the new technologies rapidly being adapted 
as the dominant vehicles of cultural experience. Hosted 
by Natalie Jeremijenko and Chris Csikszentmihalyi

DIRECTIONS:

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719 Broadway 12th floor (between Waverly and Washington
Place)
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