Tenantspin

28 Oct 2005 / 5:00 pm / Canton Labour Club, Llandaff Road

Project Outline

Tenantspin participants and staff travelled to Cardiff to facilitate and present a series of keynote webcasts around the subject of community and open broadcasting.

Fri 28th
5 to 5.45pm
Using the Superchannel
Tenantspin reflected upon the Superchannel webcasting community, as developed by Danish artists’ Superflex. ‘Using the Superchannel’ is being researched and presented in collaboration with the new Bridgend-based Superchannel Y.I.K.E.S.T.V. and artist Fee Plumley, a driving force behind the development of webcasting in both North West England and Wales.

Facilitator: Fee Plumley
Contributors:
Tenantspin - Mavis Thomas(tenant) & John McGuirk(tenant), Patrick Fox (Staff) & Kathryn Dempsey (Staff)
Y.I.K.E.S.T.V - Kris Davies (Staff) 6 participants


6 to 6.45pm
From Community Content to Citizen Media
Recent news events have seen massive increase in content created by members of the public. From mobile phone images of the London bombings, through to independent weblogs, and short films made by non-media professionals, everyone potentially has direct access to the media. People have been submitting `user-generated content` to websites for years, but the availability of production technology and the skills to use it are more widespread than ever before. Is this really a shift in the whole way that media are produced, or is it just flavour of the month? What are the implications for the creation of the information society, and how will `big` media respond? We`ll take a look at the different kinds of content out there and try to draw some conclusions about where it`s going in the future.

Facilitator: Iain Tweedale, Director, BBC New Media
Contributors:
Phil Hurst, Media Trust Cymru, a project that helps charities and voluntary organisations in Wales get their message across via the media - www.mediatrust.org

Leigh Gripton, Shape-it.org, an internet-based community TV channel and website. It has been created by Rhondda Cynon Taf Borough Council - www.shape-it.org

Robin Moore, Producer, BBC Wales, a Welsh news, sport, music, education and local content website including Where I Live - www.bbc.co.uk/wales


7 to 7.45pm
Civil Imagination
What is meant by Civil Imagination? What are its forms? Is the term usefully distinguished from Civic Imagination? What role, if any, does it have to play in shaping our experience of the public realm? These are starting points, which will be used to open a conversation by an invited thinkers, artists and members of public organisations of Wales. This discussion has developed from Artstation’s practice – placements and collaborations.

Facilitators: Glenn Davidson & Anne Hayes, Artists, Artstation - www.artstation.org.uk
Contributors:
Mark Palmer, UWE /Watershed Fellow in VR Interactive Programming and Philosophy - http://amd.uwe.ac.uk/amd/index.asp?pageid=433

Nicholas Tresilian, Ex Broadcaster – classic FM/ Art Historian and writer

Robert Owen, Head of External Relations for Countryside Council for Wales - http://www.ccw.gov.uk/

Jim Poole, Director - Cynnal Cymru Sustainability Forum for Wales/Prof at the University of Wales - http://cynnalcymru.org/

Julie Russel, Cultural Tourism Coordinator/Wales Tourist Board - http://www.visitwales.com/

Renee Lertzman, Researcher Ecology theorist and writer www.chronogram.com/issue/2004/09/wholeliving/

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Tenantspin

29 Oct 2005 / 4:30 pm / Canton Labour Club, Llandaff Road, Cardiff

Project Outline

4.30 to 5.15pm
Technological Subversion
Technological Subversion
This session discussed some of the ways in which developments in technology have encouraged communities and groups to broadcast, become connected and share information technologically. The session will explore the motivation for developing `independent` outlets and content and how this might develop in the near future.

Facilitator: Dr Mark Palmer, UWE,

Contributors:

Steve Fossey. Founder of Guerilla TV (art/media installation and networking project), co-founder of Digital Matrix and Arwain. Steve now: lectures around Wales; consults for the BBC and the Scarman Trust; works on a number of community projects and VJ`s at clubs and festivals around the UK.

Matthew Yeomans, director of Custom Communication, Journalism on demand through online contract publishing and blog reporting - www.customcommunication.co.uk

Rachel Murphy, Researcher, Smart Clothes and Wearable Technology Research Group - www.artschool.newport.ac.uk/smartclothes


5.30 to 6.15pm
Kisss Citizenship to Bowville: Electronic tagging, performance and citizenship – bio-glitches in the security network.
In August 2004 as the Home Office prepared to test the efficiency of
electronic tagging systems developed by major UK security companies, Paula
Roush got herself electronically tagged as a three-day durational performance.
Commissioned by [SPACE] London, the locative media performance used off-the -shelf purpose built equipment that simulated the official electronic tagging system to create a fictional game during which people were allowed to vote for and follow the movements of Marian Manesta
Forrester to become a citizen of Bowville. One year later, when electronic tagging is again in the news and the focus of heated debate, Marion Manesta Forrester returns to discuss electronic tagging, performance and citizenship with a group of invited guests with varying professional and personal experiences of electronic tagging.

Facilitator: Paula Roche, Artist

Contributors:
Tonia Carless, Architect and Lecturer at Oxford University; areas on interest: regeneration of Cardiff Bay area, spatial politics of exclusion and immigrant communities, Bute Town, public-led artistic interventions

Harold Thimbleby - Professor of Computer Science at Swansea University, Director of the Future Interaction Technologies (FIT) Lab at Swansea University. The FIT Lab is in the Department of Computer Science - www.cs.swansea.ac.uk/~csharold

6.30 to 7.15pm
STAR Radio: Play/Back
STAR RADIO Playback:
STAR Radio is a situation specific radio project in the Splott, Tremorfa, Adamsdown and Roath areas of Cardiff.

Facilitator: Zoë King, Senior Project Manager, CBAT - an independent public art consultancy working with artists as catalytic agents in urban regeneration schemes - www.cbat.co.uk

Contributors:
Jennie Savage, Organiser and Artist - www.starradio.org.uk/ www.jenniesavage.co.uk

Heath Bunting and Kayle Brandon, Artists - www.irational.org

Marcia Farquhar, Artist - www.marciafarquhar.com

J Maizlish, Artist - www.marseillefigs.org

Dominic Thomas, Artist- www.mundusloci.org

Related Links

www.scansite.org
www.bowville.net
www.starradio.org.uk

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