Deptford.TV is a research project on collaborative film - initiated by Adnan Hadzi in collaboration with the Deckspace media lab, Bitnik media collective, Boundless project, Liquid Culture initiative, and Goldsmiths College.
It is an online media database documenting the regeneration process of Deptford, in Sout East London. Deptford TV functions as an open, collaborative platform that allows artists, filmmakers and people living and working around Deptford to store, share, re-edit and redistribute the documentation of the regeneration process.
The open and collaborative aspect of the project is of particular importance as it manifests in two ways: a) audiences can become producers by submitting their own footage, b) the interface that is being used enables the contributors to discuss and interact with each other through the database.
Deptford TV is a form of "television", since audiences are able to choose edited "time lines" they would like to watch; at the same time they have the option to comment on or change the actual content. Deptford TV makes us of licenses such as the creative commons sa-by and gnu general public license to allow and enhance this politics of sharing.
“The matrix of the cyberspace creates a reality in which the copy and the original code are identical. The computer is our digital cloning tool. The attitude of artists towards the idea of intellectual property owned by one soul is changing. In a copyleft attitude, artists are sharing their codes, communities are resisting against the big media players who try to control cyberspace. Copylefting might influence the handling of found footage in a way of realizing that there is no need of selling an artists rights to intermediates. Instead artists might sell their works directly, via micro-payments, to their audience. Probably one of the most interesting things going on the world wide web right now is the discussion about intellectual property and digital copyrights. The open source movement liberated the computer code with the general public license and the linux operating system, might this be also possible for artistic movements?”
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VODO is a research project on new forms of film distribution - initiated by Jamie King in collaboration with BritDoc, Arts Council of England and Goldsmiths, University of London.
VODO is trying to help solve three problems:
(1) How do we get works (texts, films, music) distributed efficiently and widely using current peer-to-peer and filesharing technologies?
(2) How do we market these works in a way that can help artists gain widespread recognition?
(3) How can we help creators distributing via filesharing systems to develop a sustainable and even profitable, practice?
We approach these problems by, first, gathering quality “unpublished” content (books, films, music) from a variety of sources. These may, for example, be commissioning boies who know about work they’ve comissioned that couldn’t be or wasn’t published; they may be “slush-piles” from literary agencies; they may be first albums submitted directly by bands, or offered by managers. (The fact is that a lot of great content will never make it to a mainstream publication –– for a variety of reasons that we won’t go into here, but NOT just because they’re not good enough.)
Second, we filter the content. Once it’s uploaded, we allow VODO’s Regular Supporters to download or stream any work they like, in order to comment and vote on it. Taking into account these votes and comments our team select works to distribute.
Third, we are bringing together some of the world’s largest P2P services and sites to help promote and distribute winning works. Works selected are promoted prominently to our ‘Distribution Coalition’, which has many millions of eyeballs. The promotions we place on these pages will link directly to the works, which will be seeded in partnership with Bittorrent and other filesharing services.
Finally, at the core of VODO is a commitment to providing revenue for creators of media content, in a world in which the systems for distributing, copying and viewing that content are cross-territorial, rapidly changing and difficult to predict or control.
Put simply, we provide a freely accessible “look up” table that stores hashes of works we’ve helped distribute, against payment details (e.g., PayPal) for producers. With this table, any site that implements the VODO system can offer donation links for VODO works. In time we’re aiming to extend this to all sorts of works, even those not published by us. But as you can guess, this will take some time!
With the system we’ve developed, we’ll be able to let consumers of media shared through P2P networks make voluntary donations to our creators wherever their works are shared.
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Converge helps you to showcase your video on the web.
We have produced a handbook and workshop program to enable:
1) make use of existing sites like the Internet Archive, Participatory Culture, YouTube and Video Syndication Network
2) publish video on own sites (using the Converge Broadcast Machine or linking back to existing sites).
Converge will be piloted with Hi8us participatory youth media projects across the UK.
One of ITM's objectives is using ICT for the production and distribution of learning materials and products developed by partners and target groups. Converge is a programme to enable young people to showcase their work on the web. A handbook and workshop program is produced to enable young people to fully utilise both existing offers and build their own open source software based sites. These will be piloted with Hi8us partipatory youth media projects across the UK.