[IMC-bristol] HighNoon call for video: Wsis? We Seize!

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>High | Noon call by geneva03 initiative!
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>1 Towards HIGHNOON
>In recent years media activism has evolved globally from local pirate
>radios, video activist groups and paper zines into complex networks of
>alliances that use ICT to bridge the physical gap in txt, visual and sonic
>media, as well as those of distance and feasibility. Some of these networks
>(like Indymedia) have showed the way for others how to structure the
>information agregation and desemination process.
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>Recently a diverse group of media activists, artists and programers
>initiated project HighNoon which is set out to develop a new model that
>would suite better for moving image. Agregation of video has already been
>experimentaly established in recent months by v2v project
>(http://www.v2v.cc), using free software, open formats and standards to
>encode, store and syndicate production quality video in sustainable and
>managable way.
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>Further along this road we wanna develop methods and models to fill these
>archives with quality content and make it available for others to engage
>within this social, media and technical development. By using free
>technologies, working on models of inclusion and adressing social issues
>within so called "information society" we are initiating HighNoon platform
>for delivery of this media through networks to all connected. Being early
>in development stage we need your support in submiting content, testing
>technology, commiting resources and adopting standards we agree on. Join us
>as we build HighNoon for its first incarnation in counter program to World
>Summit of Information Society!
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>2 WHAT IS HIGHNOON
>High Noon is an audiovisual protest over three days (Dec 10-12) that
>gathers objections against the WSIS in Geneva in order to assert our claims
>to the so called "information society".
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>Since we are reluctant to report from yet another useless global summit to
>the rest of the world, we want to engage international participation in
>this media event that inverts the centralistic self-referential structure
>set-up by WSIS in order to distribute media presence equally between
>time-zones. High Noon works as an interface for confronting and exposing
>rhetorics of the WSIS by the variety of media contributions and
>interventions uploaded by media activists and artists from around the
>globe. We will be following the revolution of the sun using its light as a
>scanner to raise up local experiences and stories to tell. For three days
>it will be always midday in HighNoon. For each midday you are invited to
>participate rather than be represented!
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>3 CREATING AN ARCHIVEArchive will be assembled, from which HighNoon stream
>will be programmed, out of copylefted audiovisual media with all
>authors/producers credited acordingly.
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>This effort will not end after the WSIS. One of the main goals of this
>effort is to create a stable media archive for further collaborations and
>to test technical endurance and efficiency of independent infrastructures
>(video archive, database of metadata, streaming servers), as well as new
>models of procreative media expression and translocal networking.
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>4 CALL FOR CONTENT
>Proposed topics are:
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>digital divide and access - community media and media activism
>borders and migration - immaterial labor - hardware manufacturing
>open source development - copyright and intellectual property
>war and infowar - media monopolies and privatization - censorship and
>freedom of expression
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>5 HOW TO ENGAGE
>a) SUBMIT A VIDEO: We call for videos to upload in the archive. We will
>then compress for streaming (to stream is to broadcast on the net).
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>b) ORGANIZE A LIVE STREAM:
>We call for actions and events to broadcast live using the net. We will
>screen in WSIS arena and in remote locations.
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>c) ORGANIZE A PUBLIC SCREENING:
>We call for public screenings of the stream from Geneva. We will open local
>inputs through IRC channels, webboards, streams to We Seize!
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>Every local initiative will be free to organize its own schedule for the
>streamings, picking up videos from the archive. At the same time the
>geneva03 collective will provide a default streaming of all the materials
>in scheduled program.
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>6 CONTACTS AND TECHNICAL DEVELOPMENT
>If you have media to upload or to send, actions to stream live or wanna
>join in development process please write to highnoon at geneva03.org
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>For additional info please follow progress at http://www.geneva03.org/highnoon
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>For further information on the - WSIS? We Seize! - check
>http://www.geneva03.org/