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Open House III at the Community TV Studio

vie_robert — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 23:26:24 +0000

Tomorrow Thursday 1st, there will be another Open House event at the Community TV studio. This time, the first six of the station’s future programmes will be presented. The programme makers will introduce their concepts and show some clips of the programmes.

* Agenda 21: 15. Bezirk
* einblicke/filmecke: die Filmsendung des wienXtra-medienzentrums
* Mazedonia-Roma-TV
* Play: Die Kunstsendung
* UTV: das unabh

Three good reasons to go to the “add-on” on its last weekend

vie_robert — Thu, 28 Jul 2005 01:08:28 +0000

The “add-on” at Wallensteinplatz in the 20th district will only be there for another few days. I give you three good reasons to go there this weekend: First, if you haven’t seen the place yet, this is your last chance. You will otherwise regret it soon. Second, there is going to be a three-day workshop on participatory TV production in connection with architecture and public spaces, called “Space Shift“, organized by architect Lena Nalbach and David Bovill from the Vienna Community TV project. Find their invitation below. And third, on Saturday evening, Austrofred will be performing his fabulous music comedy show there.

SpaceShift on add on

During the last days of add on, we jump from the platform at +20 meters to scout locations and returning unknown perspectives of the city to the structure on Wallensteinplatz. Aiming at first to recruit producers, film makers and ideas for the production of a tv programme, the results of the workshops will be shown the following week at the Community TV open house on August 4th.

The archiTex anonymous invite to contribute to any of the aspects of four dimensional production. Workshops will focus on the documentation of places, research technologies providing further perspectives onto the chosen locations, the archiving of the produced material under creative commons licences, and its remix for “publication”, i.e. screening as part of the Community TV’s project programmes.

From thursday evening till sunday morning, the programme will focus on meetings every evening that offer the possibility to exchange and contribute to the project, as well as a picknick on the Flaktowers in Augarten on Saturday and a final brunch Sunday.

A new TV channel for Vienna

vie_robert — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 23:13:20 +0000

It took quite a while, but Vienna will finally have a non-commercial Community TV station, almost a quarter century after most of the Western world.

However, it is not the worst moment to start such a project. First, more people have access to video production than ever before. Decent video equipment has become affordable for many, digital publication on the Internet or on DVD is no rocket science anymore, and you will hardly find a new mobile phone or photo camera on the market that does not come with some video feature. Creating your own media was never easier.

Second, there is not much to watch on the other Austrian channels anymore. This is the chance - and the challenge - for Community TV. Still based on voluntary production work, it can aim to fill at least some of the gaps that public broadcasting and the commercial stations in Austria leave neglected: the arts, film avantgarde, alternative music, theatre, literature, science and humanities, or programmes in languages of migrant communities.

Starting today, I will blog about the becoming of Vienna’s new TV station, presenting concepts, programmes, people and the large number of ways to get involved. And yes, I am not concealing that I am part of the station’s staff. So I can’t help this to be promotional. Hopefully.