KIT intermedia

Everything was corrected connected
slowTV makes “Live Art” at Live Art, Kunstnernes Hus
22.01.09 – 01.02.09

slowTV are a loose, ever-changing collective of artists and students who use television as a medium for research, investigation, intervention in and reinterpretation of a wide variety of  supposedly unconnected events and concepts, both physical and virtual; from Lithuanian film festivals to Norwegian confectionary packaging design to new media exhibitions in Rotterdam.

For more information see http://www.slowtv.org/

slowTV during Live Art were: Kristin Tårnes, Stig Tommy Høvik, Sille Storihle, Hans Christian Skovholt, Jason Havneraas, David Lamignan Larsen, Daniel Theodor Jangmar Paulsen, Sylvia Kochanska and Nomeda and Gediminas Urbonas.

During the five days slowTV spent at Live art in Kunstnernes Hus, successful and unsuccessful, correct and incorrect and corrected attempts were made to intervene between performances and other works in the exhisting program.

Their Manifesto was their gospel and its ten treatise (which can be viewed upstairs), were interpreted as literal fundamental truth, allowing them to collaborate with invited artists and interact with the work of those not present.

As with past interventions by the group, as much was discovered about their own roles as artists as about the subjects of their investigations. This is our purpose.

The Television of Everyday Life
or:
Everything is Connected Corrected

What’s the Rush: A manifesto on Television as a research method

1. “slowTV” Is more like it is now than it ever was before
2. “slowTV” is rarely televised.
3. “slowTV” is live.
4. “slowTV” can change what has not yet happened.
5. “slowTV” changes as things happen.
6. “slowTV” happens as things change.
7. “slowTV” is John Lydon (formally Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols), realising that he is the reincarnation of John of Leyden (the radical Dutch Anabaptist heretic), who in 1534 was proclaimed king of the German town of Münster, the new Jerusalem, and therefore the whole world.*
8. “slowTV” is a long-time member of the slowTV group, realising at the tender age of ten that nothing is black and white, due to what he is told by one of his best friends, John the school bus driver. The revelation was that John would be voting for Margaret Thatcher’s Tories. “Fucking hell”, thought the young boy, “and I thought you were such a nice bloke”.
9. “slowTV” are pragmatists fascinated by idealists fascinated with themselves.
10. “slowTV” is Duba Sambolec as Laura Palmer.
11. “slowTV” is still aloud to smoke inside.
12. “slowTV” is Captain of the spaceship ‘SS Proposed Hermitage Guggenheim Museum’ which will allegedly soon be docking in Vilnius, Lithuania.
13. “slowTV” met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shatter’d visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamp’d on these lifeless things,
The hand that mock’d them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
Nothing beside remains: round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
14. “slowTV” is a pare of half coconut shells used to synthesize the sound of horses hooves.
15. “slowTV” is Norway as Angel Matos, the Cuban taekwondo athlete who along with his coach was banned for life from his sport for life for kicking the Swedish referee following his bronze medal match disqualification during the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
16. “slowTV” is Artūras Zuokas, former mayor of Vilnius, Lithuania, as Marlow, the narrator of Conrad’s Heart of Darkness.
17. “slowTV” is David Lamignan Larsen as the great great grandson of Wilhelm Reich.
18. “slowTV” is HD ready.
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* For further information on this subject, the text which we have manipulated and paraphrased, read: Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the 20th Century By Greil Marcus, Faber and Faber Limited, 2001

project blog:  www.vilma.cc/2G

2G: Guggenheim group*

*A discretionary research group for Vilnius’ Guggenheim project

“2G: Guggenheim group” is a group set up temporary to provoke the Real to a reality,
of the discussion on possibility of the Guggenheim museum project in Vilnius.

“2G: Guggenheim group” is a meeting place for different, sometimes opposing, communities:
the investors and realtors, the architects and vendors, the students and business,
fashion workers and politicians, at the end all citizens concerned on the global scale.

“2G: Guggenheim group” was initiated as a lab inviting a group of people,
students from VAA (Vilnius Art Academy), students from NTNU (Norwegian University for Science and Technology) and leading experts in Lithuania and overseas to support the Official case of Guggenheim research project by starting with performative discussion and workshop in Vilnius with possible further development on the franchise sites of Guggenheim project.

“2G: Guggenheim group” is planned as drifting production site
to produce several overlapping layers during the summer 2008:

1. A “social housing project” is an invitation to “realize”
the unrealized Guggenheim projects in a “human” scale,
transforming the proposals for Guggenheim museum into
the shelters for homeless people and building them in the location of the future Guggenheim in Vilnius at the river bank.

2. “2G: Guggenheim group” will also “revise legacy of Fluxus”
and produce series of re-enactments staged at the JMVMC (Jonas Mekas Visual Art Centre) and fashion’d business centre “Vilnius Gates” in Vilnius.

3. “Opera” will chart all anxieties and desires for Vilnius Guggenheim
in a performative form. “Opera” will result as an outcome of the workshop scripting process,
that would retranslate encounters, interviews, etc. into the form of performance.

The three parts of the research and production will be represented in a form of the
installation in 2008 Taipei biennale, including film and video archive of events, site drawings, “social housing” models, posters, postcards, weblog and more.

Drawing lesson of the Giraffe (by Peter Friedl, The Zoo Story) at Documenta 12, Kassel, September 13 2007

slow tv and Maestro at Coca Cola cinema during PRAVDA workshop in Vilnius. Chapter 8: fan club
Fans of Maestro who managed to talk their way past security were able to ask him questions about his life as a pimp and hi-hop star. For a small price, physical or financial, they were aloud to pose with him for photos and touch his tiger skin coat.

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slow tv and Kristin Tarnes at Coca Cola cinema during PRAVDA workshop in Vilnius. Chapter 8: bunad performance
Here Kristin wearing her Bunad and Jason use Kristin’s everyday Norwegian cloths to investigate contemporary Lithuanian fashion and also test the locals knowledge of life in Norway.

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slow tv, Maestro and Just Try Me at Coca Cola cinema during PRAVDA workshop in Vilnius. Chapter 7: party performance

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slow tv, Maestro and Just Try Me at Coca Cola cinema during PRAVDA workshop in Vilnius. Chapter 6: break
During this break between the two performances of the film festival while the Maestro rested, Just try me attempted to reconstruct the shape of the room they are about to perform in using play bricks. This is a proven method used by Monkey Bwoy Productions™ to give any of our collaborators a sense of place in the difficult world we all live in.

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slow tv, Maestro and Just Try Me at Coca Cola cinema during PRAVDA workshop in Vilnius.
Chapter 5: backstage.
Before the big performance The Maestro poses with Just Try Me while his manager and public relations officer anxiously look on. No such nerves for the performers though!

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slow tv, Maestro and Just Try Me at Coca Cola cinema during PRAVDA workshop in Vilnius. Chapter 4: rehearsal 2
The Maestro molds the untamed beast of Just Try Me into the pliable yet still aggressive animal needed to fit into his carefully choreographed performance.

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slow tv and Just Try Me at Coca Cola cinema during PRAVDA workshop in Vilnius. Chapter 3: preparation for the performance. These young ladies are the premier dance outfit in Lithuania supporting and supported by many major acts in and around Vilnius even sometimes as far afield as Kaunas! Pravda Film Festival are hugely honored and surprised that we managed to book this fantastic troupe. Here you see the girls after they have been “whited up” (The Maestro refuses to be seen with black dancers as he only likes to pimp young white girls), and are having the finishing touches applied to their make-up by Olga the wardrobe woman.

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slow tv and Maestro at Coca Cola cinema during PRAVDA workshop in Vilnius. Chapter 2: rehearsal 1.
Met with Jolanta, Manager of the Coca Cola plaza, she showed us round and we made decisions about choreography/ where the performances would take place etc. After much argument we finally backed down and said Maestro would perform even though we were not allowed to paint over the Coca cola wall and replace the bottles with the MonkeyBwoy™ logo. The compromise agreement was that we would be allowed to present our own special prize during the Pravda film festival ceremony.

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slowtv at Cafe de Paris in Vilnius, during the PRAVDA workshop. Chapter 1: win MAESTRO for one night only!
Monkey Bwoy productions arrived in Vilnius and got straight to work interviewing candidates to host Maestro in their apartment for one night. Of the 50 who applied we dismissed 47 as being totally unsuitable and instructed security not to let them within 25 meters our superstar. The three we interviewed are pictured here.

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With the Jaegermeister base solution we bought at the super shop we achieved these results…

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slow tv and Albino shoping at the SINATRA shop in Trondheim. Albino felt he was misunderstood at the recent awards ceremony due to his lack of an appropriate belt buckle. This problem was immediately remedied at SINATRA, Trondheim’s premier clothing store.

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slow tv and Albino paid a visit to a ceremony for the AWARD for CULTURALLY OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTIONS TO TRONDHEIM at the Library in Trondheim. Slow tv’s special guest Albino acted as our chief investigator and ‘face’ during this visit after his triumphant nomination by us. He, like everybody else invoved was a clear award winner and made a culturaly outstanding contribution to the awards ceremony. The refreshments were not too his taste and recieved no award.

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slow tv together with Janna and Janna 2 investigating the SUPERSHOP of Trondheim. In this mysterious boutique of dubious legality, slow tv discovered the possibility to flavour clear alcohol such as vodka, white rum, gin, etc.. (but definately not, under no circumstances whatsoever, the local moonshine or, “kursk”), with the flavour of any known alcoholic spirit, liqueur or coctail. We were also given advice on the brewing of your own beer and wine, not something we had previously considered.
As we moved around the store we noticed a distinct increase in novelty items of an increasingly sexual nature, as if the possibility of creating ones own alcohol could only lead to one eventual result: being haunted by a disembodied hand.

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slow tv collaborating with Janna Graham and Valeria Graziano / The Committee for Radical Diplomacy / [Goldsmiths college] at the “AWARD for CULTURALLY OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTIONS TO TRONDHEIM”: nominating Doggy (his name is actually Douggy but Mr. Azziz made it sound like Doggy and the name stuck) the landlord at The 3 Lions English pub and Winnie the bottle lady. This was the second time Winnie has been on television, with slow tv joining Canal Plus of France as part of her publicity machine. They had previously caught up with her to question her motives for taking a holiday in Lithuania.

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slow tv and Janna Graham with Valeria Graziano / The Committee for Radical Diplomacy or “COCTAIL” [Goldsmiths college, London], investigate components of INNERØY-SODD, a local delicacy. The dish was served at the opening of Marienborg’s Forum 1 and was so good that we all desperately needed to note down the recipe to take home. Locals kindly obliged to show us the best quality ingredients and slow tv found some new collaborators.

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slow tv: IFA action by Kristin Tarnes moving from Trondheim S station to Marienborg station and studios, hacking of the procession at the opening of Marienborg’s Forum 1: “What are you doing here?”. Banners were held, torches lit, banners lit, moustaches worn and used to great effect and questions asked and answered. Watch this space for future streaming of video. See www.marienborgkunst.no for more information and images of the opening.

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slow tv made field trip No.2 to Marienborg, Trondheim to meet railway workers who share the building where the Marienborg artists are based. Together we discussed strategies for planning year schedules and whether the artists could learn anything about prioritising different months based on purely visual information. Per Christian Nygaard, a guest artist at Marienborg who is taking part in Forum 1 for personal financial gain, enlightened us further on some moustache questions that had arisen following our visit to the moustache club. He also provided Norwegian language services for which we are very greatful.

Our last discussion of the visit arose from slow tv’s excitement at the prospect of setting off the Trondheim civil defense alarm which is based in the same building. To our dissapointment the on-site electrician said he could not bypass the radio reciever as the alarm can only go off at 1200hours on two particular days of the year. “People might be alarmed if they heard it otherwise”. He did set off his own for us though and that gave us some satisfaction.

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slow tv made field-trip No.1 to the Norwegian Moustache club http://www.dnm91.com/, an establishment that specialises in the wearing of impressive moustaches. We were afforded a courtious welcome at the club’s inner sanctum in the Prinsen Hotel, given a comprehensive explanation of the reasons one might grow a moustache and also the qualities it and you must have in order to join the club. Nomeda had the honor of being the first woman allowed into a club meeting; it is strictly for men only, even if you are a woman and your facial hair is comparable to that seen below. There was an Italian lady who tried to join once but she failed at the interview stage. Many club members are policemen so it is also inadvisable to try and join if you have a criminal record as checks will be made.

Slow tv made arrangements to meet the club again in the future for possible collaborations including the export of Norwegian moustache wax to Lithuania.

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slow tv is invited to produce a new edition for Forum 1: HVA GJOR DU HER? at Marienborg, Trondheim. http://www.marienborgkunst.no/

KIT tv at FILMSTUNT: street scene investigating the conflict.

  
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KIT tv at FILMSTUNT: preparing the street scene investigating the conflict.

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KIT tv at FILMSTUNT: preparing the street scene investigating the conflict.

  
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KIT tv group at FILMSTUNT: Hans, Stig Tommy, David, Erik, Cathrine and Linda provokes and investigates productive sides of the conflict.

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KIT tv group takes active part at FILMSTUNT workshop during KOSMORAMA festival.

  
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slow tv and CAC TV interview Oda Projesi, Istanbul on the way to Lian.

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slow tv and CAC TV interview Oda Projesi on the tram way down from Lian.

  
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slow tv and CAC TV interview Oda Projesi at the tram on the way up to Lian.

  
 
  
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The first presentation of upcoming Hessdalen biennal of International Art at Teaterhuset Avant Garden, Trondheim during the conference “CHANGING ART DISTRIBUTION CHANNELS-Regarding art practice whitin the social context”. Presented by the curator Rickard Borgström.

  
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production of new episode for CAC TV: [6] visiting cafe Luna, UFO disco and Norwegian UFO Center at Hessdalen

  
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production of new episode for CAC TV: [5] meeting with alien

  
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production of new episode for CAC TV: [4] reaching the “blue box”

  
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production of new episode for CAC TV: [3] Interview with Bjarne Lillevold, a guide and scientific assistant of the project

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production of new episode for CAC TV: [3] visiting Hessdalen interactive observatory. Interview with Bjarne Lillevold, a guide and scientific assistant of the project 

  
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production of new episode for CAC TV: [2] getting to know about International Art biennial at Hessdalen

  
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production of new episode for CAC TV: [1] blindfold drive to Hessdalen UFO Centre.

  
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CAC TV workshop in Trondheim:

CAC TV is a TV program of Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius
www.cac.lt , that is being broadcasted weekly on TV1 www.tv1.lt
channel. It explores the genre of reality meta-show, although quite
often it finds itself in meta-reality show.
“CAC TV not only generates events, it is also a TV program” (Viktor
Tikrai)
“Beavis and Butthead do Dogma in Vilnius” (anonym)
“An intervention to Normality” (Vita Zaman Cookson)
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RAIMUNDAS MALASAUSKAS
Raimundas Malasauskas works at the Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius
(http://www.cac.lt), co-produces CAC TV program (http://www.cac.lt/tv)
and So-Called Records (http:/www.socalledrecords.com), has done
interviews with Robert Barry, Dora Garcia, George Maciunas, Seth
Siegelaub, Rammelzee, Tino Sehgal, forwarded the telepathic message of
Robert Bary to Jonathan Monk (During the Exhibition The Gallery will be
Open, Jan Mot gallery, Brussels, 2003), has written about Missy Elliot
and time machines, has curated various exhibitions, including BMW
(co-curated with Sofia Hernandez Chong Cuy (NYC) and Alexis Vaillant
(Paris), CAC Vilnius / ICA London; 24/7 Wilno Nueva York (CAC
Vilnius, 2003); PR 04 (A Tribute to the Messenger), Puerto Rico (2004),
Elektrodienos: Unidentified Audio Object (CAC Vilnius, 2004), Bi-Fi
series of events (various venues, New York City 2001 – 2003), Out Trip
Out West, Pierre Bismuth & Jonathan Monk (CAC Vilnius, 2001).
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THE AIM AND STRUCTURE OF THE WORKSHOP

The aim of the workshop in Trondheim – to share knowledge and
experiences stemming from artistic production taking place beyond
traditional exhibition matrix and inhabiting formats of TV, online
games or rumours rather than the spaces of museums. Through
collaborative analysis and imagination the participants of the workshop
are expected to produce a new identity (for television) of IX Baltic
Triennial aka BMW following the logic of CAC TV, BMW and the workshop
itself.
The structure of the workshop consists of the three basic parts:
1. Introduction of several projects with a focus on The IX Baltic
Triennial aka BMW and CAC TV.
2. Watching the selection of:
a) existing CAC TV episodes followed by the session of critique and
discussion;
b) several films presented on CAC TV (Montewood Hollyverita by Una
Szeemann and Alice in Wonderland or Who is Guy Debord by Robert Cauble)
and exhibited in BMW (All Wrong by Gabriel Lester.)
c) unedited material from BMW exhibition and Rotterdam film festival;
3. Conceptual investigations: finding and formulating the key principles
operating in both projects, analysing their implications and impact,
projecting their possible adaptation and use in a different format and
context. Collaborative imagining and streamlining of the ideas of the
new episode of CAC TV.
4. Practical realisation of the episode: filming, editing, re-editing.

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ADDITIONAL MATERIAL

More info on CAC TV: www.cac.lt/tv (recommended: please go to
‘interviews’ to read about the making of the program)

More info on IX Baltic Triennial aka BMW: www.ultimiere.com and
www.blackmarketworlds.lt (recommended: please go to
http://www.ultimiere.com/en-press.html
to read all the press-releases of the project)

Texts and interviews by Raimundas Malasauskas:

Robert Barry: You never know where it goes
http://www.galeriejanmot.com/newspaper/barry_monk.html

Mario Garcia Torres: Never seen or done before
http://www.galeriejanmot.com/newspaper/
today_is_just_a_copy_of_yesterday_01.html

Carey Young: Revolution: It’s a Lovely Word
http://www.careyyoung.com/essays/malasauskas.html

Interview with Seth Siegelaub
http://www.16beavergroup.org/
journalisms/archives/000820.php

Raimundas Malasauskas link:
http://www.cac.lt/lt.php/smc_tv/2111

CAC TV: Every program is a pilot. Every program is a final episode – a
proposal for a TV series of invisible TV (by Rai)

The lecture by Raimundas Malasauskas, curator, critic (Vilnius) who works at the Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius (http://www.cac.lt), co-produces CAC TV program (http://www.cac.lt/tv) and So-Called Records (http:/www.socalledrecords.com), has done interviews with Robert Barry, Dora Garcia, George Maciunas, Seth Siegelaub, Rammelzee, Tino Sehgal, forwarded the telepathic message of Robert Bary to Jonathan Monk (During the Exhibition The Gallery will be Open, Jan Mot gallery, Brussels, 2003), has written about Missy Elliot and time machines, has curated various exhibitions, including BMW (co-curated with Sofia Hernandez Chong Cuy (NYC) and Alexis Vaillant (Paris), CAC Vilnius / ICA London; 24/7 Wilno Nueva York (CAC Vilnius, 2003); PR 04 (A Tribute to the Messenger), Puerto Rico (2004), Elektrodienos: Unidentified Audio Object (CAC Vilnius, 2004), Bi-Fi series of events (various venues, New York City 2001 – 2003), Out Trip Out West, Pierre Bismuth & Jonathan Monk (CAC Vilnius, 2001).

  
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ONE DAY seminar on DIGITAL CINEMA. March 28th:
ALL students can participate. This seminar gives you the technical
details from the digital cinema. Recommended.
It is not part of the workshop so when you participate in the FILMSTUNT workshop and to this, you will miss some production time (1 day) from the FILMSTUNT part!
More info on the content later.

AGAIN: write to us signing for it ASAP, so we know how many people joining.

during week 12/13: March 25-30:
FILMSTUNT workshop during KOSMORAMA festival:
http://www.kosmorama.no/ezn/index.php/
en/content/view/full/254/

This is digital cinema workshop and SONY will bring HD editing tools
arranged into studios at Prinses theater. YOU have 6 days time to
produce a short film. It will be shown at the festival on SONY 4K
projector.

Although application deadline is over, we have a chance to access that workshop. As number of places is limited, priority is given for
participants joining with SLOW TV.

Write back to us signing for it ASAP, so we know how many people
joining.

we would like to encourage ALL of you who did not yet participated in hybrid TV exploration and production of SLOW TV. Some of you probably followed presentations of SLOW TV after the Rotterdam research trip. It is OPEN framework. Welcome to join and explore possibilities.

We will quickly list ALL workshops planned in relation to research on
art and TV practice in expanded field. On a technical level it provides with study in HD video production, digital cinema and 3G and wireless technologies. These arrangements are programmed in dialogue with Medgaards Media lab.

So PLEASE look carefully at the options, think and plan your time, and then WRITE us back with notes for what events YOU want to be sign for.

during week 11: March 13-18:
workshop on reality-meta-show genre and conceptual practice working with TV in the expanded field and BMW (black market world) methods with Raimundas Malasauskas, writer and curator from CAC, Vilnius. More info on the workshop will come soon, for now you can check project sites Raimundas is involved with:
http://www.cac.lt/lt.php/smc_tv/2111
http://www.explodingtelevision.net/
http://www.ultimiere.com/

There will be 2 HD cams during the workshop and start up & track course to technical use of the HD cameras provided by specialist from multimediasenter.

slow tv interviews Geert Lovink on the tram to Lian, Trondheim

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slow tv interviews Geert Lovink on the tram to Lian, Trondheim

  
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Geert Lovink lecture “On the principle of Notworking”
will take place on 22 February from 10.00
at the Seminarrom KIT, NTNU Trondheim.

  
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FILMSCREENING : “Beautiful World”
Director: Mieke Gerritzen
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006
15:00
Seminarrom KIT / NTNU Trondheim

Further info: http://www.kit.ntnu.no/lovink.html

The lecture and screening is public. YOU ARE ALL VERY WELCOME.
Address Innherredsveien 7 (Industribygget).
Contact Tel. +47 73 59 79 00

Geert Lovink is the guest lecturer at the KIT Intermedia input
programmed by Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas.

we are back from Rotterdam since last night and fingers burning to unfold all exciting encounters and links with practices building the public space access through the hybrid TV modes.

Rotterdam met us in a great embrace of a cold weather and a nasty wind. Right after the arrivals we all met at the opening of the exhibition SATELITE OF LOVE, at the Witte de With Contemporary art center. It was a perfect time and place to warm up, meet nice people and start with the first SLOW TV manifestation as well as setting the interviews.

The SLOW TV team Jason, Morten, Hans, Erik, Cath and Linda together with Nomeda and Gediminas starting from scratch:
Jason is installing the SLOW TV stand-large format antique camera that captures the geography of TV trends in a still image turning them literary upside down. We think that for the first edition (launch) of SLOW TV, these stills are great to have along with audio stream on a web. Morten is adjusting sound levels and getting ready with video captures through the on a larger glass charted in a grids on a back of the antique camera. Linda makes sure there is enough light falling by mowing a reflector. Cath is working with making off and plans for one minute short ideas for the festival in Trondheim or/and Vilnius. Hans is taking stills, uploads the web. Erik improvises with moving camera, as well plays a great role to interview the artists together with Jason. Nomeda is documenting behind the scenes and Gediminas gets ready with the questions. There are no fixed roles, we all mix and discuss things, getting time to look at the material after installing temporary SLOW TV studio.

just to give you a short glimpse on the active agenda of SLOW TV during the busy week in Rotterdam:

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Friday, 27 Jan 2006

an interview with TV-TV, from Copenhagen:
http://www.tv-tv.dk/index.php/Oversigt

an interview with Liesbeth and Jos, artists from Rotterdam:
http://www.bikvanderpol.net/

festival screening of Sarah Morris short films.

DIY_tv: talk & workshop on the growing phenomenon of independent microTV broadcasters.
You can watch the stream here:
http://www.archive.org/stream/tangenttv1/diy_tv.rm

interview with Ambient TV:
http://www.ambienttv.net/content/index.php
and Heath Bunting, artist and activist from Bristol:
http://www.irational.org/cgi-bin/cv/cv.pl?member=heath

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Saturday, 28 Jan 2006

interview with  Algis Stravinskas, a pioneer of break dance in USSR.

interview with CAC TV
http://www.cac.lt/lt.php/smc_tv/2111

visiting NAI, Netherlands Architecture Institute
http://www.nai.nl/e/

Silent TV workshop: a tele-matic workshop on how to build your own TV. conducted by Tetsuo Kogawa (Tokyo Keizai University). you can watch the stream here:
http://www.archive.org/stream/tangenttv1/diy_tv.rm

HOT SPOTS program at the IFFR, Off_Corso, Rotterdam
Morten joins the program with sound performance.

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Sunday, 29 Jan 2006

visiting Netherlands Foto Museum
http://www.nfa.nl/home.php?taal_ID=2

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
http://www.boijmans.rotterdam.nl/smartsite.dws?id=2039276

Gated_tv talk: on copy right issues vs open archives,
open source, open archives.
http://www.archive.org/stream/tangenttv3/gated_tv.rm

interview with Rachel Baker, artist and co-organizer of
ambientTV.NET and officer for media arts at the Arts Council of England)
http://www.irational.org/cgi-bin/cv/cv.pl?member=rachel

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Monday, 30 Jan 2006

interview with Juha Huuskonen organizer of PixelAche festival in Helsinki.
http://www.juhuu.nu/
http://www.pixelache.ac/

Truth_tv: talk by several artists to discuss the work exploring the nature of truth as represented by television.

interview with The Yes Men (cultural jammers)
http://www.theyesmen.org/

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we are not even mentioning exhibitions and film screenings at the IFFR. It is not possible to put into these humble lines all extraordinary experiences and inspiring clues we got during those days for the TV project  we try to setup at the school. Better we all do it in February /March when we get ready with the website. Maybe by that time we have hand made TV projector that we could plug with the self made TV
transmitters? YES! Three TV transmitter were build during the workshop in Rotterdam, and are back to Trondheim.

Now its many hours of material to be transcribed and edited into the interviews as a text files, and edited again in a shorter version for audio streams. Large format photos to be developed, scaled down and put on the web together with text and audio stream. Short samples of video (3 min.) would be also uploaded.

nu&gu

  
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The Yes Men (cultural jammers) [ http://www.theyesmen.org/ ]

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