[Reader-list] Tech_2 and its details

[Monica Narula]

Some of you might be aware/participating in tech_2, and some of you 
might want to get there, online or off. Sarai is also sending a 
couple of people to co-mingle and co-llaborate...

Tech_2 Bristol, UK: Independent Infrastructures
18 - 25th August 2001

Tech_2 Bristol is an 8 day gathering of technical and content 
creating collectives from the UK and around the world creating 
independent online and offline spaces for independent publishing, 
community communications, and socially conscious networking.

Hosted by  Bristol's Cube Cinema despite fire damage at their usual 
premises, tech_2 spreads itself across various unusual venues and 
locations across Bristol.

They'll be practical workshops and skill sharing sessions, 
presentations and discussions about initiatives locally and 
internationally.

If you are already involved in setting up and running your own 
publications, servers or media communication channels, or would like 
to, then get in touch about getting involved.

They'll be day long practical workshops on how to set up networks so 
that you can share domestic internet connectivity such as ADSL, and 
your electronic content, with friends and neighbours, and we'll be 
investigating the possibilities for setting up a block-wide micro-TV 
station on your housing estate. We'll also be looking at software 
tools that have been built for particular social contexts, users and 
situations.

The daytime workshops and discussions take place at Windmill Hill 
City Farm - we're intending to set up a wireless network there so 
come and work with us among the animals and the plants! The evening 
events take place upstairs at the Hatchet Pub, which will also be 
open each night, 21st to 25th for relaxed, lounge style music, 
visuals and special events from Ambient TV, sulphric [p]lacid, 
Independent Heroine and more.

Participants include people from: Tao (Canada), Octapod, Catalyst 
Media and Spinach server (Australia), Redbricks (Manchester, UK), 
i-contact, Planet Easton and Bristle (Bristol, UK), Riseup.net (USA), 
Protest.net (USA), Sarai Media Lab (India), Redundant Technology 
Initiative (Sheffield, UK) Irational.org (Distributed) and many 
others.

Stand by for workshops, screenings, wiring experiments and extreme 
DIY.  Ring or check the website for updates on the activity.

http://tech2.southspace.org
for info email: info at tech2.southspace.org
ring: 07946 378905


Tech_2 Days

Name:	Rubbish to Router
Date:	Tuesday 21st August 2001
Time:	12:00:00 PM
town:	Bristol
place:	Windmill Hill City Farm
room:	Upstairs room
Description:	Rubbish 2 Router is a practical workshop on how to 
build a fully functional local area network with full internet 
connection from salvaged and scrap components using open source 
software such as linux and domestic connectivity such as adsl. Bring 
tools, computer components, reference books and ideas. If you want 
to, or are already sharing connectivity and/or content with friends 
and neighbours, then this one is for you. All levels of technical 
knowledge is welcome!

Name:	Towerblock TV
Date:	Wednesday 22nd August 2001
Time:	12:00:00 PM
town:	Bristol
place:	RING FOR DETAILS - somewhere near Dove STreet
room:	tbc
Description:	Tower blocks are normally thought of as failed 
modernist housing solutions terminating in isolation, non-communities 
and social division. Highrise flats, membranes of life and social 
strata are fed by an array of services: water, power, entertainment. 
Imanent in the cable tv feed is the action of self-transmission; 
residents stations where the paranoid glance of the entrance cctv 
image is replaced by a self-programmed array of home made and user 
managed audio, video and text information presentations. In this 
workshop we'll explore how to run a residents micro TV station from 
your own flat using the existing shared wiring systems. Bring video 
material, video players, tools, and programming ideas.

Name:	Finishing off workshops and special presentations
Date:	Thursday 23rd August 2001
Time:	12:00:00 PM
town:	Bristol
place:	Windmill Hill City Farm
room:	tbc
Description:	A chance to finish up the workshop tasks, and address 
any new questions that have come up during the previous days. Plus a 
walk round the wirelss LAN and a cryptography workshop. Ring for 
details.

Name:	Open Content, Open Tools
Date:	Friday 24th August 2001
Time:	13:00:00 PM
town:	Bristol
place:	Windmill Hill City Farm
room:	Craft Room
Description:	If you know  a task or a community well, you might be 
the best person to design software to make it run...  the day starts 
with a discussion that takes the Sarai Media Lab "Cybermohalla" 
project as a starting point.  This is a progamme develop a computing 
culture within non-elite social spaces, including the development of 
software for specific contexts. Plus other examples including 
Indymedia's Active code, the Irational toolkit and Mongrel's Linker. 
Followed by a practical workshop introducing software languages and 
applications such as PHP, mySQL and PERL that can help you build your 
own tools.  All levels of technical knowledge welcome.

Name:	Community News Day
Date:	Saturday 25th August 2001
Time:	12:00:00 PM
town:	Bristol
place:	The Hatchet
room:	Upstairs Lounge
Description:	An invitation will be made to all the community news 
providers in Bristol, asking them to come and bring their 
publications. We'll have some discussions relating to issues such as 
legal, financing and in particular, to the potential to repurpose 
content from paper to on-line adn vice versa.

ending with (4pm to 5pm) a discussion about a potential community 
news server for Bristol.




Tech_2 nights

Offshore Cube: Upstairs at the Hatchet Pub, Bristol (Evening events), and
August 21-25

Tuesday August 21st 8PM
   Tech_2 introductions from arts labs, community media and activist 
orgs Spinach and Octapod (Australia), Riseup.net and Protest.net 
(USA), Irational.org [Distributed], Indymedia [UK/USA], Sarai 
[India], Redbricks (Manchester).

media infiltration from Ambient TV - Department for the Unexpected. 
VJ by Manu, DJ by Mukul [Anokha]

Wednesday August 22nd 8PM

sulphric [p]lacid

Thursday August 23rd 8PM

Films from India selected and presented by Monica Narula from Sarai 
media lab and the RAQS documentary film collective;  "In the Eye of 
the Fish" and "Present Imperfect Future Tense", by RAQS, plus 
"Satya"(1988) a feature film by Ram Gopal Verma about Bombay and its 
underworld life.

Friday August 24th 8PM

Technical Heroine Night from the Cube's Independent Heroine.
WIth Jessica Abel of cult Fantagraphics comic ARTBABE interviewed 
live from her N.Y pad. Plus  Amp from Amp minizine and ampnet.co.uk 
presenting communities and Technics Heroines on the decks (2catz + 
others). Special feature film starring technical heroines to be 
announced.

Saturday August 25th 8PM

Tech_2 Closing Night
to shutdown tech_2 in Bristol. Video night with game hacks, automated 
grafiti writers and mad billboard attacks from Institute for Applied 
Autonomy, Eddo Stern, I-Contact and others.

Tech_2 day workshops will run all week at the Windmill Hill City 
Farm. Expect plants, animals, wireless networking and socially 
conscious computing.

FULL PROGRAMME AT http://tech2.southspace.org

for info email: info at tech2.southspace.org
ring: 07946 378905


Look out also for the Tech_2 Leeds programme in September/October 2001.

Tech_2 is funded by the Arts Council of England National Touring Programme
Organised by Media Art Projects with the Cube.
-- 
Monica Narula
Sarai:The New Media Initiative
29 Rajpur Road, Delhi 110 054
www.sarai.net