GENEVA 03 livestream http://www.geneva03.org

GENEVA03 livestream is a temporary autonomous TV project during the
days around the G-8 summit in Evian. It will cover the mass
protests and blockades in the area of the Lac Leman in Switzerland.


From May 29 to June 3, a continous livecast will be streamed on the
internet and picked up and redistributed by local and international
broadcasters as well as projected in streets, bars and theatres around
the world.


GENEVA03 livestream will include live reports from the rallies and
manifestations, protests and blockades as well as studio debates and
talk shows, movies and meetings, parties, vj- and dj-sessions and
concerts.


The GENEVA03 livestream studio is hosted in the cultural center
l'usine in the very center of Geneva <http://www.usine.ch>. The video
stream that is produced in a theatre room will be screened around the
clock in the cinema next door.


In order to cover the protests between Geneva, Lausanne and Anmasse in
real time, media activists will work from the "EVERYONE-IS-AN-EXPERT"
mobile studio van, which - with a self-adjusting bi-directional
satellite dish - will provide a mobile internet connection and
transmit live-footage from the roaming protests.


For GENEVA03 livestream net-activists, indymedia reporters,
independent filmakers and videographers from many different countries
have joined together in order to explore new forms of collaboration in
film and videomaking.


"Long-term we believe that we can assemble a sustainable and scalable
platform for audio-visual materials of a critical and independent
nature", the initiators say. Some days before the G-8 summit they set
up V2V, a video filesharing network.


The idea of V2V is to share video material in a reasonable quality and
to guarantee its availability within the most popular filesharing
networks (edonkey, gnutella, bit torrent) by a ring of committed
servers that mirror the material over a certain period of time unless
it has been spread widely in the P2P-networks.


Each file is accompanied by metadata in an xml .info file and produced
as an searchable RSS feed for people to integrate into their own sites
and published on its own website.


V2V suggests a set of specifications for the encoding with half of the
standard broadcast quality as a compromise between a modest
upload-time and a tolerable resolution for screening, in order to
facilitate the global exchange of images.


V2V has started end of May 2003 with half a dozen of servers
participating. In the context of the GENEVA03 livestream the V2V video
sharing network will be tested as a tool for production, distribution
and archiving. Works to be delivered over the V2V system will vary
from somewhat edited footage suitable for use as a stock archive to
finished films and documentaries.


The activists are calling groups and individuals to join the V2V
server-network and to contribute footage locally and remotely.


Please contact


- For the contribution of video material:
v2v@mail.kein.org


- For the participation in the server network
v2v-server-admin@mail.kein.org


- For picking up and rebroadcasting the live stream:
info@geneva03.org





GENEVA03 LIVE STREAM
preliminary schedule


http://www.geneva03.org/live.ram




THURSDAY 29


<04 pm> #liveprotest: Wireless broadcast from the first rallye in
Lausanne


<08 pm> #studio debate: "Freedom of movement and Freedom of
communication" with Alan Toner, Jamie King, Franck Düvell, Sandro
Mezzadra and others


<11 pm> Freedom cocktail and public keysigning party in l'usine




FRIDAY 30 aka Freedom Friday


<01 am> various VJ sets


<11 am> #liveprotest: Wipe out WIPO, IOM, WTO! Freedom Rallye in
Geneva: From the place des droits de l'homme to IOM to WIPO to WTO


<03 pm> Voices from the villages 1


<09 pm> Globalisation now! Talkshow from l'usine




SATURDAY 31


<11 am> radical breakfast tv


<01 am> Movement of Movements 1


<03 pm> voices from the villages 2


<04 pm> Movement of Movements 2


<06 pm> #studio debate: Imageproduction between open source and
surveillance


<10 pm> #liveprotest: Fire and noise Broadcast from the protest
fires around the lake and electronic sound collages




SUNDAY 1


<08 am> #liveprotest: Blockade


mixing live streams from the everyone-is-an-expert mobile, from
wireless camera units, interviewing people who bring their tapes into
the studio and overvoicing mainstream tv-channels


<11 pm> voices from the villages 3


<12 pm> #studio debate: on the road to cancun - how to gon on?




MONDAY 2



<10 am> Videoperformance l'usine


<1 pm> Presentations in forde


<5 pm> Panel debate in forde


<8 pm> Gangster films from Africa




TUESDAY 3



<1 pm> Presentations in forde


<5 pm> Panel debate in forde