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---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 17:49:29 +0100 From: Milo� Vojt�chovsk� <[email protected]> To: spectre microlisten <[email protected]> Subject: [spectre] fmedia Announcement and call for your participation: -------- FM@dia FORUM 04: Connecting Free Media. Exchange within and beyond Central and Eastern Europe. Meeting and workshops of Free Media Initiatives on framing diverse strategies for sustainable cultural cooperation and exchange. http://www.fmedia.ecn.cz Prague (CZ) 10-11th June, and Freistadt (A) 12-13th June Organised by Radio Jeleni, Econnect (Cz), European Civic Forum, VFR� - Federation of Austrian Free Radios, Radio FRO (At), Radio Z (Germany) and others -------- The FM@dia Forum 04 in Prague and Freistadt will encourage a wide range of free media and community projects to discuss potential common strategies and shared interests (eg. Media policy), to improve mutual awareness, sharing know-how and content exchange. The rapid social, political, economical and technological shift of terms of the expanded "United Europe" pose a challenge to discuss, reframe and compare such topics as "free speech", "public access", "independence - media ownership", "creative commons", "digital divide" or "content exchange". All this and more requires a cross- referencing for establishing a common base and functioning platform for better collaboration among media activists, artists, free radios, 'zine publishers, internet publishers etc. While the region is characterised by a relatively high potential of growth of media and civic activities, the inter-connectivity reaching beyond the borders remains by comparison rare. Easier access to new digital technologies open new chances (as well as threats) for civic and community media as opposed to mass media and corporate structures. Activating and intensifying mutual communication and collaboration between different regions, languages and cultures is the aim of the "FM@dia" forum. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The "FM@dia" forum invites you to send submissions of texts and proposals for participation (in-person or via web cast, weblogging, collaboration audio and/or video broadcast, etc.). Please specify your individual interest in: - discussions, thematic blocks - presentations, performances, screenings - participation in or - organisation of work groups / workshops: * I could offer a workshop for the topic / in the area of _ _ _ --------- Several speakers from national and international political structures will be invited to formulate and present their visions on following topics (the themes are still subject to discussion): 1.// Media Landscapes - Media Wars Curators: Milos Vojtechovsky (Radio Jeleni/Cz), Alexander Baratsits (FRO/At) How have the Media-Landscapes developed since the fall of Berlin Wall (in Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, Poland, Germany and Austria)? How to define a role for European Free and community Media networks, what is their relation to corporate and governmental mass media? Different circumstances result in a multitude of approaches to the term of "Free Media", still are there corresponding aims/ideals? What impact do the free and community media and initiatives have on the public debate and civic rights? What extent and impact of statutes related to community media and civic free media initiatives are and will be included in the European Union media policy (Community Media Fund)? -> 2 panel discussions 2.// Survival Kit For Independent Media Curators: Helmut Peissl (European Civic Forum, VFR�/A), Mojca Plansak (Radio Mars/Sl), Wally Geyermann (Radio Z/De) Conditions, experiences, and possibilities for community-media in the extended European Union: a survey from different countries. Used practices and strategies, issues of legality and laws. Solidarity, interactivity, broader awareness and understanding of diversity of local dilemma, transcending the conforming and "national" attitudes. What changes do the electronic networks bring forth and how are they currently (dis)functioning? How are they rooted in the local social patterns and specific conditions of different national and political entities? -> 3-4 work groups (best practice presentations and debate) 3.// Content Exchange - Free Flow Of Information Curators: Thomas Kupfer (Radio Corax/De), Dejan Ubovic (B92/Belgrade), Peter Barbaric (Radio Student/Sl) Content-exchange within Free Media in the new European Union. What are the advantages and interests of potentially cooperating parallel cross-national oriented broadcasting and information initiatives? Their accessibility, openness and will for strategy implementation, multi-lingual media channels, broadcasts, media jamming, etc. Can media solidarity and media education empower the sustainable models and democracy? -> 1 Panel discussion -> Work groups 4.// Cross Border Media & Local Development Curators: Veronika Leiner (FRO/At), Otto Tremetzberger (FRO/At) Community media as an intercultural communication tool - the emerging field of mobile media transmitters explores the convergence of data and location in environments, which are aside the main communication highways. Nowadays it is possible to use cheap, portable, networked, location aware computing devices for user-led mapping and interventions in which geographical and cultural minority expression can be voiced and integrated in the media landscape. Can these tools of locative media contribute to the social and cultural, political and ecological multi-layer projects? How can local community media benefit from them and in which way can this technology stimulate the interconnectivity, alternative channels for cultural exchange and collaboration across "the borders"? (eg. issues of migration, immigration, "recovering" of the dialogues between the recently disconnected regions such as of Upper Austria, Bavaria and South Bohemia, Hungary and Slovakia or former Yugoslavia)? -> 1 Panel discussion -> 1 Workshop ---------- Any discussions related to the FM@dia Forum 04 can be carried out on the forum's mailinglist [email protected] Subscribe at http://list.ecn.cz/mailman/listinfo/fm-connected-l Proposal mail to the coordinator of the project Thomas Kreiseder [email protected] 0043-699-10273256 ---------- The main venue in Prague-centrally located Experimental Space NOD, offers a conference room, two large exhibition spaces, broadcasting infrastructure, internet cafe http://www.roxy.cz/nod // Travel Support: The extent of support for people who otherwise would not have the financial capabilities to make the way to FM@dia depends on the process of funding. However, in special situations it will be possible. --------- Accommodation in Prague: Hotel Prokopka address: Prokopova 9, 130 00 Praha 3 phone: + 420 - 222 781 647 fax: + 420 - 222 782 185 e-mail: [email protected] internet: http://www.prokopka.cz // Concept: Alexander Baratsits (At) and Milos Vojtechovsky (Cz) [email protected], [email protected] //Production: Thomas Kreiseder (At), Alexander Baratsits (At), Dana Recmanova (Cz). --------- ______________________________________________ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre ............................................... Nettime-SEE mailing list [email protected] http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-see