Salon TV

by ltnc (lady tigers night club)

The “television studio” and broadcasting station will be installed as part of the IMA-Salon in Kiberpipa, where all the production takes place. Over a period of several days ltnc artists will team up and take turns.

In October 2004 the women artist platform ltnc launched Magic Garden TV. This television project was based on the ideas of spontaneous media usage, comparable to TV experiments of the 1970s, but this time they were realized using technologies and techniques of the 21st century, such as web streaming.
“In the 1970s many initiatives and projects were formed, arose in the context of a general critical attitude toward the mass media. Their aim was to find alternative ways of using media, such as democratising television. Self-managed video groups came into existence; local television program initiatives started experimenting; projects incorporating the public started using portable camcorders”.
Translated from http://midihy.mur.at/re-visited/televisionen

The internet still is the most popular frame work for ideas of democratisation and models of participation. The net, as it is used now in its function as an agent for art productions, is probably comparable with experimental television in the 1970s. The artist initiative ltnc (Graz, Austria) will examine this theory through of a series of TV-productions.
More information magicgarden.mur.at
The method:
In location X (in this case: Ljubljana), members of ltnc will produce video/audio/photo footage like interviews, street scenes, interventions, performances, discussions, slightly different TV-shows. This footage will be fed into the web to be broadcast to several remote locations, where additional artists are intervening on site. The remote stations are: Machfeld-Studio, Vienna; ESC im labor, Graz; servus.at, Linz; and an additional remote input station in London with Sol Haring from SMARTlab/UEL.

The transmission is the space where all the different broadcasting formats are recombined. During broadcasting the artists use a pool of planned, live and unforeseen action, including interaction with the audience from time to time. Salon TV will relate to the festival’s theme “Memory” when generating the program.

Information on the current program and on technical specs for the stream can be found at: ltnc.mur.at