[resource-net] reSource 003 - ikonoTV proposal

[maru at ikono.org]

Dear reSource community,

Having attended the first reSource meeting at General Public in May,  
we have been following the conversation with much interest, and since  
the publication of the open call for participation in the reSource  
003: P2P Vorspiel, we have been thinking about possible spaces for  
collaboration between the reSource network and our platform ikonoTV.

A little bit about ourselves:
ikonoTV is foremost a multimedia platform for art content. Among other  
services, we currently provide two digital television channels,  
ikonoMENASA (broadcasting our content in 22 countries in the Middle  
East, North Africa and South Asia) and ikonoTV (broadcasted in  
Germany, Austria, and soon in Italy, France and the Netherlands). Also  
in the very near future, we will be launching our online channel.

About our content, the festival theme and spaces for possible collaboration:
This year's Trasmediale theme "The Golden Age" speaks to us in a very  
precise way.  Relating to the issue of eclecticism and the  
overabundance of material put forth by the festival's theme, our  
approach is to filter through this excess of information to find and  
establish organized connections between different times and locations  
in an informed and curated way. On the one hand our in-house  
productions treat the overabundance of art historical images and  
databases as an invaluable resource to create curated shows on HD  
video that bring art closer to the general public, without the use of  
spoken commentary. On the other hand, we provide a platform for  
emerging contemporary artists to broadcast their work in different  
cultural contexts. It is in reference to this second type of content  
that we would like to present our proposal.

As we are and have always been based in Berlin, we would like to take  
this opportunity offered by reSource to establish a more personal  
relationship with local spaces and producers. And so our proposal is,  
so to say, an open-call within an open-call. We would like to invite  
the members of the Resource community to use our channels to broadcast  
their content on our German and online channels for the duration of  
the P2P Vorspiel (Jan 25 ?27 2013), to be repeated several times for  
the duration of the Transmediale Festival. We are specifically looking  
for non-narrative, time-based works, which can be video art, or  
documentation of other time-based media.

The resulting selection will be broadcasted in our Germany and online  
channels, and will feature as a special widget that will be embedded  
on our blog. A further space for collaboration, as well as a way of  
taking an active part in sharing your content, would be to embed this  
widget on the Resource website, as well as your websites and blogs,  
and invite friends and collegues to do the same.

If you would be interested to collaborate with us, and would like to  
have more specific details about the profile of our content, please  
don't hesitate to contact us at info at ikono.org (subject header  
"reSource open call).

We will also be present at the next Resource meeting in December and  
would be happy meet you there personally.

In the meantime, if you would like to know more about our platform,  
visit us at http://ikono.org/
If you would like to know more about our widget, visit us at  
http://ikono.org/widget-archive/artconnect-berlin-widget-2/

Thank you, and looking forward to hearing from you!
Best regards,

Maru Ituarte


Maru Ituarte | Project Management  |  Greifswalderstr. 208, 10405  
Berlin  |  Germany  |  mobile: +491607846809  |   fax: +4930201632869
www.ikono.org  |   www.facebook.com/ikonotv   |   www.twitter.com/ikonotv
ikonoTV in Germany on Entertain & ikonoMenasa on ARABSAT (22 Arab countries)
and with IPTV Etisalat channel 484 (UAE), du channel 410 in Dubai, in  
Beirut with Solidere channel 232