Deptford TV (GB)
Deptford TV is a research project on collaborative film - initiated by Adnan Hadzi in collaboration with the Deckspace media lab, Bitnik media collective, Boundless project, Liquid Culture initiative, and Goldsmiths College.
It is an online media database documenting the urban change of Deptford, in South East London. Deptford TV functions as an open, collaborative platform that allows artists, film makers and people living and working around Deptford to store, share, re-edit and redistribute the documentation of Deptford.
The open and collaborative aspect of the project is of particular importance as it manifests in two ways: a) audiences can become producers by submitting their own footage, b) the interface that is being used enables the contributors to discuss and interact with each other through the database.
Deptford TV is a form of "television", since audiences are able to choose edited "time lines" they would like to watch; at the same time they have the option to comment on or change the actual content. Deptford TV makes us of licenses such as the Creative Commons sa-by and GNU General Public License to allow and enhance this politics of sharing. In terms of policy recommendation when funding and developing projects Adnan Hadzi argues for the importance of Openness: a) through the use of open source software, which ensures the users continued control over the infrastructure for distribution and b) through the capacity building of participants in the technical aspects of developing an on-line distribution infrastructure that they themselves can operate and control, empowering them to share and distribute production work both locally and internationally.
Biographies
Adnan Hadzi is member of the Zurich collectif !Mediengruppe Bitnik. !Mediengruppe Bitnik is a media collective which works on the production and the imparting of mediacultural projects. Bitniks main focus is to investigate digital and analog media and the impact they have on society. This exploratory work is put into practice in artistic exhibitions, interventions in public space and in the development of social software and interfaces. Thereby !Mediengruppe Bitnik aims at creating a field for social and cultural action and collaboration. In their latest project the group investigates the possibilities that arise through media convergencies by connecting a pirate TV station with the overwhelming amount of media content available on the internet: Make P2P Television - Copyfight! !Mediengruppe Bitnik are Carmen Weisskopf, Domagoj Smoljo, Silvan Leuthold, Sven Konig (since 2007) and Daniel Ryser (since 2007), Adnan Hadzi (since 2008) and Sameer Sait (since 2008).
Lisa Haskel is a programmer, system administrator and teacher with a background as an organiser of projects in the media arts field. She has a always been interested in participatory platforms; social, technological or preferably both. She currently specialises in developing projects using the Drupal content management system /framework and is working with Deptford TV in developing their pilot collaborative platform for video makers. Lisa is based in London.
