Hacking TV: How to build a Telestreet, 5th-6th February, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin
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While Berlusconi holds the media monopoly, a network of free TV stations, radios and Internet platforms has developed on the fringes of the Italian media landscape since many years. They promote, spread and provide access to information that is not transmitted elsewhere. They document and produce political and media interventions. Orfeo TV, Telefabbrica, TeleImmagini, Gli Anelli Mancanti TV, Spegnilatv, NowarTV, TeleAUT, IsolaTV, Disco Volante TV, TeleMonteOrlando, TeleRobbinud, Telefermento, RosaGhettoTV, InsuTV, Telecitofono, Telecerini, and many others turn communication into an genuinely alternative experience to official media communication in Italy. Telestreets create a parallel reality to mainstream TV with the mission of spreading bottom-up information.
The workshop will teach participants how to build their own TV station with cheap and simple technical means and build an Italian-style “Telestreet”.

Hacking TV: How to build a Telestreet - 5th February, 2.00-6.00 pm/6th February 12.00 am
- Agnese Trocchi, Candida TV www.candidatv.tv (Rome, IT)
- Federico Bucalossi, Nothuman www.nothuman.net - www.minimaltv.cjb.net (Florence, IT)
- Alexandra Weltz, filmmaker (Berlin, D)

[Workshop's Photos]

Federico Bucalossi – Nothuman (Florence, Italy)
Federico Bucalossi is an Italian artist with over 10 years experience in the field of multimedia art. He has a background as a multimedia artist, multimedia director, video art director, web designer, trainer and consultant. He is also member of the groups Strano Network (computer-internet Art), Yellowcake (Electronic performances for the label KK records, Belgium), Quinta Parete (Art Minimal TV). He also work in the fields of theatre, music, fashion and graphic design. As an artist he has a minimalist/reductionist approach to his works. Over the last 10 years he has sought to decrease the data and information in his art by using only black and white colors, simple shapes and clear social concepts.
www.nothuman.net - www.minimaltv.cjb.net

Agnese Trocchi - Candida TV (Rome, Italy)
Candida TV is a small size media cooperative based in Rome and founded in 2001 with a focus on creative audio and video production. It was born from merging different activities: underground cinema, video production, rave parties, street theatre, independent radio, subversive computing and coun?????e???A?¾tercultural pop magazines. Activities of Candida include organization of events on communication technologies. Candida is also involved in running laboratories and workshops with young people to make them literate in contemporary audiovisual languages.
www.candidatv.tv

Alexandra Weltz, filmmaker (Berlin, D)
Author and director of a documentary for zdf/arte about Antonio Negri, lecturer for audio-visual production and producer of documentaries and fiction. She studied cultural studies, comparative literature and history in Berlin. Founder of the video collective “ready made berlin”, she organizes events on political activism and recently worked on the exhibition “Backjumps – The Live Issue” at Kunstraum Kreuzberg.