chance of yielding satisfactory results: initiatives from outside would surely fail as they can never do more than mimic
local cultural patterns, this mimicry is obvious to the local community and the information it carries is disregarded. The
only thing the international community should do is to closely cooperate with those individuals and organisations which
are implementing local political, cultural and media initiatives in order to help the civil structures in the society to win

power.

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http://www.art-bag.net/convextv

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william gibson had this nice definition of cyberspace being the space between telephone connections. ironically this
space was unfolded to transport text-only messages from some remote server to your computer on the channels which
were originally made for carrying the human voice.

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in the beginning there was ascii. and writing e-mails meant to explore a strange new media tool; you just couldn't decide
if it was the text based version of an answering machine or a product of the telephonization of the good old letter. in one
sense the early ascii based internet (do you remember *lynx*?) already showed the dialectics of current audio-streaming
technologies: there was information that waited for your request, texts stored on ftp-servers or web-pages, the classic pull
media. but there also was the possibility to sort of push information through cyberspace: e-mail spams for example, or a
mailinglist.

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today many people, groups and companies use audio-information in this two-fold way. there are archives providing |
sounds, pieces of music or entire programmes on retrieval and demand. on the other hand there is an increasing amount
of live streaming going on, some of the streams coming in occasionally, some are installed on a 24/24 h basis.

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there is a historical gap between the two formats of text and sound, it seems. but there was a tiny moment in history, when
the gap was bridged by a unique technique...

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..when, in the beginning of 1997, convex tv. started its one-hour-per-month-on-air-programme in berlin. for the very first
months the collective didn't have the tools, the knowledge and the connections to Radio Internationale Stadt to broadcast
audio on the net. it was then that the collective thought about a genuine form of broadcasting on the internet parallel to its
on air transmissions, to tear down the borders of formerly discrete media. the invention was simple: HTML deejaying.

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while broadcasting on air (which wasn't quite broad actually, only covering the berlin area) the transcribed texts of the on
air radio programmes were cut up in digestible chucks and pushed onto the server through an open ftp-connection, syn-
Chronized in real-time with the ongoing broadcast. the HTML deejay in duty permanently *reloaded* the page with new
content when it was time to do so.

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