Streaming Media

Szenne Artlab, Brussels, BE

Femke Snelting

Martino Morandi

2018-06-16

Invitation

This extra edition of the Monday reading series actually takes place on a Saturday in Szenne-lab. In the context of Parallel-parasite, a residency of the a.pass Research Center, we will focus on the shape-shifting nature of streaming media. After sessions on text processing, local servers and key cards, we will continue with an exploration of streaming, the coverall term for the dominant way that audio and visual content is being delivered on the Internet today. We will read into the different technical protocols that are regulating those flows, and the diverging economies that software like Torrent trackers and companies like Youtube, Netflix construct. By considering how the continuous experience of streaming relies on various politics of separation, which re-orders discrete elements on delivery, we will observe how the production, sharing and consumption of media radically changes.

Exercises / Memories

experiencing the different protocols TCP and UDP.. sync and non-sync videos..
how clay bricks flow differently according to different protocols, the multi axis theory of streaming, techniques to understand Netflix.

Texts

Traces