Cross Border Collaboration - Video Artivists in AP Unite!

Why a network?

• A chance to to exchange content - films, resources and footage

Previous collaboration between Australians and Jakarta

• Exchange with RuangRupa and Taring Padi in Banung
• Comparing situation with Sydney
• Spontaneous exchanges
• Was important because of existing cooperation between governments
• Partly funded by Australian-Indonesian Institute and the NSW Council for the Arts

Restrictions brought by funding

• Public space for market
• Some of the films that were screened were censored.

Asia Video Artivist Network

• Proposed in Hong Kong 2 years ago but was difficult to form then
• Main goal was to exchange content
• It's easier to rip and upload films vs mailing them. Some problems with post include films getting destroyed by immigration.

A website

• Should we start a website to download films from? More discussion needed among everyone incl techies.
• Archive should be categorise by countries an bilingual
• Upload films feature? OR should this be in separate existing websites and the network be used merely to link to these films?
• Space is important - HDD space is cheap.
• Can also email videos to the network to host if there isn't any other place
• Other features - thumbnails, forum, easy to browse and search, share footage, high quality videos
• EASY to use!
• A discussion forum?

Web Hosting for video archive if we're setting up one

• Where? Need to research more.

Working Group for Tech issues

• Kris will coordinate with Lachlan, Andycat, and the other EngageMedia guys on this

Website + Miro

• We could pull a list of feeds from the websites of the network's members with descriptions
• This way it would be decentralised
• BitTorrent could be used to distribute films
• Viewable by public but listings only for members

Production Collaboration

• Some still skeptical about collaborative editing using online tools because of reliability issues

Funding

• Everyone contributes
• Depends on each project
• Possible sources of funding:
  • Arts Network Asia
  • Arts Collaboratory (RuangRupa is an advisory member)

Collaborate

• Share film crews

Artivist Residences

• A good way to work and learn on-site
• 6 week programs?

e.g. RuangRupa and their hosted Projects

• Mobility and evictions
• Art projects
• Urbanisation

Why only AP?

• We shouldn't stereotype and exclude non-AP countries
• What is AP anyway?
• Non-AP organisers might dominate because of economic power, etc but this could be balanced out by power sharing
• If we only limit it to AP, then what about...
  • AP migrants in Europe and the US?
  • the Middle East??
• Separating networks by regions will also force us to repeat a lot of work
• Network should be goal focused instead of regional?