Streamtime is a project of Radio Reedflute in collaboration with Rastasoft, developed with artists and activists from Iraq and elsewhere. Streamtime is a loose network of media activists dedicated to assist autonomous networking. Streamtime uses old and new media for the production of content and networks in the fields of media, arts, culture and activism in crisis areas, like Iraq.
We imagine improvised expressive devices like a CD that turns your PC into an on line streaming studio. Imagine a mob that creates a traffic jam. Think of the religious policeman in London, the konfused kollege kid and the jealous dentist in Baghdad and the jailed blogger blogging on in Cairo. Building autonomous networks in extreme conditions.
Streamtime uses old and new media for the production of content and networks in the fields of media, arts, culture and activism in crisis areas, like Iraq. Streamtime offers a diffuse environment for developing do-it-yourself media. We focus on a cultural sense of finding your own way in the quagmire that is Iraq, and its representation in the global media. We should not try to change politics in order to foster cultural change; we should support cultural manifestation in order to force political change.
Streamtime may take the form of a campaign, a work of collaborative art, a current of unheard sounds, unspeakable words and unseen imaginations. Remote interaction and ubiquitous dialogues, dematerialized communication and participation on the streets. Space in its territorial, acoustic and cybernetic dimensions is fragmented and recomposed realtime. Hacking codes both moral and digital, forming new maps, mutant drawings and unstable skins. Information overload can be abandoned in favor of consciousness and collaborative practices. Memory has a digital, diverse, horizontal voice.