Investigative Fiction: Evidence and its Discontents

By Anna Engelhardt, March 27, 2023

[This text is an expanded version of the talk given as a part of transmediale 2023] Anna Engelhardt is an alias I use as a research-based media artist and writer. In my practice, I examine war as a technology, looking into the hardware and software behind Russian invasions. Interested in topics from military cybernetics to [...]

Report of the UKRAiNATV workshop @In-Between-Media

By valeriaferrari, March 13, 2023

‘Pop-Up Bridges: Quick and Dirty Live Streams’ by UKRAiNATV and #StreamArtStudio crew, 10th March, 2023 at FramerFramed (Amsterdam), during the In-Between-Media two-day event, Report by Valeria Ferrari In the program we can the following description: “This workshop will focus on setting up and creating links between different spots, internet platforms, hardware and software connections, signals, [...]

Konrad Wojnowski: Broadcasting (and) Cleansing-Review of UKRAiNATV’s 24hr Live Stream

By Geert Lovink, March 7, 2023

1 If my neural network was capable of producing a holographic representation of the hybrid performance/ritual I witnessed last week, both in the flesh and via video streams, what would it look like? What is the mental spectre left in my mind after sinking in the events of STANDBY – ЧАТУВАННЯ – CZUWANIE, “an experimental, [...]

Giulia Timis: Reflections on UKRAiNATV @Transmediale

By Geert Lovink, March 5, 2023

A War, a Game, a Simulation Reflections on UKRAiNATV’s Documentation of Transmediale 2023 in Berlin By Giulia Rossana Timis 1. Fantastic Little Splash (Lera Malchenko and Oleksandr Hants) Lera Malchenko and Oleksandr Hants during our interview at Transmediale 36 UKRAiNATV’s experience at the 2023 Transmediale festival in Berlin started on February 2nd. Our first interview [...]

Dispatches from the Place of Imminence, part 15

By Svitlana Matviyenko, February 21, 2023

November 13th – December 12th, 2022 At 6am on Sunday, November 13th, I took the elevator down, left the apartment building, and started jogging towards our meeting place with Olya – on the other side of the cemetery. That’s when I realized that the streetlights were on, which was unusual. In this early hour on [...]

UKRAiNATV 24 hr live cast/hybrid event STANDBY-ЧАТУВАННЯ-CZUWANIE

By T.V. Team, February 23, 2023

February 23, 2023 - February 24, 2023 @ All Day - STANDBY - ЧАТУВАННЯ - CZUWANIE (on the hybrid island) 24h collaborative, stream art/hybrid event UKRAiNATV/#StreamArtStudio Berka Joselewicza 23A, Krakow (pl) x ONLINE Links to the live streams: https://www.twitch.tv/streamartstudio https://www.youtube.com/@streamartstudio https://www.facebook.com/ukrainaisztuka https://vrch.at/ucupdztd http://ukrainatv.streamart.studio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqtR0KYribs&ab_channel=streamartstudio {EN} STANDBY - ЧАТУВАННЯ - CZUWANIE is an experimental, collective art process of adventure through the 1st anniversary of the escalation of [...]

Lesia Kulchynska: Dark Matter of Image

By Geert Lovink, February 16, 2023

(Lecture, presented at Transmediale in Berlin on February 2, 2023) This text is a subjective reflection on my own relationships with the images of war in my home country, Ukraine. As these images now become the dominant part of my visual experience and I feel massively impacted by them, there is an urgent need for [...]

Giulia Timis: Media Responsibility or How Not to Get Stuck in the Indie Bubble

By Geert Lovink, January 8, 2023

Since November 2022, I have been collaborating with UKRAiNATV, an independent webcasting initiative that supports a network of Ukrainian artists. I first met with Roman Dziadkiewicz, a researcher at the ASP art academy in Kraków and the mind behind UKRAiNATV, while I was searching for support to exhibit at Milan Digital Week. The project was [...]

Support Campaign for the UKRAiNATV Network: Krakow <-> Kyiv & More

By Geert Lovink, December 21, 2022

Since March 2022 an artist-led online video initiative started to operate from the art academy in Krakow called UKRAiNATV. Earlier, we posted an announcement of them, here on this blog. I met its founder, Roman, in Warsaw, late June 2022 and we started to make plans. Since a few days there is now is an [...]

Dispatches from the Place of Imminence, part 14

By Svitlana Matviyenko, November 16, 2022

August 29 – November 12, 2022 On August 29th, the Ukrainian army launched a spectacular counteroffensive towards the southern regions of Kherson and Mykolaiv. Western media mobilized, I received several requests for comments and interviews from Canada, but did not have the energy to follow through with it all. “What did you feel about the [...]