Overview of Recent UKRAiNATV Live Webcasts (#EFIR 52-56)

By Geert Lovink, May 22, 2023

(please visit their website for more information: https://ukrainatv.streamart.studio/) — LIVE FROM KRAKOW — UKRAiNATV X CHICKS ON SPEED AV SHOW #~EFIR 56 MAY 21, 2023 OVERVIEW OF UKRAiNATV #EFIR 55 HOPECORE, MAY 19, 2023 🩸💉DISSECTING AND 🌹💪DISARMING VIOLENCE💥🔫 1. 🎶BLAKE AND LISTOPAD🎶 (concert) In the chronosynclastic swirl of the evening, love and disappointment found a [...]

Dispatches from the Place of Imminence, part 17

By Svitlana Matviyenko, May 3, 2023

January 4, 2023 – January 26, 2023 My father, still extremely upset about being placed at the elderly house, tells me he would escape if only he could walk. He calls me on January 9th and asks me to get him crutches. My departure to Berlin through Bucharest is set on January 26th, now life [...]

Dispatches from the Place of Imminence, part 16

By Svitlana Matviyenko, April 10, 2023

December 13, 2022 – January 1, 2023 By mid-December, I had planned a trip to Kherson twice. I’ve never been there before, nor to other cities of the Ukrainian south and south-east, and knowing they have turned into unlivable ruins means I’ve missed an encounter with a big part of my country. The railroad connection [...]

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, [...]

Reflections on UKRAiNATV @Transmediale

By Giulia Timis, 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 [...]

Dark Matter of Image

By Lesia Kulchynska, 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 [...]

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

By Giulia Timis, 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 [...]