This is the archival page of THE VOID | Tactical Video #4: Infrastructures of Solidarity (A Discussion on Permacomputing and Self-hosting). This hybrid event took place at OT301’s Ventilator Cinema in Amsterdam on the 12th of December 2024 (20:00-23:00).
Inspired by the production and distribution methods of television, with the Tactical Video (T.V.) series we want to explore the possibilities of online video streaming to create regular events. Rather than depicting events, with this series of broadcasts THE VOID will manufacture events. Bringing back the ambitions of tactical media, during these broadcasts video becomes a space for gathering, making alliances, conspiring, and creating networks of solidarity. This hybrid space is open for monthly collaborations with activists, researchers, and artists interested in exploring the tactical possibilities of video.
T.V. Program
- [20:00] Introduction and 3022 zine presentation with Gytis Dovydaitis, Erica Gargaglione, and T.V. Team
- [20:15] 🌱 Streaming.a.Permacomputational.Conundrum.2024.2160p.WEB-DL.H265-THEVOiD.mkv with Aymeric Mansoux and Ola Bonati
- [21:00] 🎶 Thereminoise performance by Noiserr (Martina Raponi)
- [21:30] 💾 Feminist self-hosting with systerserver (vo ezn & ooooo.be) and sustainable livestreaming with Karl Moubarak (Hackers & Designers)
- [22:00] Round Table: Can we make self-hosted perma-streaming happen?
- [20:00–23:00] Micro 📚 Zine Fair
During this fourth Tactical Video broadcast we discussed the potentials and limitations of streaming as an opportunity to create digital infrastructures of solidarity. The urgency to make and maintain localized yet distributed, open yet trusted, community-led yet flexible, and accessible yet ecologically and socially sustainable alternative infrastructures for online gathering has only grown from the now seemingly distant pandemic times.
Online video streaming, our medium of choice, is only behind AI when it comes to energy and computationally intensive technologies. This begs the question: can streaming become a sustainable practice, placing care for the environment, for hardware (from cables to cameras and servers), and each other before uncritical mass outreach and constant content production? How can streaming become a practice of solidarity that acknowledges its material, infrastructural conditions and limitations?
An evening of earnest conversations on how we can start to stream otherwise bringing together the self-hosting and alternative design initiatives SysterServer and Permacomputing. Featuring presentations and chats with Ola Bonati, Aymeric Mansoux, vo ezn, ooooo.be, and Karl Moubarak the event was moderated by Erica Gargaglione and the T.V. Team. The night was opened with a zine launch by our StreamArt Network collaborator 3022 and completed with a therminoise performance by noiserr.
This hybrid event was produced and published by THE VOID (Tommaso Campagna, Giulia Timis, Jordi Viader Guerrero) with the assistance of Maja Korczyńska, August Kaasa Sundgaard, Salome Berdzenishvili, and Carolina Valente Pinto.