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From:
Aleksandar Vasiljevic [mailto:awacs@sezampro.yu]
Sent:
Monday, June 26, 2000 5:34 PM
To:
Dimos Dimitrious; Ventsislav Zankov
Subject:
Real Media in the Balkan
Hi,
after a
couple of hectic days here I am.
I keep
thinking of an idea that was put by Ventsi in one of his previous messages
about establishing a "Balkan Triangle" (could be called BAT - Balkan
Art Triangle).
Furthermore,
after a fiasco with attempting to put a RM stream to ArtsLab
last Thursday I'm getting more and more familiar with an idea of setting
up a dedicated Real Media server to be used by the members of the
Triangle (and their associates, too).
The
fact is that all Real Media in Yugoslavia (such as FreeB92) is being streamed
via servers in Holland or elsewhere. You probably know the situation
in your countries, but I doubt that it is much different. There
can be many reasons for this - financial, political, whatever, but it
still seems silly to me.
To cut a long story short: I think it would be great (if not necessary) to establish BASS (Balkan Art Streaming Server), specialised in streaming of artistic projects/programmes. It would definitely be a pioneering project in that field in the Balkans, and I suppose/hope that nthe fact could make our common offer quite acceptable to eventual sponsors (which will definitely be needed).
I
remember my talks with Ventsi in Plovdiv during which we concluded that
Bulgaria and Serbia have some common problems with art fundraising
-
managers raising money intended for some purposes and then spending it on
something else. I'll repeat that I'm not familiar with the situation in
Greece (hope to learn it in the autumn ;-)). OK, it can be that the situation
is very much the same everywhere (it's the nature of money, isn't
it) but I'm still aware that artists want something else. They usually
want to make their work visible to the audience, not just to the sponsors
;-)) So it seems that we'll have to deal with these things by ourselves
if we want to reveal our work.
Then again, why ask for "our own" server? Personally, I'm getting tired of having to pass the same procedure when it comes to streaming - contacting someone a few days before the happening, then being transferred to some tech guy to give me tech details, then waiting my nails until the server is available for testing, and so on, and so forth...
Got tired of typing, people! Hope you got the point. And hope to see you soon. And hope to get your feedback.....
Vasa* ** ** * ** * * *