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Crises/ Media
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Sarai-Waag Workshop
at Sarai-CSDS, Delhi
March 3-5, 2003
"The hottest place in hell is reserved for those
who tried to stay neutral in times of crisis..."
The Inferno, Dante Alighieri
The 'Crisis/Media' Workshop at Sarai opens framed by the memory of one crisis, and the anticipation of another. Exactly a year ago, at the end of February and the beginning of March 2002, we witnessed a pogrom in Gujarat, in western India. Today, as we write this statement, the world stands a hair’s trigger away from a war in Iraq, the consequences of which, on a global scale seem too difficult to even imagine. These are times for sober reflection, and that, precisely, is what we often find missing, as we open the newspaper, listen to the radio, or continue to be lobotomised by television. Yet, a variety of different, dissident, passionate and sane voices are also making themselves heard, through combinations of new and old media, as never before. The 'Paid For' news of the mainstream media is often exposed for what it is, even before it appears, by an increasingly vigilant network of independent local-global media initiatives. The numbers that turn out on the streets of the world’s major capitals to protest against the plans for war against Iraq seem to suggest that despite huge propaganda efforts, 'the spin' isn't working, at least not all of the time. We live, as the Chinese curse, has it, in 'interesting times'. [Read More]
Geert Lovink + Shuddhabrata Sengupta
Waag Society | Sarai/CSDS
February-March 2003 |
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3rd Mar 2003 The workshops at the crisis media will be streamed live onto the internet by sound. To realize this we use an Openbrick as encoder device.
The Openbrick is connected to the audio-mixer.
The OpenBrick is a very small (180x118x40mm) and light (about 900g) and completely silent open platform which can be used as a micro-server, as a router or as a think client. It contains a fanless 300 Mhz x86 compatible 300Mhz Geode processor and 128 MB SDRAM.
The Openbrick in action:
For the Crisis Media event we've set up the Openbrick to boot from network using syslinux pxelinux bootloader. NFS-Root is used as filesystem that contains a debian install. Freestream is used to stream to our icecast-server.
From the basement of Sarai the sysadmin - Mary - is monitoring the Openbrick and the stream.
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