Streaming media
on demand, content-delivery, broadcast
11:00-16:00 Szenne

This extra edition of the Monday reading series actually takes place on a **Saturday** in Szenne-lab. In the context of Parallel-parasite, a residency of the a.pass Research Center, we will focus on the shape-shifting nature of streaming media. After sessions on text processing, local servers and key cards, we will continue with an exploration of streaming, the coverall term for the dominant way that audio and visual content is being delivered on the Internet today. We will read into the different technical protocols that are regulating those flows, and the diverging economies that software like Torrent trackers and companies like Youtube, Netflix construct. By considering how the continuous experience of streaming relies on various politics of separation, which re-orders discrete elements on delivery, we will observe how the production, sharing and consumption of media radically changes.

The Monday Readings are six one day sessions that bring habitual tool-situations in conversation with theoretical and political thinking. They are intimate collective situations on the articulation of technique and the performance of boundaries, reading across technical tools and theoretical devices. The Mondays attempt to develop further connections between artistic research and techno-political practices such as software-as-a-critique, active archives and techno-galactic software observation.
Each session starts with an exploration of day-to-day tools and technologies: text processing, file compression, on-line communication, security or digital archiving. This tool-reading is followed by a discussion and collective reading of one or two related texts.

Reading materials: https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/apass.mondayreadings

Schedule
11:00-13:00: Reading tools
[soup]
14:00-16:00: Reading texts


http://mediatheoryjournal.org/wolfgang-ernst-tracing-temporealities/




https://apass.be/the-way-of-the-anarchive/


The third Monday Reading starts with poking holes in different image and video-files. From there we will try put the vocabulary of encoding and compression (Codec, Container, Compression, Interpolation, Interlacing, Artifact, Bitstream, Sampling, Conversion, …) together with some of the key terms in the work of the philosopher Gilbert Simondon (Allagmatics, Transduction, Analogy, Individuation, Cybernetics, …). How do structures make operations appear, and vice versa?






Streaming can be many things 

The order of things -- continuous, distributed, 

broadcasting, consumption, distribution
liveness and content-delivery, filesharing and release

on demand
lightwait, non-material

preloading

Consumption relation around media
Changes

Detachment between the technical protocols for transfering

UDP streams 
TCP 'preloading'

Models of distribution
decentralized ( torrents, peertube ..)   /   centralized
content-delivery   /   totalitarian ( amazon, netflix )
popcorn-time

Constant stream, connection -- ref. radio (broadcast)


lexicon..
on demand
live
content-delivery
streaming
broadcast
pre-loading
transmission
out-of-order delivery
relivery