Together with programmer Sean Treadway Superflex have created an online multimedia and streaming web community site known as 'Superchannel'. It's a location on the web where people - everyone from media producers to residents of old-people's homes and employees of non-governmental organisations-can broadcast their ideas and expressions.
The 'Superchannel' project provides a home for communities based around media content. Content on the site is both recorded and live. It includes music, interviews, dance events and discussions. The consumer acts also as both producer and distributor. The technology is leading edge. It has to be in order to function effectively for, and on behalf of, a wide variety of [demanding] users. The technological form has to work as well as any commercial model. Without this, the means of communication are diminished, the outcomes fragmented and elusive.'
[ Superflex]
For 'The Other Side of Zero', Superflex collaborated with residents of Coronation Court, Liverpool's oldest Tower Block. The advent of high-rise living in England in the fifties and sixties appeared to offer a new model of existence and experience -housing for the masses in chic, comfortable communities in the sky. Half a century later, its cachet of modernity evaporated, the tower block- in England at least- is now considered a failed Utopian experiment, and those still living in them experience many social, economic and practical problems.
Coronation Court is located in a suburb of Liverpool, some seven miles from the city centre. Ten floors high, with some 104 dwellings accessed by labyrinthine corridors and stairwells, it's considered by some to be ugly, cumbersome and inaccessible, yet most of its residents are extremely passionate about their home.
The block will be the site of the UK's first 'Superchannel'. It will involve tenants in producing shows about their lives, their home and their community for global broadcast via the net.
Coronation Court is about to undergo a major refurbishment, and its occupants will move out, temporarily, to other sites around the city. The 'Superchannel' will provide tenants with a set of new media tools that they can use both to maintain and develop their community links, and as a vehicle for political expression.
Thanks to the residents of Coronation Court and Langholme Heights, Janet English, Paul Kelly and Colin Wayland at Liverpool Housing Action Trust and Fee Plumley.
Financially supported by the Arts Council of England's New Media Projects and Arts for Everyone Scheme, Danish Contemporary Art Foundation, Esmee Fairbaim Charitable Trust, Liverpool Housing Action Trust, Millennium Festival Fund and Northern Rock Foundation.
Commissioned by FACT through the Collaboration Programme in partnership with Liverpool Housing Action Trust.
New Commission.
Collaboration Programme project.
[LESS]Together with programmer Sean Treadway Superflex have created an online multimedia and streaming web community site known as 'Superchannel'. It's a location on the web where people - everyone from media producers to residents of old-people's homes and employees of non-governmental organisations-can broadcast their ideas and expressions.
The 'Superchannel' project provides a home for communities based around media content. Content on the site is both recorded and live. It includes music, interviews, dance events and discussions. The consumer acts also as both producer and distributor. The technology is leading edge. It has to be in order to function effectively for, and on behalf of, a wide variety of [demanding] users. The technological form has to work as well as any commercial model. Without this, the means of communication are diminished, the outcomes fragmented and elusive.'
[ Superflex]
For 'The Other Side of Zero', Superflex collaborated with residents of Coronation Court, Liverpool's oldest Tower Block. The advent of high-rise living in England in the fifties and sixties appeared to offer a new model of existence and experience -housing for the masses in chic, comfortable communities in the sky. Half a century later, its cachet of modernity evaporated, the tower block- in England at least- is now considered a failed Utopian experiment, and those still living in them experience many social, economic and practical problems.
Coronation Court is located in a suburb of Liverpool, some seven miles from the city centre. Ten floors high, with some 104 dwellings accessed by labyrinthine corridors and stairwells, it's considered by some to be ugly, cumbersome and inaccessible, yet most of its residents are extremely passionate about their home.
The block will be the site of the UK's first 'Superchannel'. It will involve tenants in producing shows about their lives, their home and their community for global broadcast via the net.
Coronation Court is about to undergo a major refurbishment, and its occupants will move out, temporarily, to other sites around the city. The 'Superchannel' will provide tenants with a set of new media tools that they can use both to maintain and develop their community links, and as a vehicle for political expression.
Thanks to the residents of Coronation Court and Langholme Heights, Janet English, Paul Kelly and Colin Wayland at Liverpool Housing Action Trust and Fee Plumley.
Financially supported by the Arts Council of England's New Media Projects and Arts for Everyone Scheme, Danish Contemporary Art Foundation, Esmee Fairbaim Charitable Trust, Liverpool Housing Action Trust, Millennium Festival Fund and Northern Rock Foundation.
Commissioned by FACT through the Collaboration Programme in partnership with Liverpool Housing Action Trust.
New Commission.
Collaboration Programme project.
