This festival is devoted to new forms of broadcasting and live programming that have emerged around the Internet. It presents and explores the use of streaming media as an artistic and tactical medium,  showcases the most exciting and innovative projects from around the globe.net.congestion?s program includes performances, concerts, club events, public presentations and debates, the media-bank a public hands-on walk-in media space, walk-in studios that give the audience a chance to see the artists and technicians at work and interact with the live programs as they are being made, workshops and seminars. A large part of the festival will actually happen in the media; on the Internet, in local and national radio broadcasts, via cable television, satellite, and any other available trans- national medium.The festival will also provide platform for a professional exchange of ideas and experiences. Various artistic and tactical communities who work with new media, but who do not regularly meet each other will be brought together. The aim of this meeting point is to give new incentives to these communities, and to create new and lasting structures for co-operation and the development of fresh ideas and improved technology in this field. The festival will facilitate a cross-point where representatives of the cultural field and the main-stream industry can meet to learn about each others ideas and exchange mutual experiences.The Streaming Media Festival is aimed both at a larger audience of people interested in the arts and media, experimental music, club culture and related fields, as well as a professional audience who are already engaged, or interested to become engaged, in this rapidly developing medium. It takes place in Amsterdam, from October 6 ? 8 this year. CONTACT:De Balie

c/o Lucas Evers / net.congestion

Kleine-Gartmanplantsoen 10

1017 RR AmsterdamTel. +31.20.553 51 51

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