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# The Post-media Era
- URL: https://www.protein.xyz/the-post-media-era/
- Published: 1999-02-19T07:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2016-06-05T20:22:58.000Z
- Description: Betacast [an audio streaming project powered by the people who make this feed] was asked to take part in this initiative and,…
- Author: Protein
- Tags: SEEDS, #protein, #Import 2024-06-11 13:25

Betacast \[an audio streaming project powered by the people who make this feed\] was asked to take part in this initiative and, if you missed it, here is what happened.   
  
Hosted by aleph, and organised for arcoelectronico99, “the post-media era” introduces itself as a system that “tries to facilitate a critical approach to the contemporary transformations of the public sphere - those induced by the emergency of new media, specially the internet - focusing the analysis on the role that concerns all cultural and artistic practices in that context.” There is more similar style texts on the web site to get your head round.   
  
Through “The post-media era” they were trying to bring together, in a common virtual space constituted on the Internet itself, some of these web communities, favouring debate and reflection on the nature of the artistic, cultural and communicative practices in contemporary societies. “The constellation of selected webs” were:  
  
\[ alt-X \]  
  
\[ betacast \]  
  
\[ blast \]  
  
\[ convex tv \]  
  
::eco::  
  
\[ gallery 9 / Walker art center \]  
  
\[ nettime \]  
  
\[ nirvanet \]  
  
\[ P.A.R.K. 4DTV \]  
  
\[ raveface radio \]  
  
\[ rhizome \]  
  
\[ the Thing \]  
  
\[ Xchange \]  
  
[http://aleph-arts.org/epm/eng/](http://aleph-arts.org/epm/eng/?ref=protein.xyz)