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Die Förderung nichtkommerzieller, freier Radios im Lichte des Europäischen und Österreichischen Wettbewerbsrechtes, Alexander Baratsits

The public mission is not tied to the form of organisation but the function in the common welfare’s interest of a democratically structured society.

Which roles are fulfilled by free media in order to guarantee pluralism and to satisfy democratic, social and cultural needs? (see Amsterdam Protocol of public broadcasting 1998).

How can Public Value be interpreted in this sense?

The society that helped shape the definition of a public broadcasting company’s mission also has the responsibility to evaluate how well these tasks are being carried out. Increasing critique of the ORF for failing to fulfill its mission makes it incumbent upon a concerned public to take action and to develop offensive strategies.
Accordingly, this workshop is designed to work out a list of demands addressed to the ORF.

Out Of Demand
Exhibition: September 3rd 2006, 15.00, Stadtwerkstatt, 1st floor

The increasing establishment and augmented use of OnDemand offers are developments, which create OnDemand concepts that have been discussed for a while. At the same time, a political solution in order to guarantee and promote civil social, free media projects is not in sight. The access to filed free cultural content is increasingly subject to legal regulations and is thus massively aggravated for the benefit of commercial utilisation.

The audio-visual installation Out Of Demand challenges this development in a playful way. By the inclusion of visitors the data of the Austrian radio exchange platform Cultural Broadcasting Archive (CBA) is used in acoustic examples and also visually. The visitors can search the archive with queries. The results are presented with fragile, connected lines on video. On the audio level, the results of the queries are making up sound collages out of the more than 4500 contributions of the CBA over and over again, which melt into versatile and audible pictures.

A project by Ingo Leindecker and Doris Prlic in collaboration with Mario Kishalmi.