January 2009
Tenantspin, a Foundation for Art and Creative Technology project, has been creating community driven broadcasts for 10 years, and has always been at the cutting edge in terms of its use of Internet Technologies.
When tenantspin first launched, it used Internet Streaming service 'superchannel' to reach new audiences globally. In recent years, tenantspin has used Google Video and YouTube to publish on new platforms and find new audiences.
An early adopter of social media (popularly using blogs, YouTube, and Twitter), in 2009 tenantspin is embracing a new shift in online video and is using a range of services that enable audiences to participate; to join in the conversations, to help make the broadcasts themselves.
Technologist Katie Lips from Kisky Netmedia has been working to introduce a range of new Internet services to tenantspin. "It's an experimental piece of work: we know people feel comfortable with passive TV consumption, but we wanted to explore how arts audiences might involve themselves further in our projects; both in the gallery and online.”
“Some people are happy just watching content on the Internet, a smaller amount want to take part in creating it. tenantspin ON TOUR has enabled us to create this 'disposable TV studio' as space that exists for a short time but with long lasting impact.”
“We're inviting audiences to make their own content, to join in a video chat, to help us create a rich, and diverse video archive encompassing many viewpoints of the people who visit and live in Liverpool."
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