7 August, 2007 | No comments

Roundup: Multimedia Blogging & Podcasting Workshop @ r-ICT / Portable.MediaLab

By Ryan Koesuma (http://www.deathrockstar.info)

Just finishes the workshop this afternoon. It turned up to be a meaningful experience. What I thought was gonna be a simple and casual Q&A (based on what Gustaff described to me before) turned up to be a really really serious seminar in a meeting room. I was panicked as shit, since I didn’t really prepared any arranged materials. So I had to improvised and let the adrenaline and narcissism do the talking. On the other hand, beside the mumbling habit, I think I do fine.

About 50 people or so showed up, the meeting room is quite full. The crowd varies, from highschool students to middle-aged citizens. I didn’t noticed that much. But there were no questions at all in sessions, only after that people started coming to me to ask for questions. I guess it’s a normal habit for the people here.

Thanks to Gustaff, Reina, Mbak Nunung, Bram and the rest of the folks. I hope someday we could do something like this again.

If you haven’t come to the conference, please come, there will be a screen print workshop by Luki, VJ workshop by Niang, and music-making workshop by Dina, also performances by Polyester Embassy and Rock N Roll Mafia this afternoon.

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7 August, 2007 | 4 comments

Indonesia Raya, YouTube, Roy Suryo, and the whole Government Bandwagon

By Ryan Koesuma (http://www.deathrockstar.info)

As you all may know about the hottest buzz of the year over the weekend, our national self proclaimed “telematics expert” charlatan, Roy Suryo, has led the world of Indonesian news and media, digital culture, government officials, historians and debunkers up side down. Here is the speed I gathered after I was away on weekend and didn’t catch the buzz.

Roy Suryo, the charlatan, declares over the weekend that he found a celluloid footage of what seems to be some sort of a national treasure that contained the original historical video version of Indonesia Raya with 3 verses. He claimed to he found it along with the team of Air Putih Nasional from a server somewhere in the library of Leiden University, Netherlands. He insist that government high officials and historians makes a move about his discovery, contacting through the Ministry of Culture and Tourism and the Ministry of Information and Communication. To a further length he intended to bring WR Supratman’s Niece to meet with the President for further authentification.

What really happened is this. He didn’t actually discover anything. The celluloid footage from the foreign server (I know, I know, it didn’t made any sense) that he claimed, was actually a video uploaded on YouTube sometime by the end of last year by a person related to Marhaenist movements. That video from YouTube was downloaded by a person within Air Putih, and stored in his harddisk. Roy Suryo, by the chance, copied some files from the particular harddisk, and when he saw it, he exclaimed “Eureka!” with joy and running naked through the ruins of Rome. The video itself has gained quite a notoriety on YouTube and has already been viewed almost 60,000 times.

The song itself wasn’t really the long lost version. Forgotten, maybe, but you might wanna check your books from elementary school, and you could still find it there. So what’s the discovery all about?

Being who he is, Roy Suryo managed to held a press conference and made the buzz over the weekend. And when his plan gets unravelled and debunked as the confirmation goes along the way, he compares himself as Columbus that found America, not the Indians. Touche, my friend, touche…

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2 August, 2007 | 2 comments

Portable.MediaLab At r-ICT 2007

Common Room Networks Foundation in collaboration with monikceltic & FFWD Records presents:

Portable.MediaLab

At r-ICT 2007 (International Conference on Rural Information and Communication Technology 2007) / Digital Culture Exhibition
AULA BARAT ITB, 6-7 August 2007

Portable.MediaLab is being initiated to host several projects & activities in the public sphere in order to develop network of creative resources/ knowledge in the public domain. Portable.Medialab program & activities consist of:

• DIY Media Workshop: Short training on ‘how to’ produce/distribute information & knowledge with simple medium and technology that is embedded in our daily life & surroundings. (ZINE, podcasting, blogging, etc.)

• Video Screening: Showing wide range of video works, started from music videos, short films, experimental videos, etc. This program will engage local video artists, besides showing some works from regional and international artist/film producer.

• Live Performance: Street music/sound/visual performance that present some work from young artists/collective.

Program Schedule:
Media Experimentation (6-7 August 2007)
Video Streaming Project (6-7 August 2007, in collaboration with TV KAMPUS & USDI-ITB)
DIY Media Workshop (7 August 2007):

• Multimedia Blogging
• Podcasting
• Graphic Design
• Screen Printing

Multimeda Performance (7 August 2007)

Participating artists & collective:

• Bandung Center for New Media Arts
• chainsmokingbastard (Biosampler / UVG)
• monikceltic Designer Team
• DJ Dxxxt (FFCUTS)
• DJ Egga (FFCUTS)
• Dina Delyana (Homogenic)
• www.monikceltic.com
• www.deathrockstar.info
• www.qinkqonk.com

*More information & workshop submission please call Nunung at +62.22.70800620, or visit us at:

Common Room
Jl. Kyai Gede Utama 8
Bandung 40132
West Java - Indonesia

URL:
www.commonroom.info
www.monikceltic.com
www.ffwdrecords.com
www.projektheterologia.wordpress.com

**This project is also supported by ANA - Arts Network Asia (www.artsnetworkasia.org), group of independent artist, cultural workers and arts activists primarily from Southeast Asia that encourages collaboration initiated or site in Asia and carried out together with Asian artists.

r-ICT Program Schedule:

Monday, 6 August 2007

• 08.30 - 09.00
  Opening r-ICT, Digital Culture Exhibition, Launching ITB-TV
• 09.30 - 11.00
  Workshop Program: Thumbdigital
• 11.00 - 11.45
  Collaborative Performance: Terah and Pandhyta
• 13.00 - 15.00
  Wayang Golek Performance: Dadan Sunandar Sunarya (Puppet Master)

Tuesday, 7 August 2007

• 09.00 - 10.30
  Thumbdigital Screening
• 10.30 - 12.00
  Workshop Program: Multimedia Blogging and Podcasting
• 12.00 - 13.30
  Workshop Program: Graphic Design
• 13.30 - 15.00
  Workshop Program: Screen Printing
• 15.00 - 15.45
  Music Performance: Polyester Embassy
• 15.45 - 16.30
  Music Performance: RNRM

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