No kid without his experimental television suitcase

Experimental television relates to the history of technological development and inventions related to the different ways of television from its origins to the present. The experimental television allows us to investigate many levels and into different fields (arts, sociology, journalism, politics, education, technology, etc). It also examines new audiovisual formats and strategies linked to artistic creation that can be applied to the television media.

It creates contents with its own operating system and uses creativity and experimentation to develop both, the contents and the ways in which they occur. Thus, experimental television investigates other languages and formats, while analyses the present and the future of conventional television.

This kind of pilot structure television must respond to a permanent processing of change, both in conceptual and the technological level. This type of platform produces and broadcasts its own contents through radio channels that can be received by a conventional television. The spread can also be done via Internet through a webcast in order to be received by multiple computers.

The experimental television is based on creativity, innovation and experimentation through multidisciplinary activities, the use of video equipment and the possibilities of interactivity with the audience, etc. The difference between a Experimental TV  and a conventional television is that the first is not part of corporations that base its criteria on commercial interests.

Neokinok Tv collective works since 1998 in this field reflecting about media and tv technical creation for contributing to this transformation described in the preceding paragraphs.

The following video shows how the coordinator of Neokinok Tv, Daniel Miracle, explain to some kids, how is possible to have your own television limited to a small space of a suitcase. As if it was a child’s play…

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TVLATA. An experimental television project

TVLATA is an educational and creative experience in the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for Development field, created in 2007 for young people who belong to a brazilian civil society organization called Bagunçaço. The project is located in Alagados, a suburb of Salvador de Bahía city, in the Northeast of the country. This experimental television project has been developed by Neokinok.Tv, an audiovisual-experimental and artistic collective settled in Barcelona, Spain.

The idea of the project came up in 2006 while I was working for the Spanish Agency of Cooperation for Development (AECID), the institution that put the project in motion and gave to them the economic support.

From that moment on, the objective is to implement an experimental television platform whose digital contents – texts, images, music and videos- are all made by the students with the assistance and supervision of their teachers and trainers. In the TvLata Laboratory, students use new media technologies and Web 2.0 resources to create their own audiovisual television programs. As well, they have their own blogs to post information and a radio for showing their musical recordings. One of the most interesting achievements has been taught  them how to make a streaming on line program, that allow them to make live programs too. We did not pay attention to their lack of knowledge or skills in order to motivate them all to enrol the project. They designed the logo, they have intensively participated in the process of designing the web and they choose the contents of the television.

Since the beginning of the project, the main intention was to offer them (involved in an entertaining and easy environment) a digital culture formation in order to contribute to their knowledge about the power of the civil society in the new media, the main differences between traditional and new media or subjects like “what it means to have a voice in the world wide web for expressing themselves”.

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