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Watch G13 Real TIme - 2 hours 10 takes tonight on tv-tv. G13 Real TIme is the experience on street level of a protester under heavy influence of tear gas. Watch the protesters climb the urban landscape of Copenhagen in the this massive disorbience action with more than 6000 people trying to squat an old water works intended for a new Youth House.

Sunday May 13 at 7pm the composer Else Marie Pade will visit the CFU and tell about her work with the television program ‘En dag på Dyrehavsbakken’ (One day at the amusement park) that was produced for the Danish National Television in 1955. The program is a television collage as well as the first Danish piece of electronic composition music. The screening of the program will be followed by the screening of EMP 18.10.2005, a portrait of Else Marie Pade produced by Henriette Heise a.o.

Listen to Else Marie Pade’s music here >>>

On tv-tv tonight at 11pm FreeUtv will show ‘Uden så meget som at kaste en grankogle’ (Without as much as throwing a spruce cone) about Niels, who was arrested and put to jail on March 1. He tells about how he in the afternoon went to a protest against the eviction of the Youth House that had happened the same morning, and how he went along with about a thousand the protesters in a demonstration heading for the house. Suddenly the protest was attacked by the police and Niels together with about 50 other mostly bystanders were rounded up and arrested. Subsequently he was put to jail in 10 days. The program shows the peaceful atmosphere of the protest through recordings by Jakob who also took part in the protest with his video camera, and how things were escalated slowly by the police beofre the full on attack. The program is produced by FreeUtv/Henriette and Jakob, 35 min.

Tonight at 11pm on tv-tv we will screen Free Class on Urban Gardening and Environmental Activism in the City about the garden of the Youth House in Copenhagen, that has now gone due to bulldozers and incompetent politicians. In the program we meet Jonas Olsen, a guerrilla gardener and a member of the garden group of the house. We discuss urban politics and the lack of ‘free spaces’ in the city landscape of Copenhagen, dig some holes and plant some plants.

Follow the development in Copenhagen on http://indymedia.dk/newswire & http://www.emoware.org/ungdomshuset.asp

Make a greeting to our friends in jail. Come to the Peoples House today and make a personal video letter for one or all of the 200 people who are in jail. It is hard to keep communication flowing to the prisoners due to various restrictions, but there are television in the cells and we will screen your video letter on tv-tv on Wednesday March 7 at 11pm. Nobody is forgotten!

Mediaburn Archive >>> hosts a massive archive of activist television from the 1970s and onwards. Here you can watch TVTV (the video activists project of the early 1970s), Videofreex, Weekend Television, and more. As a new facility you can now produce a custom made DVD with video material from the archive and get it send to your address. Really cool that this material is being made accessible!

Feminist tv production in Chicago

“… perhaps we might begin thinking of queer media as perverse uses of our energy and capacity for multi-tasking, as we insist upon working simultaneously at multiple junctures between blood money, oil wars, art production, TV coverage, marriage debates, health insurance, immigration policies, and the security state…” from the Pilot TV Guide

Wednesday May 24 at 8pm the artist and activist Emily Forman from Chicago will visit the Copenhagen Free University and tell about the “Pilot TV: Experimental Media for Feminist Trespass”

She will tell about the “Pilot TV: Experimental Media for Feminist Trespass” event which transformed a Chicago warehouse into a fully functioning Do-It-Yourself television studio and community center over the period of a four-day weekend. Inspired by the horizontal distribution methods of the global independent media movement, Pilot TV sought to build a production space that would double as a convergence of queer and feminist anti-capitalists as well as a proving ground for direct democracy and mutual aid. Participants used the hybrid infrastructure of the TV studio to work (and play) through questions of biopolitical resistance, transfeminism, media democratization, and the “restaging” of protest.

We will also screen “A Call and an Offering", the short documentary about the project.

See interview on Pilot TV between Emily Forman and Daniel Tucker in the recent: http://www.journalofaestheticsandprotest.org. Daniel Tucker, one of the contributors to Pilot-TV, will also take part in the discussion at the CFU. Emily and Daniel are currently on a residency in Copenhagen at the Learning Site - http://learningsite.info/learningsitecph.htm.

Watch tv-tv on Wednesday May 11 at 11pm

11pm

The Film’s Start

Armed with a camera six year old Solvej visits a film photography student at The National Film School in Denmark. He gives Solvej and her mother a guided tour of the school and tells about all the things we can’t see when we are watching television or film. The Film’s Start is a part of the television series Exploration and Unlearning Series that investigates how knowledge is constructed and deconstructed through experience and play. The Film’s Start is produced by tv-sol/FreeUtv.

11.20pm

The Living Archive: Battleship Potemkin

The Sergei Eisenstein film classic of 1925. The film tells the story about the revolt among the sailors on the battleship Potemkin in 1905. The revolt started as a protest against unbearable living conditions on board the ship, but spread beyond the ship to the city of Oddessa.

Enjoy the film; it belongs to all of us! It is Public Domain and can be downloaded from archive.org >>> or watch it here >>>

Watch the EuroMayDay parade on tv-tv tonight at 11pm. We used 4 cams and filmed constantly during the protest and party through Copenhagen where free bus passes, a DIY guide to reappropriation of empty business properties and free gift vouchers to supermarkets were dispersed to people. Some police fun was included.

Tonight on tv-tv we will screen the fourth part of the tv-series Media Landscapes: ‘I did not know that we have a harbour’.

Media Landscapes is a series of four programmes that invites the vievers on a journey through the various medie landscapes of cities in the western world. We watch tv together with local guides, armed with a remote control, guiding us through the media landscapes they live in. Has globalisation come through or are there still local diffences? We have visited Vienna, Stockholm, London, Hamburg and New York.

At 11pm on Kanal København/tv-tv >>>

Tonight on tv-tv we will screen the third part of the tv-series Media Landscapes: ‘You have the world around you’.

Media Landscapes is a series of four programmes that invites the vievers on a journey through the various medie landscapes of cities in the western world. We watch tv together with local guides, armed with a remote control, guiding us through the media landscapes they live in. Has globalisation come through or are there still local diffences? We have visited Vienna, Stockholm, London, Hamburg and New York.

At 11pm on Kanal København/tv-tv >>>

At Room for Northeast Reading, Sonntag, 26. März 2006, 19 Uhr, Admiralitätstr. 74, Westwerk Vorderhaus 1. Stock, 20459 Hamburg. -projektgruppe- Hamburg, 040 - 430 20 67, info@projektgruppe.org

Henriette Heise and Jakob Jakobsen will tell about tv-tv and their involvement in producing tv. tv-tv is an artist-run tv-station, broadcasting 6 hours every week on the community channel in Copenhagen. tv-tv is a network of groups producing tv for the station.

FreeUtv is a production group in the tv-tv network. FreeUtv is a practical investigation into and experimentation with television as a public sphere. FreeUtv is part of the Copenhagen Free University.

FreeUtv produces various programmes and Jakob and Henriette will show some examples. They will introduce for instance one full programme they have made called Hamburg Town. Recorded during a stay in Hamburg in April 2004, it shows five year old Solvej and her parents exploring playgrounds and other fantastic places in Hamburg. It is a programme about learning to see through a camera and to overcome your fear. (English subtitles, 25 min)

Tonight on tv-tv we will screen the second part of the tv-series Media Landscapes: ‘We can only wisper because the big cat might hear us’.

Media Landscapes is a series of four programmes that invites the vievers on a journey through the various medie landscapes of cities in the western world. We watch tv together with local guides, armed with a remote control, guiding us through the media landscapes they live in. Has globalisation come through or are there still local diffences? We have visited Vienna, Stockholm, London, Hamburg and New York.

At 11pm on Kanal København/tv-tv >>>

Monday March 27 at 8pm at the Copenhagen Free University Fluxus Artist Eric Andersen will tell about ‘Fluxus and Television as intermedia’. The fellow Fluxus artist Nam June Paik was a pioneer in investigating the concrete artistic potential of the early portable video cameras in the sixties. Eric Andersen has himself worked with live transmission on parallel television channels in the Netherlands in the 1960s.

Screening: Nam June Paik: Suite 212 (1972-1975) Short tv-programs produced for tv-stationen WNET in New York

Nam June Paik: Edited for Television (1975) A program about Paik and his televison work produced for WNET.

All are welcome!

Tonight on tv-tv we will screen the first part of the tv-series Media Landscapes: ‘A dream living landscape has been created’.

Media Landscapes is a series of four programmes that invites the vievers on a journey through the various medie landscapes of cities in the western world. We watch tv together with local guides, armed with a remote control, guiding us through the media landscapes they live in. Has globalisation come through or are there still local diffences? We have visited Vienna, Stockholm, London, Hamburg and New York.

At 11pm on Kanal København/tv-tv >>>

On tv-tv tonight we will show three videos produced by Stefan Szczelkun about London Counter Culture and People Power of the Nineties.

Track A: J18 the post modern revival of Stop the City enacted on the streets of the City of London in 1999. The experience of one person with camera at this historical and unique protest against global capital. The closest thing to being there yourself. DVCAM Duration: 30 mins

Track B: Crystal Palace Eco-warrior camp 1998/99. A short edited video with an on-site interview with two of the protesters. This was an action against the development of a multiplex cinema on a wild corner of Crystal Palace park. Shot with Thomas Zagrosek on Hi8 Duration: 9 mins.

Track C: Reclaim the Streets & The Liverpool Dockers: the other most spectacular demo technique of the Nineties was the temporary occupation of urban areas by huge playful crowds - a kind of instant carnival that came out of the eco road protest movement. However an internal debate took the Reclaim the Streets collective towards an active political confrontation. This was the first of those - an alliance with the Liverpool Dockers and a historical hailing of the Chartists. Duration: 30 mins. April 1997.

The videos can be bought from Stefan’s shop at stefan-szczelkun.org.uk >>>

At Casco Projects, Utrecht 4pm:
Discussion: Self-Organised Television

Copenhagen Free University have also been producing television for the Copenhagen-based self-organized network tv-tv >>>, which describes itself as ‘everyone ’s television ’. They will take part in a discussion alongside Annalissa Pellizza from the Telestreet network Orfeo TV, and Claas Hille of Utrecht ’s local television station, Meer TV, discussing their work and how it relates to the political situations in their own particular localities.

At Casco Projects, Utrecht, 28 January, 8pm:
Media Landscape Utrecht LIVE:

Copenhagen Free University ’s Media Landscapes Utrecht LIVE is an event in which people come and watch tv in public. It is part of a series of tv-programmes where CFU travel the television channels of cities watching tv with local guides armed with a remote control, recording the sessions as part of an ongoing investigation into the way in which people use television in particular localities. Media Landscapes from Vienna, Stockholm, Hamburg and London will be on view in Casco ’s space, installed in front of a large mirror.

tv-tv has visited Witte de With in Rotterdam to promote the network as a part of the exhibition Satelite of Love. We made a large scale video jukebox where people could watch programs from our substantial back catalogue. Orfeo Telestreet from Bologna >>> and Ambient tv >>> from London took, among others, part in the spectacle. Good to meet fellow travellers.

Tonight on tv-tv we will screen a new production by tv-sol called the City of Hamburg. The program is produced by five year old Solvej together with her parents during a stay in Hamburg last year. It shows Solvej with a camera exploring playgrounds and other fantastic places in Hamburg. The program will be followed by the film the battle of the Adventure Playground (1980) about the riot against the authorities when it was decided to close down an adventure playground in Copenhagen in 1980. The film will be introduced by the filmmaker Franco Invernizzi.

As a x-mas greeting we will screen the film about the Santa Claus Army that invaded Copenhagen for 5 days in 1974. The Santa Claus Army was initiated by the action theater Solvognen and the army attacked the institutions of business and commerce, got in fights with the Police, gave the goods away from the stores to kids and old people as gifts, and more. Watch the film on tv-tv at 11pm December 22. The film will be introduced by the theater activist and filmmaker Jon Bang Carlsen.

Explorations in Urban Areas - Hamburg

A tv-tv theme week by the Journal for Notheast Issues, a magazine project for art and related disciplines, edited by >projektgruppe< in Hamburg. Produced in colaboration with FreeUtv.

The theme week will explore a number of Hamburg's areas through films by architects, artists and activists. The films provide an insight into the structures of certain districts, their everyday realities and the struggles of the inhabitants. Moreover they demonstrate ways of reclaiming urban space. The Journal for Northeast Issues has met the filmmakers and talked with them about their ideas and the background of their films. Each evening of this week's program is focusing on one specific area: the Karolinen Neighborhood (Tuesday Nov 22), the City Center (Wednesday Nov 23) and the Port Area (Thursday Nov 24).

The week will include films such as: Bambule in Hamburg by Stefanie Platen/Timo Selengia
Domfrauen (Fairground women) by Doro Carl
Location by Christoph Rauch
Durchgänge in der Hamburger Innenstadt (Passages in the inner city of Hamburg) by Till Krause
o. T. Hamburg (Untitled Hamburg) by Philipp Bröcker/Wolfgang Plöger
Radio Ballet by LIGNA
Blind Date by Achim Asslinger/Rolf Kellner
Die Fahrt (The ride) by Adrian Alecu
Desire will leave the house and take to the streets by Margit Czenki

For the detailed program please see http://www.tv-tv.dk

Guerrilla-tv at the Copenhagen Free University

Monday September 12 at 8pm will Carolyn Faber from the Media Burn Archive in Chicago visit the Copenhagen Free University and share her knowledge about Guerrilla-tv, a media practice that appeared in the US in 1970s. She will introduce the Media Burn Archive and will screen some examples of Guerrilla-tv. The evening will end with a screening of Media Burn by Ant Farm (1975), where the artist collective Ant Farm staged a media event and covered the event by covering the mainstream media coverage of the event.

We have produced three evenings of tv-tv over the theme FEAR:

Tuesday 23/8

23.00 G8 Gleneagles Scotland A conversation with Jaya Brekke of East London Autonomous Media (ELAM) about her experiences as activist at the G8 summit in Gleneagles. The meeting as well as the protests was affected by the bombings in London.

24.00 Interview with the American Activist Lisa Fithian ELAM’s interview with Lisa Fithian telling about her experiences with various forms of political activity and protest over the last 20-30 years. The interview was recorded during the G8 summit.

Wednesday 24/8

23.00 The Black Bird A story about two black bird nestlings that fell from their nest and ended up in the basement of our housing coop. In the middle of the night the the black bird nest was attacked and this event touched several of the people living in the coop. Especially the 6 year old Solvej engaged in the events. She came up with the idea to this program and has been taking part in producing it.

23.15 The Production of Fear during the Cold War The program is structured around some information films from the American Civil Defense and a interview with the art historian Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen. He tells about the social and political climate of the 1950s and 1960s where the atom bomb was felt like a thread that could hit any time. And he tells how Situationist International saw the atom thread as an evil conspiracy with the aim of making people passive.

Thursday 25/8

23.00 Cheers to fears/weak become heroes A video-chat with one of our friends in London, the visual artist Emma Hedditch. She tells about how she experienced the bombings in London 7/7 and how they have changed her behavior in her daily life in the city.

23:45 You risk nothing by sending troops to war, FOGH, but do you dare TAKING THE TRAIN together with us? We take a trip on the Copenhagen Metro. The title comes from a poster produced by Antifascitisk CultureClub.

00.15 The Living Archive: Guerrilla-tv from the 1970s. Video clips from the Media Burn Archive in the US with tv and media critique from the 1970s. The clips are produced by TVTV and Ant Farm. all material from http://archive.org.

“Letting others tell you news about yourself is a crime. You turn on the TV and become an accomplice.” - Jean-Luc Godard in Numéro deux co-produced with Anne-Marie Miéville in 1975

Monday August 15 at 8pm book launch and film screening at the CFU. Art theorist Simon Sheikh will introduce the book I said I Love. That is the promise - The tvideo politics of Jean-Luc Godard, followed by the screening of Numéro deux by Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville produced in 1975.

“So turn off your television sets. Turn them off now. Turn them off right now. Turn them off and leave them off. Turn them off right in the middle of the sentence I am speaking to you now. Turn them off!!”

- Howard Beale, as played by Peter Finch in Network, during his live studio broadcast of the ‘Network News Hour’

Monday July 25 at 8pm we will screen the film Network as a part of the ongoing FreeUtvResearch. All are welcome at the Copenhagen Free Cinema at the CFU, Læssøesgade 3, Nørrebro. Network was released in 1976 and directed by Sydnet Lumet.

We invite all to take part in the making of media coverage of the Goerge W. Bush visit in Copenhagen July 5 and 6. We need reporters to cover the visit on street level, the protests, the paranoia. Drop us a mail if you would like to take part.

Programmes on the visit will be screened on tv-tv Wednesday July 6 and Thursday July 7 at 11pm.

FreeUtvResearch will screen Fluxfilm (1962-1970) at tv-tv in two parts Tuesday May 17 and Wednesday May 18. The films will be introduced by the Fluxus artist Eric Andersen:

Tuesday:

23.00 - 00.00 The Living Archive - we screen films from the net:

Fluxfilm introduced by Eric Andersen (part 1)

Dating from the sixties Fluxfilm Anthology (1962-1970) is a document consisting of 37 short films ranging from 10 seconds to 10 minutes in length. Part 1. consists of 9 films:

Fluxfilm 01 - Nam June Paik - Zen For Film (1962-64) 8 min.2 sec. - Fluxfilm 02 - Dick Higgins - Invocation of Canyons and Boulders (for Stan Brakhage) (1966) 23 sec. - Fluxfilm 03 - George Maciunas - End After 9 (1966) 1 min 15 sec. - Fluxfilm 04 Chieko Shiomi - Disappearing Music for Face (1966) 11 min. 18 sec. - Fluxfilm 05 John Cavanaugh - Blink (1966) 2 min 30 sec. - Fluxfilm 06 James Riddle - 9 Minutes (1966) 11 min 13 sec. - Fluxfilm 07 George Maciunas - 10 Feet (1966) 30 sec. - Fluxfilm 08 George Maciunas - 1000 Frames (1966) 56 sec. - Fluxfilm 09 Yoko Ono - Eye Blink (1966) 35 sec. -

Wednesday:

23.00 - 00.30The Living Archive - we screen films from the net:

Fluxfilm (part 2)

Part 2 consists of 28 films:

Fluxfilm 10 -George Brecht - Entrance to Exit (1965) 6 min 49 sec. - Fluxfilm 11 - Robert Watts - Trace #22 (1965) 3 min 12 sec. - Fluxfilm 12 - Robert Watts - Trace #23 (1965) 3 min 6 sec. - Fluxfilm 13 - Robert Watts - Trace #24 (1965) 1 min 27 sec. - Fluxfilm 14 - Yoko Ono - One (1966) 5 min 11 sec. - Fluxfilm 15 - Yoko Ono - Eye Blink (1966) 17 sec. - Fluxfilm 16 - Yoko Ono - Four (1967) 6 min 14 sec. - Fluxfilm 17 - Pieter Vanderbeck - Five O’Clock in the Morning (1966) 5 min 22 sec. - Fluxfilm 18 - Joe Jones - Smoking (1966) 5 min 12 sec. - Fluxfilm 19 - Erik Andersen - Opus 74 Version 2 (1966) 1 min 39 sec. - Fluxfilm 20 - George Maciunas - Artype (1966) 2 min 46 sec. - Fluxfilm 22 - Jeff Perkins - Shout (1966) 2 min 14 sec. - Fluxfilm 23 - Wolf Vostell - Sun in Your Head (Television Decollage) (1963) 7 min 7 sec. - Fluxfilm 24 - Albert Fine - Readymade (1966) 2 min 28 sec. - Fluxfilm 25 - George Landow - The Evil Faerie (1966) 21 sec. - Fluxfilm 26 - Paul Sharits - Sears Catalogue 1-3 (1965) 45 sec. - Fluxfilm 27 - Paul Sharits - Dots 1 & 2 (1965) 37 sec. - Fluxfilm 28 - Paul Sharits - Wirst Trick (1965) 31 sec. - Fluxfilm 29 - (unnumbered) Paul Sharits - Unrolling Event (1965) 7 sec. - Fluxfilm 29 - Paul Sharits - Word Movie (1966) 3 min 51 sec. - Fluxfilm 30 - Albert Fine - Dance (1963) 2 min 51 sec. - Fluxfilm 31 - John Cale - Police Car (1966) 1 min 28 sec. - Fluxfilm 36 - Peter Kennedy & Mike Parr - Flux Film 36 (1970) 2 min 39 sec. - Fluxfilm 37 - Peter Kennedy & Mike Parr - Flux Film 37 (1970) 1 min 33 sec. - Fluxfilm 38 - Ben - Je ne vois rien, je n’entends rien, je ne dis rien (1966) 7 min 31 sec. - Fluxfilm 39 - Ben - Le Traversee du port de Nice a la nage (1963) 3 min 18 sec. - Fluxfilm 40 - Ben - Faire un effort (1969) 2 min 32 sec. - Fluxfilm 41 - Ben - Regardez-moi, cela suffit (1962) 6 min 48 sec. -

Fluxfilm can be downloaded from UbuWeb >>>

FreeUtvResearch is broadcasting a program on tv-tv Thursday April 28:

23.00 - 01.00 MayDay MayDay!!!

Introduction to EuroMayDay, interviews with people from EuroMayDay Copenhagen and films from all over Europe; Chainworkers (Milano), Precarias a la Deriva (Madrid), and more.

Political Struggle and Representation

Presentation at the W… Wir Wissen exhibition at Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, at 11am. We will screen Vladimir and Rosa (1971) by the Dziga Vertov group and tv-productions from the FreeUtvResearch. We want to discuss how we represent the political struggle, the personal experiences, the social misery… We don’t want to appropiate pop culture as a communicative strategy in the public shere; we want to develop a new kind of realism.

FreeUtvResearch is broadcasting two programmes on tv-tv tonight:

23.00 No Borders, No Nations International Day of Action against the European policy on migration. Report from the action against the Danish Ministry of Refugee, Immigration and Integration Affairs on April 1, 2005.

23.20 The Living Archive We screen films from the net: ‘Night of the Living Dead’, George A. Romero’s classic Zombie film from 1968. Enjoy it, it is Public Domain. Download the film The Archive >>>. The culture belongs to all of us.

Tonight the first programme produced by FreeUtvResearch will be shown on tv-tv. The title of the programme is Media Landscapes, Hamburg and is the first of a series where we travel the television channels of Europe cities. We watch tv with local guides armed with a remote control.

The first programme is a journey through the North German media landscapes together with the visual artist Christoph Schäfer from Hamburg. Tonight at 11pm at TV STOP/Københavner Kanalen

tv-tv / FreeUtvResearch

Within the last eight months we have been part of a group working on taking over a local tv-station in Copenhagen. It is now on air as tv-tv and is based on a decentralised network of producers producing content for the channel. Check tv-tv.dk >>>

At the Copenhagen Free University we have established FreeUtvResearch that is an unit engaging in the investigation of and experimentation with television as a public sphere. FreeUtvResearch is a node in the tv-tv network.

tv-tv will be sending regularly on Channel Copenhagen Tuesdays from 11pm to 1am, Wednesdays from 11pm to 0:30am and Thursdays from 11pm to 1am.

tv-tv consists of Kristina Ask, Stine Eriksen, Joachim Hamou, Kent Hansen, Henriette Heise, Christian Hillesøe, Ulla Hvejsel, Jakob Jakobsen, Marie Reynolds, Katya Sander, Simon Sheikh and Lukas Swenninger.

We will keep you posted on the CFU website/blog. FreeUtvResearch programs will soon be available for download via p2p.