*Streaming With Infrafem* is a moment of exchange of communal strategies, infrastructural knowledge, and design choices starting by redefining the notion of 'streaming'. We will explore ways of 'streaming' to each other by listening, waiting and responding, both through text (for example via collaborative editors), through audio (for example via the streaming audio/video servers), and other means.
*Streaming With Infrafem* is a moment of exchange of communal strategies, infrastructural knowledge, and design choices starting by redefining the notion of 'streaming'.
Through the making of Varia's Narrowcast, Varia got in touch with a network of groups and collectives that are building their own digital infrastructure or are interested in exploring alternative ways of doing things together online. The platforms and online spaces started to feed cultural and social processes throughout the pandemic in 2021. Varia took part of this cultural development by hosting online tools as part of the collective infrastructure of the group, but also by sharing knowledge and playful methods. Next to the work on Narrowcast, also the Digital Solidarity Networks events from the 2021 programme see a way to continue through meeting other organisations that are concerned with collectively run infrastructures.
Through the making of Varia's Narrowcast, Varia got in touch with a network of groups and collectives that are building their own digital infrastructure or are interested in exploring alternative ways of doing things together online. The platforms and online spaces started to feed cultural and social processes throughout the pandemic in 2021. Varia took part of this cultural development by hosting online tools as part of the collective infrastructure of the group, but also by sharing knowledge and playful methods.
Based on these two threads in 2021, we made space space in 2022 to continue the conversation on infrastructures that are partly or fully operated by cultural organisation or practicioners. In the end, the tools that we use to present our cultural work online will shape our cultural work itself. At the same time, we feel the need to also let the tools be shaped by the cultural work we do. We do not want to make a cut between our artistic work and tools we use.
Various related projects happened in and around Varia, such as the [Narrowcast](https://stream.vvvvvvaria.org/) interface for online streaming, the radio for [Homebrew Server Club](https://homebrewserver.club/), the [Wireless Imagination](https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/wirelessimaginationReading) session for Read & Repair where we explored live Etherpad textual streaming, or the [Temporary Riparian Zone](http://82.199.133.204/files/trz/) where audio and textual streaming was brought together for the session. We were left with questions and ideas around streaming that we wanted to share with other local collectives who are also exploring these topics.
Through various projects that were done in and around Varia, such as the [Narrowcast](https://stream.vvvvvvaria.org/) interface for online streaming, the radio for [Homebrew Server Club](https://homebrewserver.club/), the [Wireless Imagination](https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/wirelessimaginationReading) session for Read & Repair where we explored live Etherpad textual streaming, or the [Temporary Riparian Zone](http://82.199.133.204/files/trz/) where audio and textual streaming was brought together for the session, we were left with questions and ideas around streaming that we wanted to share with other local collectives who are also exploring these topics.
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On the 22nd of April we had one day-long *research and exchange meeting* with cultural organisations that run and maintain their own digital infrastructure as part of their cultural programmes in The Netherlands.
