*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.
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We invited [LAG](https://laglab.org/), [Hackers & Designers](https://hackersanddesigners.nl/), [Radio EE](https://radioee.net/), [Good Times Bad Times Radio](https://goodtimesbadtimes.club/) and [PUB](https://pub.sandberg.nl/) joined us as well. In the past we had moments of exchange and learning together through online broadcasting spaces.
### Past common moments
- [Wireless](https://radioee.net/event/wireless/) in [Radioee](https://radioee.net/)
- [Platform Alliances](https://extraintra.nl/article/platform-alliances-1-tools) in [PUB](https://pub.sandberg.nl/)
- [Good Times Bad Times w/ Varia](https://www.mixcloud.com/good_times_bad_times/good-times-bad-times-w-varia/) in [Good Times Bad times](https://goodtimesbadtimes.club/)
## INITITAL QUESTIONS
In order to open up the discussion on the various approaches to hosting your own digital infrastructure for streaming events, we started the conversation trying to find a common understanding of the concept of streaming itself. At first avoiding technical details but sharing ideas of how a moment of streaming is perceived and experienced. How do you experience the concepts of time and simultaneity in relation to streaming?
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- **learning/engaging**: looking inside the guts of streaming;our presences engaging with the technology, the material, the equipment, the hardware, inside the code, internet radio, terrestrial radio, textual streaming, transferred data, the internet, the wires, the latencies, the bandwidth, the ether, the waves, the listener.[^1] Dive deeper in understanding the implications of privacy through technology, the streaming technology, the technology on a material level.
- **accessibility**: having different layers of access; live moments of streaming can be experienced through multiple and different ways of streaming (sound, image, text, chat, etc) that are accessible to different listeners and hosters according to their machines and desires. Providing space also for accessing the technical knowledge, going deeper together. Using low-tech ways to stream to each other saves bandwidth and power consumption.
- **liveness**: Streaming is a moment of being together present in a social online/offline space. Dinners during radio streams and live events bring a sense of occasion and create an intimate space. When thinking of liveness within the groups there was a desire to consinder the concept of accessibility.
How do the concepts of this meeting relate to the idea of Infra-fem:
The word "infrafem" is a portmanteau of feminism and infrastructure, and refers to doing infrastructure
with a feminist sensibility,...
We believe that considering the means of communication as a means of production and questioning who is making them and under which conditions is important.
Through this broadcast we aim to reach out to audiences who may not have a technical practice but who are concerned with the topic discussed as they also inhabit and use similar forms of networked broadcasting technologies every day.
### FUTURE
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A public live radio broadcast in which the questions from the research meeting will be opened up to the public
together with invited guests who are building and maintaining a public in experimental ways and are based outside of the Netherlands.
Narrowcast will host this event. This broadcast will be a moment to share the outcomes, questions, tools, practices and desires between the hosts, invited guests and the listeners.
We find it urgent to create spaces for encountering other peers and articulating practices that do not
erase difference, but support each other through points of contact.
### Past collaborations
* [Wireless](https://radioee.net/event/wireless/) in [Radioee](https://radioee.net/)
* [Platform Alliances](https://extraintra.nl/article/platform-alliances-1-tools) in [PUB](https://pub.sandberg.nl/)
* [Good Times Bad Times w/ Varia](https://www.mixcloud.com/good_times_bad_times/good-times-bad-times-w-varia/) in [Good Times Bad times](https://goodtimesbadtimes.club/)
### Radio streaming interfaces
Lag: https://cr.puscii.nl/
https://radioee.net/live-page/
https://goodtimesbadtimes.club/
### Some notes
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Round of wishes for the afternoon
- simultaneous streams, fallback streams - to use liquidsoap on top of icecast,
- multiple storytelling, whoopsies that happen, timelag, interhacking of different ideas and narrations that naturally happen and appear through whoopsies
- look inside the guts of radio streaming
- etherpad plugin that deletes words after a number of seconds
- can an etherpad record sound?
We see these concepts as a way to address feminist sensibilities when streaming through digital infrastructures. Terms and approaches that we would like to think further. We believe that considering the means of communication as a means of production and questioning who is making them and under which conditions is important. Through these meetings we aim to reach out to audiences who may not have a technical practice but who are concerned with the topic discussed as they also inhabit and use similar forms of networked broadcasting technologies every day.
- understanding the programming of the server of the multiplying ports within the server
- new names for streaming servers
- curious about hardware; making your own radio from a rock and from coils
In the future a second meeting will take place online with initiatives outside of The Netherlands in different contexts. Narrowcast will host this event.
- connection between stone radio and internet radio
We find it urgent to create spaces for encountering other peers and articulating practices that do not erase difference, but support each other through points of contact.
- a chatroom you can access from a specific point
- quantum internet https://www.tudelft.nl/over-tu-delft/strategie/vision-teams/quantum-internet-vision-team/what-is-quantum-internet + https://www.tudelft.nl/over-tu-delft/strategie/vision-teams/quantum-internet-vision-team
- computing within limits: textual streams
- experimenting with latencies
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References:
Stay tuned!
Following Heinrich Hertz's discovery of the existence of radio waves in 1886, a variety of terms were initially used for this radiation, including "Hertzian waves", "electric waves", and "ether waves".
[^1]:In order from streaming body to receiving body.
