varia.website/content/2023/Narrowcast-EN.md

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Title: Narrowcast (publication)
Date: 2023-03-09 13:00
Category: writings
Tags: broadcasting, manual
slug: narrowcast-publication
lang: en
event_start: 2023-03-09 13:00
event_duration: 1h 30m
featured_image: /images/narrowcast-publication-cover-full.jpg
summary: Made by the Varia BroadCats team (aka Broadcats ˚ᆺ˚) Narrowcast publication is a manual that records the history and genealogy of the streaming space of Varia called *Narrowcast* from around 2020 until 2023. 
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*Narrowcast* publication is out. :) 

Made by the Varia BroadCats team (aka Broadcats ˚ᆺ˚) this publication is a manual that records the history and genealogy of the streaming space of Varia called *Narrowcast* from around 2020 until 2023. 

You can download the digital publication [here](https://vvvvvvaria.org/archive/00_Narrowcast/narrowcast-publication.pdf)

## Contents

* About
* Genealogy  
  * Varia’s early experiments  
  * Pandemic transmissions (2020-2022)  
  * Sharing knowledge  
  * Tentacular bridging  
  * Mirroring as resistance  
  * Streaming with Infrafem (2022)  
* Making of a platform  
  * from Narrowcast to Multicast  
  * Narrowcast Rituals  
  * Narrowcast Dual-Lingual  
  Narrowcast Skins
* Glossary of possibilities: tools and methods
* Archive of Narrowcast streams
* Configuration appendix
* Bibliography
* Colophon



## Colophon

Edited by Varia BroadCats: Joana, Luke, Danny, Angeliki

With the use of octomode, a collective PDF rendering environment made by Varia. 

You can download the digital publication with the active hyperlinks here: [https://vvvvvvaria.org/archive/00_Narrowcast/]( https://vvvvvvaria.org/archive/00_Narrowcast/)

Copyright 2023 Varia BroadCats.  
All text and images are licensed under the Collective Conditions for Re-Use (CC4r). You are invited to copy, distribute, and transform the materials published under these conditions, which means to take the implications of (re-)use into account. Read more about the license at [https://constantvzw.org/wefts/cc4r.en.html](https://constantvzw.org/wefts/cc4r.en.html)

The publication was made possible with the support of Creative Industries Fund NL.