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

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/

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

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