Streaming and Mobile Media

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Streaming projects like ‘SkintStream’ are proving very popular and a cheap and relatively quick way to use media technology to build cultural networks. They can bring marginal cultural locations into the centre of arts activity, like a form of collaborative broadcasting.

We intend to build on music projects like ‘SkintStream’ to explore different social and physical environments that exploit the mobility of wireless streaming technology. We will also develop new ways to allow groups to join in streaming projects to grow the network and expand the forms of media and events it can accommodate.


We will build and test a portable streaming kit that can be applied to:

A test ‘Stream Boat’ as the basis of events in the Thames Gateway, in asociation with the ICA Capetown and Radioqualia. The local tests will take place with Cue Music (a Southend tranning programme for young people) and the Leigh Film Society and local artists. This may speculatively take the form of a small sail boat with projections on the sails that people can send messages, images and sounds to as it navigates up and down the Thames Gateway.

A ‘Stream Car’ to create events initially in Southend/North London with young people and with the youth who drive ‘moded’ cars on the promenade and in the streets of north London. Speculatively, the idea is to have cars in many places so people can see and participate in each others events.

A scheduler and subscriber, to allow new groups to join streaming events like ‘SkintStream’ and hold bi-monthly events based on streams from the boat or car.