TORONTO FREE BROADCASTING
Season 1: Call for Instructional Videos

“How to make a revolution in your kitchen.”

This fall, a learning channel and production studio will occupy the Toronto Free Gallery. For its first season, Toronto Free Broadcasting (TFB) makes this call for instructional videos on ways you navigate your environment to yield (or envision) ways to move in-between, and across boundaries separating “home,” “school,” “work” and “public space.” Season 1 submissions will be accepted from July 29th – August 31st, 2009, and made viewable at torontofreebroadcasting.ne

t . The ongoing archive of instructional videos forms one part of Toronto Free Broadcasting which also includes a series of live “educational programs” by artists and instructional video-making workshop nights held at the Gallery this September and October.

Videos should be between 1 to 10 minutes, documenting your practical skills, tactics, and knowledges –or those of someone you know– in forms such as “instructions,” “how-to’s,” “lessons,” “plans,” and “demonstrations.” Lessons might range from navigating the quickest route from point A to point B (fence-hopping techniques), to a step-by-step on negotiation tactics (dancing the tango with three), etc. These are some examples of knowledges which may not have use in predetermined day-to-day surroundings, though are useful in their personal, provisional and speculative grappling with the built environment. We love to see skills created, applied to situations particular to you, or which engage in the productive misuse of objects and spaces.

By cultivating a production site and channel for self-learning and teaching, we aim to facilitate conversations about the possibilities of an experimental community space.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Please submit video(s) and accompanying text document(s) along the following guidelines:

• Season 1 submission period is July 29th – August 31st, 2009
• Video submissions will be viewable and archived online at: torontofreebroadcasting.net
• Multiple entries are welcome and encouraged!
• Videos can be old or new!
• Each video should be no longer than 10 minutes
• Submissions should include a text document outlining:
1. Title, production date, other credits
2. A short written description of video (50 words max)
3. Contact information, email or surface mail address (optional)

• For those interested in licensing their videos, we encourage the use of Creative Commons licenses. (Information about Creative Commons can be found here: http://creativecommons.org/ )

Sending and Uploading Video Files:

• You can send us your files via free video uploading websites like YouTube and Vimeo by providing us with a link (which we’ll use to embed on the TFB website)
• Files being sent through the net should be in any of the following formats: MOV, .AVI, .MPG, .M4V, .MP4
• Yousendit: http://www.yousendit.com . It’s free for up to 100 mb files
• Pando: http://www.pando.com. It’s free, but your computer has to be on for us to download it
• Files sent via Pando or Yousendit should be directed to info@torontofreebroadcasting.net
• Ftp (also free, you need an ftp program like cyberduck, etc.). For ftp login info please email: info@torontofreebroadcasting.net

We look forward to receiving your submissions! Please email us if you have any questions.

Signed,
Tejpal Ajji, Chris Lee, and Maiko Tanaka
TFB Producers
info@torontofreebroadcasting.net
torontofreebroadcasting.net

TFB
c/o Toronto Free Gallery
1277 Bloor Street West
Toronto, ON
M6H 1N7 Canada
+1 416-913-0461

Image credit for “What’s Cooking Show”: http://www.oldradio.com/archives/hardware/TV/tk40.htm

Toronto Free Broadcasting is supported by the Toronto Arts Council.

Toronto Free Gallery is supported by the Ontario Arts Council, Canada Council for the Arts, and Ontario Trillium Foundation.

Toronto Free Gallery is a not-for-profit art space. Our vision is to provide a forum for social, cultural and urban issues expressed through all media. Toronto Free Gallery is intended to be a creative laboratory. We aim to provide artists with a space to experiment, explore new ideas, question norms and challenge both themselves and their audiences.
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