An International and Regional Joint Broadcasting Initiative 

Various world cities such as Amsterdam, Berlin, Chicago, Dallas, Istanbul, Milan, Montevideo, Port Elizabeth, Seoul, Toronto and cities across the UK have their own Urban Screen venues. During USM08, cities across the world and Australia will participate in joint broadcasting initiatives designed to demonstrate emerging opportunities for community engagement and connectivity.
On permanent urban screen installations or via temporary mobile LED ‘big screens’, the regional Australian cities will simultaneously screen USM08’s specialised program.

Public Skype Discussions 

		Several cities will participate in a series of ‘town square meetings’:live Skype-enabled videoconferences on Federation Square’s big screen. For the opening of the Multimedia Program we have invited four urban screens curators from Europe, Bernadette Burbridge, Mark Areal Waller, Susanne Jaschko, Susa Pop, to talk about discussing about their experiences with content scheduling and programming and the future of this new "exhibition and communication format".
To bridge the Conference and the Multimedia Exhibition, six USM08 Poster Presentations  will be shown in an experimental Pecha Kucha like event on the LED Screen inthe Atrium via a scheduled Skype-enabled remote presentations from around the world.
Live Broadcasts
		You will be able to live participating athe new Blinkenlights project in Toronto. Stereoscope, transforms the towers of the city hall into a huge interactive display screen by arranging lamps behind each of the 960 windows of the building. The public can influence the Stereoscope through a variety of  interfaces including, ordinary mobile phones the iPhone platform, the  web and physical controllers located at Nathan Philips Square. http://www.blinkenlights.net
USM08 will broadcast the opening ceremony and selected highlights of Art at the Heart, Regional Arts Australia’s sixth national conference in Alice Springs, 2-5 October 08. This initiative is supported by the Australia Council for the Arts, Regional Arts Australia and ABC Television.
Global Streaming
		USM08 will connect to Nina Colosi in New York to present the first part of the global Streaming Museum's series of three shows called "Artists and Innovators for the Environment".  Among the artists presented in the first exhibition, are John Cage, Buckminster Fuller, Agnes Denes, James Nachtwey, Jacob ter Veldhuis. Straming Museum is a new hybrid museum for the 21st Century which presents real-time exhibitions in cyberspace and public space on seven continents
USM08 will participate as well in the simultaneous global launch of the TED Prize 2007 from New York. TED Conferences will broadcast a three-min photo, text and graphics slide show by world-renowned photojournalist James Nachtwey. Each year, the TED prize winner is granted US$100,000 and a “wish to change the world”. USM08 is helping to make James Nachtwey’s wish come true by sharing a story that he says “the world needs to know about”.
This international networking and joint broadcasting on worldwide urban screens was developed by the USM08 multimedia program team in partnership with the New York-based Streaming Museum.

www.urbanscreen08.net
www.artattheheart.com.au
www.streamingmuseum.org
www.tedprize.org

FRIDAY 3 OCTOBER 2008

8:00pm– 8:45pmLaunch of the public USM08 Multimedia Program
‘OurFriends are Electric 2’: IUSA global screen partners compilation
‘TownSquare’ meeting: Skype-enabled video conference: International Urban Screen Curators

SATURDAY 4 OCTOBER 2008

9:50am– 10:20am Joint Broadcasting: ‘the TED Prize launch’ live from New York

12:00am– 12:40pm  Poster Presentations: Developmentsand experiments in the field of
Urban Screens

12:45pm– 1:15pm  Joint Broadcasting: ‘Art & Innovators for the Environment’ live from StreamingMuseum, New York

3:15pm– 3:45pm Joint Broadcasting: ‘Art at the Heart’ live broadcast from Alice Springs’

11:30pm– 12:00pm Joint Broadcasting: ‘Art & Innovators for the Environment’ presented by Streaming Museum and TED

SUNDAY 5 OCTOBER 2008

12:30pm– 1:00pmJoint Broadcasting: ‘Blinkenlights Stereoscope’ media facade live fromToronto, Canada

1:00pm– 2:00pm  ‘Town Square’ meeting: Skype-enabled video conference ‘Living Life’

6:00pm– 6:30pm ‘Town Square’ meeting: Skype-enabled video conference: ‘Film FestivalPartners’

11:10pm– 11:50pm Joint Broadcasting: ‘Art & Innovators for the Environment’ presented by Streaming Museum and TED