If you are not able to join transmediale.08 Conspire conference and Bilderberg Salon artist sessions, BBT and transmediale.08 invite you to join in online in real time via IRC and video streams. A remote backdoor to the speakers and performers of transmediale.08 – the moderated online discussion is open to partcipants who can not join us in Berlin. Two streams will be available; one live from the conference hall (HKW Auditorium) and from the Bilderberg Salon. Every stream will have its own IRC (Internet Relay Chat) chatroom … see below. We are inviting you to JOIN US and JOIN IN!

IRC chats – January 30 – February 3, 2008 – will be displayed next to the panel in each conference and keynote lecture. IRC moderators will bring the questions and comments from the chat to the onsite event. We would appreciate if you can spend some of your internet time with us and tell your friends about this vivid interaction. The VIDEO STREAM addresses are:

Conference Stream (live from the conferences and key note presentations); Bilderberg Stream. An experimental stream hosted by bots and people, playing with protocols of communication between IRC and realtime video streams. We … BBT, are more paranoid than the bots, and technology is slipping out of control… You can play these streams from any platform using VLC (Videolan Player).

Come to chat with us and check the transmediale.08 website for possible updates of this information. We will be streaming with an open source encoder, promoting the use of ogg theora and calling for diversity on the web. Gratitude to all developers and streaming communities who made the use of this free technology possible and special thanks for the support of giss.tv, goto10.org, v2_Institute for the Unstable Media and Freej. CHAT ROOMS: http://irc.goto10.org.

tm08conference: According to schedule of conferences and keynote lectures. We will be discussing the key issues of each conference and hold discussions that may arise in the channel. With the help of FOSS bots we can query online resources (wikipedia, google, wordnet).

tm08bilderberg: Daily. We will document what goes on in the sessions of the Bilderberg Salon and our progress with HB (half brother) tele-robotic hand controlled remotely by IRC participants that inputs simple commands: North, South, East, West.

tm08tech: You can find us here from now on, come around if you have questions regarding the stream or other technical issues. Move to this channel if things are not working – PLEASE do not ask about tech issues in the program IRCs.

The web interfaces to the IRC channels are:
http://pjirc.goto10.org/?channel=tm08conference
http://pjirc.goto10.org/?channel=tm08bilderberg
http://pjirc.goto10.org/?channel=tm08tech