The Hmm Livestream Platform
This project is a live streaming, recording and closed-captioning platform and eco-system for The Hmm built with sustainability and accessibility at its core.
role: concept, research, development, technical setup, documentation
In this project, we experimented with different approaches to digital accessibility and ecological sustainability for livestreaming. This included developing different viewing modes that allow for different forms of access to the livestream, such as video, audio-only, live-transcript-only and our very special "low-low-res mode": displaying a frame of the stream every few seconds alongside a live transcript of the event. These modes are accompanied with a widget that displays, in real-time, the data consumed by the user's browser, showing how changing viewing modes might support different network bandwitdhs.
We later further developed this project, using it as an space for conducting participatory research experiments around networked hardware computing for facilitating hybrid (online and offline) cultural events. See Emoji Proxies & Ghost Messengers.
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