Platoniq moves as much in the land of the communication as in the field of the digital creation. It looks for to create bridges between the work of cultural agent and producer. The central point is the interaction between the new technologies, the popular culture and the social event, with the intention to establish connections between Internet/new media and public physical space.

Platoniq works in different areas: the organization of events related to culture and technology (ie cycle of electronic arts and media cultures), the creation of documentary contents for TV (ie Neue Kraft Neues Werk - Transcoder Express) and radio in Internet and the development of tools (database and software for public use).

Radiored is an independent project of radio in Internet by Platoniq. Their contents are centered in news articles on digital culture, the social impact of the technology and contents of electronic music. On the other hand Radiored behaves like tool and context to develop - to gather part of the new uses of audio in Internet. This project has a structure of database that allows that the reception is not linear since one of the characteristics that Radiored power is that the receiver also happens to be publisher of contents. In this line they have developed the public tool "Hypercut", a compiler of archives of audio in Internet. With this tool any internaut can create "play lists" of audio real and mp3 located in any server and automatically to make them consultables from Radiored.org. The idea starts off to understand Internet like audioteca and to the "audience" like "broadcast" publishers and producers.
>from *Platoniq site*

Platoniq presentation in *straddle3* - friday april 11, 2003 at 20h . Plus the projection of "Harriaren errezistenzia", in hommage to sculptor Jorge Oteiza died this week.

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> platoniq: bridging production and culture

population education, 2000 – 2031 == feb 14, 2003

the people count… by david burleson

THE PEOPLE COUNT… What do we mean by the phrase, The People Count? Do we mean a simple, numeric accounting of our increased or decreased population… Do we mean that a population is attempting to assess some event, define a problem, achieve a value… Or, do we among many speculations mean that the people count… the people are valuable, cherished, prized, the people are important. These are encounters we need to access.

A millennium ago, about fifty years ago, I reached my majority and began to be concerned about persons, people and populations in new ways and waves. About half my life ago I invented population education and defined a vial force which like a good virus spread from the imagination of a small cadre of educators to being an epidemic of social concern in more than 100 nations, not counting the Nation of Imagi…

John Rock, a great elderly mentor and co inventor of the birth control pill was an avid admirer of the idea of population education, the ideal and the value extensiveness of pop ed… For the 1969 World Health Assembly, which conveniently for me was in Boston, I had the joyous privilege of creating a small brochure under the title of TOWARD A POPULATION EDUCATION, which spread around the world in 5000 copies in English and 2000 in Spanish. I don’t recall why we didn’t print it in French… Maybe my college French was too archaic to meet the challenge… In paper copies of this essay, I append photocopies of the texts…with apology that the English copy did not wear the circles symbols we expressed eloquently in Spanish… We embraced and extended the comprehensiveness of population education; pop ed is an exploration of knowledge and attitudes about population, the family and sex. It includes population awareness, family living, reproduction education and basic values. Population awareness is the study of demographic and ecological information and the analysis of our related attitudes. Family living embraces responsible marital relations and parenthood, including desirable family size and spacing, contraceptive information, the problems of sterility and the study of human sexuality. Reproduction education is the study of the physiological aspects of sex and reproduction. “Reproduction education is used instead of sex education to avoid needless controversy. Basic values describe the web of cultural feelings affecting population, the family and sex.

The pioneers of pop ed exercised a magnificent naïveté, thinking, believing, knowing that even before the First Earth Day, we reflected and promoted essential values of the individual, the family, and the humane community. From April 1970 when I had the enormous challenge and great honor to direct the First National Conference on Population Education, under the sponsorship of Planned Parenthood of Maryland, the Population Reference Bureau, and the Carolina Population Center, through the 1993 First International Conference on Population Education celebrated in Turkey we expanded our vision to a majority of our nations…yet we failed to meet a majority of our fellow planetary citizens… Population education varied by country and culture, ever attempting to adapt to local educational needs while portraying local, regional and planetary challenges… We did not yet have the terms “planetary culture” and “personal commitment” but our pcs were emerging while others dealt with personal computers and political correctness…

Sadly, somehow, in many places, for reasons only partially explicable, apathy has eroded some of our work, eroded us… I now wish to create a renewal: I want The 21st Century Renaissance of Population Education. The sex revolution may have, in part, damaged the synthesis of our interwoven spheres and our encompassing circle of population education, awareness, family, reproduction and basic values. Individuals surely expressed unprecedented freedom in the sex revolution. Families may have created more equity between spouses and intergenerationally. Yet, now in the dawning decade of this millennium, population awareness, knowledge, wit and wisdom about people relations beyond the individual and family, are frequently neglected, abandoned, forgotten, under prized, or…………………..

Population Education, 2000-2031 is a new endeavor and a continuing respectful exercise of nurturing many of the values recognized in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the unanimously approved 1948 document of the United Nations, our promissory note of rights, rites and humane needs…

We are challenged to restructure pop ed programs to meet the needs of the people count of 6 billion in 1999 and of the estimated 2 billion beings additional with whom we will share Planet Earth by 2020 or 2025. In simple math, we numbered about 2 billion when I appeared in 1931… We accumulated to 4 billion in 1974… By my 68th birthday we were 6b.

Do we need 8 billion humans when I am 89… maybe 9 billion by the time I am a centenarian… Half of humanity is in poverty, billions lack basic health services and basic sanitary services, a billion five hundred million lack clean water supplies, almost a billion adult are illiterate and we wreck considerable ecological damage even on our least “inhabited” continent, Antarctica.

I will given a life sentence on Planet Earth on December 16, l931, of indeterminate duration…with no plea bargaining nor probability tables of time off for good behavior. I will invest the remaining years of my sentence attempting to protect basic humane rights, to be wanted, nurtured, protected, educated, employed, recreated, and counted. I believe “the people count.” You can count on me! With pop ed.

A plan of action needs to be developed quickly and a survey of programs of population education and related endeavors in health education, sex education, AIDS education, population awareness and environmental education should be carried out and summarized as an educational contribution and challenge to the World Population Conferees of 2004. I believe from preliminary enquiries that an opus of the scope and detail of my International Bureau of Education, UNESCO work, is, not needed. Rather, a population-focused text relating individual, communal and global needs with supranational programs, an i.e. UN item, with civic society, with governments and with foundations is called for and feasible.

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