Report from the inside

Another phase of installation and set-up at The Old Police Station means now we have nearly half of those locked up at least have some outside contact via shared broadband. The 3Com replacement for the exhausted Exteem switches we started off with have held up well and a months flakyness has faded away. All good for the rest of the year though I rekon by 2010 additional bandwidth will be required to meet the growing needs of those interred.

Policed Network Access

Internet Access £6 per month per studio

The Old  Police Station has a legacy ethernet infrastructure which has been refurbished to present  Internet Access as well as local media network services  between each of the 30 + studios.

we plug you in here

If you have a studio and want to get it connected please contact Anthony on studio@tempcontemp.co.uk with a wall port number and payment.

Secret policemans balls

Just to let you know there is to be a launch party for the converted Police Station on the 28th Feb to welcome in the 1st day spring and shed this endless winter. Party will be in The Booking Office (Members Club) and Holding Cells, Police Gym, Edwardian Interview Room and Yard.

It should be a good one as there has been so much interest. There will be a full (affordable) bar, and we are currently looking at proposals for performances, DJ sets, bands, installations etc etc. So far there have been ideas for unique Dim Sum, sage rituals, gambling, vintage porn, séances, fetish DJs and more. No budget of course, it’s all being done for the love of it.

Snow summons

Today we spent a few more hours preparing the building wide network for activation and added a first broadband link that Anthony ordered from Bethere.co.uk. tests showed it was running at a good 16mb down and 1mb up which is a good start.

In the coms room the giant patch bay has been reorganised and ready for action in good time for the Opening event here at the end of  Feb.. By then we expect to have also patched in a building wide audio/video system to enable some more options for play.

The Mac Sharez server currently streaming PolicedFM will also be moved over from its temporary host at http://bit.spc.org. If you want to have a drift trough its contents and you have a local wired or wireless link at the old police station itself - mac users try afp://sharez.config/ and PC users \\sharez.config\policed 

With that in mind please contact policed@spc.org if you want to get yourself patched in from your studio space @£6 a month.. for which you can get to the web and a bunch of fun stuff on the local network..

You can test out the connection from the ground floor over an open wireless link named OldPoliceStation which we will extend to each floor.

Policed will be linked into the OWN from the roofspace from where it would be fun to also be possible to forge more distant linkups.. and host some local radio.  please get in touch if you are interested.

policed radio

Try this Policed Radio stream, just a sketch of a radioshow which could well be updated and managed by those at the station interview room, fed by live events and generally interfered with on an ad-hock basis.. it may also be fun to install a pirate listening station like this old irational one..

For those wishing to tune in over the Policed local network use this iTunes link http://192.168.1.67:8000/listen

your eyes and ears peeled!

Yes as of Jan 2009 TemporaryContemporary begin a seven year stretch at The Old Police Station, Deptford to frame indiginous arts, craft a conspiracy of interaction and liberate the culturally condemed.

Expect a steady stream of pure noise and intense illumination to follow a month or two of solitary whilst the basic facilities are reinstated.

As the dust of refurbishment settles around the beat of establishment its here that you will be charged to attend to present your documents and parade your identity alongside the informers, ponces and other transgressors ita.

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its 2009, be happy