Research Strategy

• research, use and promote wherever possible cheap, free, and recycled technologies, with a mind to create projects, resources, services, economic developments which have a minimum impact on the natural environment.
• research, use and promote media systems that have a minimal financial cost available to those on low income, and in ways that are repeatable, accessible and improvable to those on low incomes.
• research, create and promote communication through free-media technologies outside the monetary and licensing control of proprietary systems, to assist the free flow of information, self education and opinions, to encourage creative expression and to contribute to and explore the issues that are important to the everyday lives of individuals, communities and diverse cultures in a pluralist society;

It is a core aim of free-media research that its results must be well documented as an aid to keeping the systems open and free and as an aid to their wider dissemination. Their practical implementation must be throroughly assessed and especially to take advantage of all techniques of data acquisition and analysis that are available to digital media.

MediaShed members collectively constitute one of the few arts groups that has the technical skills, artistic vision and over twenty years of practical experience and proven track record to deliver the alternative media systems that can meet these demands.

If you are interested in working with the MediaShed on any of our research programmes or would like to know more then contact richard AT mongrel DOT org DOT uk