XtreamLab.net was a project that I was involved in from 2004 until around 2010.  Founded in Barcelona in 2004 with Ania Majczrak, Xevi Gilbert and myself, XtreamLab provideded on-location video production and live web-casting services that combined technical expertise with a creative focus to enable the real-time mixing and editing and live transmission of streams directly from events, offering viewers the opportunity to experience genuine online television.

After our intial launch in Barcelona, where we did a number of events, including club nights, I moved back to Bristol, England and from there relaunched XtreamLab as part of an initiative funded by the (now sadly demised) South West Regional Development Agency, though South West Screen. 

Working with Blackout Arts, Bristol Wireless, Firstborn Creatives, Mosi-Mosi, Pitch Volley, Qu-Junktions, Microfilm, Moebius Surfing, Psand, Telenoika, Trinity Bristol  we produced two events:

Bristol Venn Festival '07

In the summer of 2007, XtreamLab took part in Bristol's Venn Festival where we successfully used the infrastructure of Bristol Wireless to send live high-quality video from between different venues during the four day event. We also provided a live web cast of the event to the Venn's web site as well as to Calamaro Planet in Second Life in conjunction with Moebius Surfing. In the box below you can watch a short video of Robin Fox and Antonio Pateras as streamed live from the Arnolfini.

D.R.O.I.D Reality Isn't Everything

D.R.O.I.D was a one-off event conceived of and produced by XtreamLab. The idea we had with D.R.O.I.D was to experiment with and experience a live link-up with avatars in the on-line 3D virtual world of Second Life. A live video stream of a top-notch line-up at the Trinity (Bristol, UK) was sent to a venue in Second Life that was specially dressed for the event. Live feeds from Second Life were then beamed back into the venue onto huge projector screens and interactive kiosks were provided for those who came to the event to experience Second Life in real life.

For more details, refer to this archive of the DROID microsite.