Call for Radio Art-Proposals

Radio_Copernicus is an independent and transnational experiment. Its topic is the artistic use of radio’s electroacoustic spaces and materials as well as its diverse communication architectures and its metaphorical potential. Radio_C is dedicated to the multitude of aesthetic concepts and strategies of the digital age and will, at the same time, value the history of radio art and sonic media art in general. This will make Radio_C an art event in itself.

Radio_C will be on air from mid-July to the end of December 2005. The progam cooperates with media art and music festivals in Poland and Germany, such as “garage”/Stralsund, “Warsaw Autumn” and “Dis_Positionen”/Academy of Arts, Berlin. In early December 2005 the project will organize an international symposium dealing with the topic of independent artists’ radio in Wroclaw/Poland.

Radio_C will be on air temporarily during the time of the festivals. Also, it will be constantly available as an Internet livestream for the international community. It will broadcast in Polish, German and English, and will cover a broad range of artistic categories, with spoken word based art forms and presentations being as important as experimental music, hoerspiel and sonic media art.

The project considers itself part of the recent movement of independent art und cultural radios, such as Resonance.fm, Reboot.fm, Soundscape.fm and many others. It relates to an idea of the Hamburg based sound artist Felix Kubin. Radio_C?s aim is to strengthen the artists? access to radio, and seeks to join the political claim for independent artists? radio?s access to frequency and broadcast.

Productions and projects, which deal with radio’s communication architecture, telematic media or want to connect radio with activities in public space are especially welcome.

Also submitted can be radio art pieces, earplays, sound art etc., which are already produced, up to a maximum length of 85 min.

Please, submit proposals for the first two transmission sets (July-September) until May 16 to:

Studio Radio_Copernicus
Universit?t der K?nste
Lietzenburger Str. 45
D-10789 Berlin
Germany

Contact: Sabine Breitsameter info[at]radio-copernicus.org