Willem de Ridder - presentation + screening of Here is Always Somewhere Else: The Life of Bas Jan Ader :: April 12, 2008; 6:00 pm :: TELIC Arts Exchange, 975 Chung King Road, Los Angeles, CA :: Due to the size of the installation of the Gravity Art exhibition (open until April 26), seating is extremely limited; you can reserve a seat by making a $5 donation to TELIC.

Willem de Ridder has been pioneering his entire life in the arts and the media. In the beginning of the sixties he brought in Holland all the modern young composers together in the MES (Mood Engineering Society), which resulted in the very first art performances and happenings. Continue reading

“The performance-, theatre- and radio-art group LIGNA (formed 1997) consists of the media theorists and radio artists Ole Frahm, Michael Hüners and Torsten Michaelsen, who work in the FSK (Free Broadcaster Combine), a non-commercial, local radio in Hamburg. LIGNA repeatedly design experimental situations which aim for the transgression of the conventional application of radio technology and the re-actualisation of its inherent, but forgotten or ignored potentials.The action Radioballet took place in the main station of Hamburg and one year later in Leipzig. Both spaces had been recently privatised and subject to control by surveillance cameras and security guards. Continue reading

Call for Contributions: free103point9 Transmission Art Archive - A participatory online initiative toward defining the genre :: Deadline: March 15, 2008 :: free103point9 defines Transmission Arts as a conceptual umbrella that unites a community of artists and audiences interested in transmission ideas and tools. This genre encompasses a diversity of practices and media working with the idea of transmission or the physical properties of the electromagnetic spectrum. Transmission art is generally a participatory live-art or time-based art, and often manifests as radio art, video art, light sculpture, installation, and performance. Continue reading

Hidden Histories :: Launch: March 14, 2008; 11:00 am - open ended :: The walk begins in and around the proposed ‘Cultural Quarter’ on Above Bar Street and the Civic Centre complex. You can experience the walk 24 hours a day, 7 days a week through any FM radio receiver or mobile phone with radio capacity. Route maps and radio units can be hired from Southampton’s Tourist Information Centre from March 17. A limited number of or radios will be available for borrowing. Please bring a portable radio or an FM enabled mobile phone.

The Solent Centre for Architecture + Design, in partnership with London based media art innovators Hive Networks and artist Armin Medosch, have been working with Southampton City Council’s Oral History Unit on Hidden Histories, a unique project that turns the city itself into a giant outdoor gallery. Continue reading

Multiplace Network Culture Festival #7 - telematic networking, imaginary broadcasting, experimental mobility :: April 26 - May 3, 2008 :: CALL FOR ENTRIES - Deadline: February 29, 2008.

Multiplace 2008 invites artists and cultural workers to submit events / performances / installations / ideas of a networked character, such as online performances, streaming and radio projects, collaborative networked projects and workshops, or the works accessing the networks within a physical location, urban space or between remote venues. Use of digital technologies is not a crucial requirement.

Submitted projects will be proposed to participating venues and organisers. These will assist in providing the infrastructure (technical equipment, internet connection, material, staff, etc) for the project (if needed). Continue reading

NOW 2008 :: November 29 – December 1, 2007 :: Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB), Montalegre, 5. 08001 Barcelona, Spain.

This fourth edition of NOW explores three dimensions of the new urban condition: the conquest of the radio-electric space, the recovery of the public space and the city as an ecological challenge. Imminent changes in the way digital society is managed, resistance to the depoliticised city and the challenge of sustainable urban development are three interconnected processes that require greater knowledge, creativity and commitment from more and more citizens. Continue reading

Upgrade! Brussels/Ghent :: October 28, 2007; 3 - 7 pm :: Where :: OKNO (2nd floor), Koolmijnenkaai 30/34 – Quai aux, Charbonnages, Brussels 1080 [tram 18 and metro Graaf van Vlaanderen / Comte de Flandres] :: Free :: Organized by so-on and hosted by okno. Supported by :: the Flemish Authorities (Vlaamse Gemeenschap) and the Vlaamse Gemeenschapscommissie (VGC).

network performance: I’m sitting under an antenna okno - 3-4 pm: As part of the Radiophonic festival and the opening of the new space, OKNO presents I’m sitting under an antenna. Four locations connect over the free wireless network Reseau Citoyen. They form a sonic link, streaming their sounds to one another, performing together on the rhythm of the network. For OKNO, Isjtar researches virtual cities, that grow and pulse, perturbated by the other parts of the chain. Continue reading

“Moving away from the creation of recognizable works, art becomes an experimental territory for producing subjectivities – according to the “ethico-aesthetic paradigm” of Felix Guattari.2 But what does that paradigm entail? How do forms of contemporary artistic practice lead their participants outside the dominant modes of subjectivation? How do they lend a different structure to cooperation? How do they take up threads from the past, displacing them onto the terrain of experience? Makrolab is a collaborative project that emerges from the vision of the Slovene artist Marko Peljhan. It offers some answers to these questions – singular answers. Continue reading

An animated public art installation, Semaphore is located on the top floors of Adobe’s building in San Jose, continuously represents an encoded message. it consists of 4 orange illuminated discs that rotate every 7.2 seconds, along with a soundtrack available in the immediate proximity on AM 1680 radio.

San Jose Semaphore is a permanent public artwork created by artist Ben Rubin. It was commissioned by Adobe Systems Incorporated in collaboration with the City of San Jose’s Office of Cultural Affair’s Public Art Program.
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Rubén Ortiz-Torres - Power Tools :: The United Nations Plaza Radio Network, WUNP – 95.2 FM :: July 28, 2007, 6PM CEST (Berlin) :: Hosted by neuroTransmitter.

Taking cue from the subtitle of Rubén Ortiz-Torres’ blog, Saturday’s conversation is a live rant about art and culture across borders in the post colonial era. Ruben Ortiz-Torres was born in Mexico City in 1964 and has been living / working in Los Angeles since 1990. He was educated within the utopian models of republican Spanish anarchism confronted by the tragedies and cultural clashes of the post colonial third world. After giving up the dream of playing major league baseball, he decided to study art. Continue reading