AV Festival 08 is a biennial international festival of electronic art, moving image and music. This year it takes place from 28 Feb - 8 March 08 in the North East of England (Newcastle, Gateshead, Middlesbrough, Sunderland) and is on the topic of broadcasting! It features Marko Peljhan (Slovenia), Harun Farocki (Germany), Tetsuo Kogawa (Japan), Autechre (UK), Joyce Hinterding (Australia), Yuko Mohri (Japan), Jean-Jacques Perrey (France), Chris Watson (UK), People Like Us (UK) and many many others. The full programme can be downloaded or viewed from the AV website. Continue reading

You’re Not My Father, by Paul Slocum, [Requires Quicktime plugin] is composed of a sequence of recreations of a 10 second scene from the television show Full House, overlaid with sound loops from the scene’s original music. The crews who re-shot the scene were recruited through Internet message boards and Craigslist; each was paid $150. Instructions for shooting the scene and delivering the footage were issued to the crews. To-date, the project includes participants from Austin, Cincinnati, Chicago, Dallas, Denton, London, and San Francisco. Continue reading

HACK and INTERACT with the UK SOUND TV website! Do you want to break into interactive web design and technology? Are you also interested in urban street culture — music, fashion, film and more?

UK Sound TV is looking for trainees for their HACK AND INTERACT: UK SOUND TV programme. 4 highly motivated trainees will be chosen to work at Space Media Arts in Hackney to learn about and create interactive, cutting-edge web 2.0 broadcast sites like MySpace, YouTube and Blogger and integrating these platforms with mobile phone and ‘bluetooth’ broadcasting technologies. Trainees will gain hands-on technical skills and industry insight, working towards an Arts Awards accreditation to add to your CV, big up your university application, or give you a first glimpse into your future career. Continue reading

Shut Out at Radio, Emerging Artists Turn to TV; From Reuters, April 19, 2007; By Chuck Crisafulli.

The head bops. The toes tap. One after another, hot new songs by cool new artists are kicking through the speakers. Yes, you’re watching television. Increasingly, new work by up-and-coming recording artists can be heard throughout all kinds of TV programming: as part of the soundtrack to network dramas and cable comedies; as an ear-grabbing element of promos for upcoming shows; and as a sly underscore to all manner of advertising. As mainstream radio has become more strictly formatted and risk-averse, placement on television has become a key and coveted way for a largely undiscovered band or songwriter to break out. Continue reading