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The radio. For many of us it’s nothing more than a simple household appliance that spits out all types of programmes or super tunes. Some us might also consider it an excellent medium for information and alternative culture, although there’s little doubt that most of us don’t know the slightest thing about the millions of possibilities offered by radio waves.
The cornerstone of futurism, the manifest “La Radia”, first saw the light of day in 1937. This vanguard artistic movement was principally based in Italy and was backed by artists like Marinetti, Masnatta or the director of the eternal masterpiece “Metropolis”, the German Fritz Lang.
December 1998 saw the appearance of a thought-provoking project in Austria whish basically picks up on the philosophy of “La Radia”. It brings it up to date and anchors it to multiple and diverse projects on radio creation. A monthly “on air” gallery where all types of live or pre-recorded projects are made welcome. All the ideas are based on the concept of radio as a open, flexible and contemporary medium. The people responsible for these miscellaneous projects are involved in disciplines like video creation, music, literature, etc… but they all come together under a new conception Radio art.
Projects like “Artsat”, where Richard Kriesche managed to transmit a video with a picture of his hand to the MIR station by using radio waves, or “Razionalnik”, where musicians in different countries played a concert simultaneously by using telephone lines connected to a telecommunications post that had previously belonged to the extinct USSR. This post was recycled by KUNST RADIO in 1987 and is used to broadcast different sound experiments. A lot of these experiments are in collaboration with different cultural entities, both official and unofficial (universities, galleries, museums, free radios,...).
"Wireless"
The use of radio waves is also behind another project, focused on cyberspace this time. “Wireless”, a people’s free net, set in motion outside the world of business and integrated in the anti-globalisation movement. Local news and current affairs united by radio waves and it’s for free. The future is almost here and you’ll hear all about it on the radio. Don’t say we never told you!
ACOUSTIC SPACE.LAB
The symposium was centred around a 32 meter radio telescope - formerly a Soviet military antenna -at Irbene, Latvia and ended with an international streaming event in Riga. Taking off from the experiences and possibilities of the Internet and the notion of an "horizontal radio", i.e. radio as communicationsmedia making full use of its synchronous and asynchronous potential, the symposium Acoustic.Space.Lab investigated the real and metaphorical scope of the past and present of an "Extended Radio".
This programme aims to develop a cross-disciplinary platform, to explore the social and creative potential of sound and acoustic environments, to formulate relations between data streams and radio waves, and to develop collaborative broadcasting and streaming strategies alongside socially dynamic communication.
The radio. For many of us it’s nothing more than a simple household appliance that spits out all types of programmes or super tunes. Some us might also consider it an excellent medium for information and alternative culture, although there’s little doubt that most of us don’t know the slightest thing about the millions of possibilities offered by radio waves.
The cornerstone of futurism, the manifest “La Radia”, first saw the light of day in 1937. This vanguard artistic movement was principally based in Italy and was backed by artists like Marinetti, Masnatta or the director of the eternal masterpiece “Metropolis”, the German Fritz Lang.
December 1998 saw the appearance of a thought-provoking project in Austria whish basically picks up on the philosophy of “La Radia”. It brings it up to date and anchors it to multiple and diverse projects on radio creation. A monthly “on air” gallery where all types of live or pre-recorded projects are made welcome. All the ideas are based on the concept of radio as a open, flexible and contemporary medium. The people responsible for these miscellaneous projects are involved in disciplines like video creation, music, literature, etc… but they all come together under a new conception Radio art.
Projects like “Artsat”, where Richard Kriesche managed to transmit a video with a picture of his hand to the MIR station by using radio waves, or “Razionalnik”, where musicians in different countries played a concert simultaneously by using telephone lines connected to a telecommunications post that had previously belonged to the extinct USSR. This post was recycled by KUNST RADIO in 1987 and is used to broadcast different sound experiments. A lot of these experiments are in collaboration with different cultural entities, both official and unofficial (universities, galleries, museums, free radios,...).
"Wireless"
The use of radio waves is also behind another project, focused on cyberspace this time. “Wireless”, a people’s free net, set in motion outside the world of business and integrated in the anti-globalisation movement. Local news and current affairs united by radio waves and it’s for free. The future is almost here and you’ll hear all about it on the radio. Don’t say we never told you!
ACOUSTIC SPACE.LAB
The symposium was centred around a 32 meter radio telescope - formerly a Soviet military antenna -at Irbene, Latvia and ended with an international streaming event in Riga. Taking off from the experiences and possibilities of the Internet and the notion of an "horizontal radio", i.e. radio as communicationsmedia making full use of its synchronous and asynchronous potential, the symposium Acoustic.Space.Lab investigated the real and metaphorical scope of the past and present of an "Extended Radio".
This programme aims to develop a cross-disciplinary platform, to explore the social and creative potential of sound and acoustic environments, to formulate relations between data streams and radio waves, and to develop collaborative broadcasting and streaming strategies alongside socially dynamic communication.
- www.kuntsradio.at/SPECIAL/XR/
- www.acoustic.space.re-lab.net/
- www.madridwireless.net
- www.piratetv.net
