All-day Free Media Workshop on February 16, which focuses on the use of “free-cycled” materials to create new and innovative forms of public infrastructure. Eyebeam and MediaShed participants, together with workshop participants, will present their projects and discuss the idea and application of “free media”. The event will close with public reception celebrating the exchange. Jamie Allen and Tianna Kennedy will hack cheap and accessible radio transmitters to mp3players to use in public space. February 16, 2008 1:00 PM - 6:30 PM 540 W. 21st St. Eyebeam and the UK’s MediaShed a free-media community center in Southend by the Sea, have been working closely on the development of Gearbox, an open-source, online media-making toolkit. On February 2, Eyebeam's Student Residents, Senior Fellows and staff will travel to Southend by the Sea for six days o meet, share practices, and develop collaborative projects using Gearbox. MediaShed youth will travel to NYC on February 12 complete the projects and install them in Eyebeam’s galleries. This exchange will culminate in an all-day Free Media Workshop on February 16, which will focus on the use of “free-cycled” materials to create new and innovative forms of public infrastructure. Eyebeam and MediaShed participants, together with workshop participants, will present their projects and discuss the idea and application of “free media”. The event will close with public reception celebrating the exchange. To take part in the workshop: Teams of two or more will need to sign up in advance with project ideas for public space installations, based on one of the five different free media construction techniques being taught. To register, email: liz AT eyebeam DOT org, subject: Free Media Workshop sign-up. Include in the body of the email a brief description of the project you would like to build/conceptualize, the technique you've selected, and the number of people in your team. This event is free and open to the public. Free Media Workshop Schedule 1PM MediaShed and Forays presentation MediaShed members will discuss what free media is, and why is it important. The artist collaborative Forays will assist with student presentations of collaborative projects from the MediaShed/Eyebeam exchange. Artists and teaching groups will explain how they document and share their work. 2PM Tutorials Introduction to cardboard construction techniques, Shapelock, DIY devices, sign-making, and MovieSandBox. 4PM Production Participants will break into groups to build their ideas with assistance from workshop leaders, and will document this process. The Eyebeam/MediaShed exchange students will go out to find a nearby space to install the structure built during the exchange. 5:30 – 6:30PM Workshop participants and exchange students will upload their projects to the Gearbox website. 6:30PM + Eyebeam/MediaShed exchange closing reception party with informal presentations of workshop outcomes. Construction Techniques Joo Youn Paek's Inflatable Craft Workshop: Making clothing and structures from used plastic bags. Not An Alternative's Spectacle-making via props constructed from cardboard: Build sturdy and attention-grabbing structures using cardboard. Jamie Allen and Tianna Kennedy's Micro-radio Transmission: Hacking and/or building radio transmitter from scratch for use in public space. Jerry Juarez's Shapelock: Learn to mold and build unique and durable structures from the non-toxic and malleable plastic. MediaShed's: DIY Video: Make covert video cameras and equipment from found and inexpensive a/v equipment.

Featuring Zillion. The Somnambutone broadcasts sounds to accompany dreams. This radio series is like a game of telephone, where each original composition is drawn from the last. The sound passes from musician to musician in the hope of replicating the unexpected and consistent changes we see in the dream scape. Tune in every Sunday night at 2 a.m. and close your eyes. The Somnambutone is an audiovisual, unconscious experience. Organized by Sarah Margaret Halpern.

With guest composer Ryan Muller. The Somnambutone broadcasts sounds to accompany dreams. This radio series is like a game of telephone, where each original composition is drawn from the last. The sound passes from musician to musician in the hope of replicating the unexpected and consistent changes we see in the dream scape. Tune in every Sunday night at 2 a.m. and close your eyes. The Somnambutone is an audiovisual, unconscious experience. Organized by Sarah Margaret Halpern.

Webcast of Fried's "Morning Drive Time" show from Brooklyn to NE1FM in Newcastle and Soundscape FM in Sunderland respectively, a Radia programme exchange for the AV festival 2008. Other shows in the series (times are GMT):
Broadcast on NE1FM in Newcastle and Soundscape FM in Sunderland will be:
Tue 4th Mar: L'Homme de la Rue / Grenouille, 4:30pm - 5pm GMT
Wed 5th Mar: Joshua Fried / free103point9, 2pm - 2:30pm
Wed 5th Mar: Le satellite hypnotique / Grenouille, 3pm - 4pm GMT
Wed 5th Mar: Bandidos / Zero, 4pm - 5pm GMT
Broadcast on Soundscape FM in Sunderland only will be:
Sat 1st Mar: Radio Erevan / Corax, 2pm - 3pm GMT (maybe also on NE1FM)
Mon 3rd Mar: Cacophonies / Grenouille, 8:30pm - 10pm GMT
Mon 3rd Mar: Svirachinja / Kanal103, 11:00pm - 1am GMT Thu 6th Mar: Radiologia / Zero, 9pm - 10pm GMT Thu 6th Mar: Tom Roe / free103point9, 10pm - 11pm GMT Sat 8th Mar: Radio Erevan / Corax, 2pm - 3pm GMT (maybe also on NE1FM)

A Benefit for Steve Trimboli of Goodbye Blue Monday
Che Chen (solo:True Primes)
George Steeltoe Ensemble
Parental Suicide Initiative (members of Peeesseye)
Mouthus
DJ Mangoon & Radio Ruido
Trimboli runs the wonderful Goodbye Blue Monday space in Bushwick, has cancer and little money to treat it.

free103point9 is pleased to contribute a program of works for the Video Gentlemen’s BYOTV exhibition at the New American Art Union in Portland Oregon. Artists contributing work to the free103point9 curated program are listed to the right. Stay tuned for additional artists and work details.

About BYOTV: Late March 2008, The Video Gentlemen’s BYOTV network launches a six-week season of special reports engaged with technocultural turnover from analog airwaves. Transmitted from within the New American Art Union, a variety of interdisciplinary artworks, live presentations, and workshops form inquisitive constellations around topics including e-waste, surveillance, haunted media and media archeology.

Low-wattage transmissions emanate from an array of re-configured electronic detritus distributed around the gallery. Telecommunications, and the distance implicit in its operation is countered by a physical proximity prescribed by the limited range of the BYOTV transmissions. Visitors are encouraged to “bring their own TV,” or borrow one from the gallery, intercepting transmissions from their immediate airspace.

Closely scrutinizing the premise of obsolescence, BYOTV tunes into an alternative agenda, encouraging new modes of cultural production, collaboration and exchange.

Thursday, March 27
Friday, March 28
Saturday, March 29
Meet at the Neuberger Museum of Art at 7pm

Join EcoArtTech (Christine Nadir and Cary Peppermint) for three evenings of performances with the Environmental Risk Assessment Rover–AT (ERAR–AT), a mobile, solar-powered, networked video installation that will accumulate and aggregate the environmental threats and risks that Purchase residents face everyday.

What kind of environmental risks does Purchase face? How far is the closest superfund site or nuclear power plant or agribusiness? How do the 148 industrial chemicals already in every American human body interact with the synthetic hormones and antibiotics in the dairy products we eat? How many chemicals are in human breast milk? How do the chemicals in your toothpaste interact with the pesticides on your food? Why has modernity, which was supposed to create a sense of security, produced more anxiety and threats than ever? Can scientific data and research help us understand the “riskiness” of contemporary life?

ERAR-AT performs the difficulty of perceiving, evaluating, and understanding risk scenarios and presents an assessment of its given locale by producing a unique fourteen-tiered threat level embedded live within video projections onto local natural and architectural surfaces.

“Sooner rather than later, one comes up against the law that so long as risks are not recognized scientifically, they do not exist--at least not legally, medically, technologically, or socially, and they are thus not prevented, treated or compensated for. No amount of collective moaning can change this, only science. Scientific judgment's monopoly on truth therefore forces the victims themselves to make use of all the methods and means of scientific analysis in order to succeed with their claims.”
—German risk theorist Ulrich Beck