Join us in celebrating some exciting news!
Commencing in January, free103point9 will be in residence at the Ontological Theater at St. Mark’s Church. This partnership is being formalized to foster a mutually complimentary and inspiring collaboration, which began in 2006 with participation in the Ontological’s second Noise! festival, a program of their acclaimed Incubator series. With free103point9 transitioning from eleven years of city programming out of a small studio space in South Williamsburg, Brooklyn; this partnership is an exiting leap into a venue superbly equipped for performance and exhibition.

Join us in raising a glass to the exciting events planned for the coming year and the publication of pieces by and about Richard Foreman in PAJ volume 90, Stick around for the first evening of NYC Radio Festival 2008: Radio Theater featuring work by 31 Down and Japanther (8 p.m., free admission). Each year free103point9 will organize several events produced at and in association with the Ontological Theater including:

Noise!: a three-night multi-arts spring festival designed to promote interest in new forms of sound art.

Radio Festival NYC: a three-night to one-week fall festival featuring radio art and experimentation, manifesting in performance, installation, and presentations.

Radio Labs: Seasonal workshops provide participants with the technical skills and historical/theoretical grounding pertinent to transmission media in hopes of fostering creative expression within and with the transmission spectrum.

About Ontological Theater
Artistic Director Richard Foreman founded the Ontological-Hysteric Theater in 1968 with a mission to make high-quality, intellectually resonant work for a large and diverse audience. Foreman's "total theater" unites elements of the performing arts, visual art, music composition, philosophy, psychoanalysis and literature to produce a unique result. Core programming consists of Foreman's theater pieces with over 50 original shows created in the last 40 years. In addition, the theater focuses on fostering the work of emerging artists who follow in Foreman’s compositional performance-making footsteps through its Incubator programming. http://www.ontological.com

About free103point9
free103point9 is a non-profit arts organization, with locations in upstate New York and New York City, focused on establishing and cultivating the genre Transmission Arts. 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. free103point9 activities support and promote artists exploring transmission mediums for creative expression. free103point9's programs include public performances and exhibitions, an online radio station, the free103point9 Transmission Artists, an artist residency program, grant opportunities, a distribution label, an education initiative, a sculpture garden, a study center, and an online archive. http://www.free103point9.org

Special Giant Ear))) broadcast with new works by Hunter College Integrated Media Arts MFA students related to NYC soundscape. Following New York City sanitation workers on various routes around the city...life on a decommissioned barge in Gowanus...health care technicians who spend their days around the constant deafening drone of an MRI machine...and other slices of sonic city life.

free103point9 is pleased to again participate in the Friendly Fire section of the NY Art Book Fair; Printed Matter's annual fair of contemporary art books, art catalogs, artists' books, art periodicals, and 'zines offered for sale by over 120 international publishers, booksellers, and antiquarian dealers. Admission to the fair is free. FAIR HOURS
Friday/Saturday, October 24 & 25, 2008, 11am - 7pm
Sunday, October 26, 2008, 11am - 5pm

BENEFIT PREVIEW
Thursday, October 23, 2008, benefiting Printed Matter, Inc.
6 - 9 pm, admission to preview

free103point9 is pleased to announce the 2009 Distribution Grant for New York State Artists providing support for the distribution of new works in film, video, sound, new-media, and media-installation. This grant is for completed works only.

On November 13th, Galen Joseph-Hunter (Executive Director, free103point9) will introduce this regrant opportunity as well as the application process. A conversation about the distribution and exhibition of media art will follow. Panelists include: Rebecca Cleman (Director of Distribution, Electronic Arts Intermix); Amanda McDonald Crowley (Executive Director, Eyebeam); John Mhiripiri (Director of Administration & Exhibitions, Anthology Film Archives); Michael J. Schumacher (Diapason Gallery & DRAW); and Milton Tabbot (Senior Director, Programming, IFP - Former Regrant Administrator). This event will be streamed online and archived at www.free103point9.org.

About the Distribution Grant

Funding is available from free103point9 through a regrant from New York State Council on the Arts’ Electronic Media and Film Program. Grant awards will assist artists in making works available to public audiences and may include, but are not limited to: duplication of previews, screening, and exhibition copies of moving image and sound works; promotional materials including documentation and schematics of media-installation and new-media works. The rental or purchase of equipment for exhibition/distribution by individual artists is also eligible. Artists may request funding support up to a maximum amount of $10,000.

New to the Distribution Grant this year, successful applicants will also be awarded the additional opportunity to work with a project consultant. This mentor will have expertise in the grantees’ specific genre of media art.

Application Guidelines, FAQs, and Resources will be available at http://www.free103point9.org/nysca in November 2008.

Contact free103point9 for more information:
regrant@free103point9.org
(518) 622-2598
(917) 297-1537

Director Richard Foreman and musician John Zorn team up for "Astronome: A Night at the Opera" opening next year at Ontological-Hysteric Theater. Watch video feed of rehearsals and see how Foreman develops this production. Tune in at www.free103point9.org every Wednesday from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Nov. 26, 2008-Jan. 21, 2009 live from the Ontological-Hysteric Theater in Manhattan. No rehearsals Dec. 24, 2008. Show opens in 2009.

“Over the River and Through the Woods…” A reminiscence? An interrogation of the holiday industry? A meditation on rivers and woods? To grandmother’s house we go? Re-making the holidays as you would like them to be as an adult? Perhaps none of these questions will be answered. But is it possible to smell gingerbread cookies while listening to a webcast? Hosted by New York Society for Acoustic Ecology co-chair Jonny Farrow, this show will focus on home recordings, holiday songs, and dusty memories from the shelves of holidays past. So, put on your pj’s, pour yourself a hot apple cider and curl up next to your laptop. NYSAE's weekly, two-hour radio show webcasting recordings of the NYC soundscape, (wo)man-on-the-street public interest interviews, live on-site sound explorations, special guests, and more. New show updated each month.

free103point9 is pleased to announce the 2009 Distribution Grant for New York State Artists providing support for the distribution of new works in film, video, sound, new-media, and media-installation. This grant is for completed works only.

On December 4th, Galen Joseph-Hunter (Executive Director, free103point9) will introduce this regrant opportunity as well as the application process.

About the Distribution Grant

Funding is available from free103point9 through a regrant from New York State Council on the Arts’ Electronic Media and Film Program. Grant awards will assist artists in making works available to public audiences and may include, but are not limited to: duplication of previews, screening, and exhibition copies of moving image and sound works; promotional materials including documentation and schematics of media-installation and new-media works. The rental or purchase of equipment for exhibition/distribution by individual artists is also eligible. Artists may request funding support up to a maximum amount of $10,000.

New to the Distribution Grant this year, successful applicants will also be awarded the additional opportunity to work with a project consultant. This mentor will have expertise in the grantees’ specific genre of media art.

Application Guidelines, FAQs, and Resources will be available at http://www.free103point9.org/nysca in November 2008.

Contact free103point9 for more information:
regrant@free103point9.org
(518) 622-2598
(917) 297-1537