free103point9 is pleased to present three transmission installation works by artists 31 Down, Paul Davies, and Tarikh Korula, as part of this year's Bushwick Art Project festival. Transmission Arts is defined as a conceptual umbrella that unites a community of artists and audiences interested in transmission ideas and tools. Transmission practices harness, occupy and/or respond to the airwaves that surround us. There is an inherent "liveness" to this work. In a performance-based setting, audience members are newly engaged, becoming participants rather than passive viewers and listeners. Installation or sculptural transmission works are often dependent on the present, reacting to whatever occupies the surrounding frequencies in a single instance, or changing that information by adding new signals to the spectral environment.

31 Down, Wanderlost

31 Down is a Brooklyn-based theatre group that uses radio transmission to expand the traditional boundaries of the performance stage. In Wanderlost, 31 Down tackles personal privacy issues and the paranoia surrounding new technologies by eavesdropping on live police scans to search for clues in the world of the dispatcher. Employing the central motif of a 1940s-style detective radio program featuring the fictional case of missing nightclub singer Helen Tremble, Wanderlost creates a tension between fact and fiction.

Paul Davies, Prayer Antenna

As part of his ongoing series, "Religious Technological Artifacts," New York-based Canadian artist Paul Davies presents Prayer Antenna. In the form of an ornately ordained helmet that has the appearance of a porcupine with antennae quills, Prayer Antenna is fitted with sufficient surveillance technology to receive signals from the gods. As Davies writes, "The Prayer Antenna allows visitors, or 'supplicants,' to put their heads into the helmet to receive sounds in the right ear from the God of the Right Shoulder, and in the left ear from the God of the Left Shoulder."

Tarikh Korula, Chop 10

Exploiting the techniques of current commercial radio practice, Chop 10 re-mixes a live, dynamic assemblage of commercial radio streams as a commentary on the current state of regulated radio. As Chop 10 moves from one Arbitron-rated Top Ten radio station in New York City to the next, the hyper "scan" makes it impossible to discern any single station's content, resulting in a jumpy, never-ending parody of commercial radio.

Wanderlost, Prayer Antenna, and Chop 10 were first shown as part of the exhibition Airborne co-organized by free103point9 and the New Museum of Contemporary Art, spring 2005.

Schedule

TRANSIENT DAY :: PHOTO LAB
05:00 pm Craig Colorusso
05:30 pm Judd Greenstein
06:00 pm Mechanique(s)
06:30 pm Miya Masaoka
07:00 pm Richard Chartier (line)
07:45 pm Keith Fullerton Whitman (kranky)

TRANSIENT NIGHT :: PHOTO LAB
09:15 pm Katamine
09:45 pm Stars Like Fleas (praemedia)
10:30 pm Change The Station
11:15 pm Mon.Key.Pod
12:30 am David Linton, Charles Cohen & Matty Ostrowski Trio
12:30 am Nate Boyce
01:15 am Lance Blisters
02:30 am Harkness AV Salon

NEW MEDIA PROGRAM
04:00 pm Heather Delaney
04:00 pm Geoffrey Bell
04:00 pm Leah Beeferman & Michelle Higa
04:00 pm Jared Lamenzo, Maya Marinelli & Liubo Borissov
04:00 pm Jessica Findley
04:00 pm Gregory Shakar
04:00 pm Ernesto Klar
04:00 pm Phoenix Perry
04:00 pm Nomad
04:00 pm Christina Graf
04:00 pm Marie-Christine Katz
04:00 pm free103point9
04:00 pm Aki Sasamoto & Dan St. Claire
04:00 pm Laura Cavalieri
04:00 pm Jake Klotz
04:00 pm Douglas Henderson
04:00 pm Gaby Steiner & Raphael Zwyer
04:00 pm Jamie Burkart
04:00 pm FeedTank
04:00 pm Christina Vantzou
04:00 pm Marta Lwin
04:00 pm Chris Klapper
04:00 pm Nemo Hoffman 04:00 pm Patrick Aloysius Gallagher
04:00 pm Jerry Hoyt
04:00 pm Rafael Fuchs
04:00 pm Suneet Sethi
04:00 pm Jean Haluska
04:00 pm Zohar Kfir
04:00 pm Tristan Perich

VIDEO PROGRAM - A
04:00 pm Nurit Bar-Shai & Kleoni Manoussakis: The Subway Show
04:00 pm Adi Shniderman & Merav Ezer: Air Condition
04:00 pm Antonin De Bemels: Light Body Corpuscles
04:00 pm Ido Fluk: Polar Bears
04:00 pm Beth Warshafsky: Anthrodance variation #1
04:00 pm Rotem Tashach: 3-O
04:00 pm Jamie Hitchings: Video Quilt
04:00 pm Jean-Gabriel Periot: DIES IRAE
04:00 pm Kleoni Manoussakis: The Rescue Boat
04:00 pm Guy Ben-Ner
04:00 pm Benton-C Bainbridge

SONANCE DAY :: FLOOR 3 :: AREA A
06:00 pm Richard Garet, Ian Epps, Shimpei Takeda, Andy Graydon, MPLD & Ben Owen
07:00 pm Calmer (polyvibe)
07:30 pm Benoit Pioulard (kranky)
08:10 pm Landau Orchestra (merck records)
09:10 pm Helios (type records)
09:55 pm Praveen (percussion lab)

SONANCE NIGHT :: FLOOR 3 :: AREA A
10:15 pm Bubblyfish
11:00 pm Machinedrum (merck records)
11:45 pm Lusine (ghostly international)
12:45 am Insideout & Camea (clink recordings)
01:45 am Ryan Elliott (spectral sound)
03:15 am Ryan Crosson (m-nus)
04:30 am Hakan Lidbo (force tracks)

VIDEO PROGRAM - B
04:00 pm Torsten Z. Burns and Darrin Martin: I am Today's Lesson Plan
04:00 pm Ernest Gusella: Video-Taping
04:00 pm Nate Boyce: Dual Ghoul
04:00 pm Vibeke Sorensen: Panini Stickers
04:00 pm Steina & Doris Cross: Lilith
04:00 pm Tom DeWitt, Vibeke Sorensen and Dean Winkler: Tempest
04:00 pm Phyllis Baldino: 19 Universes / My Brother
04:00 pm Takeshi Murata: Monster Movie
04:00 pm Ed Emshwiller: Sunstone (Exerpt)
04:00 pm Scott Stark: Shape Shift

MODULATION :: FLOOR 3 :: AREA B
10:30 pm Handshake (chaise)
11:15 pm RJ Valeo (type records)
12:00 am David Last (goosehound)
01:00 am Nicholas Sauser (goosehound)
02:15 am Tim Xavier (ltd-400)
03:30 am Nick AC (robots)
04:45 am Wolf + Lamb (wolf + lamb)
06:00 am eVa & Igal (loft-n-space)

VIDEO PERFORMERS
04:00 pm Lovid
04:30 pm Robert Dennis
05:00 pm Adam Kendall
08:10 pm Ilan Katin
09:10 pm Camy Lee
10:15 pm Chika
10:30 pm Paris Treantafeles
11:00 pm Josh Ott
11:30 pm Chika
11:45 pm Eric Dunlap
12:15 am Ilan Katin
01:00 am Josh Ott
03:30 am Jon Lippincott
04:30 am Vade
06:00 am Chika

INTONATION DAY :: FLOOR 3 :: AREA C
08:00 pm Vortex & Adam Kendall
08:30 pm David First
09:00 pm Fair Use Trio
09:30 pm Ray Sweeten
10:00 pm Bruce Tovsky

INTONATION NIGHT :: FLOOR 3 :: AREA C
11:00 pm Morgan Packard vs superDraw (microcosm music)
11:30 pm Sawako (12k)
12:15 am Pandatone (neo ouija)
01:00 am Ezekiel Honig (microcosm music)
01:45 am Khonnor (type records)
02:30 am DJ Rhyzome

VIDEO PROGRAM - C
ITP DIGITAL MARKET
04:00 pm The Loud Objects (itp showcase)
04:00 pm Amit Pitaru (itp showcase)
04:00 pm Heather Dewey-Hagborg (itp showcase)
04:00 pm Ariel Efron (itp showcase)
04:00 pm Christian Croft (itp showcase)
04:00 pm Marta Lwin (itp showcase)
04:00 pm Michael DelGaudio (itp showcase)
04:00 pm Jou Youn Paek, Leif Krinkle & Gabe Barcia-Columbo (itp showcase)
04:00 pm Ryan Holsopple (itp showcase)
04:00 pm Giana Gonzalez (itp showcase)
04:00 pm Ernesto Rios (itp showcase)
04:00 pm Toshiaki Ozawa, Mushon Zer Aviv & David Nolen (itp showcase)
04:00 pm Mike Reger (itp showcase)
04:00 pm Rocio Barcia (itp showcase)
04:00 pm Langdon Crawford (itp showcase)
04:00 pm Chetan Mangat (itp showcase)

ABOUT FREE103POINT9
(www.free103point9.org)

free103point9 is a non-profit media arts organization focused on establishing cultivating Transmission Arts. This genre includes experimental practices in radio art, video art, light sculpture, and installation and performance utilizing the wireless spectrum. free103point9 programs include transmission-based public performances and exhibitions, an experimental music series, an online radio station and distribution label, an education initiative, and an artist residency program and study center.

Founded in 1997 in Brooklyn, NY as a microcasting artist collective, free103point9's mobile operations made airtime available to community voices, local bands, and most significantly to a group of under-served artists shaping conceptual works specifically for radio transmission. Today free103point9 maintains two locations in New York. free103point9 Wave Farm (Hudson Valley/Catskill Region) is a 30 acre property home to a summer performance series, artist residencies, skill shares, and special Online Radio performances. The Wave Farm Study Center, opening in 2007, will house reading, listening, and viewing libraries; a performance/gallery spaces; a recording studio; and future artists-in-residence. The free103point9 Project Space, located in Brooklyn, provides a vital meeting place for transmission artists and audiences.

ABOUT BUSHWICK ART PROJECT
(www.bushwickartproject.org)

The Bushwick Art Project (BAP), a non-profit organization, is dedicated to the advancement and promotion Electronic Music, New Media, and Digital Art. Drawing from regional and international talents, BAP Events and Curated Programs serve as creative laboratories where existing and emerging artists support and influence each other through the free exchange of ideas and technical resources.

Our mission is to expose artists to the cutting edges of creative expression by hosting events that highlight the use of new technologies in art and music. We import talent from around the world to influence and inspire the amazing range of talents located within our own community. Our goal is to establish a creative front in the heart of the post industrial zone of Bushwick, an open forum for artists to expand their creative vision and express their ideas through the innovative use of technology and all the artistic mediums.