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