For Immediate Release
August 26, 2010

free103point9 is pleased to announce the 2010/2011 AIRtime Fellows:
Lea Bertucci and Ed Bear, Zach Layton, and Phillip Stearns.

The AIRtime program provides artists with valuable assistance with which to concentrate on new transmission works and conduct research about the genre using free103point9's resource library and equipment holdings. Fellows present their work in conjunction with WGXC: Hands-on Radio, a FM radio station and media project in Greene and Columbia counties, upstate New York. Participating artists receive an honorarium, technical and administrative support from free103point9 staff, and are encouraged to archive recordings and other digital media with the free103point9 Transmission Art Archive project.

free103point9 defines “Transmission Arts” as a conceptual umbrella that unites a community of artists and audiences interested in transmission ideas and tools. The genre is informed by an intentional use of space—often the airwaves. Transmission Art manifests in participatory live art or time-based art including radio, video, light, installation, and performance.

About the selected projects:

Lea Bertucci and Ed Bear eXiTrip

Lea Bertucci and Ed Bear’s project breathes new life into the iTrip Nano FM device as a self-contained open-source hardware platform for subversive/creative acts. Approximately fifty artists will be invited to participate. Each will be provided with a modified device with which to create a new work. The projects will be compiled and documented through a multimedia web and print catalog. Write Bertucci and Bear, “We have selected this specific outmoded device, the iTrip Nano FM transmitter, to exemplify the potential impact of re-engineering consumer devices originally destined for landfills. At 40¢ each on Ebay, the low price creates unprecedented distribution opportunities for a low-power transmitter and encourages end-user experimentation. An express goal of this project is to empower artists with diverse technical and economic backgrounds to create works using radio. This constitutes a social experiment involving creative responses to a common tool. The end product, an online and print multimedia book, will provide detailed technical instruction for the iTrip hack, document the resulting artists’ projects, and provide critical and historical context to the newly created work using material in free103point9 archive.”

Zach Layton Megawatt Mind

Using a Biowave EEG sensor, broadcasting over low-power FM transmitters and WGXC’s 3,300-watt transmitter, Megawatt Mind will manifest as a series of experimental transmissions of brainwave sonifications created in real-time during meditation sessions in the broadcast studios of free103point9/WGXC. Writes Layton, “The word transmission takes on an interesting meaning within the context of Buddhist meditation. Specifically, within the Tibetan practices of Mahamudra and Dzogchen, a qualified teacher will offer what is known as a “pointing out instruction‚” (or transmission) introducing the natural state of mind which is considered enlightened by its very nature; luminous, empty, and all pervasive. This luminous nature is said to manifest spontaneously as a field of vibrational frequencies not unlike the broad spectrum of electromagnetic radio waves propagating throughout the earth's atmosphere. Neuroscientific studies of human consciousness have shown that meditation is capable of modulating the various bands of brainwave frequency. This project will explore and amplify the intersection between brainwaves and radio waves.”

Phillip Stearns Deluge

The Deluge project is a sound and light installation that depicts the constant hum of human-made electromagnetic radiation around us as a shower of raining light. A cloud of small lights (LEDs or small incandescent bulbs) is created from numerous strands suspended from the ceiling, containing varying numbers of lights at varying lengths. Each strand of lights is associated with a point source of sound emanating softly from a speaker located at the top. The sounds for each strand are sourced from transmissions selected from the broad electromagnetic spectrum we use for radio communications: AM, FM, Short Wave, and Wireless frequencies. Each strand will measure the intensity of activity on its specific frequency of the broad radio communications spectrum, counting micro events and presenting them on the strand as a long binary number. The visual effect is that light will appear as though it is raining downwards and accumulating in columns, continually cycling through, becoming fully lit for a brief instant before going dark and beginning again. Writes Stearns, “The air around us is brimming with electricity and the sound of life. All we have to do is tune into the right frequency and we will never have to feel alone.”

WGXC Radio Barnraising, September 24-26, 2010 Hudson, NY

All three AIRtime Fellows will participate in the WGXC Barnraising September 24-26, 2010, presented with Prometheus Radio Project. A program of free103point9, WGXC: Hands-on Radio is a community-run media project. Over 78,000 potential listeners will be able to receive WGXC’s FM signal in New York’s Greene and Columbia counties, on 90.7-FM. Barnraising participants will join hundreds of community media experts and volunteers from around the country in bringing the voices of upstate New York to the airwaves. More information and registration details: http://www.free103point9.org/events/2306

The 2010/2011 AIRtime Fellowship panelists included: Bill Brown, Max Goldfarb, and Sabine Gruffat.

About free103point9

Founded in 1997 as an artists' collective creating works for radio transmission, in 2002, free103point9 became a nonprofit arts organization focused on cultivating and defining the genre Transmission Arts. Based in upstate New York, free103point9’s major programs include the in-progress Transmission Art Archive, a definitive resource featuring artists, works, and exhibitions and events that define the genre and place it in a historical context; WGXC: Hands-on Radio, a creative community FM radio station serving Greene and Columbia counties; and the facilitation of a NYSCA Distribution Regrant for individual artists.

free103point9 is supported with public funds through the Electronic Media and Film Program of the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency; the Public Telecommunications Facilities Program through National Telecommunications and Information Administration at the U.S. Department of Commerce; and the Greene County Legislature through the County Initiative Program, administered in Greene County by the Greene County Council on the Arts. Additional program support is provided by Experimental Television Center; harpofoundation; the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation; the Joseph Family Charitable Trust; India Richards; and other generous individual donors. Past programs have been made possible by the Peter Norton Family Foundation; Meet The Composer's JPMorganChase Regrant Program for Small Ensemblesthe National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency; CEC ArtsLink; Mondriaan Stichting; the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs; a matching grant from Public Radio Capital, with funds provided by the New York State Music Fund; the Brooklyn Arts Council JPMorgan Chase Regrant Program; the Puffin Foundation; and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

Contact:
Galen Joseph-Hunter, Executive Director, free103point9
gjh [a] free103point9.org
(518) 622-2598 / (917) 297-1537

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A Roundup of Online Art Radio.

A nice list of radio art resources courtesy Ceci Moss for Rhizome...

from
Lo Audley
+++AIR is everywhere.+++
www.airmedia.org

From Earth to Sky! AIR’s Sounds Elemental with Harvestworks

New York City
November 15-19, 2010

We’ve completed our first 2010 summer intensive focusing on “earth” with high marks from attendees, from “a remarkable opportunity to return to the wellspring of the craft” to “I found the Q&A with Amy O'Leary super valuable for thinking about the future of audio journalism and journalism in general.”

Grab one of 10 available slots for our second week-long immersion – this time the focus is on “sky.” It’s a unique way to treat yourself to a deep dive into unconventional approaches to assembling sound and telling story. The cost is $650. AIR members who are accepted are eligible for a stipend to help underwrite the cost of the intensive and travel to NYC.

Producers benefit from intensely individualized attention from renowned sound artists-teachers, NYC-based composers and performers Michael Schumacher, Hans Tammen (Harvestworks) and Brenda Hutchinson (AIR), plus New York Times new media editor Amy O’Leary.

THE DEADLINE FOR APPLYING IS THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30.


Learn more, and – most importantly – apply now: http://www.airmedia.org/PageInfo.php?CatID=5&PageID=562

To listen to previous work and to hear interviews from past Sounds Elemental participants, visit: http://www.airmedia.org/AIRblast/audio/AIRmuse_May09.mp3

OPEN CALL RESIDENCY 2010 / 2011

WHO: Artists working in any media with a strong experimental practice.
WHAT: Two residencies - 1 - 2 weeks per residency
WHERE: APO33, Nantes, FRANCE
WHEN: between October 2010 and July 2011.

RESIDENCY: APO33 invites artists throughout the year to develop work in situ, that take risks with the space and the artists own approach to his/her practice. The residency will usually allow 1 week for development and installation of projects and during the second week the space will also be open to the public. APO33 will provide technical assistance to artists and expert assistance to those using digital media open to exploring FLOSS software and programming tools. In addition artists are invited to give a public talk around their practice at APO33.

APO33 will pay travel costs and provide accommodation as well as a small production budget to be discussed with the Artist.

APO33 a not-for-profit association/artists collective founded in 1997. APO33 research practices cross philosophy, poetry, visual, sonic art and anything else that may arrive through collaborative working. APO33 projects often use networked and physical spaces, develop tools (hardware/software) for its creative projects and the FLOSS (Free/Libre Open Source Software) community of artists and programmers.

http://www.apo33.org

HOW TO APPLY:

Send an email with the following information included to: residence2010@apo33.org

FULL NAME (+ ALIAS if applicable)
EMAIL
COUNTRY & CITY OF RESIDENCE
DESCRIPTION OF PROJECT
TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS
IMAGES OR LINKS TO PREVIOUS WORK
URL
ANY OTHER INFORMATION IN SUPPORT OF YOUR APPLICATION

DEADLINE: 15th August

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APO33
space of research and experimentation
http://www.apo33.org
info@apo33.org

Radio Silence explores the silent moments of talk-radio, combining eight AM broadcasts into an expanded conversation based on the “negative spaces” between words.

A pause in conversation might indicate the end of a thought or an opportunity for reflection and response. A pause in a radio broadcast offers different potentials: As radio listeners, we can’t respond but we might exercise our only form of interactivity: changing the station. On commercial radio, moments of silence are minimized to avoid losing listeners. Broadcasters use digital time-compression to shorten their programming and leave more time for advertising, and some have experimented with tiny “blip ads” to monetize every last second of the broadcast day. In Radio Silence, pauses are treated as opportunities to probe the neighboring airwaves in search of other conversations. Over time, it surveys the spectrum of viewpoints currently on the air, weaving them together through the intersections of a shared linguistic device.

http://www.zachpoff.com/site2/projects/radio-silence

The Technical Assistance fund assists non-profit media arts organizations in NYS with issues of organizational and professional development.

Guidelines and application are available online at http://www.experimentaltvcenter.org

The TA Program is supported by the Electronic Media and Film Program at the New York State Council on the Arts. The final deadline for ETC's 2009-2010 program year is July 1, 2010.

Site-Specific Installation and Performance Tours featuring Audio Sculptures Hung in Trees Collecting Solar Power and Blooming with Light and Sonic Tapestries via FM Transmissions

FREE EVENT: rsvp@me-di-ate.net
Festival Page: http://www.projectsoundwave.com/2010/june17/
Festival website: http://www.projectsoundwave.com

Location: Civic Center Plaza
Installation Viewing: 4:00p - 7:00p
Tours & Artist Talks: 7:00p & 8:30
Infoline: 415.320.6685 or fest@projectsoundwave.com

Artist:
Brett Ian Balogh www.brettbalogh.com

Brief:
Inflorescence 2010 is a free site-specific sound and performance installation by artist Brett Ian Balogh. Balogh will create a composition by installing invented audio devices (“florets”) that are programmed to respond to and participate in outdoor processes. The florets are hung from Civic Center trees around the entire plaza. The florets collect solar power until sunset, when they will then “bloom” by emitting light and transmitting an impressive sonic tapestry via low-power FM transmissions.

Inflorescence 2010 asks us “What is the sound of leaves breathing, or of decaying compost?” Balogh aims to bring these natural processes to the ear. Each floret’s sensor interacts with the environment, creating an electric signal. These signals are amplified and/or used to modulate a sound producing circuit. The nature and the quality of the sounds are composed by Balogh and will be chosen to complement the surrounding soundscape.

Transmitting power will be low in order to create micro-environments that require movement and exploration by the audience. After each performance, Brett will lead an artist talk about his work..

Note: Audiences are encouraged to bring FM radios to listen to the environment created by the composition. We will also supply a limited number of radios.

INFLORESCENCE 2010 is supported in part by Meet the Composer MetLife Creative Connections Program

INFLORESCENCE 2010 is part of the Soundwave Festival ((4)), entitled GREEN SOUND running June 6 to August 13 2010. GREEN SOUND explores the natural world and environmental sustainability through innovative,  interactive and experiential performances and exhibitions by over 75  local and international musicians from across the sonic spectrum  (experimental to classical to popular music), sound artists, visual  artists and filmmakers.

Festival website: http://www.projectsoundwave.com

JOIN NINA KATCHADOURIAN
FOR A FOUR-DAY RETREAT
The Millay Colony for the Arts
454 East Hill Road
Austerlitz, NY 12017
http://www.millaycolony.org/workshops

WITH 12 HOURS OF WORKSHOP TIME, A PRIVATE BEDROOM & STUDIO & ALL MEALS...
MAKE WORK, CONVERSE, CONVENE, PERAMBULATE, MEDITATE, EAT DELICIOUS FOOD & OTHERWISE DELIGHT...

June 30th - July 3rd
Family: Artmaking
with Nina Katchadourian

This subject is something that is often (un)comfortably close at hand, rich with potential, and complicated to work with. The workshop aims to take an objective view of the topic on one hand, by looking at the work of artists (Janine Antoni, Patty Chang, Richard Billingham, Sally Mann, Gillian Wearing and Neil Goldberg among others) who have taken it up from a variety of proximities, but also to delve into the deeply subjective. This presents challenges: how do you allow an unknown viewer access to a story you are so close to? How do you prevent the personal from becoming solipsistic and self-indulgent? Working with this subject can obviously be personal, but it can also be a way to explore broader subjects concerning genealogy, history and origin, and the question of what it means to "be related" to someone in the first place.

The workshop is not restricted to any one medium and a cross-disciplinary approach is welcomed. Although not required, participants are encouraged to bring family documents that hold particular allure from them as possible starting points to work from.

Nina Katchadourian works in a wide variety of media including sculpture, photography, video and sound. Several times, she has worked with her family directly in collaboration (such as in "Accent Elimination," where she and her parents worked with a professional voice coach to acquire each other's accents) or other times by examining a family document in depth ("The Nightgown Pictures," based on a photo-document made by her grandmother about Katchadourian's mother). Other projects, such as "The Genealogy of the Supermarket," looks at the way family is portrayed through the images of people that appear on common grocery store products. Katchadourian was born in Stanford, California and grew up spending every summer on a small island in the Finnish archipelago, where she still spends part of each year. She is based in Brooklyn, NY. Her work has been exhibited domestically and internationally at places such as PS1/MoMA, Artists Space and SculptureCenter in New York, the Serpentine Gallery, London, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego. In 2006 the Tang Museum in Saratoga Springs, New York exhibited a 10-year survey of her work and published an accompanying monograph entitled All Forms of Attraction. Katchadourian is represented by Sara Meltzer gallery in New York and Catharine Clark gallery in San Francisco. More information on Katchadourian's work can be found at www.ninakatchadourian.com.

The Oracle - Art that uses the airwaves. By Shana Johnson.

The Contemporary Art Museum (CAM) dedicated Friday night to the opening of its new exhibition “Broadcast” — which employs radio and television for other forms of artistic expression.

The installations of “Broadcast” vary from flat-screen televisions showing documentary videos to nontraditional sculptures. Art and non-art majors alike can meander throughout the gallery and contemplate the exhibition’s meaning.

The multimedia art show surroundings of “Broadcast” promote visitor interaction.

The exhibition includes “WCBS Radio Caroline, The Voice of the New Free State of Caroline.” This work of art is a fully functional, legal pirate radio station — legal since it is located on USF’s property and its reach is limited to the campus.

Gregory Green, a USF art professor and the artist of “WCBS Radio Caroline,” said that his piece “challenges the power of established broadcasting channels by turning over content control to individuals.”

Visitors can become radio DJs on 99.1 FM and broadcast a free range of content.

“Anything goes,” Green said.

Anyone can sign up to broadcast. There is no fee to participate, and the only requirement is the ability to operate the turntable, tape decks and other equipment without damaging it.

Kelsey Smith, a senior majoring in international studies and a student of Green’s, took advantage of the interactive opportunity by hooking up her iPod to the piece of art.

She said playing her hip-hop music over the airwaves was empowering — and not something she would expect to do at an art museum.

Another interactive feature within “Broadcast” is “Guide by Cell,” a phone-activated tour narration voiced by Irene Hofmann, the exhibition’s curator and Baltimore Contemporary Museum’s executive director.

Visitors can call 813-282-1126 to listen to information on featured works and artists — using displays with corresponding prompt numbers.

“You’re able to walk through and listen at your leisure,” USF Institute for Research in Art associate director Alexa Favata said.

CAM has been using “Guide by Cell” for about two years on different exhibitions, and there is no charge aside from using cell phone minutes.

Don Fuller, CAM’s new media curator, said that exhibition pieces are chosen based on their relevance to students and social issues.

“It’s more than pretty pictures on a wall,” Fuller said.

“Broadcast” explores the theme of mass media’s power. Fuller said some of the featured artwork undermines the authority that television and radio have within society.

Nam June Paik, one of the first artists to use video camera material as art, challenges the authority of late-’60s presidential news conferences in “Video Tape Study No. 3.”

Siebren Versteeg’s piece “CC” mocks the self-importance of evening news broadcasts by using Internet chat room dialogue as closed-captioned text beneath a muted Anderson Cooper.

Versteeg and Green were both present at Friday’s opening to talk about their work.

“We embrace the fact that we can have access to living artists,” Favata said. “It is fine to read about art, but the opportunity to question an artist about what he or she does — and find out what motivates them and what issues are important to them — is an invaluable opportunity.”

Favata said that CAM hopes to increase its prominence on campus. She said she wants students other than art majors to be aware of the museum’s exhibitions and events.

“Many students do not even know where CAM is located,” Favata said.

Yet Favata also said that participating in the Week of Welcome, along with using sites like Facebook and Twitter, has proven successful in spreading the word across campus.

“Broadcast” is a traveling collection from Independent Curators International (iCI), who work with practicing artists all around the world.

It will be on display at CAM until Aug. 7, and the museum’s hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday.

CAM is located near the Marshall Student Center, between the Fine Arts and Dance buildings.

For more information on the exhibition, call CAM at 813-974-4133 or visit ira.usf.edu.

The AIRtime program provides artists with valuable assistance with which to concentrate on new transmission works and conduct research about the genre using free103point9's resource library and equipment holdings. Fellows present their work in conjunction with WGXC: Hands-on Radio, a FM radio station and media project in Greene and Columbia counties, upstate New York. Fellows receive an honorarium, and technical and administrative support from free103point9 staff. Participating artists are encouraged to archive recordings and other digital media with the free103point9 Transmission Art Archive project.

free103point9 defines “Transmission Arts” as a conceptual umbrella that unites a community of artists and audiences interested in transmission ideas and tools. The genre is informed by an intentional use of space—often the airwaves. Transmission Art manifests in participatory live art or time-based art including radio, video, light, installation, and performance.

Schedule & Fees

The 2010 deadline is July 15th. Fellowships span an 10-month period, and take place September 2010 through June 2011. Fellows will participate in the WGXC/Prometheus Radio Project Station Barnraising, September 24 -26, 2010, as well as have an opportunity present/perform/exhibit their completed projects in the spring of 2011. This program is designed to accommodate artists who have other committments during the fellowship period; specific scheduling of research trips and public programs will be determined in collaboration with successful Fellows after the selection process.

Each AIRtime Fellow is awarded an artist fee of $1,000. At this time additional funding for travel expenses is unavailable.

Eligibility

This is an international open call for proposals. Artists pursuing an AIRtime Fellowship should either posses a significant body of past transmission-based work, or a compelling argument in support of their future work within the transmission art genre.

Full-time students without a significant history of artmaking outside their studies are considered ineligible.

Requirements

Fellows will be given the opportunity to present their work in at least two public settings. Presentations may include workshops, artist talks, performance, and/or installation. Applicants should be committed to participating in this aspect of the program.

Review Process

Applications will be reviewed by free103point9 staff for completeness and guideline compliance.

All eligible applications will then be reviewed by a review panel comprised of free103point9 staff, Board members, and past AIRtime artists. The review panel convenes in July, with grantees announced in August. The names of the panelists for each cycle remain confidential until after the grants are announced.

More information and online application: http://www.free103point9.org/apply/airtime/

Live Interactive Residency

Do you want to spend 10 weeks in Seattle, the "City of Music," working with a dynamic team at one of the most cutting-edge public radio music stations in the country?  AIR is so pleased to be working in partnership with KEXP-FM to offer two producers a shot at AIR's "Live Interactive" residency. We'll choose one resident for fall 2010, and another for early 2011.

The residency comes with a $5600 stipend for ten weeks.

Are you the one?
We're looking for someone who is primed to experiment with new ways to take sound, music, and story beyond the broadcast signal. The producer, once chosen, will work with AIR and KEXP staff to hone a project they'll focus on. The ideal Live Interactive candidate is:
•   Passionate about learning
•   An outstanding team player
•   Looking for the next step in his/her career
•   Someone whose friends say "you're so creative!"
•   Passionate about “ear” work and the craft of sound
•   Experienced producing for radio, or public media venue
•   Recognized for having high standards in ethics and work quality
•   Able to work both independently and as part of a tight team
•   Comfortable with learning through his/her mistakes
•   Flexible and knows how to roll with the punches

We encourage the AIR resident to:
•   Collaborate with producers throughout the world via AIR’s social network, the AIRDaily
•   Experiment with bringing live broadcast material to other platforms
•   Invent new, deeply engaging ways to tell story and present sound
•   Blog about their experience

When: Fall 2010, Early 2011
Duration: Ten weeks

How to Apply:
Fill out an application form. THE APPLICATION DEADLINE IS JUNE 11, 2010. We will review every application we receive. Because of the volume of responses, we may not be able to contact every applicant personally. If we are interested in a follow-up interview, we will contact you by mid-July. If you have questions, you may contact AIR at erin@airmedia.org.

Contact:
Erin Mishkin, Membership Director
Association of Independents in Radio, Inc.
erin@airmedia.org

About KEXP:
KEXP is an influential, non-commercial radio station based in Seattle and supported through financial contributions from listeners worldwide. Over the last three decades, KEXP has built a reputation as a purveyor of new and emerging artists and musical forms. Today, KEXP programs a rare mix of music spanning multiple genres and brings listeners more than 400 live, in-studio performances each year.

Recommended listening:
Live:  http://www.KEXP.org
KEXP documentaries: http://www.kexp.org/learn/documentaries.asp

Links:
Application: www.airmedia.org/PageInfo.php?PageID=571
AIR: www.airmedia.org

+++AIR is everywhere.+++
www.airmedia.org

Support for AIR comes from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Recovery.gov, the National Endowment for the Arts, The Robert Davoli and Eileen Mc Donagh Charitable Foundation, and the members of the Association of Independents in Radio, Inc.

May 24, 2010
Brecht Forum
451 West Street (between Bank & Bethune)
7:30pm
$6-10 sliding scale, no one turned away for inability to pay

Featuring presentations by Julia Weist, Public Library of American Public Library Deaccession and Andrew Beccone, Reanimation Library with a group discussion afterward, moderated by Emily Drabinski.

Julia Weist will discuss her project The Public Library of Public Library Deaccession, an artistic attempt at documenting and re-purposing information about 5,000 books deselected from public
libraries between 2005-07. Consisting of both a physical library and an online database, the P.L.P.L.D., sought to highlight the obscure, trivial and misleading so as to better understand the relevant, the beautiful and the true. The presentation will also include a screening of Weist's short film by the same name, in which withdrawn books were reintegrated in Brooklyn communities through mobile library units stationed in municipal spaces.

Andrew Beccone is the founder and director of the Reanimation Library, a small, independent library in Brooklyn. The Reanimation Library is a collection of books that have fallen out of mainstream circulation. Outdated and discarded, they have been culled from thrift stores, stoop sales, and throw-away piles across the country and given new life as resource material for artists, writers, and other cultural archeologists. Beccone will provide a general overview of the library and will also address the social value of salvaging, re-cataloging, and making available materials that might otherwise be forgotten.

Emily Drabinski is an instruction librarian at Long Island University. She is co-editor of Critical Library Instruction: Theories and Methods (Library Juice Press, 2010).

http://radicalreference.info/brechtforum/spring10/discards

with Stefanie Alisch und Nanna Lüth

13. - 16. May 2010
(Thursday: 2 to 7 p.m., Friday 4 to 8 p.m.,
Saturday/Sunday: 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.)

Ages: 13 to 100,
Contribution/person: 5 - 15 €
Transmission at UKW 106.5 or online at www.oeins.de:
Sunday 3 to 4 and 5 to 6 p.m.

This year's International Museum Day is themed "museums for social harmony". This claim and the events taking place in and around the Edith Russ Site for Media Arts is our starting point for a radio workshop. Within 4 days young adults and adults learn how to create and produce an interactive radio show. The show will be broadcasted on Sunday on the local radio station Oeins and can be received directly in the Edith Russ Site for Media Arts as well as at home. The radio program may be a mixture of reports, interviews, music, phoning-in activities, sound collages and mediation experiments.

All visitors of the museum are invited to bring their own (if possible battery-powered) radios and to listen to the program and eventually follow the broadcasted instructions. It is possible to participate in several ways and consequently "social harmony" can be tested and altered. You can also borrow radios in the museum.

Contact: vermittlung-erh@web.de or Tel. 0441-2353208

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Edith-Ruß-Haus für Medienkunst
Katharinenstraße 23
D-26121 Oldenburg
fon: +49 (0)441 - 235 25 68
fax: +49 (0)441 - 235 21 61
info@edith-russ-haus.de
www.edith-russ-haus.de

Tuesday May 25, 2010 21.30-22.00: Audio visual television performance within the program "Sound and Television". On Danish nationwide digital television on the regional channels. Copenhagen: Kanal Hovedstaden. Fyn: TV Fyn. Midtvest: TV Midtvest. Bornholm: Kanal Bornholm. Nord: Kanal Nord. Syd: Kanal Syd. Øst: Kanal Øst. Østjylland: Kanal Østjylland.

"As a Transmission Art series, Sound & Television invites artists who work with the materiality of audiovisual flows to realise performances exploring the performativity of television: not live on TV, but live as TV. During six half-hour long television transmissions, a group of Danish and International artists develop performances where the transmission itself becomes the artwork. The performances all reflect on different significant aspects of the changing conditions of broadcasting. In the new DVB-T (digital terrestrial television) environment, the very transmission format of TV has changed, from symmetric analog to asymmetric data flows, encoded in the MPEG format and decoded through software implemented in everything from flat-screen TV's, set-top-boxes and PC's. "The cracking of LCD screens"...all is not smooth in this world of digitally compressed TV, as ROSA MENKMAN shows in a performance based on her Glitch Studies Manifesto, creatively appropriating the hidden error-spaces accidentally opened up in new forms of encoding-decoding."

27-04-2010___AYMERIC MANSOUX
04-05-2010___DEMOCRATIC INNOVATION feat. LAMBURG TONY
25-05-2010___ROSA MENKMAN
01-06-2010___SVEN KÖNIG
08-06-2010___JACOB KIRKEGAARD
15-06-2010___VICKI BENNETT aka PEOPLE LIKE US

Writes Erin Mishkin, Membership Director, Association of Independents in Radio:

Sound : [Slides] : Sounds Elemental
Apply for AIR's June and November Sounds Elemental producer intensives.
Slots limited. Move now.

We have a new and exciting addition to our upcoming Sounds Elemental: Earth intensive with Harvestworks in New York City. Guest instructor Amy O'Leary, new media editor at the New York Times, will drop by for an afternoon mini-dive into audio slideshow production. She'll take the class through the basics of tools and techniques, building out the sound the of earth assemblage to another, increasingly popular media platform. Read on for more details about our popular week-long intensives and information on how to apply.

We’re looking for 10 producers to step into the void as AIR, in conjunction with Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center in New York City, once again offers two week-long intensives for mid to advanced level audio producers. You do not have to be a member of AIR to apply. This opportunity may be especially appealing to those working primarily in traditional narrative and documentary formats eager to experiment with unconventional approaches to assembling sound and telling story.

This program, entering its 4th year, boasts a diverse and exciting roster of alumni working across a broad range of disciplines, from ATC and Marketplace reporters to musicians and sound artists.

We will accept 10 students through a competitive application process for each class: Sounds Elemental: Earth, to be held June 21-25, 2010, and Sounds Elemental: Sky, to be held November 15-19, 2010 at Harvestworks in New York City. The cost is $650. AIR members living outside of New York City who are accepted are eligible for a small stipend to help underwrite the cost of the intensive and travel to NYC.

We will accept applications for both sessions now.

>> THE DEADLINE FOR APPLYING FOR THE JUNE SESSION, SOUNDS ELEMENTAL: EARTH IS MONDAY, MAY 3. <<

Producers benefit from intensely individualized attention from renowned sound artists-teachers, NYC-based composer and performer Michael Schumacher, Harvestworks’ Hans Tammen, New York Times new media editor Amy O’Leary, and AIR member Brenda Hutchinson who teaches and performs extensively around the U.S. and overseas.

Visit our website to learn more and apply.

Links:
AIR: www.airmedia.org
Harvestworks: www.harvestworks.org
To apply: www.airmedia.org/PageInfo.php?CatID=5&PageID=562

Writes EMPAC:

"We are pleased to announce our first summer lab for interactive media in performance to be held August 16-22, 2010. Directed by Johannes Birringer and Mark Coniglio, the workshop offers intensive training and possibilities for experimentation with mixed reality and real time architectures, programmable environments, interactive design and the integration of time-based media into live performance and installation. The workshop addresses emerging and professional art practitioners, scientists, researchers, and students from different backgrounds in performance and new media committed to sharing their interest in developing a deeper understanding of composing work focused on real time, interactive or time-based experiences and multidisciplinary collaborative processes (video, sound processing, projection design, lighting, choreography, and directing). Résumé and informal letter of application are due by June 30, 2010. More information on this workshop can be found on the EMPAC website."

Sabine Gruffat and Bill Brown seek proposals for the Bike Box, a participatory locative media project and database enabling users to receive geotagged audio in public spaces around Williamsburg, Greenpoint, and the riverfront. The Bike Box database will feature sound art, audio tours, field recordings, radical histories, experimental music, and audio interviews related to Greenpoint and Williamsburg.

The Bike Box launches at Devotion Gallery in Brooklyn in July 16th-25th, 2010. Three technology-enhanced bicycles will be available to the public as well as free software for the iPhone enabling users to connect to the project database and hear sounds geocoded for specific locations in the target area. An installation inside the gallery will also broadcast sounds culled from the database.

Sabine Gruffat and Bill Brown will be in New York June 25th to work with artists/scholars/curators who would like to use the Bike Box as a platform for all kinds of sound art ideas.

Individuals and collaboratives are invited to contact Sabine Gruffat and Bill Brown via email before June 25th.

contact[at]sabinegruffat.com

Additional information about the Bike Box project is available at:

http://www.sabinegruffat.com/BIKEBOX.html

http://free103point9.org/events/2248/

Atlantic Center for the Arts 2010 Masters Artists-in-Residence Program

Residency #138
JUNE 28 - JULY 18, 2010

WALLY CARDONA, choreography
JOSH DAVIS aka bit.shifter, 8-bit music composition
JONATHAN HOROWITZ, visual arts

Application Deadline EXTENDED to April 9 (postmarked)
Special Funding now available for composers and visual artists.
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Since 1982, Atlantic Center's residency program has provided artists from all artistic disciplines with spaces to live, work, and collaborate during three-week residencies. Located just four miles from the east coast beaches of central Florida, the pine and palmetto wooded environment contains award-winning studios that include a resource library, painting, sculpture, music, dance and writers' studios, a black box theater, and digital computer lab. Each residency session includes three master artists of different disciplines. The master artists each personally select a group of associates - talented, emerging and midcareer artists - through an application process administered by ACA. During the residency, artists participate in informal sessions with their group, collaborate on projects, and work independently. The relaxed atmosphere and unstructured program provide considerable time for artistic regeneration and creation. Atlantic Center for the Arts provides housing (private room/bath with work desk), weekday meals (provided by ACA chef) and 24-hour access to shared studio space. Financial Aid is available to qualified applicants.

For more information on how to apply, please visit www.atlanticcenterforthearts.org, or email program@atlanticcenterforthearts.org or telephone ACA at (386) 427-6975 or (800) 393-6975 (domestic US only).

All composers accepted into Residency #138 will be recommended to receive a Sally Mead Hands Foundation Scholarship (covering full tuition) to attend the residency program.

Painters and sculptors accepted into Residency #138 will be recommended to receive a Joan Mitchell Foundation Scholarship (covering up to full tuition, based on financial need) to attend the residency program.


"Close your eyes and imagine being in a tropical verdant jungle, birds sing, the sun shines and the idea of the inner city seems remote, distant. You are in this jungle with a group of people you have never met before and upon arrival you discover that you have everything in common, shared artistic and intellectual concerns, politics and a sense of humour. Your meals are provided and shared, you have an equipped studio, a private room to sleep and bath and three weeks to deeply engage in the process of making new work, stimulated by your peers and without distraction. Paradise, that's ACA..."
Paulette Phillips
Associate Artist-in-Residence, October 2009

* All applications must be RECEIVED by the application deadline date.

t. 386.427.6975 / 800.393.6975 | f.386.427.5669 | e. program@atlanticcenterforthearts.org
Atlantic Center for the Arts | 1414 Art Center Avenue | New Smyrna Beach, Fl 32168

ETC's Media Arts Technical Assistance Program
Deadline: April 1, 2010

The TA fund assists media arts organizations in working with outside consultants on issues of organizational and professional development.

Guidelines and application are available online at http://www.experimentaltvcenter.org

The TA Program is supported by the Electronic Media and Film Program at the New York State Council on the Arts.

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