[-empyre-] April on -empyre- Web.cast/Net.radio - Slip.stream of the Net

[Felix Sattler <felix@querformarte.de>]

Dear -empyreans-,

after we all enjoyed a very comprehensive and also intimate insight 
into the work
of four South American net.artists I am now lucky to present the theme 
and
guests for April.


>>> Web.cast/Net.radio - Slip.stream of the Net <<<

With »r a d i o q u a l i a«  (UK) and »pingfm« (DE)


Brecht's dream about a democracy in broadcasting may be coming true.

For a networked, global community of artists and activists, webcasts and
net.radio intertwine different formats such as audio, still & moving 
image
and text within realtime performance spaces, or "temporary autonomous 
zones"
(hakim bey).

Honor Harger & Adam Hyde (UK) from »r a d i o q u a l i a« , together 
with
Jan Brueggemeier, Lars Mai and Sebastian Seidel from »pingfm« (DE), are 
among the
outstanding creators in these new zones.

With them, we will explore some exciting questions.

Does the webcast itself support a unique aesthetic via  streaming data
reduction, transmission artifacts and recursive processing?

For the global media scene, how does  net.radio affect media activism,
tactical media and open source research?


I am happy to further introduce the guests with some biographical notes 
below.
Their opening statements will give detailed insight into their current 
practice and
raise more questions as the basis for the discussion.

This month, please join Honor, Adam, Jan, Lars and Sebastian for a fresh
exploration of the slipstream of the net on -empyre- soft-skinned space


Best

Felix


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r a d i o q u a l i a
(http://www.radioqualia.net ) experiments with the concept of artistic 
broadcasting,
using the internet and traditional media forms, such as radio and 
television, as
primary tools.  We are also interested in ways that audio can be used 
to illuminate
abstract ideas and processes.  We work in gallery, performance, 
broadcast and publishing
contexts.

r a d i o q u a l i a's work has been exhibited at the New Museum of 
Contemporary Art
in New York; the Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria; Gallery 9, 
Walker Art Center, USA;
Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff, UK; Sonar 2001 in Barcelona, Spain; 
VideoPositive2000 in
Liverpool, UK; the Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts, Tokyo, Japan;
Infowar - Ars Electronica 98 and LifeScience - Ars Electronica 99 in 
Linz, Austria;
the Bregenz Festival 98 in Austria; Iona Gallery, Scotland; the Lux 
Centre in London, UK;
the Experimental Art Foundation in Adelaide, Australia; CACSA in 
Adelaide, Australia;
The Physics Room in Christchurch, New Zealand, and the HDLU in Zagreb, 
Croatia, among other places.
r a d i o q u a l i a have lectured and taught internationally at the 
American Film Institute,
Los Angeles; the University of Amsterdam, the Banff Centre of the Arts, 
Canada;
the Museum of Science and Technology, Vienna, Austria and many other 
contexts.

r a d i o q u a l i a are currently producing a major project about 
radio astronomy with the
support of the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and 
Technology.
r a d i o q u a l i a were awarded the Leonardo-@rt Outsiders 2003 New 
Horizons Prize
together with the participants of the Open Sky installation in 
September 2003.

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pingfm
(http://www.pingfm.org) focusses on the live production of audio and 
video.
from the early beginning in 2000 the members of pingfm have
been fascinated by three modes of working with streaming media over,
around and within networked areas:
their aesthetics, their global interaction and their potential
of linking up different formats such as club, theatre,
concert, cinema, radio, installation, performance etc.

pingfm has organised events, festivals and conferences
like ping_in_progress,weimar (2001);
strategic media deployment conference, weimar (2002);
NOBORDER-Camp Radio, Strassbourg (2002)
or pauseandplay-exhibtion,weimar-recife (2003/4).
for more information see http://pingfm.org/history
aside that pingfm.org offers platform for loosely associated
as well as core-members and for collective as well as individual
projects. we enjoy working in cooperations. we work with different
groups of people on a more or less regular basis.

as one of our collective activities our regular webcasts take place
- every sunday night from 20-22 CET.
we are a member of DFM radio television international, http://DFM.nu, 
and
radiostudio.org, the experimental radio of the Bauhaus University 
Weimar,
germany. in our sunday shows we focuss on the live-production of ecletic
audio-mixes, drawing upon various sources of audio-material from our
mediated environment

Currently, the sunday broadcasts are coordinated from weimar, germany 
and
recife, brazil.
we are interested in any kind of programme contribution and love to 
share
our air- and onstream-time as well as server-capacities with you
-feel free to email us at ping at pingfm dot org.

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