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april 05/2007:
on public space and sound practices |
We examine and discuss meshed networks in public space. Artistnetworks
reappropriate public space by means of sound, and comment and annotate
public space by soundtags. Can we speak of hybrid transmission spaces?
Do these mobile modes of exchange provoke new creative practices?
2pm -> 6pm:
Projectpresentations by Tapio Mäkelä; Justin Bennett;
Sarah Washington and Knut Aufermann. Discussion moderated by Annemie
Maes and IRC chat by Dusan Barok.
Tapio Mäkelä: My first radio project was called Sound
Calendar in 1994 with artist association MUU. Sound Calendar consisted
of 24 sound pieces by participating artists, broadcast before morning
and evening news on Finnish national radio and through intercoms
at eight Finnish railway stations. My own piece in the work made
me an accidental radio hacker as it caused a shut down of the entire
Finnish radio network for approximately 10 minutes.
My interest in hybrid uses of radio has to do with combining Internet
radio with listening or participatory interfaces in public spaces.
I am currently developing “Translocal radio workshops”
in two locations in the Barents Sea region. Inter-connected artist
led workshops in Kirkenes (No) and Murmansk (Ru) bring together
media and sound artists and community groups to develop content
locally and across the border. The work is presented through public
events and temporary listening environments as well as through Internet
radio and temporary FM. The workshops are planned for late summer
this year and Spring 2008.
In the summer of 2008 a fourth Polar Circuit workshop will take
place in the Baltic Sea. Concept:Islands, among other topics, invites
participants to experiment with radio and mesh-up networks and alternative
energy solutions.
In both of these workshops I am working on a sound archive with
geo-annotation, not with an interest of GPS as such, but how the
location of samples and interviews can also be a meaningful archival
interface.
www.translocal.net/tapio/CurrentProjects.html
Justin Bennett is an artist and composer working with sound and
visual media. While living in Sheffield in the 1980's he colllaborated
with bands such as Hula, TAGC, and Fabricata Illuminata. Since 1989
he is based in the Netherlands. Bennett is best known for his work
with field recordings, which he uses to create installations, soundwalks,
CD-releases and live performances. Much of his work is concerned
with urban space and the relationship of sound to place. In the
last few years he worked with GEM Den Haag, the CCS, Paris, the
Guangzhou Triennial, moorroom Roma, Sonic Arts Network, UK. Upcoming
projects include a permanent sound work for a public space in The
Hague and a text-based piece for a park in Luxembourg. He collaborates
with, among others, BMB con., Renate Zentschnig, Grand Mal, 242.pilots,
Kreutzerkompani.
www.bmbcon.demon.nl/justin/
Sarah Washington and Knut Aufermann talk about the radio lives and
works that have been encountered by in their last one and a half
years on the road around Europe. Working in more than a dozen countries
and meeting people from all over Europe, visiting their projects,
doing workshops and participating in radio conferences, festivals
and live-to-air events, has give these 'radio gypsies' a unique
overview of the state of experimental radio activity across Europe
today. In this presentation they will also give you a taste of their
own approach to radio production, and demonstrate how their ongoing
enthusiasm for the medium allows them to develop singular radio
events in cooperation with others.
mobile-radio.net
knut.klingt.org/
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mobile-radio.net
Play Radio: 'Studio take-over', live 60min, listen
broadcast on Radio Copernicus (Berlin), 1 November 2005
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