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Armin Medosch, Rasa Smite, Raitis Smits, Inke Arns - Waves, The Art of the Electromagnetic Society

HMKV/Kettler, ISBN 9783941100008, Germany, 2008, English
Armin Medosch wisely reminds us in the beginning of his introductory essay that "we've been an electromagnetic society for over one hundred years". Waves are all over us, invisibly filling up the space as more and more electronic wave- emitting and receiving devices surround us. After a historical ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 10:19 PM - Mar 21/2009
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Erik Granly Jensen, Brandon LaBelle - Radio Territories

Errant Bodies, ISBN 9780977259410, U.S.A. / Denmark, 2007, English
This is another essential book for any artist interested in sound, originated by the clever and productive mind of Brandon Labelle, a conceptual experimenter. Labelle extends most of his artistic practices and interests with a good dose of research, publishing precious books on focused themes. This is a ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:32 AM - Feb 18/2009
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H. Grundmann, E. Zimmermann, R. Braun, D. Daniels, A. Hirsch, A. Thurmann-Jajes - Re-Inventing Radio, Aspects of Radio as Art

Revolver, ISBN 9783865884534, Germany, 2008, English
Radio is one of the mediums whose death has been announced many times. But as a phoenix, it systematically arises from its own ashes, finding new embodiments, followers and practisers - in a word, "re-inventing" itself. People from the Austrian Kunstradio know this process very well, having ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:36 PM - Feb 13/2009
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Henrik Rylander - Public Loudspeakers, Information & Disinformation

Kning Disk, ISBN 9789197666701, Sweden, 2007, English
Henrik Rylander is an artist, musician and photographer. This work is a large format book of photographs of loudspeakers taken in the three largest Swedish cities (Stockholm, Göteborg and Malmö) with an accompanying CD. Loudspeakers are revealed as they are: an almost invisible presence, ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:33 PM - Feb 6/2009
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hacktivism . media . preservation . radio . sound

Tantalum Memorial, honoring those who died in coltan wars

Tantalum Memorial, Harwood, Wright, Yokokoji, tantalum_memorial.jpg

"Tantalum Memorial", by the artists Harwood, Wright, Yokokoji is a telephony-based memorial built from a 1938 telephone exchange rescued from the old Alumix factory in Bolzano, Italy which is meant to address the people who have died in the "coltan wars" in the Congo. The project was built from a series of electromagnetic ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 08:26 PM - Nov 19/2008
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literature . media . radio

Street Radio, oral tradition digitally spread

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The public installation project Street Radio has been recently launched by Armin Medosch at the central Southampton railway station, and it'll last till November 2008. Medosch has realized a radio network drawing on Hivenetworks technology and Alexei ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:56 AM - Apr 28/2008
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art . dvd . radio . sound

RT-32 Acoustic Space Lab

dvd - RIXC
Using for artistic purposes a radio-telescope, active during the cold war as an important technological articulation of the Soviet military power, stands out as one of the few cases in the world in converting occult deployments into positive outcomes. Not anymore workable for spying and surveillance ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 03:42 PM - Feb 19/2007
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music . radio . sound

PDradio, transmitting computed sounds in Pure Data format

PDradio, Winfried Ritsch, Georg Holzmann, pdradio.jpg

The ability of electronic media to make any image 'temporary' through its digital visualization follows the temporarity of today's informations and the shift from the stability of printed media to the transient disembodied light of pixels. The displays equipped with a small amount ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 03:49 PM - Oct 25/2005
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Radio Astronomy, streaming from deep space

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One of the peculiar aspects of streamed transmissions is the immediate delocalization of informations, thanks to the pervasive structure of the net which allows a personal and continuous 'international telecast', bringing any local content to screens in remote places. This is true both for video and audio transmissions, with the latter sometimes even more tied ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 03:49 PM - Sep 20/2005
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Radio Astronomy, streaming from deep space

ARTificial Natural Networks, radioastronomy.jpg

One of the key aspects of the streaming transmissions is the sudden de-localization of the information, thanks to the net's scattered structure. The latter allows a personal and continue 'international telecast', bringing any local content on screens placed in remote places. This is true for the video and the audio transmissions, where the latter are often specifically rooted in ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 03:49 PM - May 20/2005
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