//Wireless Taps & Short Wave Commotions//

[anna balint]

//Wireless Taps & Short Wave Commotions//

Wireless Taps & Short Wave Commotions is an exchange project between Riga 
(Latvia) and Rotterdam, consisting of a workshop, a party and a
presentation. The common denominator is an investigation of the
possibilities 'old' and 'new' broadcasting technologies (short wave radio, 
streaming media, wireless technology) have on offer for the forging of new 
alliances between artists, VJs, DJs, media critics and activists.

Workshop: real-time video and audio
Wednesday 26 and Thursday 27 September 2001, 11.00 - 18.00 hours.
Location: V2_Organisatie, Eendrachtsstraat 10, Rotterdam
Participation at invitation, lurkers welcome
Latvian, Rotterdam, and Belgian artists of various disciplines and
backgrounds experiment with real-time video and audio processing (i.e. the 
live manipulation of sound and image). The input is derived from radio 
telescopes, scanners, antennas, computers - the output surprises you with 
new images, sound and live streaming.
With a.o.: Signe Pucena (LV), Ieva Rubeza (LV), DJ Brain (LV), Oskars
Poikans (LV), Martins Ratniks (LV), Girts Korps (LV), Miks Mezitis (LV),
Paulis Liepa (LV), Martins Dumins (LV), Voldemars Johansons(LV), Linnards 
Kulless (LV), Jaanis Garancs (LV), Laura Sulca (LV), Irina Gorbatova (LV), 
Aleksandrs Ganza (LV), Andrej Savitsky (BY), Martiens go home (B), DJ Nurse 
(B), Guy van Belle (B/NL), Lucas van der Velden (NL), Gideon Kiers(NL), 
Martin de Korte (NL), Martijn van Boven (NL), Derek Holzer (US/NL), Zina 
Kaye (AUS), Mr. Snow (AUS)

Party: featuring HIP HOP LV & guests
Friday 28 September 2001, 21.00 hours.
location: Off_Corso, Kruiskade 22, Rotterdam
admission: fl. 15,-
A night of inter-cultural jamming, featuring experimental audio and video 
by local and international guests.  Presentation of workshop results, 
followed by a special set if HIP HOP LV: VJ Martins Ratniks, DJs AG&Raitis 
and MC Roberts Gobzins aim to popularise the phenomenon of local Latvian 
culture by using codes of contemporary dance music.
Screening of video documentary 'Latvian Waves' by Sara Kolster (NL) and
presentation of 'TEMPT' by Barkode (NL) in the lounge.

Presentation
Sunday 30 September 2001, 14.00 - 17.00 hours.
location: V2_Organisatie, Eendrachtsstraat 10, Rotterdam
admission: fl. 10,-
Despite the growing use of internet communication, broadcast radio waves
still remain the most effective way of reaching the largest percentage of
the world's population.. The development of radio communication has,
analogous to the Internet, its roots in military technology. Artists,
activists and theoreticians continuously seek new ways to examine different 
aspects of the radio spectrum.
Guests:
Derek Holzer (USA/NL)
Is a sound and radio artist, and founder of the Czech internet broadcasting 
project Radio Jeleni. His most recent project is the Acoustic.Space.Lab, a 
collaboration with RIXC (Riga).
Rasa Smite (LV)
Is a media artist, organiser and net activist, based in Riga, Latvia. 
Together with Raitis Smits and Jaanis Garancs she initiated E-LAB in 1996 
and The Center for New Media Culture RIXC in 2000. Since 1997 she works 
towards the development of experimental internet radio, and co-founded the 
Riga internet radio OZONE, the publication on new media culture and net 
audio- "The Acoustic.Space", and the international net.broadcasters' 
network and mailinglist XCHANGE.
Robert Adrian (A/CDN)
Is a Canadian artist living in Vienna since 1972. He has been working with 
communication technology since 1979 and initiated and managed the 
Kunstradio website from 1995 till 2000. He has also continued to work with 
different media including installation, model making, photography, 
painting, sculpture and computer.
Nik Gaffney (AUS/B)
Is a systems and media researcher, and a founding member of FoAM in
Brussels, Belgium. With farmersmanual and radioqualia, he has been involved 
in some of the early internet based sound feedback cycles involving 
narrowcast and broadcast models (net.radio); other experiments have 
involved publicly accessible web interfaces to live radio (fm), and many 
distributed performances.

Bookmarks
Acoustic Space Lab Symposium
http://acoustic.space.re-lab.net/
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