//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/
xchange