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XL experiment: Re-invention of radio
Excerpt from introduction:
The 40th birthday of Radio Študent is a nice opportunity to put to good use some of the non-conventional usages of radio as media - and it was exactly this radio station that was on the forefront of experimentation in the last 40 (XL) years. Though always inspired by the individualistic initiatives of various generations of collaborators of Radio Student - never fully aware of each other - they successfully added some difference to the ever-present "sameness". They crossed the borders of conventional media - and then moved onwards to the experimental artistic expressions. Still, the XL Experiment at Kapelica Gallery will not deal with historic timelines.
After 40 years it is time to put forward some practical actions, some research and also some critical discourse and views on advanced (and retroactive!) approaches - along with the use of inter(active/net)multimedia - usually in artistic ways. Sacred wish is to locate the meaningful focuses and combine it with the necessary technology - to get the natural approach to contemporary radio media - as an intermultimedia platform. So we broadcast live, archive on the fly, resample it as we like - and rebroadcast again - as simple and fast as possible. The basic principle of radio has always been the shortest time from production to performing/publishing.
The intermultimedia platform in Kapelica can be seen as a »sono-broadcasting and sono-recording radio-cinematographic station (remote recording and transmitted sound and vision)«, that was proposed by Tziga Vertov at the First all-Soviet conference for the sound motion film, about eighty years ago. The question, that here we only ask, is: Why was Vertov\'s proposal - though even at that time technologically possible - not accepted until this date? And, of course, here we enter the domain of ideology, economy, politics and finances; and consequently: into the domains of open source code, DIY, hacking, hackivism (hacking activism) and the creative commons principles of (self-)organisation - because this principles are always political - a call to change the code and the rules, when they block any action.
Invitation for participation:
This is an invitation for your remote participation at an event in Ljubljana in Kapelica Gallery. If you have an ongoing event inside the dates below - even better!
The keyword here is XL Experiment - Re-inventing the radio - pointing to the 40 years of our local radio station Radio Student. The title appeared recently as a book published by Kunstradio. But since the principle of re-invention is echoing in other heads also, we decided to use it as a metaphore - linked with some of todays visions of Radio Student.
From 3rd to 8th May 2009 we will be feeding multimedia platform with public events (from 20.00 CET to 24.00 CET) - concerts, performances, presentations, debates, workshops, ... and less public - ethereal (from 0.00 CET to 6.00 CET - in the night) - that we will broadcast directly to airwaves (and netwaves) of Radio Student.
You are invited with any kind of interventions: as participants in debates, as remote performers, presenters, as a broadcaster of your event. The preferences are in this order: live action, combined (sampling) action, recorded action - and this will of course depend on what is offered. The languages of communication are any of those that we can understand (well, the CE english...). The languages of artistic expression can be any of those that allow artistic expression (...).
The international broadcast platform will be multimedia (ogg/theora streaming) - sound and vision (= television?) and the interventions will be archived and put online. If you are able to participate with sound and vision - great! We can accept all the streaming solutions and will provide some additional streaming means for your use.
The internal (human) structure is horizontal (collaborations, recombinations, events as modules, self-production, sharing, creative-commons, open-source-code, hacking, do-it-yourself), with some of the vertical cuts in this body (authors artistic interventions). The flow is supposed to be a combination of serial-parallel and the shedule is not too fixed - and is adaptable.
Participants on this side are: Borut Savski, Luka Prinčič, Brane Zorman, Luka Frelih, Maja Smrekar, Bojan Anđelković, Peter Kisin, Miha Tomšič, Arnold Marko, Majda Gregorič, Boštjan Leskovšek, Primož Oberžan, Stefan Doepner, Nina Farič, Orton and others.
The aim is to compress ourselves and our productions in limited space and time and maybe expect amplification - an energy bounce from lower to higher: a quantum leap. As a metaphore, of course. Shared experiences and collaborations (if succesfull) are the potential for the multiplication of similar events in the future (yes: wishful thinking...).
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