about
KUNSTRADIO
founded
in 1987, KUNSTRADIO is a weekly program on Oesterreich 1, the cultural
channel of Austrian National Radio, ORF. Conceived as a space for radio
art - i.e. an art that reflects the radio medium itself - this weekly
program has almost from its beginnings become much more than just that:
one of its main functions became that of serving as a point of access
for international visual artists, media artists, composers, writers to
both the production- and transmitting means of the ORF and the
international exchange and cooperation infrastructure of National
Public Radio worldwide (mainly through the Ars Acustica group at the
EBU).
Artists - sensing, before many
of the broadcasters inside the big broadcasting organsitations did, the
fundamental changes digitalisation, the convergence of media and
especially the rapid proliferation of the internet imposed on the
medium of radio - made very innovative use of these access potentials
of KUNSTRADIO, which also included the facilitation of collaborations
between international artists and with the rich world of radio-art as
produced outside the big institutions, e.g. in independent university
and cooperative radios or by independent artists' initiatives.
In
1995 a group of artists created KUNSTRADIO ON LINE
(http://kunstradio.at) as a means of announcing and archiving the
weekly program and as an additional site of radioart. In 1996
KUNSTRADIO ON LINE started to stream not only the projects scheduled
for the weekly program-slot (especially the increasing number of live
projects) but also the occasionally very long or even potentially
unending on line elements of innovative complex networked radio-art
projects which soon started to be named "on air - on line - on site" to
characterise the complex context they were created for and unfolded in
- in some cases at an astonishing number of real and virtual networked
locations/channels around the world and with the participation of many
international artists. The relatively easy access to possibilities to
stream resulted in a shift from performance- to installation- oriented
work.
KUNSTRADIO
has also encouraged artists' reflections of the historical roots of
radio art, of the combination of old and new technologies, (routinely
offering also the use of short- and mediumwave broadcasting), the
ramifications of the changed definitions of the concepts of author as
well as the work and the role of the listener/recipient, the
transference of knowledge between collaborating
artists/technicians/producers/ theoreticians. Recently KUNSTRADIO has
invited artists to curate series of radio-art projects, thus delegating
part of its curatorial responsibility to artists.
KUNSTRADIO
has also organised international symposia/exhibitions,projects in
public space and has published catalogues and CDs. It frequently
collaborated/coproduced with festivals, galleries and artist run
spaces, as e.g. Ars Electronica Festival, Linz,
Musikprotokoll/Steirischer Herbst, Graz, L'Arte dell'Ascolto, Rimini,
The Western Front Society, Vancouver, Send & Receive Festival,
Winnipeg and many others.
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