Radio art

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Radio art describes an intermedia art form in which radio is used as a material. Both in its physical form and in its function as a medium for receiving targeted radio waves. Radio art can take the form of a performance , an installation , a radio play or Ars Acustica , for example . Very few artists describe themselves exclusively as radio artists. Many come from the visual arts, performance art, the sound art , experimental or improvised music , or have in the free radio scene had experience with the medium of radio. For example, some artists use radio technology (e.g. radio transmission, ether) to integrate it into an artistic composition. Radio art often makes use of elements from other art forms, which it transforms into a new art genre.

Origin of radio art

Experimental and artistic use of the medium of radio, which went beyond its capacity as an apparatus for transmitting information, began shortly after radio was introduced in the 1920s. For example, in 1929 Bertolt Brecht tried to use the medium as a means of self-awareness with his teaching piece Der Flug der Lindberghs, which was broadcast as a radio experiment. According to Brecht's idea, the listeners should become fellow players. For example, all roles except that of the aviator contain the note "radio", so all roles should be able to be transmitted through the radio and the listener at home should be able to take on the role of the aviator. The piece is only complete when the listeners become active themselves.

An early example of radio art is the installation Drive-in Music that Max Neuhaus realized in 1967. On a 600 meter long route in Buffalo , New York, Neuhaus installed 20 radio wave transmitters in the trees with different sounds that were generated under environmental influences. The drivers received different sound events over a certain frequency depending on the speed, direction of travel, time of day and weather conditions. In addition to the aspects of space and time, movement and visualization are conceptually included in this sound installation. This installation used the technical elements of the drive-ins , which was also based on that film sighted received the tone for the film over a certain radio frequency of your car radio. In the early 1980s the Dutch Fluxus artist Willem de Ridder produced a series of programs called "Radio Art" for the public broadcaster VPRO. On December 3, 1987, the series Kunstradio - Radio Art, which still exists today, went on air for the first time on the Austrian public broadcaster Ö1. Most of the radio art works broadcast are produced especially for Kunstradio (since 2004 also in 5.1 format). The "Radiokunst" editorial team has been on Deutschlandradio Kultur since August 2016.

Forms of radio art

Radio art on air

Transmission lines

Radio art stations

Temporary radio art stations

  • Radio_Copernicus
  • SAVVY Funk, 2017 in Berlin, part of documenta 14

Radio art at festivals

The 8th Documenta in 1987 with an audio library curated by Klaus Schöning proved that with the establishment of broadcasting, the boundaries between the visual arts, literature, music and audio installations in the arts became blurred . For the 30th Sao Paulo Biennale in 2012, the radio artists Sarah Washington and Knut Aufermann created a three-month radio program as a temporary work of art under the name Mobile Radio BSP. Savvy Funk is a radio station that will be produced 24 hours a day as part of Documenta from June 17 to July 8, 2017.

Important radio art festivals included a.

  • at the same time, 1994
  • Waves: The "Art + Communication" festival, organized by RIXC in Riga 2006
  • AV Festival , 2008
  • the Radiophrenia festival, which has been held annually in Glasgow since 2015
  • Radio Revolten , 2006 & 2016 in Halle / Saale

installation

  • Respire by Anna Friz

Networks

  • EBU Ars Acustica
  • Radia

education

  • Experimental radio course at the Bauhaus University Weimar

literature

  • Willem de Ridder, Radio art: The end of the graven image, book, Gallery "A", Amsterdam, 1985
  • Hartmut Geerken: The interactive radio play as non-narrative radio art. Essen: Publ. The Blue Owl, 1992
  • Heidi Grundmann, Elisabeth Zimmermann (eds.): Re-inventing radio: aspects of radio as art. Frankfurt am Main: Revolver, 2008
  • Transmission Arts: Artists & Airwaves / ed. by Galen Joseph-Hunter. New York, NY: PAJ Publications, 2011
  • Radio play places: Positions on radio art / ed. vom Hörspielsommer eV [Editing: Twyla Chantelau ...]. Dresden [u. a.]: Voland & Quist, 2011
  • Media aesthetic discourses. The genesis of radio art, in: Sarah Houtermans: Mediale Zwischenwelten. audiovisual art in Czechoslovakia (1919–1939). Cologne u. a .: Böhlau, 2012, pp. 40–72.
  • Anne Thurmann-Jajes: Radio as Art. On the determination and definition of radio art, in: set up 4, no. 2
  • Culture & Ghosts, (Special Issue: Radio) 2013, No. 14
  • Peter Weibel: Radio art as media art, in: Choreography of sound: between abstraction and narration / ed. Ekkehard Skoruppa et al. a. Göttingen [u. a.]: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2015, pp. 17–23.
  • Andreas Zeising: History of radio art. Fine arts and art education in the early broadcasting of the 1920s to 1940s, Cologne: Böhlau Verlag 2018, ISBN 978-3-412-50979-8 .

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ The Dutch Wikipedia has an article on Willem de Ridder
  2. ↑ The English language Wikipedia has an article on the Radia network
  3. ↑ The English language Wikipedia has an article on Soundart Radio
  4. ↑ The English language Wikipedia has an article on WGXC
  5. ↑ The English language Wikipedia has an article on the AV Festival
  6. ↑ The English language Wikipedia has an article on Anna Friz Anna Friz

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anne Thurmann Jejes: Radio As Art. For the determination and definition of radio art in: setup4, No.2, 2014, accessed on October 18, 2016
  2. ↑ Program excerpt from Wiht the Eyes Shut - Symposium on Theory and Practice of Radio Art , Graz 6. – 8. October 1988
  3. ^ Brecht Complete Edition GBA, Volume 3, p. 404.
  4. ^ Organization chart from Deutschlandradio , accessed on October 16, 2016
  5. ^ Homepage of the Radia Network , accessed on June 20, 2017
  6. ↑ [1] , accessed June 29, 2017
  7. ↑ soundartradio.org.uk Homepage of Soundart Radio , accessed on October 30, 2016
  8. ↑ wavefarm.org , accessed October 30, 2016
  9. ↑ webpage including archive; accessed on October 30, 2016
  10. ↑ SAVVY radio , accessed on 30 October 2016
  11. ↑ [2]  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed October 30, 2016@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.kunstradio.at  
  12. ↑ Art + Communication: WAVES ( Memento of the original from October 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed October 30, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rixc.lv
  13. ↑ AV Festival 2008: Broadcast ‹Programs‹ AV Festival , accessed on October 30, 2016
  14. ↑ Radiophrenia , accessed on 30 October 2016
  15. ^ Radio Revolten - The international radio art festival in Halle (Saale) , accessed on October 30, 2016
  16. ↑ Euroradio Ars Acustica , accessed on June 20, 2017
  17. ↑ The experimental radio course at the Bauhaus University Weimar , accessed on June 20, 2017