Roberto Paci Dalo' on Sun, 7 Apr 96 15:18 MDT |
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nettime: RIVERS&BRIDGES call for projects! |
RIVERS&BRIDGES is a world-wide project for radio and all communications media (Internet, BBS, Telephone, Fax, etc.) initiated by the ARS ACUSTICA Experts Group of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). RIVERS&BRIDGES will focus on the week of September 1 to 7, 1996 with the main events taking place on September 5 (in the context of the ARS ELECTRONICA FESTIVAL'96) but it has, in reality, already begun and will probably never really end ... persisting as long as the rivers and bridges themselves. Ideally, sub-projects and collaborations between participating locations should take place before, during and after the official event. It is also intended that the communications infrastructure created during the project should continue afterwards as a platform for research, discussion and collaboration ... as an open laboratory for new projects. BACKGROUND: RIVERS&BRIDGES is a further development of the immensely successful "HORIZONTAL RADIO", a global multimedia radio/Internet project (June 22/23 1995). Local events -- performances, installations, concerts -- were incorporated into the tapestry of the project and broadcast, sampled, remixed and rebroadcast, live, by 24 radio stations on 30 radio channels - and on the Internet - for 24 hours. THE PROJECT: Jocelyn Robert (QuŽbŽc) and J‡nos Sug‡r, (Budapest) have been asked by the ARS ACUSTICA group to develop the conceptual structure of the project*. They have given the project the subtitle: "Backward Translation as a Creative Strategy", which is meant to direct the project to questions - and problems - of interaction (and its representation) between different social groups, disciplines, languages, epochs and the tension between notions of "high" and "popular" culture. * [STATEMENT BY J. ROBERT & J.SUGAR] Jan.1, 1996 The theme "Rivers and Bridges" should be understood as a basic concept (the relationship of rivers to bridges and bridges to rivers) that can be interpreted literally, metaphorically, poetically, historically. "Flowing" and "Bridging" are often used metaphorically in describing the movement of information in the networks and the globe-spanning transmission systems that comprise them. The theme therefore allows a broad scope for projects of all kinds and it is hoped that artists of every discipline as well as many creative non-artists will join in the project. As with "Horizontal Radio", each participating group, radio station, location, etc., will be responsible for the artistic content of their contribution, and for its technical, financial and organizational realization. Please have a look to the following URLs for complete information: www.thing.or.at/thing/orfkunstradio/RIV_BRI/index.html www.iper.net/giardini/R'n'B.htm cordiali saluti, - Roberto Paci Dalo' *End message* *******************************************************************| GIARDINI PENSILI via S. Aquilina 23 47037 Rimini Italy voice & fax: + 39 541 759316 email: dalo@iper.net http://www.iper.net/giardini SHPIL the radio telematic project of the present. Phonurgia Nova Arles & world-wide 27 July 1996. Interactivity for the People! Make your own sound environment at home! Listen & look to RADIO LADA! the on-line radio on demand coproduction: Giardini Pensili/ORF Kunstradio/RAI Audiobox http://www.iper.net/giardini ****************************************************************** -- * distributed via nettime-l : no commercial use without permission * <nettime> is a closed moderated mailinglist for net criticism, * collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets * more info: majordomo@is.in-berlin.de and "info nettime" in the msg body * URL: http://www.desk.nl/nettime/ contact: nettime-owner@is.in-berlin.de