free103point9 Event
FREE103POINT9 @ BUSHWICK ART PROJECT'S BAPLAB 2006
July 22, 2006: 4 p.m. – July 23, 2006: 6 a.m.
3rd Ward
195 Morgan Ave.
Brooklyn, NY 11237
United States
free103point9 is pleased to present three transmission installation works by artists 31 Down, Paul Davies, and Tarikh Korula, as part of this years Bushwick Art Project festival. Transmission Arts is defined as a conceptual umbrella that unites a community of artists and audiences interested in transmission ideas and tools. Transmission practices harness, occupy and/or respond to the airwaves that surround us. There is an inherent liveness to this work. In a performance-based setting, audience members are newly engaged, becoming participants rather than passive viewers and listeners. Installation or sculptural transmission works are often dependant on the present, reacting to whatever occupies the surrounding frequencies in a single instance, or changing that information by adding new signals to the spectral environment.
31 Down, Wanderlost
31 Down is a Brooklyn-based theatre group that uses radio transmission to expand the traditional boundaries of the performance stage. In Wanderlost, 31 Down tackles personal privacy issues and the paranoia surrounding new technologies by eavesdropping on live police scans to search for clues in the world of the dispatcher. Employing the central motif of a 1940s-style detective radio program featuring the fictional case of missing nightclub singer Helen Tremble, Wanderlost creates a tension between fact and fiction.
Paul Davies, Prayer Antenna
As part of his ongoing series, Religious Technological Artifacts, New York-based Canadian artist Paul Davies presents Prayer Antenna. In the form of an ornately ordained helmet that has the appearance of a porcupine with antennae quills, Prayer Antenna is fitted with sufficient surveillance technology to receive signals from the gods. As Davies writes, The Prayer Antenna allows visitors, or supplicants, to put their heads into the helmet to receive sounds in the right ear from the God of the Right Shoulder, and in the left ear from the God of the Left Shoulder.
Tarikh Korula, Chop 10
Exploiting the techniques of current commercial radio practice, Chop 10 re-mixes a live, dynamic assemblage of commercial radio streams as a commentary on the current state of regulated radio. As Chop 10 moves from one Arbitron-rated Top Ten radio station in New York City to the next, the hyper scan makes it impossible to discern any single stations content, resulting in a jumpy, never-ending parody of commercial radio.
Wanderlost, Prayer Antenna, and Chop 10 were first shown as part of the exhibition Airborne co-organized by free103point9 and the New Museum of Contemporary Art, spring 2005.
ABOUT FREE103POINT9
(www.free103point9.org)
free103point9 is a non-profit media arts organization focused on establishing cultivating Transmission Arts. This genre includes experimental practices in radio art, video art, light sculpture, and installation and performance utilizing the wireless spectrum. free103point9 programs include transmission-based public performances and exhibitions, an experimental music series, an online radio station and distribution label, an education initiative, and an artist residency program and study center.
Founded in 1997 in Brooklyn, NY as a microcasting artist collective, free103point9's mobile operations made airtime available to community voices, local bands, and most significantly to a group of under-served artists shaping conceptual works specifically for radio transmission. Today free103point9 maintains two locations in New York. free103point9 Wave Farm (Hudson Valley/Catskill Region) is a 30 acre property home to a summer performance series, artist residencies, skill shares, and special Online Radio performances. The Wave Farm Study Center, opening in 2007, will house reading, listening, and viewing libraries; a performance/gallery spaces; a recording studio; and future artists-in-residence. The free103point9 Project Space, located in Brooklyn, provides a vital meeting place for transmission artists and audiences.
ABOUT BUSHWICK ART PROJECT
(www.bushwickartproject.org)
he Bushwick Art Project (BAP), a non-profit organization, is dedicated to the advancement and promotion Electronic Music, New Media, and Digital Art. Drawing from regional and international talents, BAP Events and Curated Programs serve as creative laboratories where existing and emerging artists support and influence each other through the free exchange of ideas and technical resources.
Our mission is to expose artists to the cutting edges of creative expression by hosting events that highlight the use of new technologies in art and music. We import talent from around the world to influence and inspire the amazing range of talents located within our own community. Our goal is to establish a creative front in the heart of the post industrial zone of Bushwick, an open forum for artists to expand their creative vision and express their ideas through the innovative use of technology and all the artistic mediums.
31 Down is a Brooklyn-based theatre group that uses radio transmission to expand the traditional boundaries of the performance stage. In Wanderlost, 31 Down tackles personal privacy issues and the paranoia surrounding new technologies by eavesdropping on live police scans to search for clues in the world of the dispatcher. Employing the central motif of a 1940s-style detective radio program featuring the fictional case of missing nightclub singer Helen Tremble, Wanderlost creates a tension between fact and fiction.
Paul Davies, Prayer Antenna
As part of his ongoing series, Religious Technological Artifacts, New York-based Canadian artist Paul Davies presents Prayer Antenna. In the form of an ornately ordained helmet that has the appearance of a porcupine with antennae quills, Prayer Antenna is fitted with sufficient surveillance technology to receive signals from the gods. As Davies writes, The Prayer Antenna allows visitors, or supplicants, to put their heads into the helmet to receive sounds in the right ear from the God of the Right Shoulder, and in the left ear from the God of the Left Shoulder.
Tarikh Korula, Chop 10
Exploiting the techniques of current commercial radio practice, Chop 10 re-mixes a live, dynamic assemblage of commercial radio streams as a commentary on the current state of regulated radio. As Chop 10 moves from one Arbitron-rated Top Ten radio station in New York City to the next, the hyper scan makes it impossible to discern any single stations content, resulting in a jumpy, never-ending parody of commercial radio.
Wanderlost, Prayer Antenna, and Chop 10 were first shown as part of the exhibition Airborne co-organized by free103point9 and the New Museum of Contemporary Art, spring 2005.
ABOUT FREE103POINT9
(www.free103point9.org)
free103point9 is a non-profit media arts organization focused on establishing cultivating Transmission Arts. This genre includes experimental practices in radio art, video art, light sculpture, and installation and performance utilizing the wireless spectrum. free103point9 programs include transmission-based public performances and exhibitions, an experimental music series, an online radio station and distribution label, an education initiative, and an artist residency program and study center.
Founded in 1997 in Brooklyn, NY as a microcasting artist collective, free103point9's mobile operations made airtime available to community voices, local bands, and most significantly to a group of under-served artists shaping conceptual works specifically for radio transmission. Today free103point9 maintains two locations in New York. free103point9 Wave Farm (Hudson Valley/Catskill Region) is a 30 acre property home to a summer performance series, artist residencies, skill shares, and special Online Radio performances. The Wave Farm Study Center, opening in 2007, will house reading, listening, and viewing libraries; a performance/gallery spaces; a recording studio; and future artists-in-residence. The free103point9 Project Space, located in Brooklyn, provides a vital meeting place for transmission artists and audiences.
ABOUT BUSHWICK ART PROJECT
(www.bushwickartproject.org)
he Bushwick Art Project (BAP), a non-profit organization, is dedicated to the advancement and promotion Electronic Music, New Media, and Digital Art. Drawing from regional and international talents, BAP Events and Curated Programs serve as creative laboratories where existing and emerging artists support and influence each other through the free exchange of ideas and technical resources.
Our mission is to expose artists to the cutting edges of creative expression by hosting events that highlight the use of new technologies in art and music. We import talent from around the world to influence and inspire the amazing range of talents located within our own community. Our goal is to establish a creative front in the heart of the post industrial zone of Bushwick, an open forum for artists to expand their creative vision and express their ideas through the innovative use of technology and all the artistic mediums.