Re: [Sudo-radio] From Our Sister Hackerspace in Belgrade: "participate in a show far away:)"

Sudo Radio may want to rep in this Serbian WorldWide art show. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Darija Medic <needles.and.pinheads(a)gmail.com> Date: 8 March 2013 09:22 Subject: participate in a show far away:) To: Hi everyone, I'm having a show in Belgrade, and if you want to participate by broadcasting yourself on radio, you can do it remotely, by downloading the Firefox add on from https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/browserradio/ and whatever you type from 12-20h every day except Sunday will be broadcasted in the gallery and its surroundings until the end of the show. official invite>>> Transmitting is a two way channel is an exhibition that deals with the perception of “old” and new media through the concept of radio broadcasting. Throughout the space there are computers with a modified Firefox browser- everything that the visitor types into any browser text field (such as a search engine) is broadcasted via a text to speech synthesis software on on an empty frequency on radio ad can be heard on several radio devices placed around the space. Visitors also have an opportunity to broadcast their wanted material from other locations, using the Internet, by installing the Firefox add on that makes it possible, creating an accidental dadaist radio show as a collage of collective text. By setting things in such a way, attention is placed on the physical aspect of information and the controversial consistency of digital data on the Internet, indicating the problematics of the visibility of information technology structures. All typed material stays archived and publicly accessible after the show. This show aims to question the social nature of digital information, as well as participative network systems (Internet), that are seen as the opposite to a one directional model of old mass media. Offering a strategy of Reverse search engineering (search engine and reverse engineering), we gain the possibility to use search engines or any other browser text field as a subversive broadcasting unit, consciously communicating with “smart algorithms” that find practical meaning in any textual form. Paying attention to the physical aspect of information, it becomes traced and tangible over radio transmission, filling up the space of the gallery, making the webs of communication happening everywhere around us visible. The title Transmitting is a two way channel refers to Brecht's critique of the one sidedness of the radio system (later to be mass media in general) in which he argued that every signal recipient should be capable of broadcasting himself,in a way foreseeing the development of the Internet. On the other hand, the sole expansion of the Internet has passed a long way from a utopian image of a decentralized network for knowledge exchange to a bureaucratized commercial medium for advertising on which intellectual debate, as well as banal information become the source of capital. Appropriating a free FM frequency, as a squatting strategy, reminds us that the FM spectrum became a subject of ownership over time, and at the same time consists of an ephemeral structure- air. It could have also stayed a common good, free in both senses of the word, whereas wi-fi technology as a technology of radio is telling of the common use of this technology for the purpose of controlling information systems, as well as, consequently, the unexplored possibilities of the radio spectrum. During the whole show the artist will be present, contributing her everyday typing activity to the radio broadcast and inviting people to join her. There will also be a workshop on hacking fm transmitters will be held in the gallery space by Filip Dulić, the Belgrade hacklab electronic guru, on Friday, Tuesday and Thursday from 18h. Good frequencies from Belgrade! darija _______________________________________________ Sudo-radio mailing list Sudo-radio(a)lists.sudoroom.org http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-radio