Naomi,
That's a good point, the barrier to our entry was prohibitive. Junkyard, no
more though - as I marvelled last night at the fine organization.
If you want to listen to what the two way transmission sounded like - hint
it doesn't include sudo-radio - then the art recording is up.[1]
Max
[1]
This is cool! Too bad I didn't have the
wherewithal to read this
whole thing before it effectively expired (march 7th).
I'm motivated to shape up the radio room to the point where
participating in something like this in the future will be effortless.
On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 12:04 PM, Max Klein <isalix(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Sudo Radio may want to rep in this Serbian
WorldWide art show.
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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
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