[creative-radio] TransX Transmission Art Symposium From: New Adventures in Sound Art

For those of you interested in this week's Trans-X Transmission Art
symposium in Toronto, here is a full schedule. Registration will remain
open until Thursday May 24th at midnight - there are still a few spots open
(https://www.naisa.ca/eshops/TransX_registration.php). Registration
includes two concerts and two workshops so at $70 / $40 for students, it's
a great price!
Nadene

Friday May 25th

6:00 pm Registration / Opening Reception / Tour of Transmission Art
Installations
7:00 pm Opening Remarks: Transmission Art in Practice by Darren Copeland

Rooted in the earliest experiments with radio, Transmission Art has
continued to flourish with experiments with wireless communications
technology over the past 100 years. The 21st Century is not excluded from
this experimentation as artists have ventured into exploring a variety of
mobile-based platforms and more lesser known forms of transmission such as
VLF. The terrain of transmission art is dynamic and fluid, always open to
redefinition. With NAISA being a sound art organization, we ask the
question, what new sound art experiences are possible in the transmission
and mobile media platforms?

Session 1: Explorations in Transmission Art (chair Darren Copeland)
Jennifer Cherniack / Gintas Tirilis / Chris Myhr
Amos Latteier / Alexandra Gelis

The Trans-X Transmission Art Residency brought together 5 Canadian media
artists to create transmission art works with a support system for
exploring audio and transmission technology. Four of the works are featured
at this year's Deep Wireless Festival and the 5th will be presented later
this summer as part of NAISA's Sound Travels Festival of Sound Art. This
session will introduce you to the works created in the Trans-X residency
and include discussion by the artists about their process and challenges
they faced during their creation process.

8:00 pm Forms of Transmission Concert 1
works by Jennifer Cherniack, Christof Migone and Kristen Roos

Saturday May 26th

10:00 am Keynote Address
Foundations of Transmission Art
by Galen Joseph-Hunter

Informed by her recent publication Transmission Arts: Artists and Airwaves
(PAJ Publications: 2011), Joseph-Hunter will discuss key inventors,
activists, and organizations, including free103point9, who have helped pave
the way for Transmission Arts. Citations of specific artists and works will
spark dialogue towards defining the qualitative principles of the genre.

11:15 am Short Break

11:30 Session 2: Transmission & Intervention (Chair Jessica Thompson)
Christof Migone / James Partaik

Session #2: Transmission & Intervention (Chair: Jessica Thompson)

Christof Migone
Radio Naked

The presentation of an overview of projects involving radio and other means
of transmission since the late 1980s to the present. Contexts aside from
radio include dance, installation, performance and publications. The works
display a recurring attention to voice, language, translation, boredom,
endurance, abjection, play, and humour. They also question the listener's
expectations, flirt with the unintelligible, and descend readily into
noise. Once radio is stripped of its trappings, we are left with the sonic
somatic ready to emit.

James Partaik
techNOMAD device art

This paper examines transmission tactics for the occupation and
imbrications of urban infrastructures and interdisciplinary creations.
TechNOMAD device art, or mutant technologies and art actions coalesce with
the emerging discourses surrounding the issues of site specific art
practices in the age of the networked landscape. techNOMAD art
interventions actuate urban space and its infrastructures, revealing issues
implicit to the site, the technologies themselves in a specific cultural
context and the creative actions used to transform public space in a
tangible way. The notion of wireless, meshed networks, hacking and
real-time technologies extend the parameters of transmission art to the
realm of the invisible forces of pure dynamics, creating a complex,
multilayered reality.
12:45 Lunch (not provided)

2:00 pm Session 3: Performance & Transmission in Public Places (Chair David
Ogborn)

Geoffrey Shea & Alan Boulton
Telegraph: Transmission in a streetscape audio artwork

Telegraph is a multi-nodal sound installation, supported by a network of
microcontrollers connected by radio transmitters. The design of the
infrastructure requires a high degree of flexibility and mutability. The
transmission of audio files could easily stress a wireless network. The
broad range of sound manipulations requires us to think differently about
the networks functionality, but also to take advantage of inherent
weaknesses (using latency to create an echo effect, for example).
Flexibility is also required because we expect to add further functionality
in future iterations, including interfacing with the viewer's mobile phone
as a locating device and a sound input/output device.

Jessica Thompson
Noisemakers – Mobile Sound , Performativity and Public Space

This paper examines some of the conditions that inform how mobile sound can
create new modes of performativity in urban environments. Through a
discussion of pieces such as Lalya Gaye, Ramia Mazé, Lars Erik Holmquist's
Sonic City and related artworks, I will examine how sound generated through
the moving body heightens our physical and cognitive experience of the
acoustic ecology of cities, creating dialogues between body, artwork and
site through embodied gesture, acoustic feedback, novelty and play. The
second part of the paper will investigate the spatial and social
implications of broadcast sound by examining how sound, as a manifestation
of voice, extends the edges of the body into the space of others.

Rui Chaves
Liveshout - mobile transmission as a performance practice

Think of someone in the city under a bridge, broadcasting high-quality
audio with a mobile phone . This one of the of the basic premises in
creating liveshout - the expansion of a new form of live sound art, that
while relying in ubiquitous technology, suggests new modes of situated
listening.

The presentation will thus focus on presenting some of the aesthetic and
technical issues involved in mobile streaming. Intersecting crucial
issues such as presentation (context, visuals and sound spatialization)
with performance strategies that deal with remote, temporal and spatial
themes.

3:30 am Short Break

3:45 Break-Out Workshops

1/ Micro-Radio Transmitter workshop with Hector Centeno
- This workshop will let you experience what radio transmission is like and
how it could be developed into radio art and micro radio. The transmitter
that the participant will make has only a 30-meter radius of transmission,
but people would experience a convivial wireless imagination.

2/ Contact Mic Workshop with Kristen Roos
- Build your own contact mic and then explore the local sound environment.
Inaudible sounds made audible, explore the interior sounds of street
furniture, fences and sign-posts.

3/ Sound in the Digital Realm / Transmission Transitions with Victoria
Fenner
- New technologies are creating new possibilities for sound and radio
artists to explore. Many are moving over to digital platforms such as the
internet, smart phones, ipads and tablets. And even the old-fashioned radio
transmitter is being used in new ways. This workshop is an exploration of
some of these new possibilities, and the specific compositional challenges
of creating for this new environment.

5:00pm Break for dinner (not provided)

8:00 pm Forms of Transmission Concert 2
performances by James Partaik and duo Hector Centeno with Tetsuo Kogawa
(from Japan)

Sunday May 27th

10:00 am Keynote address
Sound as transmission: towards and away from non-cochlear sound art
by David Cecchetto

The "expanded" understanding of sound that resists the implicit claims to
authenticity of both Schaeffer's "sound itself" and Cage's attentional
injunction nonetheless includes both, and it is precisely through this
ambivalence that we can fully embrace sound's potential to refigure
contemporary forms of communication (and particularly networks). Discussed
will be Two projects—SRMP and Exurbia—that leverage the metaphorics of
sound to trouble existing understandings of specific forms of network
communication. The conceptual and material dimensions that constitute these
projects stridulate in a hum of recursive transmission—in novel modes of
"two-way communication rather than one-way distribution"
(Joseph-Hunter)—that offer fresh vectors for considering the constitution
and consequences of networked aural interaction in contemporary artistic
practices.

11:15 am Short Break

11:30 Panel: Locating the transmission & Transmitting the location
(Moderator David Cecchetto)
Geoffrey Shea / Victoria Fenner / Kristen Roos

A sonic portrait of a place, a site specific transmission art performance
and locative media apps for mobile phones are each points of reference in
this panel discussion. How does location inform artistic content? How does
the way in which an artwork is transmitted determine the experience?

12:45 Lunch (not provided)

2:00 pm Session 4: Radio in Retrospect (Chair Galen Joseph-Hunter)

Hethre Contant
Lessons from Weimar Radio

The Weimar Republic was Germany's first democracy, and the first period to
use radio as a mass medium. There were a number of boundaries—political and
technical—that limited the types of transmission that could be produced.
This resulted in programming that was, for the most, uninspired, failing to
fulfill the medium's potential. However, instances of citizens overcoming
these restrictions and producing work that successfully utilized the
possibilities of the medium do exist. This discussion details the
limitations of radio during The Weimar Republic and explores the methods
that enabled certain practitioners to create aesthetically interesting work
tailored to the medium.

Chris Trimmer
Back to the Future: Radio as Music, Radio as Cognition

What is the future for documentary radio? Have we already witnessed it's
creative peak? Looking back and re-considering the innovations and
philosophies of radio producers of the past 50 years provides a window to a
possible future for documentary radio. There is vast potential for
documentary radio to expand as a medium through the incorporation of
musical and cognitive psychology principles. This paper will present a
brief overview of historical steps within this arena, with a specific focus
on Glenn Gould's Solitude Trilogy.

Magz Hall
Radio art as practice based research

Explores the rich history of radio as an artistic medium considering how
radio art might be situated in relation to more established discourses
mapping the shifting parameters of radio art in the digital era;
specifically how radio has moved from the shared 'live' event to one
consumed \'on demand\' by a fragmented audience. The implications of this
are explored through a radio practice which focuses on the productive
tensions which characterise the artist's engagement with radio and
technology and the autonomous potentialities offered by the reappropriation
of obsolete technology and the networks promised by the exponential
development of new media.
4:00 pm Short Break

4:15 Break-Out Workshops

1/ Micro-Radio Transmitter workshop with Hector Centeno
- This workshop will let you experience what radio transmission is like and
how it could be developed into radio art and micro radio. The transmitter
that the participant will make has only a 30-meter radius of transmission,
but people would experience a convivial wireless imagination.

2/ Contact Mic Workshop with Kristen Roos
- Build your own contact mic and then explore the local sound environment.
Inaudible sounds made audible, explore the interior sounds of street
furniture, fences and sign-posts.

3/ Sound in the Digital Realm / Transmission Transitions with Victoria
Fenner
- New technologies are creating new possibilities for sound and radio
artists to explore. Many are moving over to digital platforms such as the
internet, smart phones, ipads and tablets. And even the old-fashioned radio
transmitter is being used in new ways. This workshop is an exploration of
some of these new possibilities, and the specific compositional challenges
of creating for this new environment.

______________________________**_____________________________
NAISA Inquiries & general information:

Nadene Thériault-Copeland
Executive Director
New Adventures in Sound Art
Address: Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie St #252, Toronto, ON M6G 4C7
Tel 416 652 5115
www.naisa.ca

NAISA current/upcoming events:

TransX, a Symposium about Transmission Art May 25 - 27, 2012

Deep Wireless Festival of Radio & Transmission Art May 1 - 31, 2012

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