Radioballet by LIGNA

Exercises on Adhocracy participants in a workshop on 'Collectives, Actions, Re-enactments', held in Estonia, discuss the Radioballet action - a co-ordinated performative action responding to the privatisation of public space - and consider its impact. Apprehensive of the ethics of collective action after the traumas of Communism, the speakers reveal the limits of expressing solidarity in the absence of material and reciprocal relationships.text :http://www.variant.org.uk/31texts/31masscom.html pdf :http://www.variant.org.uk/pdfs/issue31/31MassCom.pdf
http://www.publicpreparation.org

AV Festival 08

http://www.avfestival.co.uk/

At AV Festival 08, we will discover that ever since the first experiments in wireless transmission by Nikola Tesla2, broadcasting has been a mechanism to enact social change. The power of broadcasting to shape public behaviour was graphically portrayed in 1938, by dramatist, Orson Welles, in his now legendary adaptation of War of the Worlds. The broadcast blurred the factual format of newscasting, with a fictional story of alien invasion and sparked panic amongst radio listeners. We celebrate the 70th anniversary of this crucial moment in broadcasting history, with a new version of the radio play staged by acclaimed theatre director Joanna Read (Middlesbrough Town Hall, 5 March).

Broadcasting continued to witness and transmit social history with images joining sound on the airwaves, as television became part of public life. AV Festival 08’s screening programme TV at the Cinema brings television to the big screen, showcasing landmark programmes, such as Ken Loach’s pioneering drama Cathy Come Home (Tyneside Cinema, 6 March), a graphic depiction of homelessness which inspired real policy change in 1960s Britain. Later political satire, such as the incendiary Brass Eye (Tyneside Cinema, 8 March), showed how television had become a platform to mock the political establishment. You can voice your own opinion about television, by voting for your favourite show online at our Alternative Top TV poll (www.avfestival.co.uk/toptv). The winning TV show will be shown at a gala screening (Tyneside Cinema, 7 March).
As broadcasting became increasingly ubiquitous, it became not only a means of observing social reality, but also increasingly a mechanism to shape it. Harun Farocki’s Videogram of a Revolution depicts the so-called television revolution in Romania in 1989, where broadcasting played a critical role in the fall of Ceauşescu regime. And politicians’ ruthless manipulation of television is vividly brought to life in Brian Springer’s Spin (both at Star and Shadow Cinema, 5 March).

http://www.avfestival.co.uk/introductions/honor_harger

Furtherfield.org

Exploring shifts between virtual and physical space and human networks, Furtherfield events and projects incorporate a strong participatory element and break away from conventional approaches to contemporary art. The projects are often live, real-time, collaborative artworks, facilitating and documenting unrestrained interaction and communication between artists and audiences online. Success is measured by the technical and conceptual accessibility of projects to a wide audience who engage as individuals and groups, creatively on their own terms

Furtherfield.org: http://www.furtherfield.org/
Furthernoise.org: http://www.furthernoise.org/
Visitors Studio: http://www.visitorsstudio.org/
BCFM RADIO: http://www.bcfm.org.uk/
Radio Stream - http://www.bcfm.org.uk/stream.m3u

VIDEO VORTEX.2

Selected Artworks.

-Listen to the radio station http://dfm.nu/

-Martin Takken makes use of the do-it-yourself principle that is increasingly popular, both on the internet and in exhibitions. His Es Ist Ein Gesamtkunstwerk concept is a collective, constantly changing artwork that is made by international artists. Every day a different selection of colors is available, the kind of brush changes every hour, and various rules imposing limits or creating new possibilities are introduced and modified at random moments. Each day's results are stored in the archive and can be purchased for 25 euro, but you can also make a print for yourself. http://www.gesamtkunstwerk.nl/

-The work MythEngine by Nancy Mauro-Flude is a good example of this. MythEngine is a webcast that transmits live video and stills. Referring to our compulsion to tell stories, MythEngine shows how over time, with the rise of digital photography and video, our collective memory is increasingly becoming a database. http://sistero.sysx.org/verbo/index.html