Art's Birthday 2007: Adore and be still.
100 years of radio
Art's Birthday Party is a celebration in memory of Robert Filliou who
declared,
on January 17 1963, that Art had been born exactly 1,000,000 years
ago when
someone dropped a dry sponge into a pail of water. After Filliou's
death in
1987, some artists began to celebrate Art's Birthday in the spirit of
his
concept of "The Eternal Network" or "La Fete permanente". The
Birthday parties
took place in different cities across the world, and artists were
asked to
bring birthday presents for Art – works that could be shared over the
network.
On Christmas 1906, on the other hand, Reginald Aubrey Fessenden
undertook the
very first radio broadcast of voice and music. Luckily, he had the
foresight to
time his experiment exactly, its 100th anniversary practically
coinciding with
the 1,000,044th birthday of Art.
We therefore ask you to join Kunstradio's celebration of this
stunning fact. We
invite you to search your own territories for further firsts in radio
history.
Premieres of different kinds; the first transmission in stereo, the
start of a
series of brilliant shows, the first time you listened to the radio,
the first
time they played 'your' song, the first time you were broadcasting,
were on
air.
Soundfiles of these broadcasts we ask you to upload to our website at
kunstradio.at/PROJECTS/AB2007/index.html
Feeding on your individual sonic archives and this database of
numerous people's
special radio moments you can then assemble your own radiophonic
versions of our
medium's history. These we invite you to stream to our party in
Vienna on
January 17th, 2007. We will re-mix and further distribute your
streams via our
live Kunstradio broadcast on the cultural channel of Austrian
National Radio
Ö1, as well as in our slot on the EBU satellite.
Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us
under
kunstradio@kunstradio.at
Please feel free to spread the word! This is the party you can bring
along as
many people as you like!
--
The short version:
What do we want?
A present. Not for us, for Art's birthday.
Which present?
Your radio's history. Or: Your history of radio.
How?
Streamed, mailed, sent, posted, uploads at
kunstradio.at/PROJECTS/AB2007/index.html
Format?
mp3 files, live-streams, images, webcams, ..
When?
January 17th, 2007 from 20:00 - 24:00 CET, 19:00 - 23:00 GMT
Why?
To celebrate.
What?
Art's Birthday.
100 years of radio
Art's Birthday Party is a celebration in memory of Robert Filliou who
declared,
on January 17 1963, that Art had been born exactly 1,000,000 years
ago when
someone dropped a dry sponge into a pail of water. After Filliou's
death in
1987, some artists began to celebrate Art's Birthday in the spirit of
his
concept of "The Eternal Network" or "La Fete permanente". The
Birthday parties
took place in different cities across the world, and artists were
asked to
bring birthday presents for Art – works that could be shared over the
network.
On Christmas 1906, on the other hand, Reginald Aubrey Fessenden
undertook the
very first radio broadcast of voice and music. Luckily, he had the
foresight to
time his experiment exactly, its 100th anniversary practically
coinciding with
the 1,000,044th birthday of Art.
We therefore ask you to join Kunstradio's celebration of this
stunning fact. We
invite you to search your own territories for further firsts in radio
history.
Premieres of different kinds; the first transmission in stereo, the
start of a
series of brilliant shows, the first time you listened to the radio,
the first
time they played 'your' song, the first time you were broadcasting,
were on
air.
Soundfiles of these broadcasts we ask you to upload to our website at
kunstradio.at/PROJECTS/AB2007/index.html
Feeding on your individual sonic archives and this database of
numerous people's
special radio moments you can then assemble your own radiophonic
versions of our
medium's history. These we invite you to stream to our party in
Vienna on
January 17th, 2007. We will re-mix and further distribute your
streams via our
live Kunstradio broadcast on the cultural channel of Austrian
National Radio
Ö1, as well as in our slot on the EBU satellite.
Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us
under
kunstradio@kunstradio.at
Please feel free to spread the word! This is the party you can bring
along as
many people as you like!
--
The short version:
What do we want?
A present. Not for us, for Art's birthday.
Which present?
Your radio's history. Or: Your history of radio.
How?
Streamed, mailed, sent, posted, uploads at
kunstradio.at/PROJECTS/AB2007/index.html
Format?
mp3 files, live-streams, images, webcams, ..
When?
January 17th, 2007 from 20:00 - 24:00 CET, 19:00 - 23:00 GMT
Why?
To celebrate.
What?
Art's Birthday.
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