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From: robert adrian <rax@xxxxxxxx>
To: "Derek Holzer" <republikasleazka@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: acoustic.space.lab questionaire
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 15:19:31 +0200

>***Your name and nationality, if you please...***
* Robert Adrian, Canada.

>
>***List an URL and a short description of a recent project.***
* "Radiation", a project in collaboration with Norbert Math
  for 4 SW radios, computer and 4 outdoor loudspeakers -
  installed at Ars Electronica'98.
  <http://kunstradio.at/RADIO/RAX/RADIATION/radiation_1.html>

>
>*What is your experience with or first associations of working
>with radio waves?*
* "Kunstfunk" (1984): a project for Slow Scan TV and amateur radio.
  <http://www.t0.or.at/~radrian/KUNSTFUNK/index.html>

>
>*What do you hear when you turn on a radio receiver?*
* Radio

>
>*Given that they literally surround us every moment of our life, are radio
>waves (and their contents) in the public domain?*
* What else ?

>
>*As Erik Davis has noted in his writings, a great deal of the 19th century
>utopianism which was projected onto emerging communications technology of
>that era (telegraph, telephone, wireless, radio) has now been reassociated
>with emerging communications technology of our own era (satellite, internet, 
>wireless, laser). Where do you think this utopianism falls short, and what
>should a socially-conscious artist, activist or scientist take into
>consideration to address this?*
* Telecommunications technology has been developing for
  over 200 years and every generation thinks they are on
  the cutting edge - but wireless technology has created a
  timewarp that puts us back about 75 years to the moment
  when the radio broadcasting monopolies were created. The
  cellphone is the old two-way radio dreamed of by the
  early techno-utopians.

>
>*What do you hear when you listen to the internet?*
* Telephone

>
>*Although internet bandwidth is (largely) a commercial service, and can
>therfore be logically bought and sold, bandwidth in the electromagnetic
>spectrum is a natural phenomenon. Certain areas of this spectrum are highly >regulated, while other areas remain an 'open frontier'. Are there realistic 
>strategies to take advantage of this natural communications resource and
>expand the social and geographic range of connectivity and communications?* 
* ???

>
>*Does webstreaming technology 'improve' on radio technology? Or, conversely, 
>is it redundant to replicate 'radio' on the internet?*
* it restores some aspects of radio as a 2-way medium but it is
  not a replication of broadcasting.

>***Please give a short outline of your contribution to the
>Acoustic.Space.Lab symposium, either as a remote participant or directly in 
>Latvia.***
* good question ... :)

___________________
robert adrian
wiedner hauptstrasse 37/69
a-1040 vienna austria
tel: +43 1 504 3110
<http://www.t0.or.at/~radrian>

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