Syndicate: *Xchange on-air session* festival in Riga

[rasa <rasa@parks.lv>]

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION:

You are welcome to participate in 

*XCHANGE on-air session* LIVE INTERNET BROADCASTING in 13th-14th November,
1997

Xchange homepage <http://re-lab.net/Xchange>
Contact: e-lab@parks.lv

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*XCHANGE on-air session*
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2nd international new media festival in Riga (art+communication #2)
12-14 November, 1997
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> XCHANGE - the second international new media festival
"art+communication-2" (organized by Riga E-Lab) will take place in Riga,
November 12th-14th, 1997, together with French-Baltic-Nordic video and
computer arts festival (organized by Multimedia center Riga, 10th-16th
November, Riga).

> Xchange festival is 3 day event focusing on audio+visual work - live
Internet broadcasting (real-audio/real-video), radio experiments (in local
radio stations), public presentations, live electronic music jam sessions,
net.art and experimental music workshops.

> An open broadcasting studio will be available in conference place with
live video and audio stream screening in two more public spaces in Riga -
in E-CafŽ and Latvian Academy of Arts.

> Xchange festival is divided in sessions: 
----------->morning sessions - conference (lectures, presentations,
discussions)
----------->day sessions - live Internet broadcasting with participation of
remote groups (remote presentations, net.castings, press-conferences,
etc.), radio workshop; electronic music workshop
----------->night sessions - open public events with live music mixes,
experimental music concerts, performances, videoloops, DJs, etc.

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> eXchange means - 
communication through sound and art;
interaction between different arts&culture fields, structures and media;
international collaborative work within the net.audio context;
developing of the net.radio network - shared space for alternative
net.broadcasters and individuals 

> net.audio Xchange 
is net.audio project in Internet initiated by net.radio OZOne (E-LAB) on
exchange and linking-up of audio content within the net.space
Xchange mailinglist -- still under development -- for alternative,
non-commercial real time audio content providers
the goal is to develop it towards the net.audio-radio.network comunity

> Xchange compilation
has each month update
"idea is to make a picture of the present moment within the network - real
time audio used as a tool for it - contributed sound material creates the
content"
Xchange has: free-flowing concept - free-building content - free floating
location:
----------->Xchange #1 at radio OZOne (Riga)  
http://ozone.parks.lv/Xchange 
----------->Xchange #2 in Berlin -> Radio Internationale Stadt server 
http://www.icf.de/RIS/Xchange
----------->Xchange #3 in Linz -> RemoteC (Ars Electronica)
http://remotec.aec.at/Xchange
............(all Xchange editions are available from any of these entrance
pages)

> riga net.radio OZOne
an experimental audio+radio project (real audio sounds), non-commercial,
independent Internet broadcaster, established by  E-LAB (Riga), 
content - audio archive (experimental & electronic music, DJs, live jam
sessions, lyrics, radio experiments, collaborative net.audio projects,
etc.) + live broadcasting experiments
net.radio OZOne's data is placed on several servers in Europe. OZOne is
broadcasting from Riga-Parks web-server, Berlin-RIS ra-server,
Amsterdam-XS4ALL web&ra-servers:
----------->Riga = http://ozone.parks.lv  -----> http://re-lab.net/ozone
----------->Amsterdam = http://www.xs4all.nl/~ozone
----------->Berlin = http://www.icf.de/RIS
............(all OZOne's sound files also are available on Radio
Internationale Stadt in Berlin)

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Pictures of electronic media HYSTORY
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>radio manifesto
1936
In the context of a paper written by Berthold Brecht in 1936 about the
development of radio - a critique on the underexploitation of its
interactive potential and the banal commercial exploitation of it - the
historical parallels between radio and internet are apparent.
"It was suddenly possible to say everything to everybody, but thinking
about it, there was nothing to say" (Berthold Brecht, 1936)

1997
"Radio on the internet did not start with the emersion of RealAudio. To
make a good judgement of what radio is in the age of digital media, the
traditional concept of radio has to be overthrown completely." (Josephine
Bosma,"ZKP4", May 1997 )

>art + communication
1971
"Human-being - transmitter is able to perceive only limited "amount of
originality" in the time unit: flow of information entering in human-body's
brain shouldn't exceed 16bit/sec." (Abraham Moles "Art et ordinateur",
France, 1971 )

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transmitter          communication channel           receiver
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  artist                 information                  public
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1996
"With a focus on the changing relationship between art and communication,
this event managed to be a landmark in the presentation and discussion of
technology in the arts in Latvia."
(about "Art+communication" event in Riga, November 1996)

>electronic music
1971
"Music itself doesn't exist in nature. It means - all kinds of music are
synthesized and it is a content of artificially built sound environment."
(Abraham Moles "About artificial in music", France, 1971)

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Festival organized by E-LAB
E-lab ----> Re-LAB is a new media art organization /Riga, Latvia/ that
develops new strategies for different contexts and across formats.
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Address:
11.Novembra Krastmala 35-94, LV 1050, Riga, Latvia.  Tel. 371-7210297
Contact:
Email: <e-lab@parks.lv>, Rasa Smite <rasa@parks.lv>, Raitis Smits
<raitis@parks.lv>
URL:
E-Lab ---> Re-LAB: http://re-lab.net 
XCHANGE: http://re-lab.net/Xchange                
net.radio OZOne: http://re-lab.net/ozone
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