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Ars Electronica Festival 2006: Derrick de Kerckhove - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast August 21, 2006 Gabrielle Decamous interviews Derrick de Kerckhove, organizer of the Hybrids show at the 2005 Ars Electronic Festival in Linz, Austria. Dr. de Kerkhove is head of the Marshall McLuhan Program at the University of Toronto and author of numerous books including The Skin of Culture, Brainframes: Technology, Mind and Business and The Architecture of Intelligence. Discussions, exhibitions and events of the 2006 Ars Electronica Festival take place August 31 to September 5. The Winners of the 2006 Prix Ars Electronica (animation, creative music, innovative art projects, and state-of-the-art websites) will be celebrated during the festival. (26 minutes) |
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Candymonium - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast June 12, 2006 CAN•DY•MO•NI•UM, n.: that which erupts when sugary confections are hand-made by a sweets-loving bunch. Candy brings joy and smiles to people's lives no matter what age. In this recording, Delphine Blue interviews Beth Kimmerle (candy consultant and author of Candy: The Sweet History) and Will Noonan, co-founders of Big Tips Candy. Kimmerle and Noonan created Big Tips Candy Collection to bring together some of the country's best regional candy bars in one finely tuned collection. They sampled hundreds of rarely seen treats concocted from chocolate, peanut butter, cherries, caramel, marshmallow, and other gooey delights before narrowing their choices down to fifteen bars for the collection, many of which have been in production for decades. (Have you heard of Idaho Spud or Googoo Cluster?) The two offer candy making classes all over the place, for kids and adults. Check them out in New York on June 17, 2006 at the Ritz Carlton at Battery Park. (33 minutes) |
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Nicolas Collins: Handmade Electronic Music - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast May 8, 2006 Composer and Professor of Sound at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and one-time curator for performance and installation for P.S.1 Nicolas Collins has a book, Handmade Electronic Music, The Art of Hardware Hacking (Routledge). The book is a practical introduction for students of electronic music, installation and sound-art to the craft of making -- as well as creatively cannibalizing -- electronic circuits for artistic purposes. Collins sits down with WPS1 Managing Director David Weinstein for a conversation about music, hardware, history, and a career as a composer. (30 minutes) |
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The Expanded Field #3: Hal Foster - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast August 14, 2006 Since the publication of The Anti-Aesthetic in 1983 Hal Foster has occupied a central position in contemporary debates on modern art and modern life. Prolific as an art historian and critic, he is the author most recently of Prosthetic Gods, an investigation into the transformed nature of the self in the era of modern art, and (with Rosalind Krauss, Yve-Alain Bois and Benjamin Buchloh) Art Since 1900, a textbook encompassing the intertwined histories of modernism, antimodernism, and postmodernism. He joins Jason Farago to discuss the role of the art historian in an era of aftermath and the challenges of writing about contemporary art. |
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The Expanded Field #2: Tom McDonough - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast July 3, 2006 In the past decade Tom McDonough has established himself as one of the foremost scholars in the English language on the postwar French intellectual, artistic and architectural scenes. He is the editor of Guy Debord and the Situationist International: Texts and Documents (2002), which assembled dozens of works, many theretofore untranslated, by and about the SI. His forthcoming book, The Beautiful Language of My Century: Reinventing the Language of Contestation in Postwar France, continues his investigation of the SI from a critical historical perspective. McDonough joins host Jason Farago to discuss the continued artistic appeal of Situationism, the historical background of contemporary French art, and the mixed legacy of May '68. |
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The Expanded Field #1: David Joselit - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast May 22, 2006 David Joselit's 1998 book Infinite Regress: Marcel Duchamp 1910-1941 radically altered the discourse surrounding this central artistic figure of the 20th century. Since then he has written widely on modern and contemporary art: in his essay Navigating the New Terrain (Arforum, 2005) he proposed a new paradigm for understanding art in relation to cyberspace, and in his forthcoming book Feedback: Television Against Democracy he investigates the transformations wrought by television on modern art and modern life. In this program Joselitt speaks with host Jason Farago about the political efficacy of contemporary art, the goals and failures of MFA programs, and the place of the readymade in the television era. |
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Film-makers' Cooperative at 46: Lynn Sachs and Bradley Eros - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast April 16, 2007 Lynn Sachs, Bradley Eros, and MM Serra discuss the world of the Film-makers' Cooperative in advance of their 46th Anniversary Benefit at Angel Orensanz Center for the Arts, 172 Norfolk Street, between Houston and Stanton Streets, in New York City on Monday April 23rd, 2007 at 7 pm. Special guests performers include Philip Glass and Bill Frisell along with a screenings of rare and fabulous film treasures. |
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Film-Makers' Cooperative: Philip Glass, and Bill Morrison - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast September 26, 2005 WPS1's David Weinstein hosts a discussion with Film Co-op Executive Director MM Serra, composer Philip Glass and filmmaker Bill Morrison about the task of film preservation, archiving the avant garde, and the unique relation of music to film. The Film-Makers' Cooperative is the largest archive and distributor of independent and avant-garde films in the world. Created in 1962 by Jonas Mekas and colleagues, the Co-op continues to be run by artists. It has more than 5,000 films and videotapes in its collection.
2nd Annual Film-Makers' Cooperative Benefit Concert
Tuesday Sept. 27, 2005 at 8 pm
Angel Orensanz Foundation
172 Norfolk Street (below Houston) New York City
Tickets $40 at the door or call 212.267.5665 or at TicketWeb
Featuring performances by Steve Reich, Philip Glass, Sue Garner, Todd Reynolds, Mark Stewart, Patrick Watson,
Elliott Sharp, Tim Barnes, Alan Licht and Lee Ranaldo to films by...
Ken Jacobs, Harry Smith, Emiley Hubley, Bill Morrison, Donna Cameron, Jenn Reeves and Ron Rice.
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Film-Makers' Cooperative: Peter Kubelka - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast January 15, 2007 Filmmaker, artist, and theoretician Peter Kubelka in conversation with experimental film and videomaker MM Serra. Kubelka's short works helped characterize and define the European and experimental underground cinema of the 1960s. His ironic travelogue Our Trip to Africa (1966) is a montage of sights -- hunters, natives, animals, and buildings -- accompanied by effusions of sound. Kubelka studied in Vienna and Rome, and made his first film, Mosaik im Vertrauen, in 1955. He went on to invent the metric film technique, which reduced images to abstract, black-and-white frames, and to develop sound film, a form of visual and auditory landscape whose rhythm lingers on in the subconscious long after the screen has dimmed. An independent filmmaker since 1952, Peter Kubelka works in film, cooking, music, architecture, lectures, and writing. In 1964, he co-founded the Austrian Film Museum and was its curator for many decades. In 1978, he became professor in film and video at the Art Academy in Frankfurt, where he also served as Rector in the period of 1985-88. Kubelka's theoretical work on cooking began in 1967, and in 1980 his teaching position was expanded to include "Film and Cooking as Art". He is a co-founder of the Anthology Film Archives in New York. MM Serra is Executive Director of The New America Cinema Group, Inc./ The Film-Makers' Cooperative (FMC), founded in 1961 by a group of 20 New York artists (including Jonas Mekas, Robert Frank, Jack Smith, Marie Menken) to create a network for the distribution and exhibition of experimental films. FMC has over 500 members and 4,000 films and new media for rental and sale. FMC programs monthly screenings in a series titled Jewels and Gems at the Collective Unconscious in New York. (36 minutes) |
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Gaming Culture - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast July 3, 2006 Artist Paul Johnson interviews Alex Galloway about his new book, Gaming: Essays on Algorithmic Culture. Galloway discusses why the Half-Life game franchise caught his attention and inspired him to do formal research. He describes trends in gaming history and its central role in culture today. Check out his projects at treasurecrumbs.com or at the Carnivore page. Johnson shares his experience as a game developer and artist. |
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Hallelujah Harlem! Public Art Festival 2006 - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast August 7, 2006 As part of WPS1's continued partnership with Hallelujah Harlem! Public Art Fest, roving art reporter Delphine Blue attends the opening ceremonies at St. Nicholas Park on West 135th Street and St. Nicholas Avenue, on June 30, 2006. Hallelujah Harlem launches in conjunction with Jazz at Lincoln Center in presenting Arturo O'Farrill Jr., director of JLC's Latin Jazz Orchestra, performing live with his five piece band. Delphine talks with some of the organizers and participating artists in this culturally rich event. |
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Adrian Halpern: Immigration - The Issues and Options for Artists - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast December 11, 2006 Adrian Halpern discusses the perplexing US immigration options that are currently avilable for foreign artists. Halpern is an immigration attorney from North Carolina who represents artists, scientists, systems analysts, and biostaticians, among others. He believes that the inclusion of immigrant workers in American industry will only serve to benefit the United States. Halpern is the son of a native Argentinian mother, and a husband to a Russian wife, thus the immigration issue hits quite close to home for him. |
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Karkhana: A Contemporary Collaboration - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast October 17, 2005 A conversation between the curators and one of the artists from the exhibition Karkhana: A Contemporary Collaboration, which features a series of works by six contemporary Pakistani artists. The exhibit is at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum through March 12, 2006. At the core of the exhibition is a series of collaboratively-produced paintings initiated as a creative experiment by Muhammad Imran Qureshi in 2003. He contacted the five other Pakistani painters, all alumni of the miniature department at the National College of Arts in Lahore, but now living in different cities around the world, with the suggestion that each artist start two new paintings made on wasli (hand-made paper). Each work was then sent to another artist in the group, who applied another layer of imagery, marks, or other processes, and passed it along until all of the artists had added to each of the twelve paintings. Karkhana includes these twelve miniature paintings, and five additional paintings by each of the six artists. These paintings are an experiment in artistic collaboration revealing improvisation, acts of creative destruction, semiotic play, and dynamic adaptation. Nusra Latif Qureshi is a painter living in Melbourne, Australia. She was born in Lahore, Pakistan in 1973, and educated at The National College of Arts, Lahore, where she studied in the miniature painting department. Her work has been included in numerous exhibitions around the world, including Karkhana: A Contemporary Collaboration. She is represented in New York by Waqas Wajahat, LLC. Anna Sloan is a writer, curator, and historian of Islamic and South Asian Art at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts. She holds a BA from Brown University, and a PhD from University of Pennsylvania. Sloan curated an exhibition of Nusra Latif Qureshi's work at Smith College Museum of Art in 2004 titled The Way I Remember Them. She is also a partner in Green Cardamom, a non-profit organization founded to introduce artists from South Asia, Central Asia, and the Middle East to a global audience through public exhibitions, publications, symposia, and commissioned artworks. She is co-curator of Karkhana: A Contemporary Collaboration. The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, located at 258 Main Street, Ridgefield, CT, is renowned as a national leader for its presentation of outstanding new art, the cultivation of emerging artists, and its innovation in museum education. Regular Museum hours are Tuesday through Sunday, 12 noon to 5 pm. For more information, call 203.438.4519 or visit www.aldrichart.org |
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Justin Lowe with Erin McMonagle: Beat It - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast September 5, 2005 Following a week long encampment in Times Square at Chashama, creator and choreographer Erin McMonagle spoke with WPS1's Justin Lowe about her project called Beat It. Referencing pop culture and theories of shared memory, Beat It is an open performance/rehearsal that teaches all volunteers--regardless of age, skill, background etc.-- the choreography from the 1983 Michael Jackson video. Concluding the week all participants are invited back for one last romp en masse. Joining the discussion were Cathleen Chaffee, Gabrielle Giattino, David Adamo and the artist's mother, Kathie McMonagle, all participants. |
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Making Your Mark: On Paper/Brooklyn Arts Council Gallery - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast March 13, 2006 The Brooklyn Arts Council mounted Making Your Mark: On Paper, a group exhibition of twenty-two artists from January 28 through April 21, 2006. Brooklyn based artists, Phil Benet, Stephanie Brody-Lederman, Jonathan Gall, Anne Gilman, Scott Henstrand, Colleen Ho, Greg Hopkins, Yoshiko Kanai, Jill Magi, Walter Markham, Linda Marston-Reid, Karen McKendrick, Felicia Megginson, Sarah Nicholls, Mia Pearlman, Christopher Rose, Donna Ruff, Ella Smolarz, Amy Tamayo, Alejandra Villasmil, Christopher Walsh, Jeffery Welch and Rachael Wren create unique works on paper utilizing a variety of mark making techniques and subject matter. WPS1's Delphine Blue sat down with Ella Weiss, president of the Brooklyn Arts Council and three of the artists in the show: Jill Magi, Scott Henstrand, and Felicia Megginson. Founded in 1966, Brooklyn Arts Council is a service organization dedicated to helping artists, arts organizations and community groups promote and sustain the arts. BAC is unique in the borough in that it assists artists - both amateur and professional - in all disciplines. Brooklyn Arts Council's new gallery space, located in the heart of the vibrant DUMBO arts scene, is a premiere destination for emerging Brooklyn artists to display their work and for collectors worldwide seeking up and coming talent in the visual arts. |
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Amit Pitaru - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast October 16, 2006 Artist Paul Johnson interviews artist, inventor, coder, and musician, Amit Pitaru. Pitaru's projects include sophisticated interactive music videos, several collaborative web pieces with illustrator James Paterson, electronics, and original compositions. He discusses video game enabling toys for special needs children, a chapter he is writing for the forthcoming book The Ecology of Game, and the coder as auteur. |
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Radio Profiles: Museum of Chinese in the Americas - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast February 5, 2007 Host David Weinstein of P.S.1 and guest William Dao, Communications Manager, discuss the Museum of Chinese in the Americas; its history. future, and mission in advance of the 2007 edition of the wonderful Lunar New Year Flower Market in Columbus Park in New York's Chinatown on Feb. 16-17. |
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Marcin Ramocki - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast October 2, 2006 Director and artist Marcin Ramocki talks with Paul Johnson about his new film, 8 Bit, which debuts at the Museum of Modern Art October 7-11, 2006. 8 Bit ties together the 1980s demo scene, chip-tune music, and artists using machinima and modified computer games. Ramocki reflects on trends in digital art he discovered during his global, two year investigation. Produced in New York City, Los Angeles, Paris, and Tokyo, the documentary brings a global perspective to the new artistic approaches of the DIY generation that grew up playing Atari, Commodore 64, and other video game consoles. About the Film: 8 BIT. 2006. USA. Original concept/Directed by Marcin Ramocki. Produced and Co-Directed by Justin Strawhand. With artists Cory Arcangel, BIT SHIFTER, Bodenstandig 2000, Bubblyfish, Covox, Mary Flanagan, Alex Galloway, Gameboyzz Orchestra, Glomag, HUAROTRON, JODI, Paul Johnson, John Klima, Johan Kotlinski, Nullsleep, Joe McKay, Tom Moody, Akiko Sakaizumi, Eddo Stern, TEAMTENDO, Treewave, Chiaki Watanabe, and Carlo Zanni; curator Isabelle Arvers; media critic Ed Halter; and new media curator/writer Christiane Paul. |
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Lea Rekow with Pablo Helguera - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast October 31, 2005 Artist and new media expert Lea Rekow in conversation with Pablo Helguera whose opera, The Foreign Legion, will be presented as part of the Performa Biennial in New York on Nov. 10-11, 2005, as part of a series of works begun in 2004 as a means to exploit the interstices between art discussion and art making and the place of art in the broader cultural context. The title refers to the historical traditions of mercenary soldiers, and while addressing current political climates, the performance seeks to question the compromising of our beliefs in order to gain, or simply survive. WPS1 is the proud Internet Sponsor of PERFORMA05-the first biennial of new visual art performance in New York City. More than 20 venues throughout New York will present a multidisciplinary program of live performance, film screenings, lectures, and exhibitions from November 3 through 21, 2005. PERFORMA05 is organized by PERFORMA, a nonprofit arts organization committed to the research, development, and presentation of performance by visual artists. For more information, please visit www.performa-arts.org. |
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Lea Rekow with Mark Hosler of Negativland - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast September 19, 2005 Lea Rekow, founding director of Gigantic Art Space, interviews Negativland's Mark Hosler at the Clocktower, who is in town for the Negativlandland exhibit (September 9-October 22, 2005) at the gallery. Their discussion bounces through a pretty quick and exhaustive survey of the (not a) band's history from the early high school days, thoughts on noise/collage, appropriation/transformation, the U2 incident/Casey Kasem lawsuit, and the general puzzle of intellectual property. Plus a little music. (30 minutes) |
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Carolee Schneemann listen to part 1 | listen to part 1 with RealPlayer listen to part 2 | listen to part 2 with RealPlayer First broadcast May 29/June 19, 2006 Multidisciplinary artist (and pioneer of the form) Carolee Schneemann, has elevated the discourse on the body, sexuality, and gender through her work and life. She was a full participant, and a courageous one, in the cultural turbulence of the sixties; confronting taboos, challenging traditions, and embracing new forms. Her ongoing work as a painter and her merge into the downtown New York performance scene of that era (Judson Dance Theater, Warhol's Factory, assorted Happenings and kinetic theater) lead to her own performances and films such as the notorious 1964 Meat Joy, a "celebration of flesh as material," a living montage of naked bodies, raw fish, chickens, and sausages. And that's just the first few years. In this conversation with filmmaker, archivist, and historian MM Serra, Schneemann discusses her film Fuses at length along with anecdotes and reflections on life and work, sex and tech, cats and people, and much more. Fuses is included in the Summer 2006 exhibit Into Me, Out of Me curated by Klaus Biesenbach at P.S.1. |
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