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WPS1 Mission Statement WPS1 Art Radio is the Internet radio station of P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center and the Museum of Modern Art providing a 24-hour stream and on-demand archive of cultural programming. The station, sponsored by Bloomberg LP, operates out of the historic Clocktower Building in lower Manhattan where a network of interlinked studios stream live and pre-recorded talk, performances, and historic recordings to a world wide audience. Visitors select from a traditional radio program format or choose from an on-demand archive of nearly 2,000 hours of material. Launched on April 19, 2004, WPS1 was conceived by P.S.1 Founder and Director, Alanna Heiss, who dreamed of creating an art radio station for more than twenty years. She and Glenn Lowry, Director of The Museum of Modern Art, discussed the vision of the radio station during the merger discussions between MoMA and P.S.1 in 2000. WPS1 features talk radio styled discussions and interviews with artists, authors, musicians, actors, filmmakers, critics, curators, poets, educators, journalists, media experts, and other cultural leaders, innovators, and challengers. The station also carries a unique and important collection of music assembled by a team of music curators. This material ranges from live recordings of the widely acclaimed P.S.1 summer Warm Up series of DJ dance sets to rare recordings and surveys of experimental and adventurous music both new and old and from near and far. WPS1 also broadcasts historic recordings from university and private collections and from the audio archives of the Museum of Modern Art; presents live remote programs from festivals including Art Basel Miami Beach, The Armory Show, Performa, and the Venice Biennale; and frequently carries public events hosted by partnering cultural institutions from New York and elsewhere. Staff Alanna Heiss, Executive Director David Weinstein, Director of Programs, P.S.1 and Managing Director, Art Radio WPS1 Elliott Sharp, Consultant, Contemporary Music Jeannie Hopper, Station Manager and Curator of DJ Music Lucy T. Simanjuntak, Production Assistant Paul Johnson, Web Designer George Taylor, Webmaster/Programmer Jason Bard, Technical Advisor Jason Drummond, Curatorial Advisor for Warm Up Zach Layton, Curatorial Advisor for Warm Up/New Music Elliot Stapleton, Intern For general inquiries, comments, or to report technical problems please use This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it WPS1 Staff Biographies Alanna Heiss, Executive Director, is Founder and Executive Director of P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center. She is one of the founders of the alternative space movement, beginning with Under the Brooklyn Bridge, a 1971 outdoor show that she organized with installations by American and European artists. Ms. Heiss has curated and/or organized over 700 exhibitions at P.S.1 and elsewhere, including the inaugural exhibition at P.S.1, Rooms (1976); New York, New Wave (1981), and Stalin’s Choice: Soviet Socialist Realism, 1932-1956 (1993); as well as solo shows including Robert Grosvenor (1976); Keith Sonnier (1983); Dennis Oppenheim (1992); John Coplans: A Self-Portrait (1997); Alex Katz: Under the Stars, American Landscapes 1951-1995 (1998); and John Wesley: Paintings 1961-2000 (2000). David Weinstein, Director of Programs, P.S.1 and Managing Director, Art Radio WPS1, is a composer and multimedia artist whose musical and site-specific installation works have been shown worldwide. His musical works juxtapose sound effects, traditional and non traditional instruments, synthetic sound, ancient and exotic tunings, and noise. As a keyboardist Weinstein has recorded and performed with musicians including Shelley Hirsch, Elliott Sharp, John Zorn, Ned Rothenberg, Paul Dresher, Rhys Chatham and many others from Arto Lindsay to Zeena Parkins. Weinstein also makes theatrical, installation and site-specific multimedia pieces and is expert in computer assisted audio and animation including streaming and interactive media. His multimedia collaborations with video artist Doris Vila earned them a jury prize at Ars Electronica in 2002 and a NYSCA grant in 2004. Born in Chicago in 1954, David Weinstein studied music composition at the University of Illinois with Ben Johnston and Salvatore Martirano. A founder of the New York new music series Roulette, he co-directed the day-to-day operations from 1978 to 1994. He has taught music, sound, and multimedia at The School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Yale, and the City University of New York. He has worked as a consultant, panelist, curator, and organizer for arts organizations and companies from Morgan Stanley to MTV. He has lived in Brooklyn since 1979. Elliott Sharp, Consultant, Contemporary Music is a composer, producer, and sound artist and leads the groups Orchestra Carbon, Tectonics, and Terraplane. His compositions have been performed by the Symphony of the Hessischer Rundfunk, the Ensemble Modern, Continuum, Kronos Quartet, and Zeitkratzer. His orchestra piece "Calling" was commissioned by the Hessischer Rundfunk to open the 2002 Darmstadt Ferienkurse fur Neue Musik and the CD won the 2004 German Critics' Prize. His composition "Quarks Swim Free" was premiered at the Venice Biennale in September 2003 and performed by his group Carbon. His installations include: Fluvial, computerized multichannel audiowork commissioned by Engine 27 gallery, June '02. Chromatine , an interactive string sculpture/audiowork created for the Gallery of the School of Museum Of Fine Art, Boston, January 2001. Cryptid Fragments included in the Bitstreams show at the Whitney Museum, 2001. Timetable, interactive installation by Perry Hoberman - July 1999 which won Grand Prize at Tokyo NTT ICC Bienalle, 1999. Jeannie Hopper, Station Manager and Curator of DJ Music, brings to WPS1 over 16 years of 'hands on' radio experience, including acting as an on-air personality, engineer, producer & reporter for WBAI. Her weekly radio program "Liquid Sound Lounge," on WBAI, features artist interviews, live performances, live improvisational sound collages/music with spoken word performers. She's produced extensive free-form radio productions including live radio shows, self-contained documentaries, sound design for radio theatre and has been the voice for radio theatre, electronic news gathering, live remote music events and PSA's. Lucy Simanjuntak, Production Assistant, received her MFA in Design and Technology from Parsons School of Design in 2005, and did her thesis on creating a server-based voice network for journalists in Indonesia. A native of Indonesia, she moved to the US at the age of 13 to pursue her education. Paul Johnson, Web Designer, is an artist whose work has exhibited in the United States, Europe, and Asia. Paul's body of work includes video, sculpture, and computer software. It has been featured on the Independent Film Channel, Wired Magazine, and in many books and publications. Paul Johnson has shown his work at Postmasters Gallery (New York), the Seoul Museum of Art (South Korea), ZKM (Germany), The New Museum (New York), Eyebeam (New York), Galerie Yvon Lambert (Paris), and participated in the 1997 Whitney Biennial. Documentation of his work can be found at www.pauljohnson.com. George Taylor, Webmaster/Programmer, is an musician and open source software geek born in the wood dragon year. He received a BA in music from the University of California, San Diego and an MS in computer science from the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Jason Bard, Technical Advisor, is a musician, artist, and computer programmer born and raised in the suburbs of Boston. He studied at the Massachusetts College of Art, but put a career in the visual arts on hold to travel the world as a DJ and musician, releasing records under a host of pseudonyms in the US and EU. Having grown weary of life on the road, he now splits his time as an audio engineer for WPS1, IT duties at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, and running Samadhi, a small recording studio in Manhattan. DJ Spun (aka Jason Drummond), Curatorial Advisor for Warm Up/DJ Music, made an indelible mark on the West Coast scene through his legendary DJ sets and deep, dark house production work. Spun grew up in the San Jose area and began his DJ career playing underground parties in the late �80s and early �90s. His DJ sets at pioneering S.F. parties The Gathering and Come-Unity have helped establish him as one of the scene�s key players. Now a household name as a DJ, Spun is concentrating on production work for Twitch Recordings and EAC. His first release for Siesta comes at a time when the label is receiving huge support from DJs across the spectrum, from Doc Martin to John Digweed. The past few releases from H-Foundation (aka Halo and Hipp-E) have given Spun the platform from which to propel himself into the premier league. You can feel the tequila inspired madness of �DJ Spun Eats The Worm,� with its deep, hypnotic and semi-psychedelic qualities. Location and phone: wps1.org The Clocktower 108 Leonard Street, 13th Floor New York, NY 10013 P: 212.233.1096 Submissions should be mailed to: WPS1 22-25 Jackson Ave Long Island City, NY 11101 |
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