r a d i o q u a l i a information zone

 

Short Biography

r a d i o q u a l i a is an artist collective formed by New Zealanders, Adam Hyde and Honor Harger in 1998, which creates radio and sound art. Their principle interest is how broadcasting technologies can be used to create new artistic forms, and how sound art can be used to illuminate abstract ideas.

Their work has been exhibited at the ICC in Tokyo, New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York; Gallery 9, Walker Art Center in USA; Sonar in Barcelona; Ars Electronica in Austria; Artspace in New Zealand, among other places. r a d i o q u a l i a projects include Radio Astronomy (2004 - now), Polar Radio (2007), The Frequency Clock (1998 - 2003) and Free Radio Linux (2002 - 2004).

Email: honor at va.com.au or adam at xs4all.nl

Long Biography

r a d i o q u a l i a is an art collaboration by New Zealanders, Adam Hyde and Honor Harger. It was founded in 1998 in Australia.

Using various media, r a d i o q u a l i a experiments with the concept of artistic broadcasting, using the internet and traditional media forms, such as radio and television, as primary tools. We work in gallery, performance, broadcast and publishing contexts.

r a d i o q u a l i a have developed our own software and hardware tools to facilitate artistic streaming media projects. Key amongst these tools is The Frequency Clock, a multi-platform system which enables users of the internet to timetable webcasting content for broadcast on the internet and on FM radio and television. The Frequency Clock can also be manifested as a gallery installation.

r a d i o q u a l i a celebrates the hidden spaces where the alchemic transference of intent and error happens. While exploring intersections between contemporary and historic communications art movements is intrinsic to r a d i o q u a l i a's politic, the eye of the loop is in a convergence of format and aesthetic. r a d i o q u a l i a critique the frailties of our chosen media format (Real Audio / Video, Desktop Computers, Internet connections) within the aesthetic of our sound art and netcasting. We work, with, rather than against the limitations of the media.

r a d i o q u a l i a's work has been exhibited at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, USA; Gallery 9, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA; Maison Europeenne de la Photographie in Paris, Austria; the Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria; Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff, UK; Sonar 2001 and 2005 in Barcelona, Spain; VideoPositive2000, Liverpool, UK; the Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts, Tokyo, Japan; Ars Electronica 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004 in Linz, Austria; the Bregenz Festival 98 in Austria; the Lux Centre in London, UK; Iona Gallery, Scotland; the Experimental Art Foundation in Adelaide, Australia; CACSA in Adelaide, Australia; The Physics Room in Christchurch, New Zealand, Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand, and the HDLU in Zagreb, Croatia, and many other places..

In August 2004 r a d i o q u a l i a was awarded a UNESCO Digital Art Prize for the project, Radio Astronomy. In September 2003, r a d i o q u a l i a was awarded the Leonardo-@rt Outsiders 2003 New Horizons Prize together with the participants of the Open Sky installation at the @rt Outsiders exhibition at the Museum of European Photography in Paris.

In January 2007 r a d i o q u a l i a launched AntarcticaÕs first artist-run radio station as part of their Polar Radio project.

r a d i o q u a l i a also curate and organise events and exhibitions. In 2000 they co-curated and produced net.congestion - the International Festival of Streaming Media, held in Amsterdam. See: http://net.congestion.org



SELECTED EXHIBITIONS / PROJECTS


2007


First Artist-Run Radio Station in Antarctica
Work: Polar Radio
29 December 2006 - February 2007
Polar Radio is a community radio project initiated by I-TASC and r a d i o q u a l i a. The first prototype station began FM broadcasts on 29 December 2006 in the Dronning Maud Land sector of Antarctica, where South Africa maintains their base, SANAE IV. It is Antarctica's first artist-run radio station. It is the first step towards establishing a permanent polar radio presence in Antarctica, which may eventually broadcast in between geographically dispersed Antarctic bases.
Polar Radio is part of a series of projects run by I-TASC - the Interpolar Transnational Art Science Constellation:
http://www.interpolar.org/projects.html#radio



Exhibition at Forte di Bard
Work: Sound Elevator
1 April - 31 August 2007
r a d i o q u a l i a were commissioned to make a new work for Forte di Bard in Valle d'Aosta in Italy for "Cima alle stelle (Stars)", a large exhibition showing historical works by major masters like Durer, Tintoretto and Guercino, contemporary artists such as Pierre Huygue, Olafur Eliasson and others, and astronomical instruments and writings by Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Newton and Einstein.
r a d i o q u a l i a made a new site-specific sound installation inside two of the glass elevators which take visitors from the arrival area of Forte di Bard, to the gallery levels. Sound Elevator consisted of two linked sound environments inside the elevators. As the elevators ascended to the exhibitions halls, visitors experienced an auditory journey from the local celestial environment to the edges of the Universe. In the first elevator, visitors sonically travelled through the Earth's ionosphere and magnetosphere, hearing our closest star, the Sun, interacting with our planetary atmosphere. The upward and outward journey continued in the second elevator, with sounds from our planetary neighbours, the sonic echo of distant stars, and finally the sound of the Big Bang itself.
http://www.undo.net/cgi-bin/undo/pressrelease/pressrelease.pl?id=1175507194



Performance at Tesla, Berlin, Germany
Work: from polar radio to solar wind
October 20, 2007
r a d i o q u a l i a composed a new sound performance made from radio waves emitted from celestial bodies. The work included very low frequency radio recordings made from the earthÕs most isolated place, Antarctica, made by r a d i o q u a l i a during the I-TASC residency in January 2007. From this vantage point in the southern polar region, radio receivers can detect our nearest star, the sun, interacting with the earth's atmosphere. The second part of the performance presented sounds from the radio sky of our own solar system. The performance finished with radiophonic pulses from beyond the solar system, in the distant parts of the universe.
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=5452025781




2006




Exhibition at Arsenals Exhibition Hall, Riga, Latvia
Work: solar listening_stations, part of WAVES
24 August - 17 September 2006
solar listening_station was broadcast inside a large gallery using localised transmission. Users wore radio headphones and tuned into radio stations broadcasting the Sun and the Earth. As they walked through the gallery, they moved through the different transmissions. It was part of the group exhibition, WAVES, exploring artist use of the electromagnetic spectrum.
http://www.rixc.lv/waves/



Exhibition at HMKV, Dortmund, Germany
Work: solar listening_stations, part of Solar Radio Station
20 May - 16 July 2006
solar listening_station was a work which focused on radiation emitted by the Sun. It was comprised of two 'channels'. One was of radio recordings of the Sun during solar storms; the other was a sound art work made using solar radio. It was part of a collaborative installation Solar Radio Station, made with RIXC.
http://www.rixc.lv/solar/en.html



2005



Exhibition at the Walter Philips Gallery, Banff, Canada
Work: Free Radio Linux, as part of The Art Formerly Known As New Media
September 2005
17 September - 23 October 2005
The Art Formerly Known As New Media was curated by Sarah Cook and Steve Dietz. It comprised 11 contemporary art projects reflecting how traditional forms of new media art have explored the enduring questions of economics, politics, social relations, public space, memory, leisure, and contemporary art. r a d i o q u a l i a showed an installation version of Free Radio Linux.
http://www.banffcentre.ca/wpg/exhibitions/2005/formerly/



Exhibition at Centre d'Art Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain
Work: Radio Astronomy, as part of Sonar 2005
16 - 18 June 2005
Sonar is Europe's largest electronic music festival, attracting over 80,000 visitors each year. Over recent years it has developed impressive exhibitions which show the intersection between electronic art and music. Sonarama focuses on the latest developments in new media installation art, audiovisual concerts, software and medialab presentations and was held at the Centre d'Art Santa Monica. r a d i o q u a l i a showed an installation version of Radio Astronomy - an online and on-air radio station that broadcast sounds from space, which also manifests as a sound installation. An international network of radio telescopes, including facilities run by the American Space Agency - NASA, the Windward Community College Radio Observatory (Hawaii, USA) and the Ventspils International Radio Astronomy Centre (Irbene, Latvia), collect radiation which is converted into audio using radio. Listeners or visitors to the Sonar installation could hear the sound of the Sun, the sound of the planet Jupiter and the sounds of far-off pulsars.
http://www.sonar.es/portal/eng/news.cfm?id_noticia=248



Exhibition at the NTT InterCommunication Centre, Tokyo, Japan
Work: Radio Astronomy, as part of open nature, a show curated by Yukiko Shikata
29 April - 3 July, 2005
"Open Nature" < http://www.ntticc.or.jp/Archive/2005/Opennature/> was curated by Yukiko Shikata (Japan) for one of the world's premier new media art exhibition centres, the NTT Intercommunication Center. In topics coupled as oddly as "mankind and vegetation", "climate and architecture", "spheres and sounds", this exhibition presented works and projects from the fields of art, design, and architecture. The works aims to show new views of nature, natural process and the natural environment, in the information age.
r a d i o q u a l i a showed an installation version of the work, Radio Astronomy. Live streams of meteors entering the Earth's atmosphere, collided with the constantly changing sound of the Sun, ever emitting hissing solar flares. The sound of the Cassini spacecraft passing through the rings of Saturn, was juxtaposed with live sound of the planet Jupiter and it's interaction with its moon Io. The installation also included the sound of the Huygens spacecraft during its historic descent onto the Saturnian moon of Titan.
Other artists in the show included: Knowbotic Research, Carsten Nicolai, Marko Peljhan, Robert Smithson and many others.
http://www.ntticc.or.jp/Archive/2005/Opennature/



Lecture & performance at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Work: Sonifying Space, as part of the Space Art mini conference
17 February 2005
This seminar held at France's peak museum of modern and contemporary art, the Centre Pompidou, explored various artistic projects in the 'space art genre'. r a d i o q u a l i a gave lecture and performance with streaming input from live sources, presenting data sonification from astronomical objects.
http://www.centrepompidou.fr/Pompidou/Manifs.nsf/0/FBFC0B95609C71EFC1256F770050A839?OpenDocument




2004



Performance, La Batie Festival, Geneva, Switzerland
Work: signals as part of signal-sever
8 September 2004
La Batie Festival in Geneva is one of the principal multi-artform festivals of Switzerland. r a d i o q u a l i a participated as part of the project signal-sever with a performance with streaming input from live sources, presenting data sonification from astronomical objects.



Exhibition at Ars Electronica, Linz
Work: Radio Astronomy
3 - 7 September 2004
For 25 years, Ars Electronica has been tracking and nurturing the digital revolution. TIMESHIFT was the title of the 2004 festival. In keeping with the festival's theme, r a d i o q u a l i aÕs Radio Astronomy installation at Ars Electronica explored the temporal qualities of astronomical sounds. Ranging from the deep-time rhythms of pulsars to the high-frequency fluctuations of Jupiter's moons, the work was a richly resonant sonic ephemeris. The sounds presented within the Radio Astronomy transmission and installation require us to radically reassess our concept of time. In order to acoustically make sense of data collected by radio telescopes, it is sometimes necessary for scientists and engineers to alter the temporal range of their data. Data is slowed down or sped up -- in effect it is 'timeshifted'. Visitors to the Ars Electronica festival could visit the Electrolobby space at the Brucknerhaus to listen to these astronomical sounds. Whilst in the installation space, sounds 'blue-shifted' towards listeners, and 'red-shifted' away, giving listeners the feeling of being in the midst of interstellar traffic.



Exhibition at ISEA 2004, Helsinki, Finland
Work: Radio Astronomy
14 - 22 August 2004
The Radio Astronomy installation and FM broadcast launched for the first time at the ISEA2004 festival on 13.08.04. Exhibitions, performances, conferences and concerts transformed venues across Helsinki in Finland, Tallinn in Estonia, and the Silja Opera ferry, as ISEA2004 - the 12th Symposium on Electronic Arts arrived in the Baltics.
At ISEA2004, the Radio Astronomy sound installation was being exhibited at the picturesque URSA observatory in Kaivopuisto park, Helsinki. The URSA dome overlooks the glittering Baltic Sea, and has a stunning view of both the stars and the ocean at night. The Radio Astronomy installation was open during evening hours, allowing visitors to not only view the night sky, but listen to it. Radiation from the Sun, the planet Jupiter, and other astronomical phenomena was audible inside the URSA dome, providing a captivating soundtrack to the starry night sky.
Radio Astronomy was also accessible to residents of Helsinki using standard transistor radios via AANIRADIO on 103.1FM, from midnight to dawn each night. The extraterrestial signals emanated by the Sun, Jupiter and other astronomical phenomena were be broadcast alongside the more prosaic sounds of music and news reports.



Symposium & Performance, Ventspils International Radio Astronomy Centre, Latvia
Work: Acoustic Space: RT32: Orchestrating the Solar System
22 July 2004
This special event organised by r a d i o q u a l i a and RIXC celebrated the conversion of the RT32 (a 32 metre wide radio antenna) from military to scientific use. It highlighted VIRAC's scientific achievements, and also addressed VIRAC's important role in bringing cultural concerns, tactical media and art into the sphere of astronomical operations. Acoustic Space: RT32 featured an excursion from Riga to the site of the telescopes at Irbene, a press conference by VIRAC scientists, a panel discussion with astronomers and artists, a drinks reception, the launch of an installation by RIXC, a preview of Radio Astronomy < by r a d i o q u a l i a, and performances by sound artists, including a special appearance by the Solar System Orchestra Ensemble. http://radioqualia.va.com.au/rt32/



Broadcast on Radio New Zealand
Work: Revolutions Per Minute 1: Frequency Shifting Paradigms in Broadcast Audio
18 April 2004
New Zealand's national broadcaster, Radio New Zealand commissioned a two-part radio documentary tracing the history of r a d i o q u a l i a's work with sound and radio art. The first part Frequency Shifting Paradigms in Broadcast Audio focused on r a d i o q u a l i a's early work.
http://www.radioqualia.net/documentation/sound/



Broadcast on Radio New Zealand
Work: Revolutions Per Minute 2: Little Star
25 April 2004
New Zealand's national broadcaster, Radio New Zealand commissioned a two-part radio documentary tracing the history of r a d i o q u a l i a's work with sound and radio art.
The second part Little Star focused on r a d i o q u a l i a's work with the RT32 radio antenna at VIRAC and the wider field of acoustic space.
http://www.radioqualia.net/documentation/sound/



Exhibition at Small Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Work: comma_data_space: 11 Ghz
March 2004
The Small gallery was a temporary exhibition space set up by Fiona Jack at the California Institute of the Arts. comma_data_space: 11 Ghz was audiovisual art installation.
http://www.radioqualia.net/documentation/sound/




2003



Performance at the Moving Image Centre in Auckland, New Zealand
Work: comma.data.return :: 56:30 - 21:1
6 December 2003
A micro sized video and audio performance festival, intersect is a multimedia melting point and a showcase for the new wave of video and audio art in peformances and workshops. r a d i o q u a l i a presented a lecture and an audiovisual performance called comma.data.return :: 56:30 - 21:1 at http://www.mic.org.nz/intersect05.html



Performance at Version festival, Auckland, New Zealand
Work: listening_stations v0.3: langmuir waves
22 November 2003
The Version Festival in Auckland showcases a unique mix of art, design, music, science and technology in a variety of settings and features original performances by innovative digital media artists exploring cutting edge new technologies. r a d i o q u a l i a performed listening_stations v0.3: langmuir waves, a sound performance made using sounds captured from the Sun, Jupiter's moons, Io, Callisto, Ganymede and Europa.
http://version.org.nz/version103/



Exhibition at the Physics Room, Christchurch, New Zealand
Work: re:Play
27 November, 2003
At the Physics Room gallery, re:Play was presented as an exciting one-off event, offering Christchurch audiences the opportunity to explore how play, politics interaction and competition can be utilised in an artistic context.
http://www.physicsroom.org.nz/publicprogrammes/2003/replay/



Exhibition at Artspace in Auckland, New Zealand
Work: re:Play
20 November - 22 December 2003
re:Play curated by r a d i o q u a l i a, presented projects created by artists which use game formats to make political observations. It launched in South Africa in October 2003, as a collaboration with the ICA Cape Town.
http://www.artspace.org.nz/past.htm#2003



Exhibition & education programme, South Africa
Work: re:Play
8 October - 1 November 2003
re:Play explored the world of the computer game. It featured an exhibition of artists' computer games by Andy Deck, Mongrel, Josh On + Futurefarmers, Natalie Bookchin, the escapefromwoomera collective and Max Barry and a programme of workshops and lectures. re:Play was a collaboration between the Institute for Contemporary Art, Cape Town and r a d i o q u a l i a. It launched at L/B's - The Lounge at Jo'Burg Bar in central Cape Town, South Africa, and went on to be exhibited at Artspace and the Physics Room in New Zealand.
The games in the exhibition were not typical computer games. While all of them encourage play, and involve a gaming objective, unlike regular computer games, they have a strong political dimension, and explore how play, interaction and competition can be utilised in an artistic context.
The re:Play education programme included talks and workshops lead by Graham Harwood of Mongrel and r a d i o q u a l i a at Cape Town High School, Fezeka Senior Secondary School in Gugulethu; the Alexandra Renewal Project, Johannesburg and at Wits School of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.



Exhibition at the Reg Vardy Gallery, Sunderland, UK
Work: Free Radio Linux, as part of the Art for Networks exhibition
11 November - 12 December 2003
The major touring exhibition Art for Networks focused on some of the most exciting international artists producing or using networks through their practice including Rachel Baker, Anna Best, Heath Bunting, Adam Chodzko, Jeremy Deller, Jodi, James Stevens and Stephen Willats.
r a d i o q u a l i a showed an installation version of Free Radio Linux, an online and on-air radio station, commissioned by the Walker Art Center. It comprised a computerised reading of the entire source code used to create the Linux operating system. Each line of code is read by computer voice synthesis software built by r a d i o q u a l i a. The output was encoded into an open source audio stream and sent out live on the internet. The Linux kernel contains 4.1 million lines of code and reading took 593 days.
http://web.archive.org/web/20041011063321/irational.org/artfornetworks/



Exhibition at Museum of European Photography/ Maison Europeenne de la Photographie, Paris, France
Work: listening_stations, as part of @rt Outsiders exhibition
1 October - 10 November 2003
@rt Outsiders is an annual exhibition held at one of ParisÕ leading exhibition venues. The 2003 edition of @rt Outsiders was focused on space art. r a d i o q u a l i a showed listening_stations, an interactive work exhibited as part of a collaborative installation called Open Sky. Two screens presented visitors with dual dial interfaces which could be used to select four 'stations'. Each station contains audio captured from the Sun, Jupiter and Jupiters' moons. The work won the Leonardo-@rt Outsiders 2003 New Horizons Prize, together with the participants of the Open Sky installation at the Museum of European Photography.
http://www.art-outsiders.com/archives3/uk_index.html



Exhibition at the Physics Room, Christchurch, New Zealand
Work: data_space_return, as part of the Audible New Frontiers exhibition
19 August - 13 September 2003
The exhibition, Audible New Frontiers comprised of six audio art works, commissioned for installation in The Physics Room gallery and simultaneous broadcast on Radio NZ's "Revolutions Per Minute" programme. It was documented with a CD catalogue. The radio broadcast attracted 40,000 listeners weekly over three weeks. r a d i o q u a l i a contributed data.space.rtn, a soundscape made using audio recorded at radio telescope in Latvia and voice data captured from orbiting satellites.
http://www.physicsroom.org.nz/gallery/2003/newfrontiers/



Locative media Residency at K2, Karosta, Latvia
Work: Locative Media
16 - 26 July 2003
This international workshop and residency entitled focused on GPS, mapping and positioning technologies. It took place at the K@2 Culture and Information Centre on an abandoned military installation in the former war habrour of Karosta, in the city of Liepaja. The workshop brought together an international group of artists and researchers interested in notions of mobile geography aiming to explore how wireless networking impacts upon notions of space time and social organization.



Exhibition at Turnpike Galleries, Leigh, UK
Work: Free Radio Linux, as part of the Art for Networks exhibition
5 April - May 2003
The major touring exhibition Art for Networks focused on some of the most exciting international artists producing or using networks through their practice. r a d i o q u a l i a showed an installation version of Free Radio Linux, an online and on-air radio station.



Exhibition at Fruitmarket Galleries, Edinburgh, UK
Work: Free Radio Linux, as part of the Art for Networks exhibition
15 February - 29 March 2003
The major touring exhibition Art for Networks focused on some of the most exciting international artists producing or using networks through their practice including Rachel Baker, Anna Best, Heath Bunting, Adam Chodzko, Jeremy Deller, Jodi, James Stevens and Stephen Willats.
r a d i o q u a l i a showed an installation version of Free Radio Linux, an online and on-air radio station. It comprised a computerised reading of the entire source code used to create the Linux operating system. Each line of code is read by computer voice synthesis software built by r a d i o q u a l i a. The output was encoded into an open source audio stream and sent out live on the internet. The Linux kernel contains 4.1 million lines of code and reading took 593 days.



Radio show on Resonance 104.4FM, London, UK
Work: r a d i o q u a l i a on resonanceFM
January - July 2003
A fortnightly radio show on focussing on experimental approaches to sound art, net.radio, broadcast radio and radio art
http://www.resonancefm.com



Exhibition at the Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria
Work: listening_stations as part of the Geography and the Politics of Mobility exhibition
17 January - 27 April 2003
This exhibition traced geographical practice as manifested by artists who work in collectives. It looked at the way projects produced by these collectives operate as a network, and at their esthetic strategy with regard to a "politics of space." r a d i o q u a l i a showed the installation listening_stations which was developed in residence at the makrolab as part of a wider presentation of the makrolab and its activities.
http://www.geobodies.org/curatorial/geographypro.html




2002



Exhibition at Chapter, Cardiff, UK
Work: Free Radio Linux, as part of the Art for Networks exhibition
28 September - 10 November 2002
The major touring exhibition Art for Networks launched at Chapter in Wales. On first encounter, net.art seems to be defined by the internet, that most visible and newsworthy of networks. However, there are other networks that also figure in our lives: those of identity, kinship, sociability, authorship and communication. Artists included in this exhibition investigate, implement or critique these networks, often working at the intersection between them.
r a d i o q u a l i a showed an installation version of Free Radio Linux, an online and on-air radio station, commissioned by the Walker Art Center. It comprised a computerised reading of the entire source code used to create the Linux operating system. Each line of code is read by computer voice synthesis software built by r a d i o q u a l i a. The output was encoded into an open source audio stream and sent out live on the internet. The Linux kernel contains 4.1 million lines of code and reading took 593 days. It also manifested as an installation.
http://www.chapter.org/1675.html



Performance & Broadcast, Ars Electronica, Linz Austria
Work: Radiotopia @ Ars Electronica
6 - 11 September 2002
On the occasion of the Ars Electronica Festival 2002 and its on site-on line project RADIOTOPIA, Kunstradio organised a networked on air-on line radio-art-project. The 6 hour live Long Night of Radio Art produced by featured a network of international nodes producing their own live events while artists groups, radio stations and individual artists delivered prerecorded projects and contributions into the network. r a d i o q u a l i a were part of the on-site production team of the Long Night of Radio Art.
http://www.kunstradio.at/RADIOTOPIA/krnightabout.php?nav=4|1



Exhibition at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA
Work: Free Radio Linux, as part of the Open_Source_Art_Hack exhibition
May 3 - June 30 2002
Open_Source_Art_Hack was an exhibition curated by Steve Dietz and Jenny Marketou at one of New York's main centres of contemporat art, the New Muesum. The exhibition showed artists such as Critical Art Ensemble and Knowbotic Research who approach hacking and open as a creative electronic strategies for resistance.
r a d i o q u a l i a's work in the show was Free Radio Linux < http://radioqualia.va.com.au/freeradiolinux/>, which was shown as an on-site radiop station and installation.
http://netartcommons.walkerart.org/article.pl?sid=02/04/10/0515240



Online exhibition / commission at Gallery 9, Walker Art Centre, USA
Work: Free Radio Linux
3 February 2002 - 19 September 2003
Free Radio Linux was commissioned by Gallery 9, the Walker Art Center's online exhibition space. It was an online and on-air radio station which ran for approximately a year and a half. The sound transmission consisted of a computerized reading of the code used to create the operating system, Linux. It was an audio distribution of the Linux Kernel, the basis for all versions of Linux operating systems. Each line of code was read by the computerised automated voice - a speech.bot built by ra d i o q u a l i a. The speech.bot's output was then encoded into an Open Source audio stream (using the codec, Ogg Vorbis), and sent out live on the internet. A selection on FM, AM and Shortwave radio stations from around the world also relayed the audio stream on various occasions. The Linux kernel contains 4,141,432 lines of code. Reading the entire kernel took 593 days. Free Radio Linux begins transmission on February 3, 2002, the fourth anniversary of the term, Open Source.
Between 1997 and 2003, under the direction of Steve Dietz, Gallery 9 presented the work of more than 100 artists and became one of the most recognized online venues for the exhibition and contextualization of Internet-based art. Dietz commissioned Free Radio Linux and later showed it in it's installation form at part of Open_Source_Art_Hack.
http://www.walkerart.org/archive/7/96D3639B6E5717946167.htm



Radio Broadcasts on Austrian National Radio, Vienna, Austria
Work: i s o l
30 December 2001 - 12 May 02
i s o l was a cartography of New Zealand in sound, which featured five radio broadcasts commissioned by Kunstradio and curated and produced by r a d i o q u a l i a. It featuring new sound works by Bruce Russell, Alastair Galbraith, Rosy Parlane, Matthew Thomas and r a d i o q u a l i a. the programmes showed how communications mechanisms like radio can encumber isolation, attaching moorings to places and people. It probed how natural radio emitted by the Earth or by its surrounding planets can articulate or amplify a sense of space. It documented small journeys through prosiac locations, and longer migrations across oceans and time. i s o l told its story in fragmented conversations between airbourne pilots, in the enigmatic rumblings of mountains by the sea, in far-off binary emanations from planetary phenomena, and in chaotic AM radio breakbeats.
http://www.radioqualia.net/isol




2001



Exhibition at CCCB, Barcelona, Spain
Work: frequency clock - gallery installation - [sNr v.0.1]
Sonar 2001, Barcelona, Spain
June 2001
This exhibition was part of the Sonar music festival exhibition, Sonarmatica, which had 10,000 visitors in 4 days In its gallery installation form, The Frequency Clock brings together net.radio projects located in separate geographical locations + relays their transmissions into the gallery, onto the web + onto the airwaves. The Frequency Clock creates aural portals into the creative spaces of the contributors. It recontextualises net.radio within an inventive exhibition environment + allows gallery audiences to explore net.radio spatially. radio + net.radio overlap, the functions of both dissolve into each other.



Action & Broadcast, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
Work: Take Over Cultural Channel
1 - 6 September 2001
A temporary television broadcast project established by r a d i o q u a l i a and Radio Fro. The television channel was broadcast on Austrian Television channel LT1, and on the internet: http://www.fro.at/connect_systems/content.html



Performance, Residency & Symposium at, Ventspils International Radio Astronomy Centre, Latvia
Work: Acoustic Space-Lab
4 - 12 August, 2001
r a d i o q u a l i a participated in the Acoustic Space Lab < http://acoustic.space.re-lab.net/lab/> at the Ventspils International Radio Astonomy Center (VIRAC ) in Latvia. This creative workshop was attended by 25 artists, scientists and researchers. The occasion was to explore the a 32 metre parabolic dish located in the forests of Latvia west of Riga. This former spy installation was abandoned and nearly destroyed as the Soviet occupying forces retreated from Latvia in 1994. Since then a small group of Latvian scientists have dedicated themselves to the resurrection of the dish and have returned the radio telescope to complete functionality. The VIRAC satellite dish is one of the ten best sites in the world for radio astronomical observations, and one of the only facilities of its kind in the world which has invited artists to visit and carry out research and experimentation. The images show shots of the workshop and research in progress.




2000



Exhibition at Video Positive, Liverpool, UK
Work: frequency clock - gallery installation - [ vp00 v.0.0.3 ]
9 March-1 May 2000
frequency clock [vp00 v.0.0.3] formed part of the exhibition 'one bit louder', part of part of Video Positive 2000 at Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool. This exhibition looked at the way in which the internet has impacted on sound culture. The installation was installed on 2 g3 macintoshes, located inside customised plinths, and spaces 3 - 4m apart. Tow transmitter-receiver modules transmitting locally on high-frequency radio were utlised to tranmit net radio.



Workshop & Performance, Adelaide Festival of the Arts, Adelaide, Australia
Work: Closing the Loop 2000
7 - 12 February & 9 - 12 March 2000
An international research and performance project examining how sound, technology and gameplay can create collaboration and inventiveness across networks. A collaboration with Time's Up: http://radioqualia.va.com.au/ctl/



Seminar & Performance at Lux Centre, London, UK
Work: Tuning the Net
17 - 19 June 2000
"Tuning the Net" created by r a d i o q u a l i a as part of the Tech_nicks series , was a workshop environment which provided a multi-tasking workspace environment for audio, video and streaming text production and distribution, up-skilling and swapping information. The programme for "Tuning the Net" was a combination of structured workshops for fixed numbers of participants and more open opportunities for people to access equipment and get familiar with software tools necessary for creating and distributing streaming media.



Performance at the Stockton Festival, Stockton, UK
Work: transitions & undercurrents part of live-stock
28 April - 1 May 2000
live-stock presented 72 hours of experimental audio, transmitted live on local FM in Stockton-on_Tees in the UK, and online as net radio. Bringing together a wide range of material and participants from Britain and beyond, live-stock created a sound collision of localities. r a d i o q u a l i a presented a sound performance called 'transitions & undercurrents' a live stream from Amsterdam to Stockton, which consisted of an abstract sonic mapping of trans-oceanic tides.




1999



Exhibition & Performance at OK Centrum, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
Work: pso.Net, as part of Sound Drifting
4 - 9 September 1999
pso.Net was r a d i o q u a l i aÕs project for the exhibition, Sound Drifting: I Silenzi Parlano Tra Loro. pso.Net eavesdropped on the airwaves of two cities - Amsterdam and Adelaide (representing the physical and virtual residence of r a d i o q u a l i a). It recorded spoken word fragments, and through a specially designed software ".Net", evolved this radio-activity into a kind of concrete poetical stream. Sound Drifting was a project curated by Kunstradio for LifeScience: Ars Electronica '99 . The physical component was a sound installation at the O.K Centrum in Linz which comprised of streaming sound artworks from Adelaide, Amsterdam, Belgrade, Berkshire, Brighton, Graz, Linz, Lancashire, Liverpool, Melbourne, Vancouver, and Weimar
http://www.radioqualia.va.com.au/psonet



Exhibition at Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, Australia
Work: frequency clock - gallery installation - [ eaf v.0.0.2 ]
19 August - 12 September
This installation infused the gallery space with radio transmissions from various global geographic sources. The focussed area of each transmission within the gallery means that participants are able to traverse vast spatial and temporal distances within the concentrated space of the gallery.
Each net.radio stream was from a different part of the world. Each link in the chain of computer + transmitters was intended as a physical representation of a discrete step in time zones. The space between transmitters, represented the transition between time zones. By traversing this space while wearing an FM radio receiver headset tuned to the mini-FM broadcast frequency, the audience participants becomes part of a global net.radio tuning mechanism. The installation was installed on 6 director series power macintoshes. distributed throughout the gallery. 6 transmitter-receiver modules transmitting locally on high-frequency radio were utlised, providing more reliable transmission than in previous beta phases of the installation.
The Frequency Clock installation was installed as part of the UNIVERSE1 exhibition about space, time & cosmology via metaphoric & poetic means .



Exhibition at Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, Australia
Work: Illata
November 1999
19 August - 13 November
Illata is an online project created for the Experimental Art Foundation's exhibition series, UNIVERSE. It is an "online theoretical universe which aims to 'bring to life' some of the discourse, protagonists and speculation which surround consciousness research. r a d i o q u a l i a have consistently explored the philosophy of mind through new media art. Illata is particularly concerned with the phenomenon of 'qualia'. Qualia are the central property of subjective experience, and refer to the character of mental states, such as pain, colour, etc. The term 'illata' was used by the German philosopher Hans Reichenbach to refer to "theoretical entities" or inferred concepts. r a d i o q u a l i a have recontextualised the term to imply a parallel theoretical universe. Illata is consequently "epistemic gamespace".
http://www.radioqualia.va.com.au/illata



Exhibition at Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
Work: e Q
24 - 31 January 1999
e Q was a sound installation that surveys what happens when the machines of the past collide with the machines of the future. It examines how sound has been mutated and transfigured by the manifold uses of soft / hardwares. e Q explored the uses of technology within sound art, investigating supposedly outmoded technological tools, in a rich complex of remembrances, placing antiquated instruments alongside current implements, provoking timely speculation about the consequences of aligning componentry systems strategically, as opposed to technologically: http://radioqualia.va.com.au/eq




1998



Performance at LADA98 Festival, Rimini, Italy
Work: we are alive and well but terribly uncommunicative
7 - 8 November 1998
r a d i o q u a l ia created the streaming audio performance "we are all well and alive, but terribly uncommunicative", for LADA98 L'Arte dell'Ascolto Media & Radio Festival. The performance was r a d i o q u a l i a's discrete passage through international radio culture, sampling moments of history immortalised by the dual technologies of transmitter and receiver.
The 8th edition of L'arte dell'Ascolto ("Listening to the Mediterranean") took place in Rimini.



Exhibition, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
Work: frequency clock - gallery installation - [ aec98 v.0.0.1 beta ]
7 - 12 September 1998
A beta version of the Frequency Clock was displayed at Ars Electronica 1998 , as part of the openX component of the festival. The installation was installed on four laptop computers, seperated at 2 - 3m intervals. Mini-FM transmitters broadcast to FM radio receiving headphones.



Performance, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
Work: 56h LIVE!: Acoustic Space
7 - 10 September 1998
The Xchange network are a collection of different groups and individuals from around the world, experimenting with net.radio and audio, run by E-Lab in Riga. To clebrate their honourable mention in the Prix Ars Electronica, 25 participants of the Xchange network gathered at at Ars Electronica 1998. r a d i o q u a l i a helpeds produce 56h LIVE! the resulting 56 hour continuous net.radio performance.



Exhibition at Bregenz Festival, Bregenz, Austria
Work: gl^tch.bot
11 July - 15 August 1998
gl^tch.bot was a sound robot made by by r a d i o q u a l i a. It ingested, digested and regurgitated audio data in a randomised audio stream, which was then streamed live to the Immersive Sound exhibition at the Bregenz Festival < http://thing.at/orfkunstradio/BREGENZ/IS/index.html> in Austria. gl^tch.bot gathered audio samples contributed by artists from around the globe. Samples consisted of every day sounds, voice, and music. gl^tch.bot then Audio dissected and recombined these samples using a software system designed by radioqualia and the Austrian group, farmers manual. The result was a continuous live chaotic, chattery, insectoid sound art work.
http://www.radioqualia.va.com/glitch



Performance and presentation at net.radio.days 98, Berlin, Germany
Work: self.e x t r a c t I n g.radio (.ser)
6 - 10 June1998
net.radio.days 98 was the first international meeting of experimental Internet radio projects. Invited by the Berlin-based net.radio group "convext tv" and by "Mikro", a club for the advancment of media cultures in Berlin, members of more than 20 international net.radio groups attended, including r a d i o q u a l i a, who presented self.e x t r a c t I n g.radio. Though we had some collaborated with many net.radio groups over the Internet for quite some time, for many of them it was the first meeting in "real space". At the same time net.radio was made accessible to a larger audience in workshops, presentations and public discussions.



Online Project
Work: self.e x t r a c t I n g.radio (.ser)
Dates: 6 June 1998 - now
.ser (1998) was an ongoing automated performance-netcast project, incorporating a self-generating playlist, which compiled Real Audio tracks and live audio streams implemented by sound artists and netcasters from around the world. The sound files, both live and pre-encoded were presented on .ser, and accessible via the Real Player. Hence, listeners experienced an automated net.radio program compiled by the manifold participants of the international netcasting community.



Exhibition at the Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts, Tokyo, Japan
Dates: May 1998
Work: The Qualia Dial
The Qualia Dial a tool for the investigation of discrete sensory phenomena. It switched between media dispatches collected through various broadcast channels. It was created for The Age of Streaming Media: Beyond Language Barriers, the 1998 edition of Art on the Net , an exhibition and prize organized by the Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts, Tokyo, Japan. The Qualia Dial was a finalist in the awards



Exhibition at Fabrica New Media Art Institution, Italy
May 1998
Work: Balance
Internet art work created for the Balance online exhibition, organized by Fabrica.


SELECTED TEXTS BY R A D I O Q U A L I A

Waveforms and Transmissions, Makrolab Reader, Arts Catalysts, London, UK, 2003

Free as in Media, Media Architecture, RIXC, Riga, Latvia, 2003

pitch shifting, One Bit Louder, Video Positive 2000, Liverpool, UK, March 2000
http://mi.cz/obl/intext/hargarhyde.htm

sound shape shifting, Realtime 29, February 1999

Looking Through Sound, PhonoTAKTIK: Music for Hearts and Minds, May 1999

The Apparatus As Interstice: FM & Real Audio bisect, Acoustic Space Vol2, September, 1999
http://radioqualia.va.com.au/ctl/texts/hh1.html

Keep The Faith: Radio B92, Belgrade, Acoustic Space Vol2, September 1999

Visionen Vom Friedern, Neue Medien und Politik, Informationen zur Ploitischen Bildung, Nr. 16, November 1999

Uncertain Information Exchange, Media & Ethnicity, Crash Media Vol 2, May 1998

Flexible Bodies on Frequency Modulation (with Zina Kaye), READ ME!: Nettime Book, September 1998
http://www.nettime.org/nettime.w3archive/199809/msg00146.html

Frequency Clock, ClosedX discussion series, Ars Electronica, September 1998

Net.Radio Round Table, edited by Alex Galloway, Polygraph, December 1998

 

Honor Harger

Honor Harger was born in New Zealand and lives in Europe.
She is an artistic practitioner working with design, curation and art-making, and has a particular interest in artistic uses of new technologies.

From November 2004 - July 2008, she was director of the AV Festival in Newcastle, Gateshead, Sunderland and Middlesbrough in the UK. She is also a PhD researcher at Z-Node a facility ran by the Faculty of Technology, University of Plymouth, and the ZŸrich University of the Arts, (ZHDK) in Switzerland. Her research aims to combine traditional and practice based research methods to create a sonic understanding of astronomical space, placing emphasis on the way that radio can be used to make space audible.

From 2000 - 2003, she was Webcasting Curator at Tate Modern in London, and curated events and concerts for the Interpretation and Education department.

In the mid 1990s while based in New Zealand, Honor edited the artistic publication, SPeC; co-founded sound art collective Relay, and worked with radio station, Radio One and the art gallery, Artspace in New Zealand. In Australia she worked with the Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT). After relocating to Europe in 1999, she undertook projects with the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation in Germany, the publishing house, Arkzin and the new media art organisation, mama in Croatia, and the Kiasma contemporary art museum in Finland. She also co-curated the Communication Front 2000 in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Since 2001 she has curated exhibitions for the BBC, The Physics Room in New Zealand, the HDLU in Zagreb, Croatia, the Queens Gallery in New Delhi, India and other locations.

 

Adam Hyde

Adam Hyde was born in New Zealand and lives in Europe.
He is a musician, developer and format artist working at the convergence of broadcasting and Internet technologies. In addition to r a d i o q u a l i a, Adam Hyde manages FLOSS Manuals (http://www.flossmanauls.net/). He has been involved in free technology and art for 10 years, mainly within the broadcast realm but lately Adam's work is centered in community building and publishing. Recent artistic projects include the Geekosystem - recycling technojunk into art (http://www.geekosystem.org), Kumara - free media email blogging (http://www.xs4all.nl/~adam>, and the Paper Cup Telephone Network (http://www.papercuptelephone.org). Recent non-art projects include managing the production of the OLPC and Sugar manuals (http://www.flossmanauls.net/about).

Adam has a background in television and radio in New Zealand, where he founded the b.net radio network and Static Television, New Zealand's first community television station. He relocated in Europe in 1999, and worked as a producer and manager at the internet service provider, XS4ALL in Amsterdam between 1999 - 2003. Whilst in Amsterdam, he co-founded HelpB92 and Open Channels for Kosovo, which assisted independent media in the former Yugoslavia. He was also the initiator of Net Congestion: the International Festival of Streaming Media, held in Amsterdam in October 2000, and a co-founder of the Open Source Streaming Alliance, an initiative that has established several internationally distributed, streaming media servers for arts and cultural use.

 

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