the r a d i o q u a l i a activity zone

 

 

Radio Astronomy

An online and on-air radio station & sound installation that broadcasts sounds from space (August 2004 -> now). The current exhibition is at ACC Galerie Weimar from 22 November 2008 - January 2009.

Listeners can hear different celestial frequencies, hearing planets, stars, and the constant hiss of cosmic noise.

SKR

SKR was a performance at the Sincronie Festival in Milan, November 2008

SKR was an audio performance which explored radio meteorology in the planet saturn.

It featured recordings of auroral Saturnian kilometric radiation (SKR) and the radio emission from lightning deep in its atmosphere

It als included the hail-storm like sound of Saturn's rings as they collided with the space probe, Cassini.

free radio linux

Free Radio Linux is an online and on-air radio station.

The sound transmission consisted of a computerized reading of the code used to create the operating system, Linux.

Skint Stream

Collaborative radio project (8 June 2005 + ongoing).

Skint Stream is a network which connects audiences and cultural spaces previously separated by economic, geographic and political factors.

 

solar listening_stations

Part Solar Radio Station exhibition at HMKV, Dortmund, Germany (20 May ­ 16 July 2006)

Installation focussing on radiation emitted by the Sun.

 

re:mote

Decentralised symposium about remoteness. Sited at Regina, Canada (May 20, 2005), Auckland New Zealand (March 19 2005) and ISEA 2006.

Can technologically mediated communication ever substitute for face-to-face dialogue?

 

artspace channel

Commissioned (by Artspace, NZ) channel of r a d i o q u a l i a sound pieces.

8 compositions using recording r a d i o q u a l i a have done of various astronomical objects.

The Frequency Clock

A global networked broadcast system linking old and new communications media.

A tuning mechanism linking hybrid fm/net.radios together through shared programming.

 

Acoustic Space: RT32: Orchestrating the Solar System

Symposium & Performance, Ventspils International Radio Astronomy Centre, Latvia (22 July 2005)

Frequency Shifting Paradigms in Broadcast Audio

A Broadcast on Radio New Zealand (April 2004)

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.

 

comma_data_space: 11 Ghz

An exhibition at Small Gallery at the California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles, USA (March 2004)

<re:Play>

An exhibition of digital games (October - December, 2003)

rq curated exhibition of art projects which use game formats to make political observations.

istening_stations

Part of @rt Outsiders exhibition at Museum of European Photography, Paris (September ­ November 2003)

An installation about the sonification of space

data_space_return

Part of the Audible New Frontiers exhibition Physics Room, Christchurch, New Zealand (August ­ September 2003)

A sound installation made using recordings of the radio telescope in Latvia and voice data captured from orbiting satellites.

i s o l

A series of artistic online and on-air radio programmes for Kunstradio, on Austrian National Radio (2002 - 2003).

Locative media residency at K2, Karosta, Latvia

A workshop/residency (July 2003)

Location-sensitive technologies and wireless systems research residency held in a former military war-harbour

 

r a d i o q u a l i a on resonanceFM

Radio show on Resonance 104.4FM, London, UK (January 2002 ­ July 2003)

A fortnightly radio show on focussing on experimental approaches to sound art, net.radio, broadcast radio and radio art:

r a d i o q u a l i a at Makrolab

A residency in a remote art/science research station, makrolab, stationed (May - August 2002)

at Blair Atholl Estate in Scotland. The residency focussed on radio astronomy and surveillance techniques.

 

Take Over Cultural Channel

Workshop & Broadcast, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria (September 2001)

A temporary television broadcast project established by r a d i o q u a l i a and Radio Fro.

Acoustic Space-Lab

Performance, Residency & Symposium at, Ventspils International Radio Astronomy Centre, Latvia (August, 2001)

 

net.congestion

A festival (October, 2000 in Amsterdam) initiated by r a d i o q u a l i a and co-edited with David Garcia and Eric Kluitenberg

Bandwidth Aestethics, The Network is the Narrative, target.audience = 0, Alternative Protocols and other panels in the video archive

 

 

illata

The theoretical universe of Mary, a scientist trapped in a black and white world

An epistemic gamespace, presented at the EAF, Adelaide, Australia, in August 99.

 

pHonic

Exhibition of new media artists' sound games and tools, at The Physics Room, Christchurch, New Zealand

 

 

pso.net

A mechanical sonneteer, which constructs sonic vignettes from actual auditory circumstances.

A component of the 'sound drifting' exhibition by Kunstradio, for Ars Electronica 99

 

eQ

Machines of the past collide with the mechanisms of the future

A sound installation by 5 Australasian artists at the CACSA in Adelaide, January 99

 

ovalmaschine

A machine for folding and fusing net.radio transmissions into personal audiophonic creation.

A 1998 invention.

closing the loop

A laboratory on sound & gameplay across networks

In collaboration with Time's Up, produced in Adelaide, Australia in February 2000

 

the qualia dial

A tool for the investigation of discrete sensory phenomena.

Made in 1998, it switches between media dispatches collected through various broadcast project channels.

 

 

gli^tch.bot

A sound robot that ingests, digests and regurgitates audio matter in a randomised composite.

An accident by r a d i o q u a l i a + farmers manual for the Bregenz Festival, Austria, June 98.

self.extracting.radio

A self-generating playlist made in 1998 for compiling live audio streams by sound artists and netcasters,

into an automated collaborative net.radio programme.

gemma

An online open channel for the distribution of audiometric material.

A contingent marriage of idealism and pragmatics made in 1998. Open to input.

artician

An online 'residency' space, acting as a jumpstation to a series of experiments in media manipulation.

Ongoing, and open to proposals.

 

rqtv

The momentary coherence of pixels on a data screen.

A testing zone for streaming moving image constructions.