The Radio
Craft Lab took place at Isis Arts over a period of 5 days as part
the AV08 Festival.
The lab was a ‘hands-on’ laboratory for a small group
of artists wishing to work intensively with the notions, and materials
of radio and broadcast alongside the expertise and guidance of
international artists.
The lab week commenced with a ‘hands on’ approach
to making radio tools, which included a mini fm transmitter building
day with Tetsuo
Kogawa which was then followed by a workshop led by Joyce
Hinterding- building a low frequency antennae constructed
from bicycle wheel rims and copper wire. Knut
Aufermann intersected the mid-point of the week with a live
radio broadcast, hosting a group show on the AV Festival radio
station at the Discovery Museum, Newcastle upon Tyne. The remainder
of the week focused on web-based ‘broadcast’ and means
of distribution, led by Raitis Smits & Rasa Smite from RIXC
on netcasting and ‘Performance on Demand’ - podcasting
led by Dominic
Smith. The participants experimented with their radio tools
and instruments to stream / perform live over the internet using
free and open source software, a natural progression from open
circuits / hardware to open source software.
