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.
Managed and
facilitated by Sneha Solanki .
Radio Craft Lab by- Isis
Arts | Part of the AV08
Festival. |
