After a long hiatus and many off-the-record conversations, I accepted an invitation from Eva de Groote to visit her in Ghent at  Vooruit Media Art Centre and somehow managed to time the trip so that I had the pleasure of conversing with many of the artists presenting their work in the festival: The Game Is Up! How to Save the World in Ten Days

Listen to Day One

Listen to Day Two

Listen to Day Three

More info, audio and video from the festival

This was my first official visit as Minister of Foreign Affairs and Prosperity, Cultural Consulat Rondeel. Read the full report on meetings and activities.

Listen here to the fabulous sounds from the Danube and Rhine, where I had the good fortune to join Mu collective and other artists on the nomadic sound art barge and travel from Bratislava to Strasbourg.

http://www.sound-delta.eu/

Conversations from Transit Lounge Radio will be part of the program by artists in residence from reboot.fm

Cornerhouse Gallery 1 will be transformed into the ARTRADIO production and broadcasting studio. Open to visitors, the studio will form the base for a dynamic array of live residency broadcasts, events, pre-recorded, and archive programmes, as well as invited feeds, guest slots and submitted content. ARTRADIO will reach into people’s homes, offices, cars…, wherever they listen to the radio, and offer gallery visitors a chance to listen whilst also making transparent the usually hidden mechanisms of radio, one of the most avidly followed and accessible forms of media.

Broadcasting on 106.5 FM and online from Fri 29 June – Weds 35 July 2007 (inclusive)
Broadcasting online until Sun 26 August 2007 (inclusive)
All from Cornerhouse Gallery 1. Gallery exhibitions open Sat 30 June – Sun 26 August 2007

Reboot.fm -
Diana McCarty & Pit Schultz (Berlin)

http://www.artradio.fm/

I didn’t make it to Venice for the Biennale, but you can listen to conversations with artists there by these young Italian artists from Radio Arte Mobile.

ACHILLE BONITO OLIVA:

A GROUP OF VERY YOUNG ARTISTS, ALL RECENTLY GRADUATED AT IUAV (ISTITUTO UNIVERSITARIO DI ARCHITETTURA DI VENEZIA), GO AROUND THE LAGOON CITY IN THE SPACES THAT HOST THE EXHIBITIONS AND COLLATERAL EVENTS OF THE BIENNALE. THEY MEET AS MANY OF THE ARTISTS AS POSSIBLE THAT PARTICIPATED IN THE BIENNALE THROUGH INTERVIEWS AND WANT TO TESTIFY THEIR PRESENCE LIVE, INTENDED NOT ONLY AS PRODUCERS OF THE WORKS ON DISPLAY, BUT ALSO AS AUTHORS OF A POETIC THOUGHT EXPRESSED WITH THE WORD.

RAM – RADIOARTEMOBILE PROMOTES THESE LOOSE ENCOUNTERS, HAND TO HAND WITH ARTISTS OF DIFFERENT GENERETIONS AND COUNTRIES, UNDER THE GESTURE OF THE VERBAL MEETING AND CULTURAL EXCHANGE. A FURTHER STEP IN COMMUNICATION BEHIND AN ART SYSTEM THAT, RATHER, MOVES UNDER THE PERFORMATIVE GESTURE OF THE PUBLIC EVENT. INSTEAD , “TALK WITH ME” REPRESENTS THE ATTEMPT TO CREATE A SPACE OF CULTURAL INTIMACY THAT PERMITS ARTISTS TO SPEAK AND LISTEN TO EACH OTHER, IN A DIMENSION THAT EXCLUDES COMPETITION AND INCLUDES A SOCRATIC CADENCE.

INTERVIEWS BY:
ROBERTO DE PO
ANDREA DE STEFANI
ELISA FERRARI
ANDREA GALIAZZO
GIOVANNI GIARETTA
EMILIANO PISTACCHI
GIANANDREA POLETTA
DIEGO TONUS
SARA TOSO
CHIARA VECCHIARELLI

sound art museum

tune in…

to the space between pauses

HELSINKI KIASMA

MARCH 29 – APRIL 1 2007
01/04/07

LISTEN NOW!

PXL HKL 16
Name: James Geoffrey Medcraft
Born: 1982
Nationality: British
Sex: Male
Occupation: Designer
URL: jamesmedcraft.com or uva.co.uk

Transit Loungessa

PXL HKL 17
Name: Bertrand Gondouin
Born: La Fertemace
Nationality: French
Sex: Male
Occupation: Artist
URL: bertrandgonduin.net

this is NOT Erik Minkkinen!!

PXL HKL 18
Name: Erik Minkkinen
Born: France
Nationality: USA
Sex: Male
Occupation: Musician
URL: www.leplacard.org and myownspace.fr/eeek

THIS is Erik Minkkinen!!!

PXL HKL 19
Name: Xarene Eskandar
Born: Toronto Canada
Nationality: Canadian
Sex: Female
Occupation: UCLA Design/Media Arts
URL: www.vjbook.com

PXL HKL 20
Name: Andrew Paterson
Born: Falkirk, Scotland
Nationality: Scottish
Sex: Male
Occupation:
URL: http://mlab.uiah.fi/~apaterso

MARKET MUSIC

KULU HYVAA

HELSINKI KIASMA

MARCH 29 – APRIL 1 2007

MARKET MORNING

31/03/07

LISTEN NOW!

PXL HKL 11
Name: Armin Medosch
Armin: Part Two
Armin: Part Three
Born: Austria
Nationality:
Sex: Male and Female
Occupation: Artist
URL: theoriebild.ung.at

PXL HKL 12
Name: Beuce Samu
Born: Budapest
Nationality: Hungarian
Sex: Male
Occupation: Student/Animata designer
URL: www.binaura.net

PXL HKL 13
Name: Marius Watz
Born: Oslo
Nationality: Norwegian
Sex: Male
Occupation: Artist
URL: www.unlekker.net

PXL HKL 14
Name: Ville Hyvonen
Born: Ila
Nationality: Finnish
Sex: Male
Occupation: Pixel
URL: www.cncd.fi

PXL HKL 15
Name: Andras Loo
Born: Tarta Estonia
Nationality: Estonian
Sex: Male
Occupation: Artist
URL: www.looming.org

HELSINKI KIASMA
MARCH 29 – APRIL 1 2007

30/03/07

LISTEN NOW!

SUOMENLINNA FERRY

ARTIST PARTY

BILLIE JEAN RADIO

PXL HKL 07
Name: Tom Holley
Born: London
Nationality:
Sex: Male
Occupation: Researcher

PXL HKL 08
Name: John Hopkins
Born: Anchorage, AK, USA
Nationality: USA
Sex:
Occupation: Nomad
URL: www.neoscenes.net

PLACARD HEADPHONE PERFORMANCE

PXL HKL 09
Name: Kjersti Andvig
Born: Oslo
Nationality: Norwegian
Sex: Female
Occupation: Artist
URL: myspace.com/formaica and myownspace.fr/294

PXL HKL 10
Name: Tim Patrick Jones
Born: Aylesbury
Nationality: British
Sex: Male
Occupation: Producer
URL: www.nodel.org

HELSINKI KIASMA

MARCH 29 – APRIL 1 2007

29/03/07

LISTEN NOW!

PXL HKL 01
Name: Jean-Baptiste
Born:
Nationality: French
Sex: Male
Occupation: Bille-Jean evangelist
URL: myownspace.fr

PXL HKL 02
Name: Roger (ALEX) Berry
Born: Minneapolis
Nationality: US
Sex:Male
Occupation: Designer
URL: eyeinput.net

PXL HKL 03
Name: Teemu Maki
Teemu Part Two
Born: Lapua, Finland
Nationality: Finnish
Sex: Male
Occupation: Artist
URL: www.teemumaki.com

PXL HKL 04
Name: Sirpa Jokinen
Born: Helsinki
Nationality: Finnish
Sex: Female
Occupation: Artist
URL: www.mustekala.info

PXL HKL 05
Name: Michael Glen
Born: 1984
Nationality: Australian
Sex: Male
Occupation: Kunstler Schuler
URL: www.michaelglen.net

Pikseliähky / Pixelache 29.3.–1.4.

Transit Lounge Radio

Juha Huuskonen

jokainen keskustelu on kutsu

Hyper-paikallinen valtioiden rajat ylittävä hybridiradio kerää ja välittää keskusteluja Transit Loungessa. Aloita keskustelu, kerro tarina siitä mistä innostut, mikä pitää elämän mielenkiintoisena, seikkailuistasi, unelmistasi, epäonnistumisistasi, tulevaisuudestasi…

Radio yhdistää sosiaalisia, yhteisöllisiä, epävirallisia, esoteerisia,
verkostoja ja ruumiillistettuja vuorovaikutuksia. Radio in Transit välittää lähetykset, missä ikinä oletkin.

every conversation is an invitation

A hyper-local trans-national hybrid radio, collecting and transmitting
conversations with people who pass through the Transit Lounge.
Start a conversation; tell a story about the places in between, what
inspires and keeps life interesting, adventures, dreams, failures, the
future…

Socially engaged networks, embodied interactions, participatory
collaborative informal esoteric floating oceans of conversation.

Radio in Transit receiving and transmitting from wherever you are.

Pikseliähky Loungessa keskustelut Jodi Rosen ja hänen vieraidensa kanssa
Live in Pixelache Lounge talk with Jodi Rose and guests
TO-THU 13:00 – 16:00
PE-FRI 14:00 – 16:00
LA-SAT 14:00 – 16:00

Listen and Contribute – Kuuntele ja myötävaikuta