[Discussion] CFP: Radio Territories (8/15/05; collection)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

From: Erik Granly Jensen <granly@hum.ku.dk>

Radio Territories

Where does radio leave us, and what future does it point to?

The legacy of radio and the arts has spawned forms of radical culture, from
early Modernist notions of the "Wireless Imagination" and its subsequent
vernacular tongues to Acoustic Ecology's call for "Radical Radio" based on
removing the DJ, transmission and broadcast media upsets and redistributes
understandings of place, corporeality, social exchange, and the politics of
information. Such instances of radicality find their counter-balance within
public broadcasting, whose support of public services and cultural 
programming
generates other forms of unique broadcasting. The relationship between
sub-cultural radio and public broadcasting is at the heart of Radio 
Territories,
as questions of culture, politics, and technology are brought to the fore.

While literature and theories on and about radio have appeared 
intermittently,
the current initiatives around digital streaming, web-radio, and podcasting
demands a contemporary measuring of the radiophonic and subsequent 
burgeoning of
new cultural forms. To address radio in the present, Radio Territories 
seeks to
open the book on its historical, medial, and aesthetical status.

We invite proposals by theorists, artists, engineers, Djs, and 
historians, which
pursue a critical assessment and activation of the contemporary radio dial.
Critical and creative essays will be coupled with artistic and audio 
projects so
as to locate the territories of radio and its ever-expanding and deepening
reach. While radio through the Modern period stitched together an electronic
network by expanding outward, digital radio finally fulfils Marshal 
McLuhan's
global idea of the "extended nervous system" by networking individual 
lives on a
cellular level. Radio is no longer out there, in the ether, but totally 
inside,
as individual transmissions that nonetheless speak from within
a crowded room.

An abstract of 300 words should be submitted no later than August 15th. 
Final
articles are due November 15th. We also encourage the submission of art and
audio projects that expose the performative nature of radio. Radio 
Territories
will contain an accompanying CD.

Abstracts and correspondence should be directed to the editors at:
Erik Granly Jensen - granly@hum.ku.dk
Brandon LaBelle - blabelle@earthlink.net

Radio Territories
Edited by Erik Granly Jensen and Brandon LaBelle
Published by Errant Bodies press (www.errantbodies.org)
Release date: spring 2006

Erik Granly Jensen is a post.doc. in the Department of Comparative 
Literature
and Modern Culture at the University of Copenhagen. He is currently 
working on a
project concerned with the relationship between technology and the arts 
in early
European radio.

Brandon LaBelle is an artist, writer, and editor of Errant Bodies press. He
recently completed his PhD, "Background Noise: Sound Art and the 
Resonance of
Place", at the London Consortium. He currently is a visiting lecturer at the
University of Copenhagen.



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