collaborations

pingfm.org

From 2000 – 2006 Jan Hendrik Brueggemeier has been founding member and one of the driving forces of the webcast band pingfm

pingfm.org has been a web based platform for audio/video experiments with impetus on live production of audio and video.

Working with streaming and networked media the members of pingfm have been fascinating by three core aspects: their low-bandwidth aesthetic, their global interaction and their potential to hybridise different media and spaces like club, theatre, concert, installation, radio, cinema and performance.

Back in those early days of live Internet radio and audio/video live streaming it felt a bit strangely anachronistic in the light of the overall trend in digital production because it meant to:
a.) to lower and reduce the sound and video quality and not to increase it and
b.) to face the fact of “electronic loneliness” as online audiences are more diverse and at that time more or less global but still rather marginal.

In order to compensate that pingfm organised events, festivals and conferences like the ping-in-progress-festival in Weimar (2001). It prepared and participated in the NO BORDER-Camp Radio in Strasbourg (2002). It received the Bauhaus University Award and participated in the online event series ‘Fusion’ organised by Jill Scott (aside others). It performed at the Webcastlounge at the ART Frankfurt (2001) organised by Station R.O.S.E. pingfm hosted together with Theaterhaus Weimar the Sleep-Camp at the Kunstfest Weimar (2001). And together with the artist-duo radioqualia pingfm was topic of discussion on the empyre-mailinglist. In 2004 it participated in the Ars Electronica’s long night of radio-art, organised by the ORF Kunstradio.

pingfm has been a member of the Dutch webcast station DFM rtv International, the British webcaster pirate TV and Radio Kinesonus, the Japanese platform for experimental sound. pingfm hosted a weekly 2hrs live show on DFM rtv International as well as 1 hr programme slot on the local FM radio.

In the active days of pingfm the following members were contributing to it:
Zsolt Barat (tech dep & sound), Jan Hendrik Brueggemeier (sound & pr), Mirko Kubein (video), Lars Mai (sound), Lorenz Schmeier (sound in the early days), Sebastian Seidel (first video than sound) and Ute Waldhausen (video & noise)

Tags: buffering, collaborations, independent, interactive, internet, media activism, music, video, webcast

how neture begun …

As a project platform neture.org focuses mostly on collaborations and cross-disciplinary projects. It presents completed works and finished projects along with rather loose lines of associative and speculative thinking of the ones to-be in a sketch book manner. Similar to the idea of the experimental seminarist Buckminster Fuller and his legendary “Thinking Out Loud”.

One could picture the relational dimension of “neture” as the “changing states of aggregation” like in chemistry – when a setting or situation changes through the relational activity of its protagonists involved. Only that in our case the chemistry kit would be impacted by the relational characteristics of humanness as well. So neture clearly means less the “technical implications”, which dominate the notion of -let’s say- a “network” today. In addition it seems equally important in the current present to know the right moment when to leave this technical grid behind and drop offline as well.

And this is how neture begun …

My first meaningful intensive struggle with this theme was in the summer of 2003, as I worked on an application for a project with Johannes Sienknecht. In this framework “n e t u r e” popped up for the first time as a project title. Then it was written with a lower case “e”. “n e t u r e” was proposed as a project with the wish to abandon the trusted studio of the internet work place and to find places which could give a physical counterweight to the medium. Here is a brief sample from our application:

“n e t u r e” wants to focus on the impulses and posssible conceptual or aesthetic transfers of the mediafied spheres and physical spaces with a similar structure, and to document such processes. Where can one find the unused capacities in mediafied and physical spaces that allow “neture” to grow exuberantly and freely? Can one compare, e.g., redundantly laid telecommunication-cabling which private-persons can hire from telecoms for a cheaper rate to abandoned and vacant post-socialist tower-blocks in East-Germany, Hungary or post-industrial relics in Sheffield, UK? The focus and crux of the subject matter of “neture” are spaces with communicationpotentials, which are forgotten or no longer used, and spaces where less relevant conventional references exist (or are in the process of vanishing) between the place itself and its culture and history. “neture” uses this void, grows within it and creates dynamic presence in it with methods of art, communication and documentation. “neture” uses free space, communicates out of necessity, cooperates out of love, creates from passion, manifests from coincidence.”

Please see the nEture Catalogue for more in-depth information on this subject …

Download the original nEture Catalogue script here.

Tags: city, collaborations, communication, independent, internet, media activism, radio

interviews

A-Z

Carol Becker - audio (English)
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The interview with art theorist and former Dean of the School of Art Institute Chicago Carol Becker is part of the chapter “The meaning of museum in the 21st Century” which was a contribution to the HRN Magazine #1 Are Museums just digging in the Past? questioning the role museums play today in various contemporary societies.

Buchenwald Memorial Foundation staff - audio (English)
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The interviews form the chapter “The Buchenwald Memorial – about current-history memorial work in Germany” which was a contribution to the HRN Magazine #1 Are Museums just digging in the Past? questioning the role museums play today in various contemporary societies:
- Rikola-Gunnar Luettgenau, Director of the Buchenwald Memorial, Curator of “Topf & Sons: The Engineers of the ‘Final Solution’, the Builder of the Auschwitz-ovens”
- Ronald Hirte, Author of the online-project “Found Objects – a picture-catalogue” of the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation and fellow of the „Media of History / History of Media- promotion-program at Bauhaus-University Weimar

Chuck D, Public Enemy - audio (English): “New (digital) services for the genre instead of ourselves.”
A conversation about independent music distribution in the age of the Internet and how Public Enemy appoeaches it.

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- text in English: pdf
Chuck D is a musician, author, producer, and label owner. He helped create politically and socially conscious rap music in the mid-1980s as the leader of the rap group Public Enemy. Further web references: Chucks digital record label SlamJamz, social website for classic Rap & HipHop: www.HipHopGods.com, social website for female Rap & HipHop artists: www.SHEmovement.com

Kodwo Eshun - audio: radio feature “Music journalism as the third deck of the DJ” (German moderation / English interview)
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- text in German as published in testcard on black music: pdf (not yet linked)
Kodwo Eshun is a music journalist and cultural theorist. He is author of “More brilliant than the sun – adventure in the sonic fiction”. The interview is departed form his book and ideas about black avangrade popular culture in general and the relationship of electronic popular music and its relationship to machines in particular. The interview formed the basis for the radio feature.

Spiros Mercouris - audio (English)
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Born in Athens (1926). Studied Law at the University of Athens. Active in the Resistance during the German/Italian occupation. Member of the resistance organisation “Democratic Defence” during the colonels’ junta (1967-74) in Greece. Organised the tour of Melina Mercouri against the dictatorship in 14 countries of Europe. Took part in activities against the junta throughout Europe and United States with speeches, interviews and by organising political and cultural events. Co-founder of the political party PASOK. Organiser and general co-ordinator of the first Cultural Capital of Europe “Athens 1985”. Honorary President of the Network of Cultural Capitals and Cultural Months of Europe. President of the non profit organization Horizons – Actions. Member of the Board of Directors of the Melina Mercouri Foundation.
The interview is an excerpt from the HRN Magazine #3 – Europe still under construction – after 20 years of European Cultural Capitals which was meant to reflect on the concept and implementation of Cultural Capitals a closer look needs to be taken at which points this ‘complex concept’ has failed its ambitious aims, which mistakes have been done and where problems have arisen, if at all with the local population and last but not least how were they designed to be Cultural Capitals.

Sodja Zupanc Lotker - text (English)
this conversation took place in the context of the CRASH!BOOM!BAU! festival at the Theatehaus Jena and looks into current trends of scenographical work.
- text in English: pdf
Sodja Z. Lotker is a dramaturge and the artistic co-director of the PQ11. Togther with the architect and artist Oren Sagiv she developed the Intersection Project of the PQ11.

Robert Palmer - audio (English)
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Robert Palmer is the Director of Culture and Cultural and National Heritage at the Council of Europe, based in Strasbourg, France. He has worked in the cultural sector for more than 30 years, and prior to joining the Council of Europe in 2006 was an expert independent adviser to governments, cities and regions in more than 20 countries on cultural development and regeneration, cultural tourism, festivals and arts policies, and a consultant to cultural foundations, cultural networks, arts organisations, and intergovernmental bodies such as the European Cultural Foundation, the European Commission and UNESCO. He has been very involved in European Capitals of Culture and was the Director of two – Glasgow (1990) and Brussels (2000) and published a study for the European Commission, which evaluated 20 capitals of Culture. During this career, he has been the Director of Drama, Dance and Touring at the Scottish Arts Council, and the first Director of Arts for the City of Glasgow.
The interview is an excerpt from the HRN Magazine #3 – Europe still under construction – after 20 years of European Cultural Capitals which was meant to reflect on the concept and implementation of Cultural Capitals a closer look needs to be taken at which points this ‘complex concept’ has failed its ambitious aims, which mistakes have been done and where problems have arisen, if at all with the local population and last but not least how were they designed to be Cultural Capitals.

Bart Verschaffel - audio (English)
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Bart Verschaffel is a philosopher and holds a full professor-ship of Theory of Architecture and Architectural criticism at Ghent University (Belgium). He has numerous publications in the fields of Architectural Theory, Theory of History, Aesthetics, and Philosophy of Culture. He was head of discourse and literature-section Antwerp 1993. The interview is an excerpt from the HRN Magazine #3 – Europe still under construction – after 20 years of European Cultural Capitals which was meant to reflect on the concept and implementation of Cultural Capitals a closer look needs to be taken at which points this ‘complex concept’ has failed its ambitious aims, which mistakes have been done and where problems have arisen, if at all with the local population and last but not least how were they designed to be Cultural Capitals.

Bernhard Waldenfels - audio (English)
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Bernhard Waldenfels taught philosophy at the Ruhr University, in Bochum, Germany. He has written books about phenomenology, dialog theory, the “life world,” structures of behavior, and order and normativity.

Hildegard Westerkamp - audio (English)
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Hildegard Westerkamp is a composer, radio-maker and one of the initiators of the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology, has been a long-term activist in terms of acoustic awareness. The interview is an excerpt from the HRN Magazine #2 on UNESCO and was meant to highlight the connection between acoustic ecology and world heritage, the acoustic awareness in a visually dominated world and Westerkamp’s motivation to start the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology in 1993.

The nEture interview series

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Please see for further reference the neture series and check out the nEture catalogue.

TO3K - audio (English)
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- text (English): pdf

T03K, ulti-media-Performer from Amsterdam, one of the driving forces of the Webcast-Station DFM radio television International and of the free Radio, Radio 100 (defunct).

Tetsuo Kogawa - audio (English)
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- text (English): pdf + transcription of another interview with him at Transitwelle event in Munich: pdf

Tetsuo Kogawa, Tokyo, performance-artist and Professor for Communication Studies at the Tokyo Keizai University. Tetsuo Kogawa was one of the initiators of the Micro-Radio movement in Japan

Franco “Bifo” Berardi - audio (English)
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- text (English): pdf + transcription of another interview with him at NEURO festival in Munich: pdf

Franco “Bifo” Beradi, Bologna, political activist and theorist as well as an initial member of Radio Alice and telestreet.it

Daniel Guischard - audio (English)
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Daniel Guischard, Weimar, architect and product designer

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