Listen Up! -

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Résumé :
Listen Up! is the first publication worldwide to take an in-depth look at the development of Radio Art in the United States as a distinct sound art practice. Analytical essays by leading media art historians and practitioners discuss the ways in which a new field took shape in the context of changing broadcast environments and sociopolitical realities from the 1960s through the 1990s. The essays provide engaging reading for scholars, radio producers, and artists, as well as radio enthusiasts and lay audiences. Also included are manifestos and other texts written by Terry Allen, Jacki Apple, John Cage, Don Joyce / Negativland, Max Neuhaus, Pauline Oliveros, Helen Thorington, and others. The material vividly reflects the zeitgeist of the period and proposes trajectories for new research into fascinating yet still largely unexplored territories....

Biographie:
Anne Thurmann-Jajes is head of the Centre for Artists' Publications at the Weserburg Museum for Modern Art and teaches at the University of Bremen, Germany. She has curated numerous major exhibitions and symposia on radio art, created public radio events, and authored and edited many catalogues and books. Her strong commitment to the sound arts is also reflected in a research project about radio art and most recent in the creation of a digital platform of sound art materials.

Regine Beyer is a radio documentarian with an expert knowledge of American radio art. She studied German literature and journalism in Berlin and worked at the radio station Sender Freies Berlin with radio pioneer Peter Leonhard Braun and other producers/directors. In 1986, she joined Helen Thorington in New York City as co-producer of the nationally distributed radio art series, New American Radio. She also taught college courses on creative radio production, and organized radio art presentations, exhibitions and events. In 2002, she relocated to Germany where she continues to be involved in various media-related activities.

Sommaire:
Listen Up! is the first publication worldwide to take an in-depth look at the development of Radio Art in the United States as a distinct sound art practice. Analytical essays by leading media art historians and practitioners discuss the ways in which a new field took shape in the context of changing broadcast environments and sociopolitical realities from the 1960s through the 1990s. The essays provide engaging reading for scholars, radio producers, and artists, as well as radio enthusiasts and lay audiences. Also included are manifestos and other texts written by Terry Allen, Jacki Apple, John Cage, Don Joyce / Negativland, Max Neuhaus, Pauline Oliveros, Helen Thorington, and others. The material vividly reflects the zeitgeist of the period and proposes trajectories for new research into fascinating yet still largely unexplored territories....