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Born 1935 in [[Toronto]]. Artist. Lives in [[Vienna]] since 1972. Produces installations, radio art and sound art works from 1957, and he's one of the recognized pioneer of telecomunication art. He started to work and experiment in this field already in 1979.  
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'''Robert Adrian X''' (22 February 1935, Toronto - 7 September 2015, Vienna) was an artist producing installations, radio art and sound art works from 1957, and one of the recognized pioneer of telecommunication art. He started to work and experiment in this field already in 1979.  
  
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Organised a number of projects involving fax, slow-scan tv, amateur radio, Bulletin Board Systems etc. during the 80s and 90s. He has been working with different media, including installation, model-making, photography, painting, sculpture, radio and computer. His work has been included in many international exhibitions, for example at the Biennale in Venice (1980 und 1984), the Biennale in Sydney (1986) and and several times at the Ars Electronica in Linz/Austria.
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Adrian X organised a number of projects involving fax, slow-scan tv, amateur radio, Bulletin Board Systems etc. during the 1980s-90s. He was with different media, including installation, model-making, photography, painting, sculpture, radio and computer. His work has been included in many international exhibitions, for example at the Venice Biennale (1980, 1984), the Sydney Biennale (1986) and several times at the [[Ars Electronica]] in Linz/Austria.
  
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In April [[1995]] he initiated Kunstradio On Line, the web-site of the ORF radio art programme Kunstradio and continued as webmaster of KR online untill April 2000.  
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In April [[1995]], he initiated Kunstradio On Line, the web-site of the ORF radio art programme Kunstradio and continued as webmaster of KR online until April 2000.  
  
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He lived in [[Vienna]] since 1972.
  
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==Works==
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* ''Towards the Origins of Radio. Robert Adrian in Conversation with Sabine Breitsameter''. January 2004. http://www.swr.de/swr2/audiohyperspace/engl_version/interview/adrian.html
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===Danube Connection===
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* Jeremy Turner. ''OUTER SPACE: The Past, Present and Future of Telematic Art - 02. INTERVIEW WITH ROBERT ADRIAN ABOUT EARLY TELEMATIC ART AT OPEN SPACE GALLERY IN VICTORIA, CANADA''. Dec 2003. http://www.openspace.ca/web/outerspace/RobertAdrianInterview2003.html
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''Danube Connection - Electronic Communication Happening'' for fax, two telephone lines and a picture-phone, 1993. [http://monoskop.org/media/video/Robert_Adrian_X_Artpool_1993_Danube_Connection_Vienna-Budapest.webm Download (WEBM)]
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* [[Tilman Baumgärtel]]. ''Interview with Robert Adrian''. May 1997. http://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-9707/msg00023.html
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Live interactive event of telecommunication between the Viennese Freihaus-Kunstlabor and [[Artpool|Artpool Art Research Center]], Budapest (organized by ZERONET / Robert Adrian X. and ARTPOOL), 8 September 1993, 6-8 p.m. <br>
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* Robert Adrian. ''Art and Telecommunication, 1979-1986: The Pioneer Years''. http://telematic.walkerart.org/overview/overview_adrian.html
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Performing: Endre Szkárosi, Paul Dutton, János Szirtes, Mia Zabelka and others.<br>
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* more: http://web.archive.org/web/20030901131215/www.t0.or.at/~radrian/TEXTS/index.html
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Music: Tibor Szemző.<br>
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Speakers: [[Júlia Klaniczay]] ([[Artpool]]) and Robert Adrian X. (Freihaus Kunstlabor). <br>
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Video-sketch: [[György Galántai]].<br>
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via [http://www.artpool.hu/1993/930908_e.html Artpool]
  
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==Writings, interviews==
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* Tilman Baumgärtel, [http://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-9707/msg00023.html "Interview with Robert Adrian"], ''Nettime'', May 1997.
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* Robert Adrian, [http://telematic.walkerart.org/overview/overview_adrian.html "Art and Telecommunication, 1979-1986: The Pioneer Years"], in ''Telematic Connections: The Virtual Embrace'', 2001.
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* Jeremy Turner, [http://www.openspace.ca/web/outerspace/RobertAdrianInterview2003.html "OUTER SPACE: The Past, Present and Future of Telematic Art - 02. INTERVIEW WITH ROBERT ADRIAN ABOUT EARLY TELEMATIC ART AT OPEN SPACE GALLERY IN VICTORIA, CANADA"], Dec 2003.
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* [http://www.swr.de/swr2/audiohyperspace/engl_version/interview/adrian.html "Towards the Origins of Radio. Robert Adrian in Conversation with Sabine Breitsameter"], Jan 2004.
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* [http://web.archive.org/web/20030901131215/www.t0.or.at/~radrian/TEXTS/index.html more texts by Adrian]
  
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http://web.archive.org/web/20031130171430/http://www.t0.or.at/~radrian/<br>
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==On Robert Adrian X==
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list of projects - http://web.archive.org/web/19990429143724/http://www.thing.or.at/thing/orfkunstradio/BIOS/bobbio.html
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* Manuela Naveau, [http://www.aec.at/aeblog/en/2015/02/21/robert-adrian-x-turns-80/ "Robert Adrian X Turns 80 – “In any case, it’s all about the telephone”"], ''AEC Blog'', 21 Feb 2015.
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* Jee-Hae Kim, "“I am an artist. I am not anything else.”1: —Robert Adrian Smith, 1935–2015", in ''[http://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=CA2C4F489A06240A4539A406F8744B83 Radio as Art: Concepts, Spaces, Practices]'', eds. Anne Thurmann-Jajes, et al., Bielefeld: transcript, 2019. [https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783839436172-002/html]
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* Thomas Mießgang, [https://oe1.orf.at/player/20240212/749684 "Robert Adrian X – Pionier der Radiokunst"], ''Radio ORF Ö1: Radiokolleg'', 2023. Audio.
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==Links==
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* [http://web.archive.org/web/20031130171430/http://www.t0.or.at/~radrian/ Website] (archived)
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* [http://web.archive.org/web/19990429143724/http://www.thing.or.at/thing/orfkunstradio/BIOS/bobbio.html Projects] (archived)
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* Tributes: [https://webarchiv.servus.at/thenextlayer.org/node/1372.html Armin Medosch], [http://www.kunstradio.at/2015B/RAX.html Kunstradio].
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* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Adrian Wikipedia]
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[[Series:Net art]] [[Series:net culture]] [[Series:Sound art]] [[Series:Radio art]]
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Latest revision as of 20:41, 29 May 2025

Robert Adrian X (22 February 1935, Toronto - 7 September 2015, Vienna) was an artist producing installations, radio art and sound art works from 1957, and one of the recognized pioneer of telecommunication art. He started to work and experiment in this field already in 1979.

Adrian X organised a number of projects involving fax, slow-scan tv, amateur radio, Bulletin Board Systems etc. during the 1980s-90s. He was with different media, including installation, model-making, photography, painting, sculpture, radio and computer. His work has been included in many international exhibitions, for example at the Venice Biennale (1980, 1984), the Sydney Biennale (1986) and several times at the Ars Electronica in Linz/Austria.

In April 1995, he initiated Kunstradio On Line, the web-site of the ORF radio art programme Kunstradio and continued as webmaster of KR online until April 2000.

He lived in Vienna since 1972.

Works[edit]

Danube Connection[edit]


Danube Connection - Electronic Communication Happening for fax, two telephone lines and a picture-phone, 1993. Download (WEBM)

Live interactive event of telecommunication between the Viennese Freihaus-Kunstlabor and Artpool Art Research Center, Budapest (organized by ZERONET / Robert Adrian X. and ARTPOOL), 8 September 1993, 6-8 p.m.
Performing: Endre Szkárosi, Paul Dutton, János Szirtes, Mia Zabelka and others.
Music: Tibor Szemző.
Speakers: Júlia Klaniczay (Artpool) and Robert Adrian X. (Freihaus Kunstlabor).
Video-sketch: György Galántai.
via Artpool

Writings, interviews[edit]

On Robert Adrian X[edit]

Links[edit]

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