Michal Rataj: Electroacoustic Music and Selected Concepts of Radio Art (2007/2010) [Czech, English]

The main purpose of the present thesis is to search for ways of methodological orientation within reflection of electroacoustic music, seen through the prism of what has been recently called acoustic arts. The way we try to formulate such positioning deals with particular methodological tasks: we try to generate space in which it is possible to think of “artistic discourses” within acoustic arts; subsequently, the thesis describes the specific discourse of electroacoustic music/radio art, explaining it from the viewpoint of the Czech radio-art producer.

English edition
With a Foreword by Miloš Vojtěchovský
Publisher PFAU, Saarbrücken, 2010
100 pages

Review (Tereza Havelková, Hudební věda, in Czech)

Publisher (CZ)

Elektroakustická hudba a vybrané koncepty radioartu (Czech, 2007, Ph.D. Dissertation), Alt link
Electroacoustic Music and Selected Concepts of Radio Art (English, undated)
Electroacoustic Music and Selected Concepts of Radio Art (English, 2010, added on 2013-12-31)

Annmarie Chandler, Norie Neumark (eds.): At a Distance: Precursors to Art and Activism on the Internet (2005)

“Networked collaborations of artists did not begin on the Internet. In this multidisciplinary look at the practice of art that takes place across a distance—geographical, temporal, or emotional—theorists and practitioners examine the ways that art, activism, and media fundamentally reconfigured each other in experimental networked projects of the 1970s and 1980s. By providing a context for this work—showing that it was shaped by varying mixes of social relations, cultural strategies, and political and aesthetic concerns—At a Distance effectively refutes the widely accepted idea that networked art is technologically determined. Doing so, it provides the historical grounding needed for a more complete understanding of today’s practices of Internet art and activism and suggests the possibilities inherent in networked practice.

At a Distance traces the history and theory of such experimental art projects as Mail Art, sound and radio art, telematic art, assemblings, and Fluxus. Although the projects differed, a conceptual questioning of the “art object,” combined with a political undermining of dominant art institutional practices, animated most distance art. After a section that sets this work in historical and critical perspective, the book presents artists and others involved in this art ‘re-viewing’ their work—including experiments in ‘mini-FM’, telerobotics, networked psychoanalysis, and interactive book construction. Finally, the book recasts the history of networks from the perspectives of politics, aesthetics, economics, and cross-cultural analysis.”

Publisher MIT Press, 2005
ISBN 0262033283, 9780262033282
xiv+486 pages

Reviews: Publishers Weekly (2005), Vincent Bonin (2005), Graham Meikle (Scan, 2006), Paolo Gerbaudo (Culture Machine, 2006), Joel Slayton (Art Book, 2006), Karrie Karahalios (New Media & Society, 2006), Jennifer Way (RCCS, 2008, with responses from editors).

Publisher
WorldCat

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