[artinfo] call: radiovisionen 2007, radiotesla/berlin

[Andreas Broeckmann]

Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 16:41:47 +0200
From: Moritz von Rappard <production.mvr at tesla-berlin.de>

Call for proposals

RADIOVISIONEN
250 Years of Radio

RADIOVISIONEN: a series of productions and a 
prologue look back at a confrontation with the future
of the medium radio. The format of RADIOVISIONEN 
places the focus on the future, as seen against
a historical backdrop. The development of and 
practical reflection on utopian and dystopian visions
of radiophony form the center of RADIOVISIONEN - 
250 Years of Radio. The title suggests a chance
to gain insight beyond current discussions of 
technical developments, and the subtitle is a both fictional
and an historical anticipation: a double flip 
with a twist. As bold as these concepts might 
appear, their intent is serious. Independent from 
the actual business of broadcasting, the planned 
discussions of radio's future should reach well 
beyond questions of ratings and format, registering constructive demands on
the medium itself.

Prologue
The project begins with one weekend in March, 
2007: the prologue. Artists, scientists, 
radiomakers, futurologists, and related thinkers 
come together in an informal context to present their visions of the
future and discuss their work in an 
interdisciplinary environment. Attention will not 
only focus on new media in general and radio in 
particular, but also on political, economic, and 
sociological trends and utopias. The prologue 
will be documented using various media; its goal 
is to determine materials and scenarios for four 
radio visions, which will be developed by 
selected artists and presented on four weekends 
in October, 2007. Radio visions are Science-Fiction.

Production
In order to cover the broadest possible spectrum 
of subjects and interests, the four radio visions 
should have very different points of departure. 
Productions should emerge which are independent 
from the contemporary broadcasting business. 
RADIOVISIONEN grants the invited artists as much 
freedom as possible to find the most appropriate 
form to communicate their conceptions. A minimum of 5000 EUR
and the TESLA Berlin Studio are available for the 
realization of each vision. In addition, Deutschland-
radio Kultur, WDR, SWR, ORF, and the c-base have 
expressed interest in cooperation.

Program
The highlights are the premières of the four 
radio visions: four designs for a radio of the 
future, an invitation to reflect on what radio 
can achieve and signify in the future; ideally, a 
stimulus for the daily routine of the media. The 
radio visions will be presented Fridays and Saturdays from October 5th until
the 27th, 2007 in the Kubus of Tesla. In the week 
after each première, the supporting program will
include discussions, lectures and presentations 
of historic utopian visions of radio. In 
addition, listening stations will provide access 
to previous presentations and materials from the prologue.

Parallels
The process of RADIOVISIONEN has indirect 
forerunners in other media; examples can be found 
in the proto-LSD novel, “St. Petri Schnee", by 
Leo Perutz (Vienna, 1933); Robert Scheckley's, 
"The Prize of Peril" (1958), which was the model 
for Wolfgang Menge's and Tom Toelle's “Das 
Millionenspiel" (WDR, 1970) - killer TV in 
reality format - or Stanislav Lem's "Wielko 
urojona" (1973), a series of fictional reviews.

People
RADIOVISIONEN will be supervised by Martina Groß, 
Andreas Hagelüken, Séamus O'Donnell, Moritz von 
Rappard and Johannes Wilms - the team from 
RADIOTESLA, which has presented "programs, 
fragments and impressions from the past, present 
and future of radio", since 2005 in the Podewils'sches Palais.

Contact
Please send comments, questions, and project 
proposals before November 30, 2006 to:
Tesla Berlin / RADIOTESLA, Moritz von Rappard, Klosterstraße 68, 10179 Berlin
or: production.mvr at tesla-berlin.de

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