Dear Curatorially inclined,
Greetings from Tokyo.
Yukiko has already posted about the'Open Nature' exhibition at the NTT ICC.
Please find below an announcement about r a d i o q u a l i a's contribution to the exhibition.
If you are not able to visit the exhibition, you might want to visit the live Radio Astronomy online radio station at: http://www.radio-astronomy.net/listen.htm
{ sincere apologies for cross-posting }
Best wishes
Honor Harger & Adam Hyde
r a d i o q u a l i a
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RADIO ASTRONOMY BY
r a d i o q u a l i a
((o))
http://www.radio-astronomy.net
NTT Inter Communications Center [ICC]
Tokyo, Japan
Dates: 29.04.05 - 03.07.05
Radio Astronomy is an art and science project, which broadcasts sounds intercepted from space, live on the internet and on the airwaves. The project is a collaboration between the art group r a d i o q u a l i a <http://www.radioqualia.net>, and radio telescopes located throughout the world.
Together we are creating 'radio astronomy' in the literal sense - a radio station devoted to broadcasting audio from our cosmos.
Radio Astronomy is being installed at the NTT Inter Communications Center [ICC] in Tokyo as part of the exhibition, 'Open Nature' <http://www.ntticc.or.jp/Schedule/2005/Opennature/>
Listeners will be able to encounter the sounds of space in two ways:
- by visiting a sound installation at the museum
- by visiting the live online radio broadcast <http://www.radio-astronomy.net/listen.htm>
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about radio astronomy
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Radio Astronomy stems from our fascination with the science and techniques of radio. Radio is a technology that allows the transmission of signals by modulation of electromagnetic waves. When radio waves pass a wire, their oscillating magnetic field induces an alternating current and voltage in the wire. This can be transformed into audio. Astronomical objects emit electromagnetic waves, and thus we can use radio to make these objects audible.
The Radio Astronomy exhibition sounds are comprised the live output of radio telescopes and pre-recorded audio data from space probes and radio antenna. Listeners tuning in may hear the planets Jupiters and Saturn, radiation from the Sun, activity from far-off pulsars, the sounds of meteor trails in the Earth's atmosphere and other astronomical phenomena.
Many of these sounds are fascinating from both an aesthetic and conceptual perspective, prompting comparisons with avant-garde electronic music. Yet very few people have heard these sounds, considering space to be silent, rather than the rich sonic environment it turns out to be. Radio Astronomy intends to share these sounds with visitors to the ICC.
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radio astronomy & open nature
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http://www.radio-astronomy.net/exhibition.htm
The exhibition "open Nature" is curated by Yukiko Shikata. It focuses on the "nature" infiltrated in our daily lives through digital information environments, and aims to redefine it as an "open" concept that clears the way for a broader range of relationships between art and technology. In topics coupled as oddly as "mankind and vegetation", "climate and architecture", "spheres and sounds", this exhibition presents works and projects from the fields of art, design, and architecture. The works interlink and convert in a creative way a variety of different forms of information from a challenging new perspective, and show a sensitivity to social issues and new forms of perception established by digitalized information and communication environments.
Other artists in the show include: Knowbotic Research(.ch .de .at), Carsten Nicolai (.de), Marko Peljhan (.si), Robert Smithson (.us) tsunamii.net, ubermorgen.com, kingdom of piracy, Shiho Fukuhara +Georg Tremmel(.uk .jp .at) + many others.
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opening our ears to space
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In keeping with the exhibition's theme, the Radio Astronomy installation at the ICC shows how technology has enabled us to listen to what would otherwise be inaudible.
Though weight of images associated with space is overwhelming, in popular culture, we have no sense of what space sounds like. Indeed, most people associate space with silence. Yet through the intervention of the technology of radio, we are able to hear radiation from many astronomical sources, including the Sun, planets and distant stars. But despite this, very few people have ever heard space. Hardly any of us could describe the sound of a single planet or star.
Radio Astronomy is an attempt to address this, by publicly broadcasting sounds intercepted from radio telescopes. Radio Astronomy will enable listeners to tune into to different celestial frequencies, hearing planets, stars, nebulae, and the constant hiss of cosmic noise. It will reveal the sonic character of objects in our galaxy, and in the process perhaps make these phenomena more tangible and comprehensible. The project is indeed radio astronomy in a literal sense - a radio station devoted to broadcasting sounds from space.
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nature's radio
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r a d i o q u a l i a think of large radio telescopes such as Very Large Array in New Mexico <http://www.radio-astronomy.net/isea_pr/thumbnails/vla_little.jpg> or the RT32 antenna at the Ventspils International Radio Astronomy Centre in Latvia <http://www.radio-astronomy.net/isea_pr/thumbnails/virac_web.jpg>, as radio receivers.
Unlike normal transistor radios tuned to regular commercial radio broadcasts, these receivers are listening to signals being transmitted from some of nature's most striking phenomena - planets and stars. Radio Astronomy connects broadcast radio - the transmission of audible information - and the science of radio astronomy - the observation and analysis of radiation from astrophysical objects. The signals from space are converted into sound and then broadcast on-line and on-air. Radio Astronomy presents nature's own radio, broadcasting the constantly evolving sound of the Universe.
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open nature :: deep time
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Visitors to the NTT Intercommunication Center [ICC] can be immersed in these astronomical sounds by experiencing the Radio Astronomy installation. Live streams of meteors entering the Earth's atmosphere, collide with the constantly changing sound of the Sun, ever emitting hissing solar flares. The sound of the Cassini spacecraft passing through the rings of Saturn, is juxtaposed with live sound of the planet Jupiter and it's interaction with its moon Io. The installation also includes the sound of the Huygens spacecraft during its historic descent onto the Saturnian moon of Titan.
Alongside these contemporary and live sounds, some of the most ancient sounds in nature are detectable in the Radio Astronomy installation. Many spinning neutron stars, or pulsars are far older than the earth itself. By the time the metronomic beat of a pulsar reaches our Earth-bound instruments, it can be over a billion years old. Even more ancient is the residual radiation from the beginning of the Universe. The shrill hiss of cosmic microwave background radiation left over from the Big Bang is without question the oldest known radio broadcast, beginning its long transmission fifteen million years ago.
Radio Astronomy is an attempt to depict some of these complex audio events within the immersive physical space of the gallery.
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collaborators
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http://www.radio-astronomy.net/partners.htm
Radio Astronomy is a collaboration between:
- r a d i o q u a l i a, New Zealand
- the Windward Community College Radio Observatory (WCCRO) in Hawaii, USA
- NASA's Radio Jove network, USA/Japan
- the Ventspils International Radio Astronomy Centre (VIRAC), Latvia.
With additional audio contributed by:
- NASA's INSPIRE work, Alabama, USA
- NASA's Meteor Audio Feed, Roswell, USA
- the University of Iowa's Plasma Wave Group, USA
- Jodrell Bank's Pulsar Group, UK
With support from:
La Fondation Daniel Langlois Pour l'Art, la Science et la Technologie
http://www.fondation-langlois.org/
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RIXC
http://www.rixc.lv
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venue
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http://www.ntticc.or.jp
The NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC] is an innovative cultural facility in Tokyo Opera City Tower in Nishi-Shinjuku, Tokyo. It was established to commemorate the 100th anniversary of telephone service in Japan. Since its opening on April 19, 1997, the ICC has become an internationally important site for exhibiting art works which employ electronic technologies. Special exhibitions which break with conventional frameworks and transcend genres have helped define and challange the genre of media art.
Address: Tokyo Opera City Tower 4F
3-20-2 Nishishinjuku,
Shinjuku-ku
Tokyo 163-1404 Japan
Opening Hours: 1000 - 1800
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further information
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Visit: http://www.radio-astronomy.net
Contact: Adam Hyde &/or Honor Harger
r a d i o q u a l i a
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