Issue
Spring 2009
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Spring 2009
Letter from the Editors
03.01.09 | Full Article | Comment?
**NEW*** Watch videos from the “Active Radio” issue launch here.
Welcome to “Active Radio”, the second issue of Wi: The Journal of Mobile Media. This issue was guest edited by Owen Chapman from the department of Communication Studies, Concordia …
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Spring 2009
Active Radio: Editorial
03.01.09 | Full Article | Comment?
For about 6 months in 2008 there was a mysterious sound in my house. No matter how we tried, we could not locate the source of a periodic buzzing that would quickly arrive and then vanish. I noticed it more during the daytime, when the house was …
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Spring 2009
Radio as Instrument
03.01.09 | Full Article | Comment?By Anna Friz
Radio at its most basic is the perception of frequencies in the electromagnetic spectrum between 3Hz and 3000MHz, or below visible light. In our current configuration, terrestrial radio is characterized by wireless transmission in the service of point-to-point communications: a process of modulating …
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Spring 2009
Maurice Martenot,
alchimiste de l’électricité03.01.09 | Full Article | Comment?« En cette matière musicale plus qu’en aucune autre peut-être, le lien, la mystérieuse alchimie entre l’inné et l’acquis se manifeste et règne. […] Et voici que la pâte travaille l’ouvrier qui la pétrit, l’oblige à une ascèse, le …
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Spring 2009
The Fourth Track:
Re-visiting the Cassette-Based Portastudio03.01.09 | Full Article | Comment?
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IntroductionThrough a series of experiments with the Tascam 464 Portastudio this project examines the cassette-based multi-track recorder as an obsolete technology, an articulation of mobility and sound-recording, and a site for creative possibilities. …
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Spring 2009
Radio Activity:
Articulating the Theremin, Ondes Martenot and Hammond Organ03.01.09 | Full Article | Comment?By Owen Chapman
Introduction
The Ondes Martenot was introduced in 1928 by cellist and pedagogue Maurice Martenot (1898-1980). His initial design used Audion tubes (patented by Lee deForest in 1906) to create two supersonic radio signals transmitted at frequencies very close, but not identical in terms of …
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Spring 2009
The Micro Radio Project
03.01.09 | Full Article | Comment?By Kristen Roos
Radio Art in the Expanded Field
In the essay “Cultural Confinement”, published in the October 1972 issue of Artforum, Robert Smithson writes on what he feels is a need for artists to create works of art that are outside of the gallery and museum …
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Spring 2009
SUR-VIV-ALL: Locative Art1
03.01.09 | Full Article | Comment?By Marilei Fiorelli, Andre Lemos, and Rob Shields
“The persistent cultural obsession of Canadian literature, according to Survival in 1972, was survival. In actual life, and in both the anglophone and francophone sectors, this concern was often enough a factor of the … -
Spring 2009
The Hollins Community Project:
New Media, Narrative, and Affective History03.01.09 | Full Article | Comment?By Jen Boyle and Alli Crandell
A group of women place heavy stones on a trail, at even intervals. These stones will guide the women and their children to the college where they serve as body slaves. The trail connects the closest … -
Spring 2009
Blurred and playful intersections:
Karmen Franinovic’s Flo)(ps03.01.09 | Full Article | Comment?
Image from Oboro.net
Amplified Intimacies, curated by Lynn Hughes and Jean Dubois,1 was a group exhibition presented at Montreal’s Oboro Gallery from September 13-October 18, 2008. Bringing together a range of works taken from media arts, experimental …
