BOOK RELEASE:
TRANSMISSION ARTS

Transmission Arts: Artists and Airwaves (PAJ Publications. In association with free103point9.)

A genealogy of 150 artists—and 255 images—from 1921 to the present, encompassing performance, video, radio theatre, media installation, networked art, and acoustic ecology. Volume includes Futurism, Fluxus, Happenings, video collective projects, electronic music, and telecommunications art.

Artists featured: John Cage, Antonin Artaud, Walter Benjamin, Scanner, Keith Sonnier, Maryann Amacher, Nam June Paik, Allen Kaprow, Tetsuo Kogawa, Ray Johnson, Orson Welles, Gregory Whitehead, Delia Derbyshire, Eduardo Kac, and many more.

Order the book here.

WGXC 90.7-FM
CREATIVE & COMMUNITY RADIO

Postcard designed by Cara Turett.

WGXC 90.7-FM, now serving over 78,000 potential listeners.

WGXC: HANDS-ON RADIO is a creative, community-run, media project, re-envisioning radio as an innovative platform for local participation. Our inclusive programming connects diverse voices, and distributes information across the public spectrum in New York’s Greene and Columbia counties.

MEDIA ARTS FUNDING
FOR ARTISTS & ORGANIZATIONS

free103point9 is proud to administer funding opportunities for NYS media artists and organizations, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts, Electronic Media and Film.

DISTRIBUTION FUNDS FOR ARTISTS
Notification: December 2011
The Distribution Grant for New York State Artists provides support for the distribution and exhibition of new works in film, video, sound, new-media, and media-installation.

TECHNICAL FUNDS FOR ORGANIZATIONS
Next Deadline: January 1, 2012
The Media Arts Technical Assistance Fund is designed to strengthen media arts organizations in all regions of New York State by providing funds with which media arts organizations can address capacity and technology needs in three specific areas: Organizational Development, Professional Development, and Conferences and Convening.

TRANSMISSION ARTS ARCHIVE [RE]LAUNCHING FALL 2011!

Our newly designed and expanded transmission arts archive will launch this fall. In the interim preliminary artists, associated works, events, audio, video, and supporting documentation are accessible here.

TRANSMISSION ARTS ONLINE RADIO

free103point9's online radio station culls from and informs the transmission art archive. This feed unites with WGXC 90.7-FM's terresterial broadcast on late nights and on Saturdays. Click to listen.

TRANSMISSION ART PROGRAMMING ON WGXC 90.7-FM

Regular and special programing includes The Shortwave Report, Pirates Week, Radia, RADIO WONDERLAND, Radius: Sketchpad Series, The [Un]observed, Distract & Disable, Radiophonic Creation Day, the Radio Without Boundaries Conference, and more. AIRtime visiting artists present performances, interviews, and playlists on Saturday afternoons. Participating artists include, Laura Ortman, Bryan Zimmerman, Zach Layton, Bradford Reed, Tony Martin, Margot Farrington, Nick Yulman, Kristin Lucas, Gregory Whitehead, Damian Catera, Thomas Lail, Valerie Tevere, Angel Nevarez, LoVid, and many others.

AIRTIME VISITING ARTISTS
AN OPEN CALL FOR PROPOSALS

free103point9 now accepts proposals for AIRtime projects on an ongoing basis. Visiting artists may plan to conduct research and/or develop new transmission works. Artists should articulate a clear plan incorporating a live Saturday afternoon program broadcasted on WGXC 90.7-FM.