hi everybody,

convex tv. has been invited to host a day at the lucern (switzerland) VIPER
festival. we want to open it up as far as possible and would like to call
for participation on the:

23rd of May 1998

i haven't checked the URL yet: http://www.viper.ch

in army terms: WE NEED YOU! - in Hugo Boss terms: 'don't immitate,
participate'. if anybody feels obliged to connect throughout the event,
please mail us now, so we can include it in the catalogue - which is going
to print soon, it's all a bit tight, but we only got the invite at very
short notice...

all the best,

micz

p.s.: just for your entertainment the *radiosalon* text, to give the whole
'thang' the literal spin (pardon the HTML, it's been taken straight out of
the Crash Media pages and is still disk-warm):

<TT><BLOCKQUOTE>
<FONT SIZE=+1>Because radio as format-radio has degenerated and its Public
Service antipode mourns the golden days of transmitting
top-down-high-culture, the ether sees the opening of a third space. 
</FONT>
</BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>
Radio has become dictated to by its format and the medium appears to be an
old, almost pitiful technology. The routine of Public Service Broadcast
announcements from few 'to all' and its private successors have been
embraced by convex tv. with its continually re-constituted collective form.<P>
Since January 1997 Berlin's convex tv. has broadcast a monthly magazine
into the new ether-gap. Digital media, pop-cultural phenomena, media
politics, film and literature quarrel amongst themselves. With no illusions
to having the  synchronicity to reach 'all', convex tv. persistently
interrogates the switch boards between pop, technology and politics.<P>
Of course, convex tv. perceives .radio only as a one-amongst-many medium,
entering new constellations under the surface of media-blending. convex tv.
as groupware and event disappears behind the attention horizon, and
simultaneously demands the focused concentration that radio has long
forgotten. The 'Radiosalons' implemented by the convex tv. collectv
(coinciding with the on-air window of academic broadcasting between StarFM
and Voice of America) can be seen as a concretely spatial mailinglist or
chatgroup without falling for the temptation of reanimating the 'public
space'. Being the receding medium it is, radio is dissolving in the social
space. Super.<P>
To fill the gap between the local and the global and fold the
one-dimensionality of radio, convex tv. currently works in this mode at its
'test-bed' office in Berlin to continue defining .radio on many levels.
Introducing the social fragility of late afternoons, convex tv. seeks to
bring many-to-many senses to the few who choose to participate in something
that could always be something else.<P>
Free of charge: the unstable merging of diverse media - in the shape of
broadcasts to accidentally receiving radios, DIY kits for mini-FM
transmitter, RealAudio archives on the net, LiveStreams, exhibitions,
festivals, Radiosalons, etc. - crosses the borders between analogue and
digital. <P>

Micz Flor [micz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

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