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Transmission Arts: The Air that Surrounds Us

Transmission Arts: The Air that Surrounds Us TRANSMISSION ARTS Early electromagnetic spectrum chart produced by Westinghouse Research Laboratories in the early-twentieth century. TRANSMISSION ARTS The Air that Surrounds Us Galen Joseph-Hunter W hen speaking about Transmission Arts in terms of contemporary media and conceptual art, quantifying the movement is an implicitly difficult charge. In simplest terms “Transmission Arts” is defined as a multiplicity of practices and media working with the idea of transmission or the physical properties of the electromagnetic spectrum (radio). Transmission works often manifest themselves in participatory live art or time-based art, and include, but are not limited to, sound, video, light, installation, and performance. Like the work encompassed by the genre, its lineage is anything but linear. Influenced by Futurism in music, noise, speed, experimentation and improvisation with and about machinery and technology are all reoccurring areas of interest. The spirit of Fluxus is also frequently encountered when works are centered around the indeterminacy of spectrum content, whether it be manipulation of commercial radio in any present moment, or the harnessing of solar data to inform design and movement. kinetic art is also an obvious ancestor to transmission works that take sculptural form, and here, motion might materialize in the physical, aural, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art MIT Press

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Publisher
MIT Press
Copyright
© 2009 Galen Joseph-Hunter
Subject
Transmission Arts
ISSN
1520-281X
eISSN
1537-9477
DOI
10.1162/pajj.2009.31.3.34
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Abstract

TRANSMISSION ARTS Early electromagnetic spectrum chart produced by Westinghouse Research Laboratories in the early-twentieth century. TRANSMISSION ARTS The Air that Surrounds Us Galen Joseph-Hunter W hen speaking about Transmission Arts in terms of contemporary media and conceptual art, quantifying the movement is an implicitly difficult charge. In simplest terms “Transmission Arts” is defined as a multiplicity of practices and media working with the idea of transmission or the physical properties of the electromagnetic spectrum (radio). Transmission works often manifest themselves in participatory live art or time-based art, and include, but are not limited to, sound, video, light, installation, and performance. Like the work encompassed by the genre, its lineage is anything but linear. Influenced by Futurism in music, noise, speed, experimentation and improvisation with and about machinery and technology are all reoccurring areas of interest. The spirit of Fluxus is also frequently encountered when works are centered around the indeterminacy of spectrum content, whether it be manipulation of commercial radio in any present moment, or the harnessing of solar data to inform design and movement. kinetic art is also an obvious ancestor to transmission works that take sculptural form, and here, motion might materialize in the physical, aural,

Journal

PAJ: A Journal of Performance and ArtMIT Press

Published: Sep 1, 2009

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