Radio as Art: Concepts, Spaces, Practices

Acoustic signals, voice, sound, articulation, music and spatial networking are dispositifs of radiophonic transmission which have brought forth a great number of artistic practices. Up to and into the digital present radio has been and is employed and explored as an apparatus-based structure as well as an expanded model for performance and perception. This volume investigates a broad range of aesthetic experiments with the broadcasting technology of radio, and the use of radio as a means of disseminating artistic concepts. With exemplary case studies, its contributions link conceptual, recipient-response-related, and sociocultural issues to matters of relevance to radio art's mediation.

Anne Thurmann-Jajes (Dr.) is head of the Centre for Artists' Publications at the Weserburg Museum of Modern Art and teaches at the University of Bremen, Germany. She co-chaired the research collaboration Radio Art: On the Development of a Medium between Aesthetics and Sociocultural Reception History, funded by the Volkswagen Foundation (2011-15). She has curated numerous major exhibitions and symposia on Radio Art.
Ursula Frohne (Prof. Dr. phil.) is a professor of art history at Universität Münster and co-chair of the DFG-funded Center for Advanced Study »Access to Cultural Goods in Digital Change«. She also taught at Universität Köln, Brown University, Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe, as well as Universität Bremen, and she worked as chief curator at ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medien Karlsruhe. In 2014, she was awarded the Leo-Spitzer-Prize for Arts, Humanities, and Human Sciences by the University of Cologne for excellence in research. Her research focuses on contemporary art and technological media, the political dimensions and socio-economic conditions of art and visual culture, and the entanglements of art, public sphere(s), and cultures of debate.
Jee-Hae Kim studied art history, philosophy, and theater, film, and television studies at Seoul National University, South Korea, and the University of Cologne, Germany. She was a research associate for the research collaboration on Radio Art (2011-15), before joining the Department of History of Art at the University of Cologne.
Maria Peters (Prof. Dr. phil.) is a professor of art education at the University of Bremen, Germany. She co-chaired the research collaboration on Radio Art (2011-15).
Franziska Rauh studied cultural studies, musicology, and science of arts at the University of Bremen, Germany. She was a research associate for the research collaboration on Radio Art (2011-15). Since 2018 she has been a lecturer at the University of Bremen, Germany.
Sarah Schönewald studied fine arts and art education, art history, and art and cultural mediation at the University of Bremen, Germany, and was a research associate for the research collaboration on Radio Art (2011-15). She is currently working as an assistant curator at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz.