“I am an artist. I am not anything else.”1: —Robert Adrian Smith, 1935–2015

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Introduction
4. The Editors 9
5. “I am an artist. I am not anything else.”1: —Robert Adrian Smith, 1935–2015 36
6. The Reception of Electricity: Art as Radio in Literature, Painting, and Performance 39
7. On Radioart 50
8. I. RADIO SPACE
9. The Museum as an Agent of Radio Art 55
10. Considering the Sonic Aspects of the Media Environment as an Exhibition Space for Creative Sound-Based Works 64
11. The Avant-Garde and a Popular Medium: The Berlin Novembergruppe and Radio in the Weimar Republic 80
12. II. RADIO ART: ARTISTIC PRODUCTION AND/OR POLITICAL PRACTICE
13. The Radio and/as Digital Productivism 99
14. Everyone a Listener, Everyone a Producer! A Collective Journey toward Another Sound of Radio 107
15. Radio Art in the “… Everyday Hand-to-Hand Struggle with Apparatuses?” 118
16. Radio as a “Minor” Art Practice 127
17. III. INSTITUTIONAL FRAMING AND AGENCY
18. Radio as a Research Medium for Artistic and Oral-History-Based Research Projects 163
19. Community Radio as Post-Capitalist Art 173
20. Radio Art as a Field of Study: The Experimentelles Radio Professorship at the Bauhaus- Universität Weimar 178
21. Radio as Art? Heart or Gall Bladder? 182
22. IV. RADIO ART AS ACTION
23. In Simulcast: Archigram and Radio Piracy in 1960s Britain 191
24. The Radio Voice That Is Telling Me to Go for the Throat of the Other: Two Lessons on Media Politics from LIGNA’s Oedipus, Tyrant 205
25. Doing Radio Art: Direct Media Association’s Pacific Rim / Slow Scan 224
26. Radio Prolife: Eavesdropping on Life 232
27. V. WORDS-SOUND-MUSIC
28. John Cage’s Cinema for the Ear 243
29. Peter Roehr’s Sound Montages 255
30. Hörspiel-Pop, Radio Opera, Media Art: On the Reinvention of the Hörspiel by Andreas Ammer and FM Einheit 268
31. Listen and Participate: The Work of the Hörspielmacher Paul Plamper 276
32. Dead Spot in Art History 292
33. Author Biographies 303