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The Radia Network proudly announces RADIO.TERRITORIES, a series of urban and acoustic interventions taking place across Europe. Stay tuned for upcoming calls for the artist residency programs and actions in your local European City. From October 2005 to September 2006, various events will take place in Berlin, Bratislava, Budapest, Cluj, Lisbon, Mooste, Prague, London, Sofia and Vienna.
A final conference is planned for September 2006, in Vienna.

radio.territories explores the urbanisation of society from the perspective of media. Considering the heterogeneous constitution of European societies, there is a need to develop new forms of diverse communication. How can diverse identities within a society become audible beyond mechanisms of media representation? – radio.territories gathers artistic positions relating to this question.

Understanding radio as part of the public sphere, radio.territories links the process of establishing public space through broadcasting on the one hand and intervening in existing urban spaces on the other hand.

In a series of interventions the partner radios in Europe will physically enter public space and create territories of pluralistic communication. By leaving the studios and turning up on the streets and places of different European cities, the involved radio stations approach their (imaginary) audiences and explore the possibilities of participation in an immediate way.

Thus, radio.territories also aims at reflecting on the participatory practice of alternative media production. So called “citizens’ participation” has become a central issue in urban development and at the same time constitutes an essential characteristic of the free/community/independent/cultural radio
movement. radio.territories asks what role radio art and the experimental use of radio can play in both discourses.

By networking the local answers, radio.territories is sounding out the range of contemporary experimental radio production in relation to the claim of public space.

Main actions

+ 14 interventions
+ Artist residencies and co-operation weeks
+ Conference

Vienna, September 2006
discussing interfaces between media interventions and urban
development, linking artistic positions with current positions of
socio-cultural operators and experts in the field of urban development.

+ Development of innovative solutions for the transnational
dissemination of cultural live events via internet based on open-
source software