Dear J. Kreutzfeldt, I could sympathize with your reaction to the Radio Days at De Appel as a 'sell-out' if the show had been presented as a radical, pirate radio station. If this had been the case, then I would have agreed that getting permission to broadcast would be suspect. But Radio Days clearly presents itself as a platform for 'an aural experience'. I quote from their website:
The project is intended as a platform for contemporary art and life: sound-based artworks, storytelling, music, interviews or media-intervention. As an aural experience, as a project connecting distant places, confront opinions, and challenge relations between participants and audience. It seems to me that the challenge these curators put to themselves was how to curate a contemporary art show on the radio, rather than in the gannetllery spaces of De Appel. There may be aspects of the presented content to criticize or even the concept of making a radio station for this particular purpose, but to criticize the act of getting permission is unjustified. Being radical is not simply the equivalent of acting illegally. Personally I agree that the show is not radical, but I did not expect it to be- since that was never its intention. Jill Magid Jill Magid www.jillmagid.net m. +31.614877127 ------------------------------------------------------- # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net
