07.11.98 - 08.11.98
[ - "we are all well and alive, but terribly uncommunicative"- ]
2130 - 0130 [ AUS CST ]
2200 - 0200 [ AUS EST ]
1200 - 1600 [ GMT ]
1300 - 1700 [ CET ]
LADA98 - L'Arte dell'Ascolto
LIVE STREAM
L'Arte dell'Ascolto (the Art of Listening)
[ - Rimini, Italy - ]
LADA98 is an adventure that combines art with scientific research. It aims to define the latitude of wireless communication with special regard to areas of the Mediterrenean.
Together with remote participants from Belgrade, Berlin, Graz, Jerusalem, Ljubljana, Novi Sad, Riga, Split, Vienna, and Zagreb, r a d i o q u a l i a will construct audio maps and scatter pebbles of radio chronology.
"we are all well and alive, but terribly uncommunicative" * is r a d i o q u a l i a's discrete passage through international radio culture, sampling moments of history immortalised by the dual technologies of transmitter and receiver.
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1893
Nikola Tesla (Smiljan, Lika) makes the first experiments of high frequency electric currents - the first demonstration of wireless communication. In his articles and lectures Tesla describes in detail his first radio apparatus. Later he invented a telephone repeater, the rotating magnetic field principle, the polyphase alternating-current system, the induction motor, terrestrial stationary waves, alternating-current power transmission, Tesla coil transformer, wireless communication, radio, fluorescent lights, and more than 700 other patents.
1895
Guglielmo Marconi (Bologna, Italy) builds the equipment and transmitted electrical signals through the air from one end of his house to the other, and then from the house to the garden. These experiments are historically known as the dawn of practical wireless telegraphy or radio. On December 12, 1901, he received signals from across the ocean.
June 21, 1943
Case No. 369 - the U.S. Supreme Court overturns Marconi's basic patent for the invention of radio because Tesla's patent on the four-tuned circuit predated Marconi's patent.
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the air crackles and hums with abortive exchanges, telexed splinters
the hiss of vibrations
a current begins to flow
causing vortices in the surrounding aether
the sky is thick with conversation
radios intercept signal from the noise
devices like snares, luring threads of communication
signal-amplification, high-vacuum tubes, advanced alternators
a complete system . . .
listenening by arrangement
amateur traffic
ship-to-shore
thousands of wire miles
* thank you to marko peljhan for [unintentionally] providing the title
