[microsound-announce] TV ON THE RADIO #2, a podcast by Kenneth Goldsmith

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TV ON THE RADIO #2, a podcast by Kenneth Goldsmith

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MP3: http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/specials/TVontheradio2.mp3
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This is the second podcast that accompanies MACBA's exhibition "Are
You Ready for TV?" In the Museum, you can see what happens when the
aesthetic of visual artists collides with the world of television. The
results are anything but what you'd expect to see on TV, full of
surrealistic interventions and disruptions. Or when artists work on
television, there is often an embedded critique of the medium,
something that questions the very essence of what our eyeballs are
glued to every night. As curator Chus Martínez writes about this show:
'This is not an exhibition about television, but one conceived from
the place of television. Its aim: to study how the diverse ways of
grasping images and the life of concepts contribute to tracing the
horizon of our cultural present.'

In our first podcast, we examined what happened when audio artists
used the sounds of television as a source for the audio works. The
results – demonstrated to us by everyone from John Cage to the
Evolution Control Committee – were rich and varied. For this podcast,
we actually listen to the soundtracks from the videos in the show
themselves. In essence, we treat the visual works as if they're audio
and see what happens. In most cases, we discover that the sounds
emanating from the visual works can stand on their own as great
listening experiences. In other works, the visuals and sounds are
deliberately 'uninteresting,' tending to highlight the mundane or the
insignificant experiences of life, which of course, are equally rich
in an inverted sort of way. Although there are hundreds of works in
the actual exhibition, we've selected ten to spotlight here that are
particularly varied and interesting and which, taken as a whole, can
provide you with the flavor of MACBA's exhibition, "Are You Ready for
TV?".

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