Abstract
Hybrid WorkSpace has been a temporary laboratory during documenta X
in Kassel. More than 100 days it was a zone of critical thought and
productive conflict, a social space to manufacture consent and initialize
dissent. The Orangerie, a historic building in the central park of
Kassel, has been transformed into an open media studio to collect,
select, connect, record, and distribute information and content. Eleven
workgroups, invited through the Nettime Brothers and friends, dealt with
current social, political and cultural issues. Distribution beyond the
Orangerie was realised via selected zones on the Internet as well as
through print media and radio broadcasting.
The free radio of Kassel (Freies Radio Kassel) submitted a platform
to go on the air. Radio Internationale Stadt (RIS) - an open
RealAudio-server - provided the opportunity to archive the audio stuff.
Freies Radio Kassel is a local radio with a range in and around
Kassel. It is an uncommercial braodcast-projekt, which depends on ideal
and financial public support. The Freies Radio Kassel is defined by an
open access, where people, especially those, who are underrepresentated
in the common media get the opportunity to create a program which is
different from the common information market. In this case the term of
'counter-public' will be best to describe the ideals of Freies Radio
Kassel. Nevertheless the radio is bound on the formal rights of the
press.
Herbert Meyer connected Hybrid Workspace, RIS and Freies Radio Kassel.
He coached 50 hours on the air and looked after the real audio-archive.
During 'Xchange on-air session' he will discuss his experiences and
show some of the acoustical results of the 'summer of content'.
Real Audio fragment of the contribution
URL's of WorkSpace Radio
interfiction/WorkSpace_Radio
RIS/workspace
