P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center is thrilled to announce the upcoming launch of
a brand new initiative. WPS1 ( <http://www.wps1.org/> www.wps1.org) is the
world's first art radio station available on the Internet. This online
forum for dynamic music and talk programs will be launched on April 19,
2004.
Please find below the press release for this new "wing" of P.S.1. Upon
request, I would be glad to provide a list of sample programs, biographies
of some of the staff involved (including Linda Yablonsky and Elliott Sharp)
images of the radio station that was specially designed by architect William
Massie, and any other information you may need.
Please do not hesitate to contact me with any questions at all. I look
forward to hearing from you!
All the best,
Rachael Dorsey
Associate Director of Press and Marketing
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
A Museum of Modern Art affiliate
22-25 Jackson Avenue at 46th Avenue
Long Island City, NY 11101
718.784.2084 *827
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the world's First INTERNET ART Radio station
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, a MoMA affiliate,
launches WPS1 Internet radio April 19
NEW YORK-(March 19, 2004) P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center announces the launch
of WPS1 (www.wps1.org), the world's first Internet art radio station.
Sponsored by Bloomberg L.P., WPS1 goes live April 19 with an extraordinary
lineup of music and talk shows broadcasting 24 hours a day.
The station's programs combine talk and music shows hosted by contemporary
writers, artists and musicians with rare historic material that includes the
entire audio archive of the Museum of Modern Art.
WPS1 will stream to listeners on the Internet only. Its presence on the Web
will make the station's unique digital library available to an international
audience at any hour, seven days a week. As such, WPS1 will become a live
audio museum in cyberspace, extending the visual art, book, music, film,
video and performance programs that P.S.1 and MoMA are known for in ways
previously unforeseen. Here, at www.wps1.org, is the first all-art,
all-the-time radio station, where expression of all kinds remains truly
free.
In addition to broadcasting events originally recorded at MoMA and
elsewhere, WPS1 offers a broad variety of contemporary music and original
talk shows. Programs include:
* The Real Estate Show with Heather Cohane - practical advice for
artists and art organizations seeking living and working space
* Conversations with Writers...Continued with Charles Ruas -
interviews with authors of new books (early guests include David Shipler,
Walter Abish, Fanny Howe, Edwidge Danticat)
* On the Mark with Mark Fletcher - lively discussions of
market-generated issues in contemporary art
* The Collectors' Forum with Althea Viafora - how to establish and
maintain a private collection and advice on making it accessible to the
public
* Race Stories with Maurice Berger - a unique mini-series created for
WPS1 (begins in May)
* Live Nude Radio Theater with Edwin Torres - unique live mixes of
contemporary poetry and music by a leading figure on the scene
* The Yay/Nay Show with Linda Yablonsky and Carey Lovelace - a
critical overview of current art, film, music, theater, and books, including
interviews with guest curators, artists, playwrights, directors and critics
* Writers' Choice with rotating guest hosts - one novelist invites
another to read and discuss their work in unique dueling-writer format
* FAQs with Ali Subotnick - guest artists answer personal questions;
look for Laurie Simmons and Aida Ruilova on the debut show
* I've Got Your Number with Dezia - live psychic readings and
numerological information from a true clairvoyant
* Live from the Bowery Poetry Club! - weekly broadcasts of music,
theater and poetry performances from the Manhattan performance center
* International Correspondents - arts news and music from Beijing,
Berlin, London, Miami, Paris, Taiwan and Tokyo
* Live Events - one-time-only readings, performances and lectures
recorded at the Clocktower or at remote locations in New York City
* Historic Recordings: Throughout the broadcast day, WPS1 will
present a variety of archived material. MoMA's artist talks include the
voices of such luminaries as Edward Steichen (1955), Marcel Duchamp (1962),
Spalding Gray (1990), Jasper Johns (1963), W.H. Auden (1953), Daniel-Henry
Kahnweiler and Robert Rauschenberg (1961). WPS1 will also present hundreds
of artist talks from the Skowhegan School; readings sponsored by the Poetry
Society of America; highlights from Linda Yablonsky's NightLight Readings
series, (1991-1999); and an extraordinary series of readings and interviews
from WBAI/FM (1975 - 1977) with such writers as William Burroughs, Allen
Ginsberg, Tennessee Williams, Joseph Heller, E.L. Doctorow and Jerzy
Kosinski.
WPS1's music shows, organized by Elliott Sharp, feature contemporary
composers, musicians, and singers such as John Cale, Steve Piccolo, Tracie
Morris, Radio Phenomena;, Dave Grubbs, Kim Cascone, William Basinski,
Stephen Vitiello, and Yuka Honda and Sean Lennon;. Music/talk shows include
"La Caldera," by Laura Andel, broadcasting in Spanish and English; "Shocking
Blue" with Delphine Blue; "Love Crazy" with Nora York; and Sharp's own show,
"Musica Mathematica."
Lokke Highstein, P.S.1's Warm Up co-curator, has rounded up dailynightly
programs of live DJs focusing on current trends in Drum and Bass, Techno,
Hip-Hop, and Trance and includes new mixes by: DJ Q-Zen, Mystic Bill,
Forest Green, John Howard, DJ Spun, Jazzy Nice, and Harvey.hosted by Lokke
Highstein
WPS1 is located in a studio expressly built for broadcast over the Internet.
Designed by architect William Massie in Tribeca's Clocktower Building, it is
made of hybrid plastic and laser-cut steel. The vibrant orange studio
provides a curvilinear, earlike space for recording and broadcasting
programs. The Clocktower has been the site of many historic exhibitions
including the inaugural show in 1972 which included work by Joel Shapiro,
Richard Tuttle, and James Bishop.
WPS1 was conceived by P.S.1 Founder and Director, Alanna Heiss, who has
dreamed of creating an art radio station for more than twenty years. She
and Glenn Lowry, Director of the Museum of Modern Art, actually discussed
the vision of the radio station during the merger discussions between MoMA
and P.S.1 in 2000.
Visitors to www.wps1.org may select from a live audio stream or can listen
to the archives of past shows. The online stream will be a 28k MP3, making
it easy for all Internet users to participate.
WPS1's staff includes Alanna Heiss (P.S.1's founding director), Executive
Producer; Linda Yablonsky, Program Director; Brett Littman, Managing
Director; Jeannie Hopper, Station Manager; Elliott Sharp and Lokke
Highstein, Producers; and Darrell McNeill, Sound Engineer.
WPS1 is sponsored by Bloomberg L.P. Bloomberg L.P., founded in 1981 by
Michael R. Bloomberg, is a leading financial information services, news, and
media company, serving customers around the world. Headquartered in New
York, the company employs 8,000 people globally in 110 offices around the
world. Bloomberg leverages its data and news resources through related media
products, including television and radio programming, Web sites, books, and
publications, to meet the financial information needs of professionals and
consumers globally.
For more information, please contact Rachael Dorsey in the P.S.1 Press
Office:
T: (718) 784-2084 ext. *827/ F: (718) 482-9454/ e-mail: [log in to unmask]
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