Profile AIR, Art International Radio is an Internet radio station and free online audio archive for cultural programming. AIR’s Performance Gallery hosts ten major performances annually as well as installations, cultural symposia, and workshops. The studio rooms provide production and development facilities for audio art and music, radio theatre, spoken word projects, interdisciplinary works and new media innovation. BACKGROUND Most of you have found us through the former Art Radio WPS1.org, the Internet radio station of P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center (an affiliate of the Museum of Modern Art). WPS1 was discontinued on January 1, 2009. Launched in 2004 with a seed grant from Bloomberg LP, the station collected over 2000 hours of art talk, music and cultural programs that were available in a stream and an on-demand archive. In 2005 the project added composer and organizer David Weinstein to manage WPS1 operations and programs as well as to direct P.S.1 public programs, including as chief curator of the summer Warm Up music series, editor of the P.S.1 newspaper and Web site, and organizer of many exhibition-related performances and special events. WPS1 began an aggressive effort to enhance its programs and include recordings of lectures, interviews, panels, and other public programs produced by cultural organizations worldwide, as well as to expand its archive of new music and audio experiments. CHANGE In late 2008 the P.S.1 Board of Directors decided to discontinue WPS1. This was the result of a review of the P.S.1 mission as well as financial and programmatic restructuring. Alanna Heiss expressed her desire to direct Art International Radio full time, and on December 31, 2008, Alanna Heiss, David Weinstein, Jeannie Hopper, George Taylor, and Beatrice Johnson (Ms. Heiss' curatorial and administrative assistant at P.S.1) began the new effort which included new programs, new Web site design, and former archival material. FUTURE AIR, Art International Radio is currently rebuilding its Web site, developing new programs, and designing new methods of streaming and delivery (including an iPhone application). In late January, P.S.1/MoMA agreed to transfer and license the bulk of the WPS1 archive to AIR. We thank P.S.1/MoMA for their generosity and recognition of the value of this material, as well as the public’s interest in having these programs available online. DONATE AIR, Art International Radio is a listener-sponsored New York State non-profit corporation, a registered charity, and a tax-exempt organization under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. If you would like to contribute, please write us at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it THANKS AIR gratefully acknowledges the generous support of Lawton W. Fitt, Agnes Gund, David Teiger, Maria Rosa and Gilberto Sandretto, and Jerry I. Speyer. Special thanks to Bloomberg LP for recognizing and supporting innovation. AIR thanks the many artist collaborators, producers, and hosts who have worked to create the archive of thousands of hours of radio programming available at ARTonAIR.org. Thanks also to Todd Eberle, Mary Heilmann, Tony Oursler and Sabina Streeter who have contributed artworks to the renewed Clocktower spaces. The launch of AIR was assisted by Pandiscio Company (design), Jones Day (legal) and Andrew Berman (architecture). AIR and The Clocktower Gallery are made possible through a partnership with the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, Kate D. Levin, Commissioner and the NYC Department of Citywide Administrative Services, Martha K. Hirst, Commissioner. Staff Alanna Heiss, Director David Weinstein, Managing Director Jeannie Hopper, Station Manager Beatrice Johnson, Program Manager Paul Johnson, Emerging Media Elizabeth Brown, Emerging Media Elliot Stapleton, Audio Consultant/Engineer Dan Taeyoung Lee, Web/Systems Consultant Ben Gottlieb, Production Assistant Volunteers Peter Brock Lorissa Rinehart Priya Sikerwar Azadeh Zeyghami Volunteers Emeriti Caroline Carberry Theo Cusick Phoebe d'Heurle Hardy McCall Ava Rosenblatt Jane Flanagan Andrea Mustain Victoria Winkelman Tiffany Camhi AIR Staff Biographies Alanna Heiss, Director, was Founder and Director of P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center from 1976-2008. She is one of the originators of the alternative space movement, beginning with Under the Brooklyn Bridge, a 1971 outdoor show she organized with installations by pioneering American and European artists. Ms. Heiss has curated and/or organized over 700 exhibitions at P.S.1 and elsewhere, including the inaugural exhibition at P.S.1, Rooms (1976); New York, New Wave (1981); Stalin's Choice: Soviet Socialist Realism, 1932-1956 (1993); Greater New York (2000 and 2005, selecting curator), and Arctic Hysteria (2008); as well as solo shows including Robert Grosvenor (1976); Keith Sonnier (1983); Alex Katz: Under the Stars, American Landscapes 1951-1995 (1998); John Wesley: Paintings 1961-2000 (2000), and Gino De Dominicis (2008). In 2004, Ms. Heiss founded Art Radio WPS1.org, the Internet radio station of P.S.1. Born in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1943, Ms. Heiss received a BA from Lawrence University and a scholarship from the Lawrence Conservatory of Music. In 2001, Ms. Heiss received an Honorary Doctorate in Fine Arts from the San Francisco Art Institute, and in 2008, she received an Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters from Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin. David Weinstein, Managing Director, was P.S.1 Director of Public Programs and Managing Director, Art Radio WPS1.org from 2004-2008.Weinstein's career as a composer, performer, and multimedia installation artist has taken him around the globe. His musical works juxtapose sound effects, traditional and non-traditional instruments, synthetic sound, ancient and exotic tunings and noise. As a keyboardist he has recorded and performed with musicians including Shelley Hirsch, Elliott Sharp, John Zorn, Ned Rothenberg, Paul Dresher, Rhys Chatham and many others from Arto Lindsay to Zeena Parkins. Weinstein also makes theatrical, installation and site-specific multimedia pieces and is expert in computer assisted audio and animation including streaming and interactive media. His multimedia collaborations with video artist Doris Vila earned them a jury prize at Ars Electronica in 2002 and a NYSCA grant in 2004. Born in Chicago in 1954, David Weinstein studied music composition at the University of Illinois with Ben Johnston and Salvatore Martirano. A founder of the New York new music series Roulette, he co-directed the day-to-day operations from 1978 to 1994. He has taught music, sound and multimedia at The School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Yale and the City University of New York. He has worked as a consultant, panelist, curator and organizer for arts organizations and companies from Morgan Stanley to MTV. He has lived in Brooklyn since 1979. Jeannie Hopper, Station Manager, brings to AIR over 18 years of 'hands on' radio experience, including acting as an on-air personality, engineer, producer & reporter for WBAI. Her weekly radio program "Liquid Sound Lounge," on WBAI, features artist interviews, live performances, live improvisational sound collages/music with spoken word performers. She's produced extensive free-form radio productions including live radio shows, self-contained documentaries, sound design for radio theatre and has been the voice for radio theatre, electronic news gathering, live remote music events and PSA's. Beatrice Johnson, Program Manager, was the curatorial and administrative Assistant to the Director at P.S.1 from 2006-2008. As Ms. Heiss's right hand, Beatrice was involved in a variety of P.S.1 programming, including Art Radio WPS1's presence at the Slick art fair in Paris, and Art Basel Miami Beach 2008. Beatrice received a BA in Art History and Spanish from Wellesley College in 2006. She was born and raised in Paris, France. Paul Johnson and Elizabeth Brown, Emerging Media, are partners of StudioE9 and operate ARTonAIR's digital laboratory. Paul and Elizabeth are active in New York's cultural and technological communities, and have developed projects in the United States, Europe, and Asia. They are currently overseeing ARTonAIR's mobile and social web platforms, including an iPhone application. Elliot Stapleton, Audio Consultant/Engineer has engineered audio for the unusual and the challenging, including P.S.1 WarmUp and alternative spaces, and is part of the team at the Outpost Artists Resources media center. Ben Gottlieb, Production Assistant, is a writer, linguist, philosopher and fire-breathing dragon tamer. Dan Taeyoung Lee, Web/Systems Consultant, is a design technologist, historian, writer, photographer, traveler and investigator. Contact ARTonAIR.org The Clocktower 108 Leonard Street, 13th Floor New York, NY 10013 This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it P: 212.233.1096 |
