Runaway Noosphere
Oleksiy Radynski in conversation with Svitlana Matviyenko
Sonic Intervention by Sasha Dolgiy.

for radia.fm by reboot.fm Berlin.
excerpt from: Red Forest Radiograms- Nomadic Cosmology and Fugitive Power

In the interwar period, the Soviet geologist and philosopher Vladimir Vernadsky diagnosed the transformation of the scientific thought into a geological force that affects material processes on a planetary scale and one able to transform the planetary biosphere ‘according to the interests of freely thinking humanity as an organic whole’, and sublate it into the Noosphere – a highly networked sphere of unified human knowledge. Vernadsky claimed that the transition to the Noosphere went utterly unnoticed and unreflected by humanity itself, which led to devastating consequences in the form of two world wars. He passed away just before the Hiroshima bombing, a challenge to his cautious optimism regarding the Noosphere’s future. With cyberwar, this future has arrived and its shifting battlefield is now in Ukraine where the nexus of cyber and nuclear emerged as the symptomatic trace of the runaway Noosphere.

Oleksiy Radynski is a filmmaker and writer based in Kyiv. His award-winning short films have been screened at film festivals including DOK Leipzig, Oberhausen International Short Film Festival, Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, Docudays IFF, Artdocfest, Odesa IFF, Watch Docs, Molodist IFF, as well as at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (London), e-flux (New York), SAVVY Contemporary (Berlin), International Studio & Curatorial Program (New York) and others. He is a participant of VCRC, an initiative for art, knowledge, and politics founded in Kyiv, 2008. He was a 2019-2020 BAK Fellow at basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht and a KONE Research Fellow in 2021. In 2020, he convened War and Cinema, a cycle of artist films for e-flux Video and Film.

Svitlana Matviyenko is an Assistant Professor of Critical Media Analysis in the School of Communication and Associate Director of the Digital Democracies Institute, Vancouver. Her research and teaching are focused on information and cyberwar, political economy of information, media and environment, and infrastructure studies.

Sasha Dolgiy is an artist, musician and innovator. In 2012-2018, he was an organiser of ЭFIR, a legendary artist run space in Kyiv. His work has been represented at a number of venues in Ukraine and internationally, including documenta 14.

Red Forest is mobilized by David Muñoz-Alcántara, Diana McCarty, Mijke van der Drift and Oleksiy Radynski, after their collectiv

e practices super collided during a 2019-2020 BAK Fellowship in Utrecht. It unfolds as a growing constellation of artists, activists, researchers, media producers, filmmakers, philosophers, educators and time travelers realizing interdisciplinary projects. In 2021, their ongoing research on Extractivism, Datafication, and Transformative Justice was supported by the Kone Foundation in Finland. They are producing an experimental social and durational performance series in Kyiv and Berlin titled Sambatas Stagings, supported by Goethe-Institut Co-Production Fund Kyiv and Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin. In 2022, they convened Red Forest Radiograms -Nomadic Cosmologies and Fugitive Power  as the German Pavilion of the the 23rd Triennale Milano International Exhibition Unknown Unknowns. An Introduction to Mysteries.

The German Pavilion at the 23rd Triennale Milano International Exhibition is convened by Red Forest on a commission from the Goethe-Institut Mailand and supported by the German Federal Foreign Office. Media Partners: Radio Raheem Milan and reboot.fm Berlin

Co-Tension – Fish for Thought
From reboot.fm for radia.fm

By Varja Hrvatin, Polina Burovskaya, M. Marque Pham & Gideon Morison

Co-Tension – Fish for Thought was realized as part of the Kammer Kampus Radio organized by Katja Kobolt and Diana McCarty and produced by Noemie Cayron as part of the „Friendly Confrontations“ program curated by Julia Grosse und Julian Warner at the Münchner Kammerspiele in 2020.

Sounding Sambatas
 
Many other walled towns have been razed to the ground by mighty movements of the earth, and many cities, citizens and all, have sunk to the bottom of the sea.

– Titus Lucretius Carus, De Rerum Natura

Sounding Sambatas riffs off of SAMBATAS STAGINGS, an experimental performative project that drew on the imagery of urban ruin to find new ways of using the public space in times of social distancing. It took form as a series of process-oriented, collectively produced performances, readings, rituals, writing sessions and audio transmissions that depart from the poem De Rerum Natura by Titus Lucretius Carus. Opening up the hidden potentials of urban and acoustic space, these practices activated the abandoned ruins in a garden off of Petrivska street in central Kyiv. This process culminated in a public gathering and performance on August 19th, 2021.
 
Sambatas is alleged to be an ancient city that may or may not have existed alongside Kyiv. Sambatas is thought to have been raised to the ground in the first millennium AD. Today, in the second millennium, a similar fate is threatening certain parts of the city of Kyiv, like the area of Petrivska street that fell prey to a number of landslides. Sambatas Stagings takes place at the site of those landslides to make Lucretius’ philosophies of flux present in contemporary Kyiv.
 
Sambatas Stagings was realized by Red Forest together with Maryana Bodnaruk, Sasha Dolgiy, Artem Kanischev, Lyuba Knorozok, Oleksiy Kuchanskyi, Nastya Teor, Ihor Sokolo and Nika Zenova, in and around the abandoned territory of Petrivska Street in Kyiv aka ХАЩІ featuring analog synthesizers, drums, a magnetic harp, alto saxophone, vocals and strange interference.

Sounding Sambatas was produced by Nika Zenova with Red Forest.

Red Forest is a collective that works on the intersections of research, art, political imagination, and social actions. Red Forest are: David Munoz Alcantara, Mijke van der Drift, Diana McCarty and Oleksiy Radynski.  

Sambatas Stagings was organized by the Visual Culture Research Center and ХАЩІ with the support from the International Co-Production Fund / Goethe Institut Ukraine / Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin.

Amauta Mixtapes is one of a four-part experimental acoustic reportage focused on epistemologies in resistance and sistered struggles. Assembled by Nomad Agency/Archive of Emergent Studies, a research studio and transdisciplinary platform that intersects advanced
resilient practices, promotes studying against the grain, and claims the political space of research as the right to know and the right to imagine together. NÆS walks with artist David Muñoz Alcántara and curator Giovanna Esposito Yussif. This was commissioned for Latitude
on Air – Unsettling Power Relations, 4-7 June, Berlin 2020, a project by the Goethe-Institut, in cooperation with reboot.fm and the Radio Netzwerk Berlin.

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Lüftung: The radio broadcast

By Anna Bromley, by, and with Jasmina Al-Quaisi, Petra Beck, Basma Elmady, Christine Eßling, Yayla Höpf, Lena Knäpper, Lena Schubert, Cindy Wegner, and Seoyoung Won.

Conceived, recorded and montaged by a group of radio-affine nGbK-visitors, the 1-hour broadcast explores the ambigue notion, and theme of the nGbK-exhibition “Left Performance Histories”.

It compiles artifacts and archival material from performances in Poland, Hungary, Jugoslavia, and Rumania between 1970 and 1989. Encountering its visual material and accompanying conference, the broadcast interweaves and montages the auditory side and texts of the exhibition with the questions and commentaries of the group, while visiting the show. How can our perspectives relate to the articulations of left critique in this setting? What has been left for us to perceive? Inhowfar did these performance come to an end, as they spark they an “archival archeology” which might be conceived as a montage in itself?

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METHOD, by Anna Zett via reboot.fm 88.4 FM Berlin for radia.

In this spontaneous audio piece Anna Zett explores the interview as a form of monologue and a form of trialogue. It is centered around the artist’s visit at a professional fortune tellers office in Beijing.

She has brought her own deck of modernist tarot cards, he is willing to share his approach to situation analysis and fate calculation according to Chinese traditions. Mediated by a third person who is serving as translator, they enter a conversation about chance.

Anna Zett has written and directed two radio plays for the public radio in Germany, both of them dealing with voice-based oracles and the challenge of communication.

From a 100 days broadcast on the Landesgartenschau Gießen, datscharadio brought back an archive with audiofiles in a state of digital decomposition. the show takes three different depositories of audio material and traverses them to present an impossible algorithmic summary, a auto-montage of an already diverse ethnopoetic collection of todays garden cultures in an average mid size town in Germany. By Pit Schultz (with Gabi Schaffner) for reboot.fm

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Jingled Jungle by Sara Lehn

for reboot.fm, Berlin

You’re listening to an investigation, no heavy manifesto. More than just radiolovers know about the potent entanglement of real stuff,
radio and play. This piece is meant to be a massage to all immaterial workers out there, including free ear hair conditioner and a jodeling crash course.

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Excerpts from productions in and for
Radio de la Culture Visuelle / Radio 226 (University of Art, Berlin;
June 2012), Émissions de l’Art Visionnaire/ KofferRadio (Neuer
Berliner Kunstverein; January – May 2014) & ‘ÖR Schnecke (Kunstraum
Kreuzberg / Bethanien; May-July 2014)

Festival Curator JD Zazie has compiled this selection of works by Felicity Ford, Heidrun Schramm & Stini Arn for radia.fm.

MuseRuole is a festival dedicated to experimental music and puts contemporary female musicians and performers at its centre. It is a journey of discovery into the wide world of current musical research, looking for specifically female modes of expression, with its own grammar and personal style. This year (2013) we focus on the theme of radio as a space for musical research and a medium of technological innovation, including  notions of sending and receiving in equal measure.
Even today radio is an important method of communication: it remains one of the most powerful, cheapest, accessible and world spanning of media. Despite its long history and being one of the first mass media of the last century, radio has always been able to renew     itself, adapting to changing realities and remaining in step with the future. And so radio is an instrument of disseminating knowledge as well as a research space for new technologies and formats: as a global platform it offers the possibility to develop innovative networks and ways to connect.

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