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Colin Black: RADIO ART: AN ACOUSTIC MEDIA ART FORM

It seems obvious, if you take radio out of radio art then you have a sound based art work that is not broadcasted, unicasted and/or multicasted; conversely if you take art out of radio art then you have radio …
This paper explores the idea of radio art as a media based acoustic art-form and argues that the Australian works Journal (1969) by David Ahern’s and Quadrophonic Cocktail (1986) by Chris Mann are forms of acoustic media art.
Further to this it examines the absence of radio art as a formal course of study in Australia (especially for under graduates) and argues for the need to include radio art and its vibrant Australian history to be acknowledged within formal academic institutes.

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