New Radio and Performing Arts

New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. (NRPA), and its satellite project Turbulence.org,[1] ia an American organization that commissions and archives new and experimental Radio art, sound art, net art and mixed reality works.[2]

New American Radio

Founded in New York City (1981), NRPA is well known for its "New American Radio" series, a weekly public radio program of its commissioned experimental sound art pieces from 1987 - 1998. Their archive, available online since 2002, includes "over 300 works by artists such as Helen Thorington, Hildegard Westerkamp, Jacki Apple, Pauline Oliveros, Christian Marclay, and Terry Allen" [3]

Turbulence.org

With the launch of Turbulence.org in 1996, NRPA expanded its mandate to "regularly commission net art from the US and abroad" and it now holds the largest archive of such work.[4] Through open calls, competitions and awards, the group supports exhibitions "in real space, as well as on the Web,"[5] "from full-blown museum exhibitions to esoteric hacks,"[6] and acts as an "incubator" for "high-tech art."[7]

Today NRPA’s main focus is on supporting established and emerging artists who create net art or networked hybrid art (art for both virtual and physical space) by: 1) commissioning work for Turbulence.org (over 195 commissions ranging from $1,500-$25,000); 2) providing exhibition venues on- and offline; 3) archiving the work. Notable commissioned artists include Martin Wattenberg, Brooke Singer, Golan Levin, Annie Abrahams, Mary Flanagan, Scott Kildall, Kate Armstrong, Michael Tippett, Nathaniel Stern, Cory Arcangel, Stephanie Rothenberg, R. Luke DuBois, Ursula Endlicher, MTAA, and Zoe Beloff.[2]

The Turbulence.org collection is being archived at the Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.

References
  1. Mirapaul, Matthew (2003). How to Make a Sonic Purée From Pop Snippets. The New York Times. Retrieved on 2010-06-8
  2. Turbulence.org (2010). About Turbulence. Retrieved on 2016-05-8
  3. Rhizome (2003). Rhizome Digest: Highlights from the New Media Art Field. Retrieved on 2010-06-8
  4. Andrews. Jim, "Net Art at turbulence.org." American Book Review, May/June 2006, Volume 27, Number 4, p. 19, 35.
  5. McQuaid, Cate (2006). Internet-based interactive art show New England Initiative II is a virtual stunner Boston Globe, Boston, Massachusetts, December 28, 2006.
  6. Sisario, Ben (2004). Internet Art Survives, but the Boom Is Over. New York Times. Retrieved on 2010-06-8
  7. Delson, Susan (2001). If Picasso Were A Programmer, Forbes.com.
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