Hey Non-Site Folks,

I hope some of you will consider submitting pieces in reply to the "Call for Work" Below. I co-curate a reading/performance series here in Philly - the Moles Not Molar Reading Series - and we're currently seeking submissions for a particular afternoon of radio programming in mid-January titled "Transmissions: Signal to Noise Ratio." The deadline for entries is rather rapidly approaching but we could definitely consider extending it for folks who could tell us specifically what they had in mind, its approximate length, and when we could expect it. There will be both live and pre-recorded elements to the afternoon so there's no need for artists to be local in order to take part. In any and all cases, thanks so much for your time and we would love to hear from you.

Best,
Emily Abendroth
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The Call:

Moles Not Molar is seeking your submissions!!!

For the months of December and January, as part of the exhibit RADIO, Nexus Gallery in the Crane Arts Building in Philadelphia will be broadcasting a continuous AM station and Moles will be partnering with them for an afternoon program of radio plays, poems, sound art, speeches, operas, songs, and more.

And we want you to create them!!

We're especially interested in pieces that are thoughtful about or particularly suited for the medium of radio.

"Transmissions: Signal to Noise Ratio" will take place on the afternoon of Sunday, January 18th.

Some ways that we have been thinking about the concept of transmission include:
- the use of sources in literary production
- the artist as transmitter (communicating materials that arrive from
an "outside")
- the mechanics & processes of dissemination
- modes of communication, etc.
- acts of interruption or corruption that interfere with existing signals
- explorations of intentional transmission vs. background noise**

• The Signal to Noise Ratio is a concept that has been used to

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Tomorrow night, Wednesday, Dec. 10, 7:30 pm, free, at CounterPULSE, 1310 Mission at 9th

How do neighborhood newspapers fill niches abandoned by the daily press? What is the changing role of newspapers and publishing vis-à-vis diverse on-line writing, reporting, pontificating and broadcasting? Are print newspapers still essential for an active democracy? Steven Moss, Potrero View, Juan Gonzalez, El Tecolote, Joseph Smooke, New Bernal Journal, Thomas Reynolds, New Fillmore. No Reservations Necessary,

Rick Prelinger will be hosting Lost Landscapes 3, an interactive and celebratory evening of rarely-seen local history.

Here's the announcement:

LOST LANDSCAPES OF SAN FRANCISCO

Friday, December 19, 2008 at 7:30 pm
curated and presented by Rick Prelinger
under the auspices of the Long Now Foundation Seminars About Long Term Thinking

Rick Prelinger is a guerrilla archivist who collects the uncollected and makes it accessible. Prelinger will be presenting his third annual "Lost Landscapes of San Francisco" event, an eclectic montage of lost and rarely-seen film clips showing life, landscapes and labor in a vanished San Francisco as captured by amateurs, newsreel cameramen and industrial filmmakers.

How we remember and record the past reveals much about how we address the future. Prelinger will preface the film with a brief talk on how fragmentary, incomplete histories are being overtaken by pervasive real-time documentation, and how history, memory and property are combining into a new matrix of experience.

Since 1983 Rick has been collecting ephemeral films: advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur works. In 2002, the Prelinger film collection of over 200,000 items was acquired by the Library of Congress; much of it is available online at the Internet Archive. In 2004 Prelinger and spouse Megan opened the Prelinger Library in downtown San Francisco, which includes over 50,000 pieces of print ephemera, books, periodicals, maps and zines.

We encourage the audience to interact with the film, especially to identify mystery scenes! After the event will be a reception and holiday party at the nearby Long Now Museum and Store. The Prelingers, Long Now's staff and board will be on hand, and we plan to project footage from the Prelinger Archive on every surface we can. Light snacks and wine will be served.

Doors open 7:00pm, talk at 7:30pm (lasting about 1.5 hours)
Located at Cowell Theatre in Fort Mason Center, San Francisco Read more

Beatriz Santiago Muñoz
presents the world premiere of her new film
Flowers of Antimony
November 25, 2008

CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
California College of the Arts
1111 Eighth Street
San Francisco CA 94107
http://www.wattis.org

The Puerto Rico–based artist Beatriz Santiago Muñoz will present the world premiere of her new film, Flowers of Antimony, on Tuesday, November 25, at 7 p.m. at California College of the Arts in San Francisco. There will be a reception from 6–7 p.m. Both the reception and the screening are free and open to the public.

This is Santiago's first-ever solo project on the West Coast. The film was commissioned as part of her fall 2008 Capp Street Project artist residency at the CCA Wattis Institute. To produce it Santiago worked with a number of anarchist and radical-leftist individuals and groups in the Bay Area, including the Long Haul and Free Radio Berkeley. As is typical of her practice, the actors are not professionals, and the narratives are unscripted and improvised.

Flowers of Antimony explores the complex issue of anarchism and how it has evolved from its original incarnation as a group-centered, utopian practice to encompass a variety of strategies, from tree-dwelling protests to veganism to open-source computing, enacted by individuals with diverse motivations who come together for specific activities and moments. Santiago mirrors this within her film, as she investigates alternative forms of protest and different possibilities for the creation of social change.

The film is accompanied by a full-color, 54-page catalog, the first-ever monograph on Santiago's work. It includes new texts by Julieta González (the Puerto Rico–based curator and writer), Claire Fitzsimmons (deputy director of the CCA Wattis Institute and curator of this project), and the artist. Read more

I am very excited to get to introduce both David and Amy tonight, because these are two artists whose work has impacted me quite deeply and also I really hold both of them up as models of the real work place-based artmaking can and should do. Amy’s projects include “Public Smog” – which creates public parks in the atmosphere through the purchase and retirement of emissions offsets; “This is the Public Domain,” through which she continues to explore legal and sub-legal avenues for turning the ownership of property to the collective commons; and “Invisible-5,” an illuminating and captivating audio tour of sites along I-5 that have been the subject of various environmental justice efforts. Not a mere collection of facts and figures, I-5 captures the stories, the sounds, the lives that intertwine with and define these locations. It is a public project that, in the end, is quite personal.

David, too, strikes this delicate and moving balance between the communally and individually meaningful in his work. He has led several (de)tours around the Bay Area – with a focus on the hidden and multi-layered histories of often overlooked sites, movements and moments. Buried Treasure Island is his most recent project. Included in Yerba Buena Center for the Arts’ Bay Area Now 5 exhibit, BTI included a guidebook, audio tour, exhibit and live tour of this man-made island in the middle of the San Francisco Bay. Read more