Varia joins south explorer for the 2023 edition Varia will fill the ether on the PMR Band with reports on neighborhood activities, random chatter and South Explorer updates. Experimental loempias, kombucha fizzzzes and cocktails will also be served
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During a 3-day hands-on workshop we'll investigate license-free radio as a low-tech and low-power medium for keeping in touch with each other. We want to look at radio as a medium that you can participate in instead of consuming it. We'll explore the aspects of locality and community present in radio.
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Every last Sunday of the month the Varia library and Rotterdam Electronics Depot are open. In 2021 our Read & Repair sessions will be paired, we will take two months to explore one theme. During January and February 2021, we will be exploring the theme Wireless Imagination. The Read session for February is hosted by Agustina Woodgate and the Repair session is led by Varia group member Dennis de Bel.
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Every last Sunday of the month the Varia library and Rotterdam Electronics Depot are open. In 2021 our Read & Repair sessions will be paired, we will take two months to explore one theme. During January and February 2021, we will be exploring the theme Wireless Imagination. The text selection for January was made by Varia Library group member Danny van der Kleij.
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Corporeal Whispers is a composition for remote collaboration, based on the idea of "The Exquisite Corpse", a surrealist game, a protocol that plays with concealing and revealing, collectively creating the yet unknown drawing of a body.
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Due to the current situation and public health concerns the event will not be public in the physical space of Varia but will be STREAMED online. Radio on the radio is a live, intermittent radio program with performances that in one way or another discuss radio. It will feature descriptions of radio tools, unboxing and unpacking of radio hardware, radio silences, interviews about radio, radical radio noise, radio-active female monstrosities...
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