INTERVIEW: Joan LaBarbara, Jaap Blonk and Zachary Lieberman discuss their performance as part of The Human Voice in a New World: a series exploring the crossroads of the human voice and technology also featuring Golan Levin, Joel Chadabe, Richard Kostelanetz, David Moss, and Trevor Wishart (Feb. 27-28). For information visit Electronic Music Foundation.

OSCAR WEEK FLASHBACKS: Beyond the Subtitles’ AIR archive page contains host Stephen Schaefer’s interviews with Oscar contenders including Heath Ledger (discussing the 2006 film, I’m Not There), Ari Folman (Waltz with Bashir), Martin McDonagh, (In Bruges), Mike Leigh (Happy-Go-Lucky), Melissa Leo (Frozen River), Philippe Petit and James Marsh (Man on Wire) Andrew Stanton (Wall*E), and Thomas McCarthy (The Visitor).

INTERNS & VOLUNTEERS WANTED: Art International Radio is looking for individuals to work with our office and studio staff. If you have interest in art and new media and skills ranging from spreadsheets to sound editing, graphic design to phone systems, networking or just a pretty voice please write us at info@artonair.org.

JOB OPPORTUNITY: Art International Radio is looking for a part-time Systems & Windows Network consultant. For a fuller explanation, write us at info@artonair.org.

THE AUDIO ARCHIVE IS ON AIR
We are pleased to announce the launch of our on-demand archive where you will find many programs produced by the former Art Radio WPS1. We are already adding new content to this archive and will feature the new programs here on our home page using the Flash player at left. A stream is also available, operating through Live365.com.

ARTonAIR.org Art International Radio (AIR) is currently rebuilding the Web site, developing new programs, designing new methods of streaming and delivery (including an iPhone application), and working to gather permissions, licenses, clearances, and authorizations to post music programming as well.

In late January P.S.1/MoMA agreed to transfer and/or license the bulk of the WPS1 archive to AIR and this will immediately begin to reappear at artonair.org. We thank P.S.1/MoMA for their generosity and recognition of the value of this material and the public’s interest in having these programs online again. To learn more details about this transition and some history visit our About page.

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NEW ARTonAIR PROGRAMS STREAMING NOW
The following programs will soon also appear in the on-demand archive Art Basel Miami Beach 2008
The Spaced Out Interviews: author and host Alastair Gordon, author of Spaced Out: Radical Environments of the Psychedelic Sixties with USCO co-founder, poet and media artist Gerd Stern. (34 minutes). Art Basel Miami Beach 2008
Artists Yoshua Okon and Adriana Lara speak with AIR’s David Weinstein and Beatrice Johnson (15 minutes). HERE Arts Center: Nick Brook
HERE’s Pete McCabe and Nick Brook talk about Bordertowns, his theatre piece shown as part of the Culture Mart series (23 minutes). HERE Arts Center: Cameron Steele
HERE’s Pete McCabe and Cameron Steele of The South Wing discuss Secret Rendezvous, his theatre piece shown as part of the Culture Mart series (27 minutes). Beyond the Subtitles #207: Henry Selick, Coraline
Stephen Schaefer with Henry Selick discuss his new 3D stop-motion animation film Coraline, adapted from a story by Neil Gaiman (25 minutes) Beyond the Subtitles #208: Dorris Dorrie, Cherry Blossoms
Stephen Schaefer with German filmmaker Doris Dorrie (25 minutes). Lost and Found Sound #11: The Professor
Brian Belott welcomes his mentor, The Professor, legendary producer of the Audio Kitchen on WFMU and master of the art of collecting “homemade recordings freshly liberated from thrift stores and junk shops…all unprofessisonal and patently unprofitable.” (26 minutes) Messa di Voce: Jaap Blonk, Joan LaBarbara and Zachary Lieberman
Two master vocalist/composers and an artist/engineer discuss their ongoing collaboration and upcoming New York performance with AIR’s David Weinstein. Plus some spontaneous ghost whispers and glottalalia. See news item above for Messa di Voce concert details.

WPS1 LEGACY ARCHIVES
The following programs are encore presentations selected from the archives of WPS1. They are included in this week’s streamcast and most can be found in the AIR on demand audio archive as well. Channel 192, Volume 18: Gay Talese
On June 1, 2006, Gay Talese read from his autobiography,A Writer's Life, at 192 Books. Talese has been named the winner of a 2008 George Polk Award for career achievement (54 minutes). Living History: Justice Harry Blackmun
A lecture by Linda Greenhouse, Supreme Court correspondent for The New York Times, discussing the the subject of her book, Becoming Justice Blackmun. Recorded at the New School on December 8, 2005 (75 minutes). Downtown for Democracy, Part 1 of 2
This segment features Salman Rushdie, Jennifer Egan, Paul Auster, Lou Reed, Susan Sontag, Jonathan Franzen and Dave Eggers, with introductions by Jonathan Safran Foer. Recorded at the Cooper Union, New York, March 25, 2004 (99 minutes). The New Palette Edition #3: Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts
Host Kim Steger speaks with Laurie Cumbo, the founder and director of the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA) operating out of Brooklyn (29 minutes). Immigration: The Issues and Options for Artists
Adrian Halpern, an immigration attorney from North Carolina who represents artists, scientists, systems analysts, and biostaticians, offers guidance (25 minutes). Radio Profiles: Museum of Chinese in the Americas
David Weinstein and guest William Dao, who was at the time Communications Manager, discuss the Museum of Chinese in the Americas in 2007 as they began plans for a new building to open in 2009. (26 minutes). Goodbye Dear Old Stepstone Edition #5: Dog Songs
Nathan Salsburg hosts (are you listening Mickey Rourke?). Sound and Vision Edition #31: Jon Kessler
David Humphrey hosts, the artist chooses. Bio Blurb Edition #7: DNA and Social Justice
Host Suzanne Anker examines the legal and social effects of expanding DNA databases with guests: artist Coco Fusco, Prof. Troy Duster, and Tania Simoncelli representing the ACLU. Rush Interactive Edition #25: Fred Tomaselli
Michael Rush interviews the artist. Conversations with Writers Edition #8 Wang Ping
Host Charles Ruas speaks with Shanghai-born poet Wang Ping. Karkhana: A Contemporary Collaboration
A conversation between the curators and one of the artists from the exhibition Karkhana: A Contemporary Collaboration, which featured works by six contemporary Pakistani artists shown at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in 2006. (30 minutes)