RadiaLx

The Radia network, Radio Zero and Sirr will host the 2nd edition of the bianual Radio Art Festival RadiaLx in Lisboa, Portugal, from the 20th to the 28th September. RadiaLx 2008 is a biannual radio art festival gathering an international set of groundbreaking artists, instigators and producers, delivering public interventions, performances, workshops, live radio broadcasts, discussions, and conferences.

Initiated from the need to discuss and expand the ideas around radio as an active social enhancer and as an alternative against the retinian paradigms that sorround us, it Intersects multiple approaches and genders to achieve participative and social awareness,

Under the motto "new and forgotten ways of making radio", RadiaLx2008 brings together new and old, allowing different forms of participation to emerge, melt and overlap in virtual and traditional broadcast interaction, redefining radio's own identity and interaction range. The festival includes the following artists Gilles Aubry, Knut Aufermann, Ed Baxter, Xentos Fray Bentos, Mike Cooper, Michael Fischer, Anna Friz, André Gonçalves, Tetsuo Kogawa, Diana McCarty, Patrick Mcginley, Noid, Jay Needham, Paulo Raposo, Ricardo Reis, Pit Schultz, Alexandra Varela, and Sarah Washington.