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Helen Thorington Helen Louise Thorington (born November 16, 1928) is an American radio artist, composer, performer and writer. She is also the founder of New Radio and Performing Arts (1981), a nonprofit organization based in New York City; the founder and executi ...

, New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. (NRPA), and its satellite project Turbulence.org,Mirapaul, Matthew (2003)
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The New York Times. Retrieved on 2010-06-8 was an American organization that commissioned and archived new and experimental radio art, sound art,

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and mixed reality art.Turbulence.org (2010)
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Retrieved on 2016-05-8 In 2003, NRPA opened an office in

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, Massachusetts. The organization closed in December 2017.

New American Radio

NRPA is known for its New American Radio series, a weekly public radio program of its commissioned experimental sound art pieces from 1987 to 1998. Their archive, available online since 2002, includes "over 300 works by artists such as

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, Hildegard Westerkamp,

Jacki Apple Jacki Apple (1941-2022) was an American artist, writer, composer, producer and educator based in New York City. She worked in multiple disciplines such as performance art and installation art. As well as art making, Apple was also a writer, penning ...

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, Christian Marclay, and Terry Allen".Rhizome (2003)
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Retrieved on 2010-06-8 New American Radio is archived at the

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, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany,

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, New York and

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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. Through open calls, competitions and awards, the group supports exhibitions "in real space, as well as on the Web,"McQuaid, Cate (2006)
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Boston Globe, Boston, Massachusetts, December 28, 2006. "from full-blown museum exhibitions to esoteric hacks,"Sisario, Ben (2004)

New York Times. Retrieved on 2010-06-8 and acts as an "incubator" for "high-tech art".Delson, Susan (2001). If Picasso Were A Programmer, Forbes.com. Turbulence logo

From 1996, NRPA's main focus was on supporting established and emerging artists to create net art or networked hybrid art (art for both virtual and physical space) by: 1) commissioning work for Turbulence.org (over 225 commissions ranging from $1,000-$25,000); 2) providing exhibition venues on- and offline; 3) archiving the work. Notable commissioned artists include Martin Wattenberg, Brooke Singer,

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, Scott Kildall, Kate Armstrong, Michael Tippett,

Nathaniel Stern Nathaniel Stern (born 1977) is an American/South African interdisciplinary artist who works in a variety of media, including photography, interactive art, public art interventions, installation, video art, net.art and printmaking. He is current ...

Cory Arcangel Cory Arcangel (born May 25, 1978) is an American post-conceptual artist who makes work in many different media, including drawing, music, video, performance art, and video game modifications, for which he is best known. Arcangel often uses the ...

Stephanie Rothenberg Stephanie Rothenberg is an American artist who lives and works in Buffalo, New York and Brooklyn, New York. Rothenberg's interdisciplinary practice combines elements of performance and installations with networked media in the creation of public ...

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, MTAA, and

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. In 2018, Turbulence.org was exhibited at The New Art Fest in

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.Information about the project at a patrimoniocultural.gov.pt, a website of the Government of Portugal
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, Ithaca, New York and the

Collaborations

NRPA partnered with many organizations, festivals, galleries, educational institutions

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) and networks to extend its online activities into the physical world; these included Art Interactive, the Boston Cyberarts Festival, Huret & Spectre Gallery, and Pace Digital Art Gallery. It also partnered with other online platforms, including Ars Virtua, Electronic Literature Organization, Low-fi, MGFest, and

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, and Upgrade! International. These activities collectively broadened NRPA's network/audience and, perhaps more importantly, encouraged artists working in more traditional media to experiment with emerging networked technologies.

References

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External links

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