WPS1
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WPS1 Art Radio is the internet radio station of P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center and the Museum of Modern Art, providing a 24-hour stream and on-demand archive of cultural programming. The station operates out of the historic Clocktower Building in lower Manhattan, New York City, where a network of interlinked studios stream live and pre-recorded talk, performances and historic recordings to a world wide audience. Launched in April 2004, WPS1's web-tracking statistics show listeners from over 50 countries tuned in to hear nearly 1,000 programs each day over the first year of operation. Visitors select from a traditional radio program format or choose from an on-demand archive of over 1,000 hours of material.
WPS1 features talk radio styled discussions and interviews with artists, authors, musicians, actors, filmmakers, critics, curators, poets, educators, journalists, media experts, and other cultural leaders, innovators, and challengers. The station also carries a unique and important collection of music assembled by a team of music curators. This material ranges from live recordings of the widely acclaimed P.S.1 summer Warm Up series of DJ dance sets to rare and thoughtful surveys such as the recent Robert Moog Memorial Hour (honoring the passing of the synthesizer inventor) and the Gulf Coast Music Special assembled from rare vinyl recordings. WPS1 also broadcasts historic recordings from university and private collections and from the audio archives of the Museum of Modern Art; presents live remote programs from festivals including the Armory Show, Art Basel Miami, and Venice Biennale; and frequently features panel discussions hosted by different New York cultural institutions.
WPS1 broadcasts live from P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center annual summer warmup DJ parties, which are available for free on the online archive. WPS1's archive contains over 1600 programs of music, talk, and historic audio. These include DJ recordings by Norman Jay, François Kevorkian, Ben Watt, Doc Martin, Danny Krivit, Jeannie Hopper, Pete Lawrence of the Big Chill (music festival), Paddy Boom of Scissor Sisters, Rekha, Bob Sinclair, Tim Lee, and many more. The archive also broadcasts programs featuring artists such as Elliott Sharp, Juan Atkins, Michael Musto, Elijah Wood, and Uma Thurman.
