Tetsuo Kogawa : Radio-Art

Theorist, activist, and artist, Tetsuo Kogawa is a key figure in the field of sound and radio arts. Since the early 1980s, he has contributed to a radical reflection on communication and media. Many have benefited from the fruits of his research, sometimes unknowingly: his electronic creations and texts have been shared, reprinted, and commented upon so widely that they have contributed to the shared culture of the current generation of sound experimenters and hackers, thinkers about radio, media, and the digital world.

With Akiba, his latest book, he revisits his journey as a child passionate about electronics in post-war Tokyo, recounts his experience within the Japanese free radio movement, and recounts the invention of a new art of electromagnetic waves: “radio art.”

After two years of work, this anthology of Tetsuo Kogawa's writings—mostly unpublished in French, accompanied by contributions by John Duncan and Elizabeth Zimmermann, and an interview with Félix Guattari—was published by Éditions UV.

I edited the work, contributed to the translation (with Mariko Ogawa and Andy Bolus), and wrote the preface: Tetsuo Kogawa: An Experience in Radio.