The STAY TUNED-Society is a cultural pool of media-makers and consumers who want to reform and evolve media - or mainly it's electronical extensions - and make them tool and subject of artistic work. Beyond that, "Stay Tuned" also sees itself as telecratical movement that, through creative cooperation of responsible makers and alert consumers of media, forms a pluralistic counterpart to the galopping medial concentration. Digital-Dada as a weapon against TV, demagogy and media-magnates/tycoons.

Since the society's formation in September '94, "Stay Tuned" attracted attention mainly through their initiative to "Save the TV Test Patterns". After two weeks of agitated discussion in print media and extranational networks (Austria's television is a federally contolled monopoly), local TV finally gave in and agreed to transmit not only the electronically generated modern test-pattern in color but also, after decades of exile and against all hopes of resurrection, the beautiful B/W test-card, which can now be seen every day - after primary transmission stops.

That first success mobilises new powers for new initiatives. Even this year the task force of VHF shall release a CD/CD-ROM. Going by the title of "Stay Tuned", this compilation will not only feature the society's anthem in three different mixes but will also contain an international collection of 50 TV test-patterns, retrievable by means of a CD-ROM drive. Parallel to this effort we are also developing a monthly TV-magazine for Austrian Television called "Stay Tuned - A Show for the Preservation and Cultivation of Endangered Electromagnetical Species", as well as a virtually real and really virtual exhibition to take place in '95.