Shortwave Collective

Shortwave Collective is an international group of 10 creative practitioners from various backgrounds and disciplines (sound and radio art, activism, social science, media and artistic research) brought together by an interest in feminist practices and the radio spectrum. As a collective, they desire to learn together and to open a space to learn together-with-others as equal non-experts. Members spend time in each other’s company making, testing, listening, and sharing; sometimes ‘failing’, but more often laughing their way into serendipitous results that lead to new practices and new situated ways of listening. Part of the collective's feminist ethos is ‘learning through doing’. This is a way to de-mystify aspects of technology, which enables members to share experiences more easily with each other, and with others. The collective’s approach aims to create an inclusive, collaborative, tech-based learning environment, one which acknowledges and attends to gendered education gaps and one that purposefully removes potential hurdles, such as unexplained components lists that assume knowledge. Members include: Alyssa Moxley (France), Brigitte Hart (Australian born, London-based), Georgia Leigh Münster (NYC born, London-based), Hannah Kemp Welch (London), Kate Donovan (Berlin), Karen Werner (Berlin, Norway), Lisa Hall (UK), Maria Papadomanolaki (Greece), Meira Asher (Israel born), and Sally A. Applin (Silicon Valley, California), among others.