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Transmission Ecologies: Exploring the turbulent world of radio signals which propagate around us
Transmission Ecologies show image. Image credit: Stegi Radio. (Jul 23, 2024)
Transmission Ecologies: Episode 6 - Sasha Engelmann. Image by Sasha Engelmann and Afroditi Psarra. (Sep 14, 2024)
Transmission Ecologies: Episode 5 - Cameron Perry Fraser. Image by Cameron Perry Fraser and Afroditi Psarra. (Sep 07, 2024)
Transmission Ecologies: Episode 4 - Anna Friz. Image Credit: Anna Friz. (Aug 31, 2024)
Transmission Ecologies: Kristen Roos. Image Credit: Kristen Roos. (Aug 17, 2024)
Afroditi Psarra. Courtesy of the artist.
Curated by Afroditi Psarra, "Transmission Ecologies" explores the turbulent world of radio signals which propagate around us. Each show features a guest sound artist who broadcasts their radio experiments using EMFs, interference patterns from devices, HAM, RF field recordings, satellite signals, space astronomy research, etc. to formulate their interpretations, compositions, and translations of the invisible and unheard layer of telecommunication technologies.
"Transmission Ecologies" is commissioned by Stegi Radio / Onassis Culture.
Afroditi Psarra is a multidisciplinary artist and an Associate Professor of Digital Arts and Experimental Media at the University of Washington where she runs the DXARTS Softlab. Her research focuses on the interweaving of art and science through the creation of artifacts with a critical lens. In her projects she explores energetic phenomena like electromagnetic radiation, and technologies such as radio-frequency sensing, fractal antennas, and software-defined radio. She is particularly interested in the use of the body as an interface of control, and the revitalization of tradition as a methodology of hacking existing norms about technical objects. Her art practice builds on and extends the work of Cyber and Techno-Feminism(s) and the idea of bodies as archives of information, and manifests through e-textiles and wearables, performances, installations and sound art.
She has exhibited her work internationally in venues such as Onassis Stegi, Bozar, Laboral, EMST, Ars Electronica, Transmediale and CTM, Eyeo, Amber, Piksel, and WRO Biennale between others, and published at conferences like Siggraph, ISWC (International Symposium of Wearable Computers), DIS (Designing Interactive Systems), C&C (Creativity and Cognition), and EVA (Electronic Visualization and the Arts).