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How does the night sound in contrast to the day? This project aims to overlap a listening experience around specific planetary crossroads of Lat 6.2525, Lon -75.569167. Monitoring sounds and capturing radio waves on ham radio bands for 3 days - 72 hours, while collecting in-situ (intimate) noise levels.

The day will be the night. The night will be the day. At Granular time.

Alejandro Duque (CO/CH). Artist based in Bogota, Colombia involved with collaborative/participatory artistic practices that engage with and through technosocial appropriations. Working in the parallel realms of analog photography and transmission arts (radio and sound art) crossing 'new', old and unstable media through open software and hardware appropriations. Experienced on network based art (net.art), streaming technologies and operating as radio amateur with the callsign -HK4ADJ-. He holds a Phd on Media Philosophy from the European Graduate School. Founding member of networks such as Bricolabs, dorkbot-mde, labSurlab, un\loquer and Pnode. Currently active on http://red.radiolibre.cc

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).