free103point9 is pleased to present a special installation for this year’s Observatori festival. Works by the 18 members of free103point9’s Transmission Artists will be on view in the form of sound sculpture, video, and sound works transmitted on an FM frequency at the festival. Surge, the online exhibition of web-based transmission works will also be featured in collaboratio with Rhizome.

Fri. May 5, 6 p.m. Spain/noon EDT:
Presentation about transmission arts by Galen Joseph-Hunter.

Sat. May 6, 4:30 p.m. Spain/10:30 a.m. EDT:
Presentation about "Surge," free103point9/Rhizome online exhibition by Galen Joseph-Hunter.

Sat. May 6, 5 p.m. Spain/11 a.m. EDT:
Live performance from Tom Roe.

All programs aired live on free103point9 Online Radio.
free103point9 Transmission Artists include: 31 Down, Alexis Bhagat, Matt Bua, Damian Catera, Melissa Dubbin and Aaron S. Davidson, The Dust Dive, Joshua Fried, Anna Friz, Tianna Kennedy, LoVid, Matt Mikas, Michelle Nagai, neurotransmitter, Ben Owen, Radio Ruido, Michelle Rosenberg, and Scanner.

Video Works featured by: Damian Catera, Melissa Dubbin and Aaron S. Davidson, LoVid, and neurotransmitter.

"Ornamental Headphone" installation on view by Michelle Rosenberg.

Surge is an online exhibition of web-based projects selected from an open call for submissions. Surge includes works by artists 31 Down, Abe Linkoln and Marisa Olson, Angel Nevarez and Alex Rivera, NYSAE (New York Society for Acoustic Ecology), Jimpunk, and Leslie Sharpe. The featured projects employ new media tools to both conceptually and formally address different possibilities for transmission art online. Some consider the nature of signals as they move through the ether; others appropriate forms of wireless transmission, such as the military’s aerial ‘drone’ or the programming language AsCii, to propose new kinds of digital communication. Surge is co-presented by free103point9 and Rhizome.