In a two-fold project titled "Last & Lost Transmissions," collaborating artists Melissa Dubbin and Aaron S. Davidson focus on lost and found messages. In "Last Transmissions," the artists rebroadcast an amalgam of final messages made by individuals -- a disc-jockey signing off one last time or a lost sailor's plea, creating an opening into divergent narratives. In "Lost Transmissions," the artists collect and rebroadcast, radio messages that have been lost during the process of transmission. Dubbin and Davidson offer the messages a chance to be found by devoting a small, temporary radio station to their re-transmission.

"Last & Lost Transmissions" was presented at New Museum for Contemporary Art as part of the exhibition Airborne (April 9-June 4, 2005). The works in Airborne were selected from an open call and included artists 31 Down, Paul Davies, Melissa Dubbin + Aaron S. Davidson, Tarikh Korula, LoVid, neuroTransmitter, and Mendi + Keith Obadike. The works expose otherwise fleeting and invisible transmissions through conceptual projects, networked installations, live streams, and audio-visual works.

Tune in for selections from Wave Farm's Transmission Art Archive, a specialized online resource of artists' experiments with the electromagnetic spectrum in form or concept. The resource contains primary materials from early microradio broadcast collaborations among Brooklyn-based artists in the mid-nineties, transmission works created by the hundreds of artists who have participated in Wave Farm projects, broadcasts, and residencies, as well as historical and contemporary projects that comprise the canon of the genre.

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