Galen Joseph-Hunter (Executive Director)
Galen Joseph-Hunter. Photographed by Lucy Bohnsack. (Dec 13, 2023)
Wesleyan Music Colloquium Series Poster. (Sep 16, 2022)
Kamal Johnson, Galen Joseph-Hunter, and Adolfo Lopez at the Hudson Correctional Facility for Radio for Open Ears Workshops.. (Dec 05, 2019)
Tom Roe and Galen Joseph-Hunter at Audio Buffet 2019. Photographed by Thatcher Keats. (Aug 03, 2019)
Cornelius Eady Trio with Galen Joseph-Hunter at Wave Farm.. Photographed by Gregor Trieste. (Dec 21, 2018)
Pauline Oliveros and Ione with Galen Joseph-Hunter at Radio Potluck Audio Buffet.. Photographed by Alanna Medlock. (Aug 08, 2015)
Marina Abramović and Galen Joseph-Hunter at Abramović's Malden Bridge home.. Photo by Tom Roe. (Aug 10, 2012)
Transmission Arts: Artists and Airwaves: Book Cover. PAJ Publications (June 2011) (May 18, 2011)
The Hover Foundation awards WGXC funds. Photo by Tom Roe. (Sep 14, 2010)
Galen Joseph-Hunter at Germantown Community Farm.. Photo by Dharma Dailey. (Sep 21, 2008)
2007 NY Art Book Fair Review Image. Photographed by Marilynn K. Yee. Printed in the New York Times. (Sep 27, 2007)
7105, LoVid. Installation, free103point9 Wave Farm. (Jun 09, 2007)
Galen Joseph-Hunter has served as Executive Director of Wave Farm since 2002. Wave Farm is an international transmission arts organization driven by experimentation with the electromagnetic spectrum. Wave Farm cultivates creative practices in radio and support artists and nonprofit organizations in their cultural endeavors. Based in New York’s Upper Hudson Valley, Wave Farm is a media arts center, media platform, and arts service organization. Wave Farm offers interdisciplinary outdoor installations, residencies and fellowships, and a research library. Wave Farm Radio includes FM radio station WGXC as well as many online radio channels. Wave Farm also provides fiscal sponsorship, consultation, and grants to artists and organizations.
From 1996 to 2015, Joseph-Hunter worked closely with the venerable video art organization Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), serving as Assistant Director and then Executive Consultant. Over the past two decades, she has organized and curated numerous exhibitions and events internationally, including "Wave Farm (in residence)" for TuftsPUBLIC at the Tufts University Art Galleries (2018-2019). She was the co-organizer of “Groundswell” an annual exhibition event featuring broadcast, performance, sound, and installation works by contemporary artists conceived within the 250 acres of the Olana State Historic Site from 2013 to 2015. In 2015 and 2016 she curated the Columbia University Sound Arts MFA spring exhibitions. She has produced numerous radio programs for Wave Farm's WGXC and stations internationally including "Climactic Climate" for Kunstradio Vienna (2015). Joseph-Hunter is the author of the book “Transmission Arts: Artists and Airwaves” (PAJ Publications: 2011.) In 2019 and 2020, she organized and led the "Radio for Open Ears" workshop series with 16 and 17 year-olds incarcerated in the Hudson Correctional Facility through CreativityWorksNYS.
Joseph-Hunter has served as a panelist/reviewer for the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, Pew Center for Arts and Heritage, Experimental Television Center, Meet The Composer, New Music USA, Harpo Foundation, and the Greene County Council for the Arts, among others. From 2019 to 2025, she served on the Board of Directors of Greater Hudson Promise Neighborhood, an organization that supports individuals and families impacted by systemic oppression and failures. In 2020, she joined the Advisory Board of Electronic Arts Intermix, a leading international resource for video and media art, and in 2023 the Board of Montez Press Radio, an experimental broadcasting and performance platform operating out of Chinatown in New York City, for whom Wave Farm provided Fiscal Sponsorship from 2020 to 2022. Joseph-Hunter is also a founding Board Member of New Ear Inc, a New York City-based organization formed in 2024 in response to the energy and success of the New Ear Festival and the spatial sound series CT::SWaM. In 2025, she joined a newly formed Advisory Board for The Avalon Lounge in Catskill, NY as well as the founding Board of Directors of Panther Mountain a new non-profit dedicated to cultural restoration, innovation, and exchange through Indigenous value center music and art making.