A live broadcast of the panel session of Seed Radio, a radio and transmission art symposium organized by Southern Illinois University Carbondale's Jay Needham in collaboration with SIUC School of Media Arts, Northwestern University, Artspaces 204, Wave Farm / WGXC 90.7-FM, and the Great Lakes Association for Sound Studies. For full event details visit the Seed Radio: The Confluence of Radio, Space, and Place Event Page.

Anna Friz and Jeff Kolar: Place Multiplied Working together and solo, we have engaged in temporary and site-specific radio interventions to rethink notions of listening, distance, and transmission ecologies, guided by an ethos of listening for rather than sending to. How can experiments with radio space bring us into embodied relationships with place?

Jacob Smith: Seed Radio Abductions Departing from Anna Friz’s essay, “A radio wave is a space time traveler.” Smith will harmonize Friz’s essay with a conceptual framework taken from Gregory Bateson’s ecology of mind and extend it across several vectors, some of which align with Smith’s own recent research.

Galen Joseph-Hunter Wave Farm: 25-years of Transmission From a microcasting collective formed in Brooklyn, NY, to a robust non-profit arts organization in New York’s Upper Hudson Valley with a full-power creative community radio station and installations situated on 29-acres, Wave Farm has cultivated artists’ experimentation with broadcast media and the airwaves for 25 years. At Seed Radio, Executive Director, Galen Joseph-Hunter will revisit Wave Farm’s origin story and its progression, with an emphasis on the site-specific installations in Acra, NY that activate the environment to reveal what is otherwise unheard and unseen.

Allen Moore: I am not your DJ A history of my practice, referencing influences from popular culture, Afrofuturism, and the importance of tinkering.

Stephan Moore: Sonic Innovations- A Caramoor Sound Art Update Every year since 2014, the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts in upstate NY has been the site of an exhibition of outdoor, site-responsive sound art, now called Sonic Innovations. In my talk I'll discuss the transition to an annual event structure, the new work that has been commissioned, and the impact of sound art's presence on this longstanding summer music festival.

For full event details visit the Seed Radio: The Confluence of Radio, Space, and Place Event Page.