Acra, NY–Wave Farm is pleased to announce the 2026 artists-in-residence and radio art research fellows. This year, Wave Farm's Research and Production Program features activation of our new spatial sound studio, residencies in transmission arts, new radio art commissions, and a broadcast radio art research fellowship. Across three open calls, Wave Farm received 191 proposals from artists in 22 countries and 25 US states.

Since 2005, Wave Farm has welcomed artists and researchers to experiment with and expand upon the field of transmission arts, engaging creatively with the electromagnetic spectrum and playing with the possibilities of broadcast media. We are excited for this year’s cohort to bring their unique interests and practices into this exploration.

Camille Wong (they/she) is an artist and filmmaker living in Los Angeles, CA. Their practice examines power, geopolitics, and historiography through the lens of media and spectacle. Often performing in their films as both the filmmaker and subject, they challenge ideas of authorship, subjectivity, and the politicized body. Their recent work studies media, technologies, and rhetoric during the Cold War to understand its role in shaping cultural identities, global ideologies, and mass migration.

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Jenni(f)fer Tamayo is a poet, performer, and visual artist whose works reimagine the narratives about and politics of undocumented figures in the contemporary U.S. In their books, performances, and digital media, the “illegal” immigrant is recast as a punk figure that queers the norms of personhood and citizenship. They are the author of the hybrid poetry collections [Red Missed Aches, Read Mistakes] (Switchback Books), YOU DA ONE (Noemi Books), and to kill the future in the present (Green Lantern Press). Their most recent collection, bruise/bruise/break, explores the enduring colonial legacies of American poetics, migrant futurity, and the power of creative kinship. Their writing is widely published and has been anthologized in Best American Experimental Poetry, New Latin@ Writing, and HarperCollins. They were born on Muisca territory (Bogota, Colombia) and are currently building a home/skool on the unceded lands of the Yesah Confederacy (Piedmont region of North Carolina).

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Hannah Kemp-Welch is a sound artist with a social practice. Since gaining her amateur radio license in 2019, she has focused on developing inclusive pedagogies and technologies for electromagnetic listening. She constructs DIY antennas to tune into natural radio, documented in the BBC Radio 4 feature All Under One Magnetosphere (2025), produced with Oliver Sanders. She recently co-curated the symposium “Electromagnetic Fields: Artistic Research and Radio Waves.” Her edited collection Listening Glossary will be published by Silver Press in October 2026. Hannah is an Associate Lecturer for MA Sound Arts at London College of Communication, a PhD student with Creative Research in Sound Arts Practice (CRiSAP), and a member of feminist radio art group Shortwave Collective.

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Elisa Harkins (Cherokee, Muscogee) is an artist, singer, electronic music composer, and curator whose work is concerned with the body, language revitalization, and Indigenous music. From 2020 to 2024, she created and hosted Mvhayv (Teacher) Radio on 99.1 WQRT in Indianapolis, Indiana, an all-Indigenous radio program that featured Indigenous musicians across genres, from experimental sound artists and language keepers to powwow groups and black metal artists.

Harkins has exhibited and performed at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, The Getty, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, MoMA, Spoleto Festival USA, and REDCAT. She is a recipient of a Creative Capital Award, and her work has been commissioned and performed by the Kronos Quartet as part of the Three Bones program at Carnegie Hall.

In addition to her artistic practice, Harkins presents lectures, artist talks, and workshops throughout the United States and Canada on Indigenous music, language revitalization, and contemporary art. Harkins is a citizen of the Muscogee Nation and of Cherokee descent and lives and works on the Muscogee Reservation in Oklahoma.

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Qiujiang Levi Lu 卢秋江 is an experimental musician, media artist, and composer whose work explores the body as a site of sonic transformation. Through custom electroacoustic instruments, feedback systems, and cyborg-like bodily augmentations, Lu creates performances and installations that merge ritual, noise, intimacy, and embodied technology. Drawing from Chinese lineages while engaging queerness, spirituality, and body dysmorphia, Lu’s practice invites audiences into physical and unstable modes of listening. Their work has been presented internationally at MATA Festival, send + receive, High Zero, IRCAM Forum, Inkonst, Zagreb Music Academy, and Temple DongJingYuan, with commissions and support from TAK Ensemble, Popebama, Luke Helker, NEW INC, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, ISSUE Project Room, Harvestworks, The New School, and ElektronmusikStudion Stockholm. Lu is a lecturer in music at the University of Pennsylvania and holds degrees from the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University and Stony Brook University.

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Wave Farm's Research and Production is made possible, in part, by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and the Greene County Legislature through the Greene County Cultural Fund administered by CREATE.