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Re: Search is the culmination of Sam Sebren's 2013 Wave Farm Residency, which he spent researching the history of transmission arts, radio, noise, performance, and the politics of radio. Through an immersion into the Wave Farm Study Center library collection of books and recordings, Sebren created a quasi, "non" documentary, open-narrative, audio collage using a collection of quotes, his own field recordings and music, and excerpts from over 40 transmission artists, musicians, and various broadcast media archives. The title of the project, Re: Search refers both to Sebren's process and to artists' endless quest for a poetic "truth," as well as the ongoing search for information in the vast material created using the medium of radio during the 20th and 21st centuries.