Tune in for a recording of a 2021 event hosted by Center for Afrofuturist Studies curator Anaïs Duplan in collaboration with Wave Farm, which brought together 2021 Wave Farm resident artists and grantees Johann Diedrick, Ricardo iamuuri Robinson, and Sadie Woods, whose practices traverse this area of Dark Noise.

“Dark noise,” as Black video artist Lawrence Andrews calls it, is an alternate truth-building system. The idea of dark noise indicates a sort of failed consensual reality, or in Audre Lorde’s terminology, a “chaos of knowledge.” Since the late 70s, Black artists have taken up this chaos of knowledge in a number of experimental, documentarian projects. In the event, Diedrick, Robinson, and Woods discussed their practices, all united by an interest in experimental documentary.

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.

Visit the Transmission Art Archive here.