Karen Werner created "The Archive of Future Signals" as part of her Wave Farm Radio Artist Fellowship. The piece is a radio play inspired by some of the works she included in the Wave Farm Radio Art Archive, in particular the radio plays. She writes: "I love the ways these radio plays bring the listener into a psychoacoustic world, weaving in humor, absurdity and politics. So I decided to try out this hörspiel form myself. "The Archive of Future Signals" is about the abandoned FM spectrum in Norway, where I recently moved. It’s also about the politics of archives, a topic I became interested in while selecting works for the Wave Farm Radio Art Archive and reckoning with the apparent whiteness of the genre. The Archive of Future Signals questions archives and the ways they reveal but also conceal the past, present and possible futures of radio and radio art. Thank you to two radio art comrades in Norway, Maia Urstad and William Kudahl, who joined me in performing in The Archive of Future Signals. And to Wave Farm for the rich opportunity of this fellowship.
- Introduced by Wave Farm Radio Artist Fellow 2019/2020, Karen Werner.

The Wave Farm Broadcast Radio Art Archive is an online resource and broadcast series on Wave Farm’s WGXC 90.7-FM, which is syndicated to stations across the country through The Radio Art Hour. It aims to identify, coalesce, and celebrate historical and contemporary international radio artworks created specifically for terrestrial AM/FM/Shortwave broadcast, whether it be via commercial, public, community, or pirate transmission. The archive is a product of Wave Farm's Radio Artist Fellowship.

Radio artists explore broadcast radio space through a richly polyphonous mix of practices, including poetic resuscitations of conventional radio drama, documentary, interview and news formats; found and field sound compositions reframed by broadcast; performative inhabitations/embodiments of radio’s inherent qualities, such as entropy, anonymity and interference; playful celebrations/subversions of the complex relationship between senders and receivers, and the potential feedback loops between hosts and layers of audience, from in-studio to listeners at home to callers-in; use of radio space to bridge widely dispersed voices (be they living or dead), subjects, environments and communities, or to migrate through them in ways that would not be possible in real time and space; electroacoustic compositions with sounds primarily derived from gathering, generating and remixing radiophonic sources. Note: Wave Farm continues to expand this definition of radio art through engagement with contemporary practices including those revealed by Wave Farm Artists-in-residence, and the Radio Art Fellowship program.