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.

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.