Organized in partnership with Acra-based nonprofit arts organization free103point9, Transmittal, offers Greene County residents and visitors a window into Transmission Arts. Transmittal is curated by Galen Joseph-Hunter, free103point9’s Executive Director and author of Transmission Arts: Artists and Airwaves (PAJ Publications: 2011.) The exhibition features an international and local roster of artists and organizations whose work celebrates the interdisciplinary nature of Transmission Arts and is made manifest in video, sound, radio, installation, performance, and work-on-paper. Please join us for an opening celebrating Transmittal on Saturday, April 28. 5-7 p.m.

In A Noospheric Atlas of New York, Brett Ian Balogh (Chicago, IL) maps the hertzian space created by the New York's mass media broadcast stations. This space is not definable in the traditional terms of the surveyed boundaries of state territories, but rather by electrical field strengths and consumer markets. Geospatial data provided by the Federal Communications Commission is rendered as translucent shapes whose color is determined by the type of service (AM/FM/TV).

With RELAY, Max Goldfarb (Hudson, NY) presents a grouping of Ambulant Transceivers, a series of handmade radio transceivers constructed from reconstituted radio-electronic components, housed inside vintage first-aid tins. The adjacent video, Locations:Relay, represents an equally hand-made security system in the form of a community-watch perimeter check. The localized security network is cobbled together by many collaborating members of an unspecified village: each voice transmission attached to aerial imagery of the territory.

Sam Sebren (Athens, NY) presents 9/11-QVC, an off-air single-channel video work. On the 10th Anniversary of the September 11 attacks in New York City, Sebren videotaped himself toggling his television dial between news coverage in memorial of the attacks and a home shopping network’s regularly scheduled programming. Here Sebren “performs” with a palette of commercial television broadcast re-presenting these transmissions in a critical and reflective light.

Fill, by Maria Papadomanolaki (New York, NY) is an interactive sound installation using low-power radio transmission. To experience Fill, attendees will borrow a small radio transceiver and move about the space. Papadomanolaki’s microcast is designed to highlight the physical properties of her site-specific transmission. Gallery goers will observe distinct changes in what they hear based on their position and movement in the GCCA exhibition space.

Phillip Stearns (Brooklyn, NY) presents his work Deluge, a sound and light installation that depicts the white noise of unoccupied radio frequencies as a showering rain of light. As digital technologies become more adept at reducing interference and noise through omission and censorship, we are quickly losing touch with unmediated white noise, that static hush in between the stations, and playground for the imagination. Many antenna like structures, LED strands are clustered together, each representing the activity of the broadband white noise being picked up by simple transistor receivers. From these discrete elements, a cloud of lights is formed, filling the space with a form activated by the absence of pre-determined content. The sculpture plays on the poetics hidden within the language of both analog and digital electronics.

Presented as listening stations, Transmittal also includes special selections from two recent international radio art exhibitions: Radio Arts Space by radioCona (Ljubljana, Slovenia), and Radio Boredcast co-commissioned by AV Festival 12 and Pixel Palace, hosted by basic.fm (Newcastle, UK).

GCCA exhibition programs are made possible, in part, by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

Transmittal will be on view at the Greene County Council for the Arts Gallery 398 Main Street, Catskill, NY 12414 April 28 – June 2, 2012. In conjunction with the exhibition, A Build Your Own Radio Synthesizer Workshop will take place on Saturday June 2, 2012. Please note that enrollment is limited, and pre-registration is required.

In conjunction with the exhibition Transmittal WGXC 90.7-FM is pleased to present this special series broadcasting at 1 a.m. for seven consecutive nights. Radio Arts Space gives the public insight into the wide range of artistic approaches in the field of Radio and Sound Art. The selected works rely on the culture and experience of listening. The demand for listening is what distinguishes these works and stimulates us to rethink current exhibiting strategies and spaces where we do listen.

A project of radioCona, Radio Arts Space premiered December 2011 at the ŠKUC Gallery in Ljubljana, on 88.8-FM Ljubljana, Slovenia, and online at radioCona.si. Invited curators were asked to put together a selection of works, either culling from the submissions to the radioCona open call and/or by choosing artists on their own. All together the project consists from 46 artworks, exhibited by 42 artists from 22 countries and more than 21 of listening hours. Radio Arts Space combines seven independent curatorial perspectives:

April 29: Tevž Logar (Slovenia): Endeavours of sound (duration: 03:16:23 w/station IDs)
April 30: Maria Papadomanolaki (United States): Radio Mirror (duration: 01:27:44 w/station IDs)
May 1: Milica Pekić (Serbia): Is there such a thing as “dead air”? (duration: 03:10:10 w/station IDs)
May 2: Manja Ristić (Serbia) (duration: 03:50:32 w/station IDs)
May 3: Robert Sakrowski (Germany): curatingyoutube.net - An Acoustic Journey Through YouTube (duration: 01:24:45 w/station IDs)
May 4: Ilari Valbonesi (Italy): ULTRA DISCO (duration: 04:03:10 w/station IDs)
May 5: Brane Zorman (Slovenia): TAG (duration: 03:17:42 w/station IDs)

The full Radio Arts Space program in Ljubljana included discussions, presentations, performances, and workshops. Subsequent presentations of Radio Arts Space include Nachtradiofestival Radio Arts Space broadcast on Freies Radio in Berlin on 88.4-FM and Potsdam on 90.7-FM with Freies Radio Potsdam, CoLaboRadio, Studio Ansage and Piradio; Berlin, Germany (February 2012) and on Kunstradio at ORF; Vienna, Austria (April 1 2012).

Radio Arts Space was created by Irena Pivka and Brane Zorman, and produced by Jasmina Založnik at the CONA Institute for Contemporary Arts Processing, 2011.

More Information:
All the Radio Arts Space printed texts, curatorial statements, works descriptions, catalogue, programming, as well as video documentation are available on-line at http://www.radiocona.si/

We are pleased to present live broadcasts from Toronto of Trans X, a symposium about Transmission Art organized by New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA). The Trans X Symposium will include two keynote lectures: "Foundations of Transmission Art" by Galen Joseph-Hunter (New York, USA), author of Transmission Arts: Artists and Airwaves and Executive Director of free103point9 (WGXC's parent organization) and another keynote by David Cecchetto, Assistant Professor (New Media History and Criticism) in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences at OCAD University in Toronto. The Trans X Symposium will also include workshops, panel discussions, paper presentations and performances during the final weekend of the annual Deep Wireless Festival of Radio & Transmission Art which annually explores emerging trends alongside established traditions in radio and transmission art throughout the month of May.

Specific details about the events to be broadcast live on WGXC 90.7-FM and streamed live on free103point9.org will be available soon. More information about Trans X, including registration is available here.

free103point9 Online Radio will provide a live webstream for much of the festival. On Saturday, May 26, the following will be broadcast also on WGXC 90.7-FM.:
10 a.m. Keynote: Foundations of Transmission Art by Galen Joseph-Hunter
11:30 a.m. Session 1: Transmission & Intervention Christof Migone and James Partaik
2 p.m. Session 2: Performance & Transmission in Public Places Geoffrey Shea and Alan Boulton / Jessica Thompson / Rui Chaves
8:00 pm Concert 2: Forms of Transmission


Full Schedule Friday May 25th 6:00 pm Registration / Opening reception Tour of Transmission Art installations 7:00 pm Session: Explorations in Transmission Art Jennifer Cherniack / Gintas Tirilis / Chris Myhr Amos Latteier / Alexandra Gelis 8:00 pm Concert 1: Forms of Transmission Saturday May 26th 10:00 am Keynote: Foundations of Transmission Art by Galen Joseph-Hunter 11:30 am Session 1: Transmission & Intervention Christof Migone & James Partaik 12:45 pm Lunch (not provided) 2:00 pm Session 2: Performance & Transmission in Public Places Geoffrey Shea & Alan Boulton / Jessica Thompson / Rui Chaves 3:45 pm Break-out Workshops 1/ Micro-radio Transmitter 2/ Contact Mic 3/ Sound in Digital Realm 8:00 pm Concert 2: Forms of Transmission Sunday May 27th 10:00 am Keynote: Sound as transmission: towards and away from non-cochlear sound art by David Cecchetto 11:30 am Panel: Locating the transmission & Transmitting the location Geoffrey Shea / Victoria Fenner / Kristen Roos Moderator – David Cecchetto 12:45 pm Lunch (not provided) 2:00 pm Session: Radio in Retrospect session Chris Trimmer / Magz Hall / Hethre Contant 3:45 pm Break-out Workshops 1/ Micro-radio Transmitter 2/ Contact Mic 3/ Sound in Digital Realm Location Theatre Direct's Wychwood Theatre Artscape Wychwood Barns 601 Christie Street #176, Toronto

Radius Sketchpad is an ongoing monthly program on WGXC 90.7-FM presented by the Chicago-based platform, Radius. This month features Sara Pinheiro's Quem Conta Um Conto, II , originally produced for Radius, and is followed by a playlist of works selected by the artist.

In conjunction with the exhibition Transmittal, this workshop will teach participants to unlock new sonic dimensions in an everyday object: a FM radio receiver. Participants will learn the basics of electronics hacking through circuit bending from New York-based artist Phillip Stearns. Circuit bending is the art of the creative short circuit, where the electronics of a device are exposed and rewired to produce new sounds and tones. No prior electronics knowledge is required! You'll learn how to work with wire, solder, install switches and knobs. When you're finished you'll have a your own, unique battery-powered radio-synthesizer.

THIS WORKSHOP IS NOW SOLD OUT.
If you would like to be placed on a waiting list email gjh [at] free103point9.org. We will contact you if a space becomes available.

Please bring your own analog radio and batteries.
We'll supply soldering irons, tools, wire, and parts (but if you have your own fancy soldering iron or tools feel free to bring them.)

There is a $20 materials fee per registrant.

Writes Stearns, "My work lies at the intersection of art, philosophy, and science, spanning a variety of disciplines, drawing upon a multiplicity of mediums. Through installation, audio, video, circuit sculpture, writing, photography, performance art, music composition, and agriculture, my work explores the dynamic relationship that exists between technology and society. A technological practice---its tools, bodies of knowledge, systems of meaning, and methods of thought---entail a complex of supporting economic structures, political machines, power relations, and social implications. Identifying modes of cultural production and ideology recorded on the surface of technology and embedded within its tools; fostering creativity as opposed to productivity; and exploiting the limitations imposed on a system to expose alternate possibilities are integral to my artistic practice. I view electronics as complex artificial living systems, organisms existing within interconnected economies and ecosystems. Accepting the alien language of electronics as familiar and natural, and in essence human, lifts the veil of mythology surrounding modern technological tools---their origins and applications---allowing a glimpse at the economic and political dynamics restructuring society according to specific ideologies. The driving force within my work comes from an oscillation between an intense fascination with technological objects and a deep skepticism towards modern applications of technology, especially in the creation of closed circuits of production/consumption. The dynamics of society and the environment emerge as central concerns. What are the implications of applying contemporary technological thinking to more primitive techniques and technologies as new starting points for re-conceptualizing the present and re-imagining the future?"

Matt Bua and Sam Sebren host a live program from WGXC's Catskill studio, inviting spontaneous participation from neighborhood folks who will be encouraged to perform on the air, tell a story, or to simply play their favorite recorded song. Turn out to 344 Main St. in Catskill to participate. Tom Roe will beam in from Acra's Wave Farm. Also, we will mix in some of the performances from a live webstream from Spotty Dog Books & Ale. Chris Neumann and Simple Machines (aka Festina Lente) perform at Spotty Dog Books & Ale in Hudson. Phone calls to Wave Farm can come in at 518-622-2598.