Spanning August 2019 - February 2020, Wave Farm's "Radio for Open Ears" workshops were weekly sessions held with the 16- and 17-year-old youth incarcerated in the Hudson Correctional Facility in conjunction with "Raise the Age" legislation. Each week the Wave Farm team (pictured above) including Kamal Johnson, Adolfo Lopez, and Galen Joseph-Hunter brought audio equipment inside the Facility where the youth received hand-on access and experience, learning how to express themselves through sound and radio as a creative medium. "The level of engagement, thoughtfulness, and talent these young men and women possess has exceeded anything we could have imagined or hoped to encounter. We are delighted to bring some of work they have created to the WGXC 90.7-FM airwaves." -Galen Joseph-Hunter, Wave Farm Executive Director.

To listen to some of the audio produced in these workshops at HCF click "audio", or select from the list below.

Selected Audio from the Wave Farm Radio for Open Ears Workshops

Summer/Fall 2019
Introductions, Boys
Prison Life and the Future, Boys
Interview with Hudson Mayor Candidate, Boys

Fall 2019/Winter 2020
Podcast, Girls
Technical Difficulties, Boys
Beats and Raps, Boys
Original Beat, Boys
Interviews, Boys

Wave Farm's Radio for Open Ears workshops were supported by visiting artist Jen Kutler, and special guests including Joan Hunt (Greater Hudson Promise Neighborhood) and Rebecca Bray (Center of Artistic Activism.) The program was made possible by CreativityWorksNYS, an initiative of the New York State Council on the Arts in partnership with Carnegie Hall, and in collaboration with the New York State Department of Corrections. The primary goal of CreativityWorksNYS is to engage youth who are justice involved through arts enrichment projects in a variety of creative disciplines. Young people learn new skills, express their creative voices, and develop positive peer and adult relationships through collaborative arts projects. More information at https://www.carnegiehall.org/Education/Social- Impact/CreativityWorksNYS

Pictured above: Wave Farm Radio for Open Ears Workshop Team (left to right) Galen Joseph-Hunter (Executive Director, Wave Farm), Adolfo Lopez (Greater Hudson Promise Neighborhood), Kamal Johnson (Mayor, City of Hudson, NY).

Wave Farm is delighted to announce our first Radio Artist Fellow selected from a competitive national open call.

Karen Werner is a radio artist and sociologist. Her audio pieces have been broadcast on community and public radio stations across Europe, North America, Australia and Israel and have been part of numerous live events and art exhibitions. In 2017-2018, Werner created a series of public sound installations at Vienna’s MuseumsQuartier, including “Covenant of the Tongue” and “Zirkus,” which are sonic autoethnographies about Holocaust postmemory in Vienna. Her recent work is in live performance: sound installation meets documentary storytelling meets narrowcast radio transmission. Werner was a 2019 invited artist at the Kone Foundation’s Saari Residence in Finland and a 2017-2018 Fellow of the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture. She received a Tending Space Fellowship from the Hemera Foundation from 2014-2016 for artists with a Buddhist practice. Werner produces the creative radio sonic zine Sketchpad, broadcast weekly on WMCB 107.9lpfm in Greenfield, Massachusetts, and she teaches workshops on radio art, radio autoethnography and politics of storytelling. She is on the faculty of the BFA in Socially Engaged Art Program at Goddard College in Vermont. karenwerner.net

Beginning September 2019, the Wave Farm Radio Artist Fellowship is nine-month, part-time engagement for an American radio artist with strong interests in the history of radio art and related practices. The Fellow will work closely with Wave Farm’s Executive Director, Galen Joseph-Hunter, and Artistic Director, Tom Roe, and will communicate regularly with Fellowship Mentors: Anna Friz, Joan Schuman, and Gregory Whitehead.

The fellow will develop an audio archive of noteworthy historic and contemporary radio artworks including brief introductory and contextual information for publication on the Wave Farm website. Drawing from the archive, produce approximately five hours of radio art programming weekly on Wave Farm’s WGXC 90.7-FM. The fellow will also create original radio artworks for broadcast and lead three workshops and/or listening sessions with WGXC’s volunteer programmers.

The Wave Farm Radio Artist Fellowship is made possible, in part, by the National Endowment for the Arts.

Spanning August 2019 - February 2020, Wave Farm's "Radio for Open Ears" workshops were weekly sessions held with the 16- and 17-year-old youth incarcerated in the Hudson Correctional Facility in conjunction with "Raise the Age" legislation. Each week the Wave Farm team (pictured above) including Kamal Johnson, Adolfo Lopez, and Galen Joseph-Hunter brought audio equipment inside the Facility where the youth received hand-on access and experience, learning how to express themselves through sound and radio as a creative medium. "The level of engagement, thoughtfulness, and talent these young men and women possess has exceeded anything we could have imagined or hoped to encounter. We are delighted to bring some of work they have created to the WGXC 90.7-FM airwaves." -Galen Joseph-Hunter, Wave Farm Executive Director.

To listen to some of the audio produced in these workshops at HCF click "audio", or select from the list below.

Selected Audio from the Wave Farm Radio for Open Ears Workshops

Summer/Fall 2019
Introductions, Boys
Prison Life and the Future, Boys
Interview with Hudson Mayor Candidate, Boys

Fall 2019/Winter 2020
Podcast, Girls
Technical Difficulties, Boys
Beats and Raps, Boys
Original Beat, Boys
Interviews, Boys

Wave Farm's Radio for Open Ears workshops were supported by visiting artist Jen Kutler, and special guests including Joan Hunt (Greater Hudson Promise Neighborhood) and Rebecca Bray (Center of Artistic Activism.) The program was made possible by CreativityWorksNYS, an initiative of the New York State Council on the Arts in partnership with Carnegie Hall, and in collaboration with the New York State Department of Corrections. The primary goal of CreativityWorksNYS is to engage youth who are justice involved through arts enrichment projects in a variety of creative disciplines. Young people learn new skills, express their creative voices, and develop positive peer and adult relationships through collaborative arts projects. More information at https://www.carnegiehall.org/Education/Social- Impact/CreativityWorksNYS

Pictured above: Wave Farm Radio for Open Ears Workshop Team (left to right) Galen Joseph-Hunter (Executive Director, Wave Farm), Adolfo Lopez (Greater Hudson Promise Neighborhood), Kamal Johnson (Mayor, City of Hudson, NY).

Wave Farm is delighted to announce our first Radio Artist Fellow selected from a competitive national open call.

Karen Werner is a radio artist and sociologist. Her audio pieces have been broadcast on community and public radio stations across Europe, North America, Australia and Israel and have been part of numerous live events and art exhibitions. In 2017-2018, Werner created a series of public sound installations at Vienna’s MuseumsQuartier, including “Covenant of the Tongue” and “Zirkus,” which are sonic autoethnographies about Holocaust postmemory in Vienna. Her recent work is in live performance: sound installation meets documentary storytelling meets narrowcast radio transmission. Werner was a 2019 invited artist at the Kone Foundation’s Saari Residence in Finland and a 2017-2018 Fellow of the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture. She received a Tending Space Fellowship from the Hemera Foundation from 2014-2016 for artists with a Buddhist practice. Werner produces the creative radio sonic zine Sketchpad, broadcast weekly on WMCB 107.9lpfm in Greenfield, Massachusetts, and she teaches workshops on radio art, radio autoethnography and politics of storytelling. She is on the faculty of the BFA in Socially Engaged Art Program at Goddard College in Vermont. karenwerner.net

Beginning September 2019, the Wave Farm Radio Artist Fellowship is nine-month, part-time engagement for an American radio artist with strong interests in the history of radio art and related practices. The Fellow will work closely with Wave Farm’s Executive Director, Galen Joseph-Hunter, and Artistic Director, Tom Roe, and will communicate regularly with Fellowship Mentors: Anna Friz, Joan Schuman, and Gregory Whitehead.

The fellow will develop an audio archive of noteworthy historic and contemporary radio artworks including brief introductory and contextual information for publication on the Wave Farm website. Drawing from the archive, produce approximately five hours of radio art programming weekly on Wave Farm’s WGXC 90.7-FM. The fellow will also create original radio artworks for broadcast and lead three workshops and/or listening sessions with WGXC’s volunteer programmers.

The Wave Farm Radio Artist Fellowship is made possible, in part, by the National Endowment for the Arts.

Spanning August 2019 - February 2020, Wave Farm's "Radio for Open Ears" workshops were weekly sessions held with the 16- and 17-year-old youth incarcerated in the Hudson Correctional Facility in conjunction with "Raise the Age" legislation. Each week the Wave Farm team (pictured above) including Kamal Johnson, Adolfo Lopez, and Galen Joseph-Hunter brought audio equipment inside the Facility where the youth received hand-on access and experience, learning how to express themselves through sound and radio as a creative medium. "The level of engagement, thoughtfulness, and talent these young men and women possess has exceeded anything we could have imagined or hoped to encounter. We are delighted to bring some of work they have created to the WGXC 90.7-FM airwaves." -Galen Joseph-Hunter, Wave Farm Executive Director.

To listen to some of the audio produced in these workshops at HCF click "audio", or select from the list below.

Selected Audio from the Wave Farm Radio for Open Ears Workshops

Summer/Fall 2019
Introductions, Boys
Prison Life and the Future, Boys
Interview with Hudson Mayor Candidate, Boys

Fall 2019/Winter 2020
Podcast, Girls
Technical Difficulties, Boys
Beats and Raps, Boys
Original Beat, Boys
Interviews, Boys

Wave Farm's Radio for Open Ears workshops were supported by visiting artist Jen Kutler, and special guests including Joan Hunt (Greater Hudson Promise Neighborhood) and Rebecca Bray (Center of Artistic Activism.) The program was made possible by CreativityWorksNYS, an initiative of the New York State Council on the Arts in partnership with Carnegie Hall, and in collaboration with the New York State Department of Corrections. The primary goal of CreativityWorksNYS is to engage youth who are justice involved through arts enrichment projects in a variety of creative disciplines. Young people learn new skills, express their creative voices, and develop positive peer and adult relationships through collaborative arts projects. More information at https://www.carnegiehall.org/Education/Social- Impact/CreativityWorksNYS

Pictured above: Wave Farm Radio for Open Ears Workshop Team (left to right) Galen Joseph-Hunter (Executive Director, Wave Farm), Adolfo Lopez (Greater Hudson Promise Neighborhood), Kamal Johnson (Mayor, City of Hudson, NY).

Wave Farm is delighted to announce our first Radio Artist Fellow selected from a competitive national open call.

Karen Werner is a radio artist and sociologist. Her audio pieces have been broadcast on community and public radio stations across Europe, North America, Australia and Israel and have been part of numerous live events and art exhibitions. In 2017-2018, Werner created a series of public sound installations at Vienna’s MuseumsQuartier, including “Covenant of the Tongue” and “Zirkus,” which are sonic autoethnographies about Holocaust postmemory in Vienna. Her recent work is in live performance: sound installation meets documentary storytelling meets narrowcast radio transmission. Werner was a 2019 invited artist at the Kone Foundation’s Saari Residence in Finland and a 2017-2018 Fellow of the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture. She received a Tending Space Fellowship from the Hemera Foundation from 2014-2016 for artists with a Buddhist practice. Werner produces the creative radio sonic zine Sketchpad, broadcast weekly on WMCB 107.9lpfm in Greenfield, Massachusetts, and she teaches workshops on radio art, radio autoethnography and politics of storytelling. She is on the faculty of the BFA in Socially Engaged Art Program at Goddard College in Vermont. karenwerner.net

Beginning September 2019, the Wave Farm Radio Artist Fellowship is nine-month, part-time engagement for an American radio artist with strong interests in the history of radio art and related practices. The Fellow will work closely with Wave Farm’s Executive Director, Galen Joseph-Hunter, and Artistic Director, Tom Roe, and will communicate regularly with Fellowship Mentors: Anna Friz, Joan Schuman, and Gregory Whitehead.

The fellow will develop an audio archive of noteworthy historic and contemporary radio artworks including brief introductory and contextual information for publication on the Wave Farm website. Drawing from the archive, produce approximately five hours of radio art programming weekly on Wave Farm’s WGXC 90.7-FM. The fellow will also create original radio artworks for broadcast and lead three workshops and/or listening sessions with WGXC’s volunteer programmers.

The Wave Farm Radio Artist Fellowship is made possible, in part, by the National Endowment for the Arts.

Spanning August 2019 - February 2020, Wave Farm's "Radio for Open Ears" workshops were weekly sessions held with the 16- and 17-year-old youth incarcerated in the Hudson Correctional Facility in conjunction with "Raise the Age" legislation. Each week the Wave Farm team (pictured above) including Kamal Johnson, Adolfo Lopez, and Galen Joseph-Hunter brought audio equipment inside the Facility where the youth received hand-on access and experience, learning how to express themselves through sound and radio as a creative medium. "The level of engagement, thoughtfulness, and talent these young men and women possess has exceeded anything we could have imagined or hoped to encounter. We are delighted to bring some of work they have created to the WGXC 90.7-FM airwaves." -Galen Joseph-Hunter, Wave Farm Executive Director.

To listen to some of the audio produced in these workshops at HCF click "audio", or select from the list below.

Selected Audio from the Wave Farm Radio for Open Ears Workshops

Summer/Fall 2019
Introductions, Boys
Prison Life and the Future, Boys
Interview with Hudson Mayor Candidate, Boys

Fall 2019/Winter 2020
Podcast, Girls
Technical Difficulties, Boys
Beats and Raps, Boys
Original Beat, Boys
Interviews, Boys

Wave Farm's Radio for Open Ears workshops were supported by visiting artist Jen Kutler, and special guests including Joan Hunt (Greater Hudson Promise Neighborhood) and Rebecca Bray (Center of Artistic Activism.) The program was made possible by CreativityWorksNYS, an initiative of the New York State Council on the Arts in partnership with Carnegie Hall, and in collaboration with the New York State Department of Corrections. The primary goal of CreativityWorksNYS is to engage youth who are justice involved through arts enrichment projects in a variety of creative disciplines. Young people learn new skills, express their creative voices, and develop positive peer and adult relationships through collaborative arts projects. More information at https://www.carnegiehall.org/Education/Social- Impact/CreativityWorksNYS

Pictured above: Wave Farm Radio for Open Ears Workshop Team (left to right) Galen Joseph-Hunter (Executive Director, Wave Farm), Adolfo Lopez (Greater Hudson Promise Neighborhood), Kamal Johnson (Mayor, City of Hudson, NY).

Wave Farm is delighted to announce our first Radio Artist Fellow selected from a competitive national open call.

Karen Werner is a radio artist and sociologist. Her audio pieces have been broadcast on community and public radio stations across Europe, North America, Australia and Israel and have been part of numerous live events and art exhibitions. In 2017-2018, Werner created a series of public sound installations at Vienna’s MuseumsQuartier, including “Covenant of the Tongue” and “Zirkus,” which are sonic autoethnographies about Holocaust postmemory in Vienna. Her recent work is in live performance: sound installation meets documentary storytelling meets narrowcast radio transmission. Werner was a 2019 invited artist at the Kone Foundation’s Saari Residence in Finland and a 2017-2018 Fellow of the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture. She received a Tending Space Fellowship from the Hemera Foundation from 2014-2016 for artists with a Buddhist practice. Werner produces the creative radio sonic zine Sketchpad, broadcast weekly on WMCB 107.9lpfm in Greenfield, Massachusetts, and she teaches workshops on radio art, radio autoethnography and politics of storytelling. She is on the faculty of the BFA in Socially Engaged Art Program at Goddard College in Vermont. karenwerner.net

Beginning September 2019, the Wave Farm Radio Artist Fellowship is nine-month, part-time engagement for an American radio artist with strong interests in the history of radio art and related practices. The Fellow will work closely with Wave Farm’s Executive Director, Galen Joseph-Hunter, and Artistic Director, Tom Roe, and will communicate regularly with Fellowship Mentors: Anna Friz, Joan Schuman, and Gregory Whitehead.

The fellow will develop an audio archive of noteworthy historic and contemporary radio artworks including brief introductory and contextual information for publication on the Wave Farm website. Drawing from the archive, produce approximately five hours of radio art programming weekly on Wave Farm’s WGXC 90.7-FM. The fellow will also create original radio artworks for broadcast and lead three workshops and/or listening sessions with WGXC’s volunteer programmers.

The Wave Farm Radio Artist Fellowship is made possible, in part, by the National Endowment for the Arts.

The radio WEFAX is a receptive instrument that converts numerical weather data, transmitted from dedicated stations, into visual form. At Wave Farm, Helton will continue her practice with image transmission using low energy radio waves and extending her meditations on the future state of the environment. In our current period of great meteorological and climate disturbance, the weather forecast plays a major role in the prediction, detection, and mitigation of the negative effect of natural disasters. During her time at Wave Farm, Helton will transmit via radio frequency, images of accelerated environmental change to a radio weather fax, reconstructing its thermal printed output.

The fictitious and prophetic landscapes Lucy Helton creates subtly address contemporary environmental concerns, by offering a vision of the future that’s both frightening and beautiful. Her photographs contain a visual play between the real and the imagined, regularly referencing technological innovation, they incorporate a variety of imaging strategies, including panoramas and stitched frames. Meditations on the future state of the environment and if human colonies will exist outside planet earth, led to her discovery and fascination with basic image transmission using low energy radio waves. Her resulting artworks test the boundaries of art and technology, questioning our current path of planetary destruction.

Spanning August 2019 - February 2020, Wave Farm's "Radio for Open Ears" workshops were weekly sessions held with the 16- and 17-year-old youth incarcerated in the Hudson Correctional Facility in conjunction with "Raise the Age" legislation. Each week the Wave Farm team (pictured above) including Kamal Johnson, Adolfo Lopez, and Galen Joseph-Hunter brought audio equipment inside the Facility where the youth received hand-on access and experience, learning how to express themselves through sound and radio as a creative medium. "The level of engagement, thoughtfulness, and talent these young men and women possess has exceeded anything we could have imagined or hoped to encounter. We are delighted to bring some of work they have created to the WGXC 90.7-FM airwaves." -Galen Joseph-Hunter, Wave Farm Executive Director.

To listen to some of the audio produced in these workshops at HCF click "audio", or select from the list below.

Selected Audio from the Wave Farm Radio for Open Ears Workshops

Summer/Fall 2019
Introductions, Boys
Prison Life and the Future, Boys
Interview with Hudson Mayor Candidate, Boys

Fall 2019/Winter 2020
Podcast, Girls
Technical Difficulties, Boys
Beats and Raps, Boys
Original Beat, Boys
Interviews, Boys

Wave Farm's Radio for Open Ears workshops were supported by visiting artist Jen Kutler, and special guests including Joan Hunt (Greater Hudson Promise Neighborhood) and Rebecca Bray (Center of Artistic Activism.) The program was made possible by CreativityWorksNYS, an initiative of the New York State Council on the Arts in partnership with Carnegie Hall, and in collaboration with the New York State Department of Corrections. The primary goal of CreativityWorksNYS is to engage youth who are justice involved through arts enrichment projects in a variety of creative disciplines. Young people learn new skills, express their creative voices, and develop positive peer and adult relationships through collaborative arts projects. More information at https://www.carnegiehall.org/Education/Social- Impact/CreativityWorksNYS

Pictured above: Wave Farm Radio for Open Ears Workshop Team (left to right) Galen Joseph-Hunter (Executive Director, Wave Farm), Adolfo Lopez (Greater Hudson Promise Neighborhood), Kamal Johnson (Mayor, City of Hudson, NY).

Wave Farm is delighted to announce our first Radio Artist Fellow selected from a competitive national open call.

Karen Werner is a radio artist and sociologist. Her audio pieces have been broadcast on community and public radio stations across Europe, North America, Australia and Israel and have been part of numerous live events and art exhibitions. In 2017-2018, Werner created a series of public sound installations at Vienna’s MuseumsQuartier, including “Covenant of the Tongue” and “Zirkus,” which are sonic autoethnographies about Holocaust postmemory in Vienna. Her recent work is in live performance: sound installation meets documentary storytelling meets narrowcast radio transmission. Werner was a 2019 invited artist at the Kone Foundation’s Saari Residence in Finland and a 2017-2018 Fellow of the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture. She received a Tending Space Fellowship from the Hemera Foundation from 2014-2016 for artists with a Buddhist practice. Werner produces the creative radio sonic zine Sketchpad, broadcast weekly on WMCB 107.9lpfm in Greenfield, Massachusetts, and she teaches workshops on radio art, radio autoethnography and politics of storytelling. She is on the faculty of the BFA in Socially Engaged Art Program at Goddard College in Vermont. karenwerner.net

Beginning September 2019, the Wave Farm Radio Artist Fellowship is nine-month, part-time engagement for an American radio artist with strong interests in the history of radio art and related practices. The Fellow will work closely with Wave Farm’s Executive Director, Galen Joseph-Hunter, and Artistic Director, Tom Roe, and will communicate regularly with Fellowship Mentors: Anna Friz, Joan Schuman, and Gregory Whitehead.

The fellow will develop an audio archive of noteworthy historic and contemporary radio artworks including brief introductory and contextual information for publication on the Wave Farm website. Drawing from the archive, produce approximately five hours of radio art programming weekly on Wave Farm’s WGXC 90.7-FM. The fellow will also create original radio artworks for broadcast and lead three workshops and/or listening sessions with WGXC’s volunteer programmers.

The Wave Farm Radio Artist Fellowship is made possible, in part, by the National Endowment for the Arts.

The radio WEFAX is a receptive instrument that converts numerical weather data, transmitted from dedicated stations, into visual form. At Wave Farm, Helton will continue her practice with image transmission using low energy radio waves and extending her meditations on the future state of the environment. In our current period of great meteorological and climate disturbance, the weather forecast plays a major role in the prediction, detection, and mitigation of the negative effect of natural disasters. During her time at Wave Farm, Helton will transmit via radio frequency, images of accelerated environmental change to a radio weather fax, reconstructing its thermal printed output.

The fictitious and prophetic landscapes Lucy Helton creates subtly address contemporary environmental concerns, by offering a vision of the future that’s both frightening and beautiful. Her photographs contain a visual play between the real and the imagined, regularly referencing technological innovation, they incorporate a variety of imaging strategies, including panoramas and stitched frames. Meditations on the future state of the environment and if human colonies will exist outside planet earth, led to her discovery and fascination with basic image transmission using low energy radio waves. Her resulting artworks test the boundaries of art and technology, questioning our current path of planetary destruction.

Spanning August 2019 - February 2020, Wave Farm's "Radio for Open Ears" workshops were weekly sessions held with the 16- and 17-year-old youth incarcerated in the Hudson Correctional Facility in conjunction with "Raise the Age" legislation. Each week the Wave Farm team (pictured above) including Kamal Johnson, Adolfo Lopez, and Galen Joseph-Hunter brought audio equipment inside the Facility where the youth received hand-on access and experience, learning how to express themselves through sound and radio as a creative medium. "The level of engagement, thoughtfulness, and talent these young men and women possess has exceeded anything we could have imagined or hoped to encounter. We are delighted to bring some of work they have created to the WGXC 90.7-FM airwaves." -Galen Joseph-Hunter, Wave Farm Executive Director.

To listen to some of the audio produced in these workshops at HCF click "audio", or select from the list below.

Selected Audio from the Wave Farm Radio for Open Ears Workshops

Summer/Fall 2019
Introductions, Boys
Prison Life and the Future, Boys
Interview with Hudson Mayor Candidate, Boys

Fall 2019/Winter 2020
Podcast, Girls
Technical Difficulties, Boys
Beats and Raps, Boys
Original Beat, Boys
Interviews, Boys

Wave Farm's Radio for Open Ears workshops were supported by visiting artist Jen Kutler, and special guests including Joan Hunt (Greater Hudson Promise Neighborhood) and Rebecca Bray (Center of Artistic Activism.) The program was made possible by CreativityWorksNYS, an initiative of the New York State Council on the Arts in partnership with Carnegie Hall, and in collaboration with the New York State Department of Corrections. The primary goal of CreativityWorksNYS is to engage youth who are justice involved through arts enrichment projects in a variety of creative disciplines. Young people learn new skills, express their creative voices, and develop positive peer and adult relationships through collaborative arts projects. More information at https://www.carnegiehall.org/Education/Social- Impact/CreativityWorksNYS

Pictured above: Wave Farm Radio for Open Ears Workshop Team (left to right) Galen Joseph-Hunter (Executive Director, Wave Farm), Adolfo Lopez (Greater Hudson Promise Neighborhood), Kamal Johnson (Mayor, City of Hudson, NY).

Wave Farm is delighted to announce our first Radio Artist Fellow selected from a competitive national open call.

Karen Werner is a radio artist and sociologist. Her audio pieces have been broadcast on community and public radio stations across Europe, North America, Australia and Israel and have been part of numerous live events and art exhibitions. In 2017-2018, Werner created a series of public sound installations at Vienna’s MuseumsQuartier, including “Covenant of the Tongue” and “Zirkus,” which are sonic autoethnographies about Holocaust postmemory in Vienna. Her recent work is in live performance: sound installation meets documentary storytelling meets narrowcast radio transmission. Werner was a 2019 invited artist at the Kone Foundation’s Saari Residence in Finland and a 2017-2018 Fellow of the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture. She received a Tending Space Fellowship from the Hemera Foundation from 2014-2016 for artists with a Buddhist practice. Werner produces the creative radio sonic zine Sketchpad, broadcast weekly on WMCB 107.9lpfm in Greenfield, Massachusetts, and she teaches workshops on radio art, radio autoethnography and politics of storytelling. She is on the faculty of the BFA in Socially Engaged Art Program at Goddard College in Vermont. karenwerner.net

Beginning September 2019, the Wave Farm Radio Artist Fellowship is nine-month, part-time engagement for an American radio artist with strong interests in the history of radio art and related practices. The Fellow will work closely with Wave Farm’s Executive Director, Galen Joseph-Hunter, and Artistic Director, Tom Roe, and will communicate regularly with Fellowship Mentors: Anna Friz, Joan Schuman, and Gregory Whitehead.

The fellow will develop an audio archive of noteworthy historic and contemporary radio artworks including brief introductory and contextual information for publication on the Wave Farm website. Drawing from the archive, produce approximately five hours of radio art programming weekly on Wave Farm’s WGXC 90.7-FM. The fellow will also create original radio artworks for broadcast and lead three workshops and/or listening sessions with WGXC’s volunteer programmers.

The Wave Farm Radio Artist Fellowship is made possible, in part, by the National Endowment for the Arts.

The radio WEFAX is a receptive instrument that converts numerical weather data, transmitted from dedicated stations, into visual form. At Wave Farm, Helton will continue her practice with image transmission using low energy radio waves and extending her meditations on the future state of the environment. In our current period of great meteorological and climate disturbance, the weather forecast plays a major role in the prediction, detection, and mitigation of the negative effect of natural disasters. During her time at Wave Farm, Helton will transmit via radio frequency, images of accelerated environmental change to a radio weather fax, reconstructing its thermal printed output.

The fictitious and prophetic landscapes Lucy Helton creates subtly address contemporary environmental concerns, by offering a vision of the future that’s both frightening and beautiful. Her photographs contain a visual play between the real and the imagined, regularly referencing technological innovation, they incorporate a variety of imaging strategies, including panoramas and stitched frames. Meditations on the future state of the environment and if human colonies will exist outside planet earth, led to her discovery and fascination with basic image transmission using low energy radio waves. Her resulting artworks test the boundaries of art and technology, questioning our current path of planetary destruction.

Spanning August 2019 - February 2020, Wave Farm's "Radio for Open Ears" workshops were weekly sessions held with the 16- and 17-year-old youth incarcerated in the Hudson Correctional Facility in conjunction with "Raise the Age" legislation. Each week the Wave Farm team (pictured above) including Kamal Johnson, Adolfo Lopez, and Galen Joseph-Hunter brought audio equipment inside the Facility where the youth received hand-on access and experience, learning how to express themselves through sound and radio as a creative medium. "The level of engagement, thoughtfulness, and talent these young men and women possess has exceeded anything we could have imagined or hoped to encounter. We are delighted to bring some of work they have created to the WGXC 90.7-FM airwaves." -Galen Joseph-Hunter, Wave Farm Executive Director.

To listen to some of the audio produced in these workshops at HCF click "audio", or select from the list below.

Selected Audio from the Wave Farm Radio for Open Ears Workshops

Summer/Fall 2019
Introductions, Boys
Prison Life and the Future, Boys
Interview with Hudson Mayor Candidate, Boys

Fall 2019/Winter 2020
Podcast, Girls
Technical Difficulties, Boys
Beats and Raps, Boys
Original Beat, Boys
Interviews, Boys

Wave Farm's Radio for Open Ears workshops were supported by visiting artist Jen Kutler, and special guests including Joan Hunt (Greater Hudson Promise Neighborhood) and Rebecca Bray (Center of Artistic Activism.) The program was made possible by CreativityWorksNYS, an initiative of the New York State Council on the Arts in partnership with Carnegie Hall, and in collaboration with the New York State Department of Corrections. The primary goal of CreativityWorksNYS is to engage youth who are justice involved through arts enrichment projects in a variety of creative disciplines. Young people learn new skills, express their creative voices, and develop positive peer and adult relationships through collaborative arts projects. More information at https://www.carnegiehall.org/Education/Social- Impact/CreativityWorksNYS

Pictured above: Wave Farm Radio for Open Ears Workshop Team (left to right) Galen Joseph-Hunter (Executive Director, Wave Farm), Adolfo Lopez (Greater Hudson Promise Neighborhood), Kamal Johnson (Mayor, City of Hudson, NY).

Wave Farm is delighted to announce our first Radio Artist Fellow selected from a competitive national open call.

Karen Werner is a radio artist and sociologist. Her audio pieces have been broadcast on community and public radio stations across Europe, North America, Australia and Israel and have been part of numerous live events and art exhibitions. In 2017-2018, Werner created a series of public sound installations at Vienna’s MuseumsQuartier, including “Covenant of the Tongue” and “Zirkus,” which are sonic autoethnographies about Holocaust postmemory in Vienna. Her recent work is in live performance: sound installation meets documentary storytelling meets narrowcast radio transmission. Werner was a 2019 invited artist at the Kone Foundation’s Saari Residence in Finland and a 2017-2018 Fellow of the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture. She received a Tending Space Fellowship from the Hemera Foundation from 2014-2016 for artists with a Buddhist practice. Werner produces the creative radio sonic zine Sketchpad, broadcast weekly on WMCB 107.9lpfm in Greenfield, Massachusetts, and she teaches workshops on radio art, radio autoethnography and politics of storytelling. She is on the faculty of the BFA in Socially Engaged Art Program at Goddard College in Vermont. karenwerner.net

Beginning September 2019, the Wave Farm Radio Artist Fellowship is nine-month, part-time engagement for an American radio artist with strong interests in the history of radio art and related practices. The Fellow will work closely with Wave Farm’s Executive Director, Galen Joseph-Hunter, and Artistic Director, Tom Roe, and will communicate regularly with Fellowship Mentors: Anna Friz, Joan Schuman, and Gregory Whitehead.

The fellow will develop an audio archive of noteworthy historic and contemporary radio artworks including brief introductory and contextual information for publication on the Wave Farm website. Drawing from the archive, produce approximately five hours of radio art programming weekly on Wave Farm’s WGXC 90.7-FM. The fellow will also create original radio artworks for broadcast and lead three workshops and/or listening sessions with WGXC’s volunteer programmers.

The Wave Farm Radio Artist Fellowship is made possible, in part, by the National Endowment for the Arts.

The radio WEFAX is a receptive instrument that converts numerical weather data, transmitted from dedicated stations, into visual form. At Wave Farm, Helton will continue her practice with image transmission using low energy radio waves and extending her meditations on the future state of the environment. In our current period of great meteorological and climate disturbance, the weather forecast plays a major role in the prediction, detection, and mitigation of the negative effect of natural disasters. During her time at Wave Farm, Helton will transmit via radio frequency, images of accelerated environmental change to a radio weather fax, reconstructing its thermal printed output.

The fictitious and prophetic landscapes Lucy Helton creates subtly address contemporary environmental concerns, by offering a vision of the future that’s both frightening and beautiful. Her photographs contain a visual play between the real and the imagined, regularly referencing technological innovation, they incorporate a variety of imaging strategies, including panoramas and stitched frames. Meditations on the future state of the environment and if human colonies will exist outside planet earth, led to her discovery and fascination with basic image transmission using low energy radio waves. Her resulting artworks test the boundaries of art and technology, questioning our current path of planetary destruction.