Wave Farm is delighted to announce that Tyler Maxin will serve as a 2022/2023 Wave Farm Radio Art Fellow. During his engagement, Maxin will make additions to the Wave Farm Broadcast Radio Art Archive, an online resource, and to the syndicated weekly radio show "The Radio Art Hour." Maxin will also conduct workshops and listening sessions with WGXC programmers and interested members of the public, and create original radio artworks for broadcast.

Tyler Maxin is a researcher and curator based in Brooklyn, New York. He is the Communications and Special Projects Associate at Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), a leading resource for video and media art. In 2022, he co-curated "Jerry Hunt: Transmissions from the Pleroma" at Blank Forms, New York, a multi-pronged initiative that included an exhibition of the late composer's sculptural objects and video work, a series of record reissues, the publication of Stephen Housewright's biographical memoir Partners, and a 368-page journal surveying Hunt's life and career. Maxin's writing has appeared in publications including Artforum, BOMB, Hotel, and Screen Slate.

NOTE: This workshop has reached its registration cap of 50 participants. You are encouraged to sign-up for Wave Farm's monthly emails so to be informed of future workshops and other opportunities.

Led by Wave Farm Radio Art Fellow Tyler Maxin, in this free, three-part workshop, participants will consider the broader histories of intuitive, coincidental, and supernatural sound-making, including automatism, collage, sonification, and radio scanning, and their possible uses as artistic prompts. Topics will include the intertwined relationship between the development of telegraphy and radio, and communication with the beyond; the Electronic Voice Phenomenon (EVP) as a creative practice; the generative powers of synchronicity and pareidolia; and the allure of hidden and subliminal worlds. There are planned guest visits, including musician and writer Doug Skinner, whose forthcoming book Music From Elsewhere collects examples of supernaturally-derived musical notation, and artist Aki Onda discussing his piece Nam June's Spirit Was Speaking To Me. Workshop sessions will take place Sundays 6 p.m. EST, January 22 - February 5, 2023 via Zoom.

Eligibility requirements: Applicants must be a high school senior, college freshmen, or college sophomore during the 2023-2024 academic year.
Stipend: $2,400
Time commitment: 24 days total; June - August (to be scheduled in conjunction with the successful applicant.)
Location: This position is based at the Wave Farm Study Center in Acra, NY. Housing is not provided, and independent transportation is necessary.

Wave Farm is pleased to announce a Summer Internship opportunity focused on Wave Farm’s Transmission Arts programs and made possible by The LeRoy Neiman and Janet Byrne Neiman Foundation Summer Internships support to Rethinking Residencies. This is a unique opportunity for an individual to gain hands-on experience with a non-profit media arts organization, with a focus on support for our international artists residency program, digital archives, and public programming. Applicants should possess enthusiasm for transmission and media arts, and be interested in an immersive experience working directly with artists and the inner workings of a non-profit arts organization.

The Wave Farm Summer Intern will support the following programs:

• Wave Farm Artists Residency Program (assistance, interviews, documentation)
• Wave Farm Study Center Library and Archives
• Public Programs and Tours (including Upstate Art Weekend, Audio Buffet, and WGXC 90.7-FM broadcasts)

Founded in Brooklyn, NY, in 1997, as a microradio artists’ collective creating works for radio transmission, in 2002, Wave Farm became a non-profit arts organization focused on cultivating Transmission Arts, or artists’ experiments with broadcast media and the airwaves. Transmission art is generally a participatory live-art or time-based art, and often is made manifest as radio art, video art, installation, and performance.

Based in New York’s Upper Hudson Valley (Acra, NY) since 2004, Wave Farm is a non-profit arts organization driven by experimentation with broadcast media and the airwaves. Wave Farm’s Residency Program provides artists working within the Transmission Arts genre opportunities to research and create new works. Wave Farm’s Archives document and contextualize this work, including the Wave Farm Radio Art Archive, which is a project of an annual fellowship program. The Transmission Art Installation park features long-term projects installed on Wave Farm’s 29-acres in Acra, NY. These projects amplify the environment revealing what is otherwise unheard or unseen. Wave Farm’s WGXC-FM is a full-power, non-commercial, listener-supported station in New York’s Upper Hudson Valley.

To Apply: Applicants for Wave Farm's Summer Internship opportunity should submit a letter of interest and resume for consideration to info@wavefarm.org. Please use your letter to tell us about your interest in transmission and media arts and what you would hope to learn from this role. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled.

WGXC's Winter 2023 Pledge Drive will take place from Wed., Feb. 15 through Tue., Feb. 28, 2023. Join us as we continue to build a base of monthly sustaining donors. Growing a community of sustaining supporters is significant to the station’s longevity. And during the Please Assist Us In Transmission Pledge Drive the station is also looking to add more local volunteer programmers to the schedule. Do you want to be a part of the community conversation on 90.7-FM? Play your favorite music, help report the news, interview your neighbors, and discuss important local issues. WGXC is a community radio station made up of the voices of the upper Hudson Valley. If you live in Berkshire, Greene, Columbia, Albany, Rensselaer, Ulster, or Dutchess counties please write to info@wgxc.org to start the conversation.

To make a recurring donation, or to make a one-time gift, visit: wgxc.org/donate or call 518-697-7400 and pledge your support of Creative Community Radio for Open Ears. Please Assist Us In Transmission!