Engagement Periods: September - November 2023 or December 2023 - February 2024
Stipend: $5,000
Location: Remote (w/ one to two visits to Wave Farm in Acra, NY) *
Application Deadline: June 30, 2023
Notification: July 2023

Wave Farm is delighted to announce a fifth year of the Radio Art Fellowship. In fall 2023 and winter 2024 Wave Farm will host two separate three-month fellowships. This is a part-time engagement for a radio researcher and artist living and working in the United States. Each Wave Farm Radio Art Fellow will work closely with Wave Farm’s Executive Director, Galen Joseph-Hunter, and Artistic Director, Tom Roe. The Fellows will also have the opportunity to work with Mentors: Anna Friz, Joan Schuman, Neil Verma, and Gregory Whitehead.

Each Fellowship will combine remote work with one on-site research visit and one on-site live broadcast (should additional travel be possible) to Wave Farm’s research library and radio studios. Located in New York’s Upper Hudson Valley, Wave Farm is a nonprofit arts organization driven by experimentation with broadcast media and the airwaves. A pioneer of the Transmission Arts genre, Wave Farm programs provide access to transmission technologies and support artists and organizations that engage with media as an art form. Wave Farm’s WGXC 90.7-FM: Radio for Open Ears is a full-power, creative community radio station in New York’s Upper Hudson Valley. The WGXC program schedule features original content by over one-hundred volunteer programmers, and commits significant daytime listening hours to radio art and experimental sound.

A definition of Radio Art: 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, conceived of for transmission 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 this Radio Art Fellowship program.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Month 1: Radio Art Listening, Research, and Archive Contributions

The first month of the fellowship is focused on additions to the Wave Farm Radio Art Archive. (See wavefarm.org/radio/archive) The archive is an online resource and a broadcast series on Wave Farm’s WGXC 90.7-FM. It aims to identify, coalesce, and celebrate historical and contemporary international radio artworks made by artists around the world, created specifically for terrestrial AM/FM broadcast, whether it be via commercial, public, community, or pirate transmission. During their first month, the fellow will have the opportunity for focused and supported research in order to identify five to ten additions to the archive. The Fellow will prepare audio with introductions and back announcements for broadcast, as well as written work descriptions, and artist biographies. Mentors will be available for consultation, leads, and feedback.

Month 2: Community Engagement

The fellow will design and lead a workshop (or listening session) with WGXC programmers and interested members of the public. Recent Fellowship community engagement examples include: The Subliminal World: Intuitive, Stochastic, and Supernatural Sound-making with Tyler Maxin, delay, relay, feedback, loop: an Audio Exchange Network Workshop with José Alejandro Rivera, and Radio Deprogramming with Andy Stuhl.

Month 3: Radio Art Creation

The Fellow will create their own original radio artwork(s) for broadcast. Works will be included in Wave Farm's syndicated weekly program "The Radio Art Hour" which is syndicated nationally, as well as possibly included in Wave Farm's biannually contribution to the Radia network (see radia.fm).

Fellowship Benchmarks:

• Biweekly Meetings: with Wave Farm staff.
• Monthly Check-ins with Mentors for feedback on archive additions and the Fellow’s original radio artworks.
• Culminating Public Program: a live radio broadcast featuring the Fellow and mentors in conversation reflecting on works created and archive selections.

2023 Application

Eligibility: The Radio Art Fellowship program opportunity is open to individuals whose primary residence is in the United States. (Note: applications from collaborative teams are not eligible.) The Fellowship stipend will appear as “Other Income” on 1099s issued in conjunction with tax years 2022 and 2023, depending on the dates of engagement. Women, gender non-conforming people, and people of color are encouraged to apply.

Wave Farm’s Radio Art Fellowship is made possible, in part, by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature; the National Endowment for the Arts; the Greene County Legislature through the County Initiative Program, administered in Greene County by CREATE.

Want to fulfill a long-time, or newly emerging, desire to be on the radio? Want to become part of the community conversations on 90.7-FM? Join us during one of the public information sessions we’re hosting this month to learn more about how to get involved in our Community Contributors Program.

Additional sessions are being held on Saturday, May 13, 10am at Catskill Library and Tuesday, May 30, 6pm over Zoom.

The WGXC 90.7-FM Community Contributors Program was created to bolster Wave Farm’s mission of participatory radio. Composed of a group of volunteer producers and programmers from the community, this program encourages and supports the production of interviews, features, reviews, and stories that are pertinent to the WGXC coverage area. Segments produced through the WGXC Community Contributors Program air during All Together Now!, the WGXC Morning Show, and the WGXC Afternoon Show.

Contact content@wgxc.org with any questions.

The WGXC Community Contributors Program is made possible, in part, with the support of the Alexander and Marjorie Hover Foundation.

Want to fulfill a long-time, or newly emerging, desire to be on the radio? Want to become part of the community conversations on 90.7-FM? Join us during one of the public information sessions we’re hosting this month to learn more about how to get involved in our Community Contributors Program.

Additional sessions are being held on Thursday, May 11, 6pm at Kinderhook Memorial Library and Tuesday, May 30, 6pm over Zoom.

The WGXC 90.7-FM Community Contributors Program was created to bolster Wave Farm’s mission of participatory radio. Composed of a group of volunteer producers and programmers from the community, this program encourages and supports the production of interviews, features, reviews, and stories that are pertinent to the WGXC coverage area. Segments produced through the WGXC Community Contributors Program air during All Together Now!, the WGXC Morning Show, and the WGXC Afternoon Show.

Contact content@wgxc.org with any questions.

The WGXC Community Contributors Program is made possible, in part, with the support of the Alexander and Marjorie Hover Foundation.

In this three-part workshop, Saturdays, 4 - 6 p.m. May 20, May 27, June 4 (via Zoom), participants will engage with the widening spectrum of self-broadcasting techniques and examples in the time of podcasts and social audio technology. Participants will explore the changing definition of radio, the parties invested in its creation and consumption, and scheme up a plan to stage a radio intervention.

Drawing on the history of pirate and internet radio, participants will have the opportunity to learn resources and processes for DIY-broadcasting. Group members will also contribute to a shared ‘sample-bank’, from which the group can borrow in the creation of radio segments that will be broadcast in the final session.

This workshop, hosted by Wave Farm Radio Art Fellow Iru Ekpunobi, will be collaborative and modular, and designed to take form around the experiences and interests of participants.

No academic, radio or podcast experience required. Email info@wavefarm.org to register.

Join Wave Farm’s WGXC as we help Left Bank Ciders wrap up their Community Soup Night season with a live on-site broadcast, DJs, and soup on Thursday, May 25th from 5 to 7pm! Come on out for a bowl of soup, conversation, and some tunes. All proceeds go to Wave Farm’s WGXC 90.7-FM!

Each Thursday night Left Bank Ciders hosts Community Soup Night, where volunteers make soup with proceeds benefiting a local non-profit. This fun and successful evening raises significant funds for organizations close to Left Bank Ciders’ hearts, and we couldn’t be more grateful that they’ve chosen WGXC as the beneficiary to close out their season!

Join us in this unique opportunity to learn about the history of wampum and its connection to the land surrounding us. Participants will assist in creating a new wampum belt that reflects our stewardship to the land and the Hudson Valley, the original homeland of the Lunaapeewak. Meet Kristin Jacobs, spirit name Loowanaxung, translating to North Wind. Kristin is Delaware from Eelunaapéewi Lahkeewiit, ON, Canada. She is wolf clan and has been reclaiming and teaching her endangered Language: Munsee-Delaware for over 10 years. Kristin teaches the Delaware language to students in grades 1-8 at Naahii Ridge Elementary. This event is brought to you by Kristin Jacobs (Loowanaxung) of Eelunaapéewi Lahkeewiit, Wild Hudson Valley and Wave Farm WGXC-FM.

Want to fulfill a long-time, or newly emerging, desire to be on the radio? Want to become part of the community conversations on 90.7-FM? Join us during one of the public information sessions we’re hosting this month to learn more about how to get involved in our Community Contributors Program.

In person sessions are being held on Thursday, May 11, 6pm at Kinderhook Memorial Library and Saturday, May 13, 10am at Catskill Library.

The WGXC 90.7-FM Community Contributors Program was created to bolster Wave Farm’s mission of participatory radio. Composed of a group of volunteer producers and programmers from the community, this program encourages and supports the production of interviews, features, reviews, and stories that are pertinent to the WGXC coverage area. Segments produced through the WGXC Community Contributors Program air during All Together Now!, the WGXC Morning Show, and the WGXC Afternoon Show.

For Zoom meeting information, contact content@wgxc.org.

The WGXC Community Contributors Program is made possible, in part, with the support of the Alexander and Marjorie Hover Foundation.

Wave Farm's Art Park is now open. Drop-in unannounced for guided tours on Saturdays, or book a tour in advance on other days.

Wave Farm's 29-acre campus in Acra, NY is home to our public Art Park featuring 13 installations, the Study Center including a Research Library, the WGXC 90.7-FM Acra broadcast studio, and accommodations for Wave Farm's international artist Residency Program. Visitors to Wave Farm receive a guided tour of our campus. Admission is free, and tours typically last 60-90 minutes.

The Wave Farm campus is open June 1 – October 31
Monday-Thursday: Open by appointment. Email info@wavefarm.org to schedule your visit
Friday: Open by appointment from noon to 6 p.m. Book your guided visit here
Saturday: Open for drop-in visits anytime noon to 6 p.m.
Sunday: Open by appointment from noon to 6 p.m. Book your guided visit here
To schedule a research visit to our Study Center Library, email info@wavefarm.org.

Tunnel and the Radio Sky is a video and sound work of speculative fiction, filmed in Brooklyn, Newfoundland, Colorado, California, and Arizona, which begins with a hole dug in a Brooklyn backyard. This hole is a tunnel, connecting desert, rocky coast, and mountains; and a portal, connecting them by atmospheric radio signals. The skies are created by typing passages from a ham radio manual info an Artificial Intelligence bot and animating the resulting images. To accompany the video, McDonald will generate sound from intercepted ham radio broadcasts, EVP recordings, and field recording in the wilderness.

Jillian McDonald is a Canadian artist in Brooklyn and Troy, NY. Exhibitions and performances have taken place at Undercurrent and FiveMyles in Brooklyn, The Art Gallery of Regina in Saskatchewan, The Esker Foundation in Calgary, AxeNéo7 in Québec and Lilith Performance Studio in Malmö, Sweden. A CBC IDEAS documentary profiles her videos, which were also reviewed in The New York Times and Canadian Art. Critical discussion appears in The Transatlantic Zombie by Sarah Lauro and Deconstructing Brad Pitt, edited by Christopher Schaberg and Robert Bennett. Awards include grants from The New York Foundation for the Arts and The Canada Council for the Arts, and residencies include The Headlands Center for the Arts in California, the Glenfiddich Canadian Art Prize in Scotland, and The Arctic Circle Residency in Svalbard. Jillian McDonald acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.

Surrounded by Colors We Could No Longer See will explore the sounds of electromagnetic waves and radio frequencies emitted by natural forces and our built environment, such as ultraviolet light, infrared light, very low frequencies, visible spectrum light, lightning phenomena, etc. At Wave Farm, Meza will engage with “colors” of sound, noise, and waves in order to compose new experimental sound works for installation and transmission.

Abinadi Meza is a Latinx-Indigenous artist and filmmaker living in the occupied ancestral territory of the Tonkawa, Lipan-Apache, Karankawa, Comanche, and Coahuiltecan people. Meza studied art, creative writing, and architecture; he primarily makes experimental films, sound works, and installations, often using transitory or precarious materials - found footage, hand-painted film, field recordings, radio waves, glass, found materials, and objects. His sound works have been presented at Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; Deep Wireless Festival of Radio & Transmission Art, Toronto; Helicotrema Festival, Venice; Lisbon Architecture Triennale; MAXXI, Rome; Radio Amnion, London; Radio Kinesonus, Tokyo; Radiophrenia, Glasgow; Radius FM, Chicago; and Walker Art Center, Minneapolis among other places. Meza teaches in the Interdisciplinary Practices & Emerging Forms MFA program in the School of Art at the University of Houston.