Wave Farm is delighted to announce that Lia Kohl will serve as Wave Farm's Radio Art Fellow September - November 2023. During her engagement, Kohl will make additions to the Wave Farm Broadcast Radio Art Archive online resource and to the syndicated weekly radio show "The Radio Art Hour." Kohl will also conduct workshops and listening sessions with WGXC programmers and interested members of the public, and create original radio artworks for broadcast.

Lia Kohl is a composer, cellist, and sound artist based in Chicago. Her wide-ranging practice includes solo composition and performance, installation, improvisation, and collaboration. Kohl tours nationally and internationally, working in theater, jazz, rock, and experimental contexts. Her work centers curiosity and patience, an exploration of the mundane and profound possibilities of sound.

Our Non-Understanding of Everything is a multi-channel video installation by eteam (Franziska Lamprecht and Hajoe Moderegger). The exhibition, co-organized by CREATE Council on the Arts and Wave Farm, features an immersive video installation in which eteam invites us to consider the emotional and rational relationships we have with our personal tech devices.

This new installation to debut at CREATE’s gallery in Catskill was conceived in early 2021 during a pandemic lockdown in Taipei, when eteam began to explore a set of urgent questions: “Should we/could we consider/worship our smart devices like deities in order to honor the spiritual connections we have with them and their connected technologies? How can we entertain and relax our smart devices? What would happen if they would be given a chance to directly interact with our natural environments? Would they start to develop a form of care that would in turn teach us to care in new and unexpected ways?”

Over the course of two years, eteam turned these questions into a daily practice, observing and documenting encounters between their smart devices, the natural environments in which they live, and their proximity to massive architectural grids such as New York City. The exhibit represents the culmination of eteam’s findings. The work consists of 16 single-channel videos shot in Greene County, NY; Taipei, Taiwan, New York City; and Mannheim, Germany. The exhibition features two 50-inch monitors installed in the gallery’s storefront windows, and three video projections. The central projection will be rotated on a weekly basis –inviting audiences to make multiple visits to the space to watch the iterations of the show’s theme unfold. Our Non- Understanding of Everything is a recipient of a 2023 New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) grant and fiscally sponsored by Wave Farm.

An opening reception will be held on Friday, October 13, 2023 from 6 - 8 p.m.. This exhibit will be open to the public and on view from Friday, October 13 to Sunday, November 12. Gallery@CREATE is located at 398 Main Street in Catskill and is open Fridays, 4pm-7pm, and on Saturdays and Sundays, 11am-6pm. The exhibit is free and open to the public. For more information, visit: www.CREATEcouncil.org.

eteam is a two person collaboration who uses video, performance, installation, and writing to instigate and articulate encounters at the edges of diverging cultural, technical and aesthetical universes. eteam’s narratives have screened internationally in video- and film festivals, they have lectured in universities, presented in art galleries and museums, and performed in the desert, on fields, in caves and on mountaintops, in ships, black box theaters, and horse-drawn wagons. https://www.meineigenheim.org/portfolio/

Wave Farm is an international transmission arts organization driven by experimentation with the electromagnetic spectrum. We cultivate creative practices in radio and support artists and nonprofits in their cultural endeavors. Based in New York’s Upper Hudson Valley, Wave Farm is a media arts center, media platform, and arts service organization. Wave Farm offers interdisciplinary outdoor installations, residencies and fellowships, and a research library. We operate FM radio station WGXC and host many online radio channels. Wave Farm provides fiscal sponsorship, consultation, and grants to artists and organizations. https://wavefarm.org

CREATE Council On The Arts is a non-profit, arts service organization whose purpose is to support and advance the arts and cultural community by broadening and enriching creative resources and economic growth in the region. CREATE serves as the Statewide Community Re-grant arts organization for Greene, Columbia and Schoharie Counties. Since 1975, CREATE has provided information and essential services to artists, arts organizations, cultural and educational institutions, civic groups, community agencies and the general public. CREATE is supported in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the governor and the New York State Legislature. Questions? Email info@createcouncil.org

The Radio as Collaborator workshop explored the possibilities of radio as an instrument, a score, and a conversation partner in the creative process. In two-sessions, participants worked on improvisation and score-making with the radio, including both solo making and group collaboration. Starting with a series of deep listening exercises, participants then took a series of recordings of radio, exploring intuitive making, response improvisation, and “signal sweeps”. Participants brought aspects of their own practices to the workshop, in the form of instrumental music, poetry, and engineering, to name a few.

The sessions, conducted via zoom, offered the opportunity to share radio content from different parts of the country and the world, highlighting the site-specificity of radio and the possibilities of collaboration between places as well as people. Sharing and discussing recordings became a conduit for sharing listening space, hearing through new ears via the radio. Each participant’s unique relationship with time, place, and listening was manifested in their unique relationship to their radio collaborator.

The workshop culminated in a creative commons of participant’s recordings, available for all to ‘remix’. Kohl’s own remix was broadcast on Wave Farm’s The Radio Art Hour.

These recordings were made by Greg Cerveny, Eve Cavanaugh, Jack Thompson, Ginebra Raventós, Michelle Kaplan, Jillian McDonald, Eric Theise, Stevie Jones, Anton Pickard, Dawood Nadurath, Cotter Luppi, Ed Woodham, Bob Drake, Veronica Anne Salinas, Eve Madalengoita, Winslow, and Lia Kohl as part of The Radio as Collaborator workshop, facilitated by Lia Kohl in conjunction with her Wave Farm Radio Art Fellowship in Fall 2023.

Wave Farm is delighted to announce that Desiree Mwalimu-Banks will serve as Wave Farm's Radio Art Fellow December 2023 - February 2024. During her engagement, Mwalimu-Banks will make additions to the Wave Farm Broadcast Radio Art Archive online resource and to the syndicated weekly radio show "The Radio Art Hour." Mwalimu-Banks will also conduct workshops and listening sessions with WGXC programmers and interested members of the public, and create original radio artworks for broadcast.

Desiree Mwalimu-Banks is a Zambian-born, East Coast-raised interdisciplinary artist and educator. Her work explores somatic relationships between indigenous identity, water ecologies, and apiary culture within the framework of the sacred feminine and the African diaspora. Her partners have included CCCADI, Movement Research, Naropa University, Stanford University, Wave Farm, among others. Her works have appeared in several magazines and her article, “Nectar of the Divine Feminine: The Ancient Bee Mothers of the Anahata Chakra,” was featured in the anthology, Harmony In Chakras. When not hunting leylines, labyrinths, or deep space objects, Desiree can be found making miracles on a budget in her kitchen. She lives in Harlem with her husband, sons, and Smith Corona Electric ‘76 typewriter.