Kira DeCoudres (Wave Farm Summer Intern 2014) organizes this experimental lecture features Transmission Artist Tom Roe and Bio Artist Adam Zaretsky.

These remix practitioners will discuss experimental art methods mediums and messages. Thematic Topics will include but not be limited to: Ethics of Tranmission, Transgenic Humans, MultiMediated Mutations, SynCopated-Somatics, Communi-Contagion, Political Programming of the Posthuman, Technoetic Feedback Loops, and the spectrum of Rejuvinating Remix Results.

ABOUT TOM ROE
Tom Roe co-founded free103point9, in 1997 as a microradio artist collective in Brooklyn, New York. Today, he serves as the Artistic Director of Wave Farm (formerly known as free103point9). Roe lead Wave Farm’s efforts to establish WGXC 90.7-FM, an FCC-licensed full-power non-commercial FM radio station, serving New York’s Upper Hudson Valley since 2011, and currently manages the over 60 hours a week of Transmission Arts and Experimental Sounds programming on the station. He has frequently lectured about how to perform with transmitters and the history of radio performance and microcasting at venues such as Columbia University, Brown University, Brooklyn College, Flux Factory, The Kitchen, NYU's ITP Program, Kids Discover Radio in East Harlem, Grassroots Media Conference at The New School, RPI University in Troy, among others. A sound transmission artist, Roe has exhibited widely both in the United States and internationally, performing with transmitters and receivers using multiple bands (FM, CB, walkie-talkie), as well as prepared CDs, vinyl records, and various electronics. He has also written about music for The Wire, Signal to Noise, and The New York Post.

ABOUT WAVE FARM
Wave Farm is a non-profit arts organization driven by experimentation with broadcast media and the airwaves. Wave Farm programs—Transmission Arts, WGXC-FM, and Media Arts Grants—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 is a creative community radio station. Hands-on access and participation activate WGXC as a public platform for information, experimentation, and engagement. Over 100 volunteer programmers produce shows. Community programs include news and music produced by residents of Greene and Columbia counties in New York, as well as syndicated national programs produced by Pacifica. WGXC commits over 60 hours a week to transmission art and experimental sound. Wave Farm was founded in 1997 in Brooklyn, and is currently based in New York's Upper Hudson Valley. https://wavefarm.org/

ABOUT ADAM ZARETSKY
Adam Zaretsky, Ph.D. is a Wet-Lab Art Practitioner mixing Ecology, Biotechnology, Non-human Relations, Body Performance and Gastronomy. Zaretsky stages lively, hands-on bioart production labs based on topics such as: foreign species invasion (pure/impure), radical food science (edible/inedible), jazz bioinformatics (code/flesh), tissue culture (undead/semi-alive), transgenic design issues (traits/desires), interactive ethology (person/machine/non-human) and physiology (performance/stress). A former researcher at the MIT department of biology, for the past decade Zaretsky has been teaching an experimental bioart class called VivoArts at: San Francisco State University (SFSU), SymbioticA (UWA), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), University of Leiden’s The Arts and Genomic Centre (TAGC), and with the Waag Society. Last year he taught DIY-IGM at New York University (NYU). He also runs a public life arts school: VASTAL (The Vivoarts School for Transgenic Aesthetics Ltd.) His art practice focuses on an array of legal, ethical, social and libidinal implications of biotechnological materials and methods with a focus on transgenic humans. Adam is currently Media Arts Faculty in the School of Communication and the Arts at Marist College.

ABOUT iGMO: inherited Genetic Modifcation Orgiastics
Transgenic Humans in the Biological Bedroom

Are transgenic humans art creatures? What do engineered mutant human body plans say about flesh technology? Are we techno-evolving to be more efficient, glamorous or enigmatic? Which aesthetic is more corny, crunchy or cheesy? If we speak of Assisted Reproductive Technology as Art (ARTArt) in terms of Inherited Genetic Modification of the Human Genome (IGM), then Bioart can help us choose a contemporary path of genome bending. Gonads aside, human germline gene editing is a time-based, new media, live body-performance, art and science production that will be explored in this artist's talk. Beyond exploring the range of Future Human Anatomy and Metabolism there is the question: How do bioethics hold up under human remix aesthetics? Who is produced? How are they doing living with your anatomical, metabolic or purely aesthetic choices as their sticky body pod lifestyle? The whole of Art History is a potential therapeutic agent here.

This event is sponsored by The Five College Digital Humanities Program and Hampshire College Ethics and Common Good Project.