Acra, NY—Wave Farm announced today the artists and projects selected for the 2025 Wave Farm Residency and Radio Art Fellowship Programs. Since 2005, Wave Farm’s international artist-residency program has fostered new work in Transmission Arts. This year the program will focus on the development of new radio artworks designed explicitly for terrestrial radio, to be broadcast on Wave Farm’s creative community radio station WGXC 90.7-FM: Radio for Open Ears and included in Wave Farm’s weekly syndicated program The Radio Art Hour, which is rebroadcast on dozens of additional radio stations across the U.S.

In 2025, Wave Farm welcomes Giulia Palladini (Mexico City, Mexico)⁣, Riel Bellow (O’Gah Po’Geh/Santa Fe, NM)⁣, Jennif(f)er Tamayo (Territory of the Yesah Confederacy/Gibsonville, NC)⁣, Corey Sherrard Jr. (Houston, TX)⁣, Hali Palombo (Chicago, IL)⁣, Jamika Ajalon (Paris, France)⁣, Camille Wong (Los Angeles, CA)⁣, Bill Corrigan (Charlottesville, VA)⁣, Luna Galassini (Santa Fe, NM)⁣, and Fabiana Gibim (Amambai, Paraguay/São Paulo, Brazil)⁣.

The 2025 Wave Farm Residency and Fellowship Program received 301 proposals, originating from 33 countries and 30 U.S. states. Each Artist-in-Residence will live and work on-site at the Wave Farm Study Center for ten days during the program season, which spans April through December.

Radio Art Fellows will dedicate a month-long remote engagement researching and selecting radio artworks by historical and contemporary artists to comprise an episode of the The Radio Art Hour. Fellowships will commence with a brief, in-person visit to Wave Farm, and are awarded in three categories: Research, Community Engagement, and Arts Writing. The Research Fellow will create an additional, second episode of The Radio Art Hour, the Community Engagement Fellow will conceptualize and conduct a public workshop, and the Arts Writing Fellow will produce writing informed by interviews with past Wave Farm Artists-in-residence about the Transmission Art genre for publication in Resonance: The Journal of Sound and Culture (University of California Press).

Giulia Palladini (Mexico City, Mexico)⁣ – Community Engagement Radio Art Fellow
Apr 21, 2025 - May 19, 2025

As the 2025 Wave Farm Community Engagement Radio Art Fellow, Giulia Palladini will conduct a workshop called "Listening to Fascism/Transmitting Antifascism: a Workshop." Looking at and listening to historical audio fragments from an international group of leaders who used fascist tactics to forward their personal agendas, this workshop aims to collectively create a new radio archive of resistance, informed by and learning from the past, to establish a strategy and hope for the future.

Inspired by Walter Benjamin’s and Bertolt Brecht’s belief in the potential of radio as an instrument of political education and popular knowledge production, this workshop mobilizes the listeners as experts, not as a product of scholarly knowledge but through personal and common histories.

Giulia Palladini is a writer, researcher and educator, working between different languages, fields of knowledge and practices of production and reproduction in art and social life. Her work strives for a situated and affective approach to writing, teaching and critical theory. www.giuliapalladini.net

Riel Bellow (O’Gah Po’Geh/Santa Fe, NM) – one long rock song
May 14, 2025 - May 23, 2025

During their residency at Wave Farm, Riel Bellow will work on a radio play called one long rock song. They will create an event score for the play, organize field recordings and sound pieces, and listen. The script/event score will be comprised of different symbols as a citational method for place, event, sounds and story. This work will be attentive to Bellow's own relationship to stones through embodied memory and language. Through the play Bellow offers their own experiences, songs, memories, and dreams, to create sonic interference with the settler logics that reproduce themselves on land. Their time will be rounded off with a broadcast of the play.

Riel Bellow is a multidisciplinary artist, educator, writer, and radio-host. They grew up moving around with the seasons and running around markets, between Santa Fe, New Mexico, San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, and Edmonton, Alberta. Across mediums they use storytelling as a mode of documentary that endeavors to break into the sequentiality of modern grammar, opening ethical and temporal possibilities for how and where language takes place. Riel has published work in Canada Art, ẹwà journal, Gender Fail, Vera List Center for Art and Politics, and elsewhere. Riel holds a BA from Pitzer College, an MFA from Bard College’s Milton Avery Graduate School, and has recently taught at Pomona College, and Scripps College.


Jennif(f)er Tamayo (Territory of the Yesah Confederacy/Gibsonville, NC)⁣ – VIVIR MEJOR- a brief, poetic history of Radio Sutatenza
Jun 11, 2025 - Jun 20, 2025

Launched in 1947 by the Colombian government, Radio Sutatenza was a publicly broadcast radio school that educated farmers and peasants living in the outer, undriveable mountainous regions of the capital city, Bogota. (Perhaps fearing a political peasant rebellion), the cultural arm of the Colombian government hoped Radio Sutatenza (la “escuela radiophonica”) could teach peasants how to read and write Spanish by organizing literary listening groups and informal schools. Radio Sutatenza taught peasants how to “vivir mejor”-- or, have a better life -- and, over the next 40 years, Radio Sutatenza broadcast hundreds of shows on literacy, hygiene, western medicine, gender roles, family planning and others to the masses at the edges of “civilization.” Used as a tool for nation building, Radio Sutatenza was considered a great success for transitioning Colombia and its people into the modern era.

Jenni(f)fer Tamayo's work VIVIR MEJOR- a brief, poetic history of Radio Sutatenza is a lyric radio poem that satires and critiques the colonial project that undergirds the central mission of Radio Sutatenza. Interspersed throughout the broadcast are lyric reflections that depict Tamayo's family’s personal connections to the radio show. How might have Radio Sutatenza and its mission to “vivir mejor” influenced their family’s choice to emigrate from Colombia in the early 1980s? What does it really mean to “have a better life” under settler colonialism and capitalism? And, how has the broadcast and its aim to “civilize” continued to haunt the artist and other Colombian migrants?

Jenni(f)fer Tamayo is a poet, performer and visual artist whose works reimagine the narratives about and politics of undocumented figures in the contemporary U.S. In their books, performances, and digital media, the “illegal” immigrant is recast as a punk figure that queers the norms of personhood and citizenship. They are the author of the hybrid poetry collections [Red Missed Aches, Read Mistakes] (Switchback Books), YOU DA ONE (Noemi Books), to kill the future in the present (Green Lantern Press) and their most recent collection, bruise/bruise/break, explores the enduring colonial legacies of American poetics, migrant futurity, the power of creative kinship. Their writing is widely published and has been anthologized in Best American Experimental Poetry, New Latin@ Writing, and HarperCollins. They were born on Muisca territory (Bogota, Colombia) and are currently building a home/skool on the unceded lands of the Yesah Confederacy (Piedmont region of North Carolina). www.jenniffertamayo.com

Corey Sherrard Jr. (Houston, TX)⁣ – Startalk
Jul 07, 2025 - Jul 16, 2025

Startalk is a generative sound broadcast informed by the geographic locations of black independent radio stations in America throughout history and their respective frequencies. This work (or patch) will output an improvised set of communications between archived broadcast program snippets, tones, and field recordings from each station's relative location. Startalk will be a continuation of a series of constellation pieces, integrating networks of black autonomous spaces into the process of composing music and long-form sound works.

Corey De’Juan Sherrard Jr engineers a developing system for composing songs and generating objects that respond to the deficit of black post-capitalist propaganda within a world culture. He is a School for Poetic Computation alum and graduated from the University of Houston with a BS in Digital Media in 2020. Sherrard has exhibited at Sanman Studios, Sabine Street Studios, Cleve Carney Museum of Art, Basket Books and Art, and the George Washington Carver Museum and Cultural Center. He was a recipient of the 2023 Jones Artist Award. He now consults at the Kinder High School for Performing and Visual Arts, DJs monthly with internet radio station Ice House Radio, spins jazz on his weekly radio show STEAM at KTRU-LP 96.1 FM, and is a member of experimental music group Essex Moor. www.cds-j.xyz

Hali Palombo (Chicago, IL)⁣ – Echolalia FM
Jul 25, 2025 - Aug 31, 2025

Echolalia is the automatic repetition of phrases spoken by another. It is a self-soothing or self-stimulation technique often seen in individuals on the autism spectrum. Echolalia FM is a piece in three movements, each demonstrating the concept of Echolalia in increasingly abstract fashion. The piece will feature classical and contemporary instrumentation, voice and the voices of others. Repeated words, phrases (musical and lingual), and sounds will present themselves initially as cohesive and eventually they will transform into something larger or deteriorate into nothing at all.

Hali Palombo is a composer, visual artist, filmmaker, shortwave radio enthusiast and amateur historian from the Midwestern United States. Born in Northfield, Minnesota, she has had a natural curiosity about radio and the Midwestern United States from a young age. Her work often weaves the absurdity and mundane beauty of Illinois into her records, short films, drawings and paintings. www.halipalombo.com

Jamika Ajalon (Paris, France)⁣ – Fluid Code Transmissions: Liberation Grooves
Sep 01, 2025 - Sep 10, 2025

Fluid Code Transmissions: Liberation Grooves is a radio broadcast exploring the coded languages of liberation as expressed through sound. This project is all about uncovering how sound—whether through music, rhythm, or noise—has historically functioned as a tool for resistance and survival. Drawing from traditions like Morse code, drum communication, and hobo code, I’ll be investigating how oppressed communities have always found ways to speak in languages that slip past dominant systems of control. The goal? To craft a fluid code—a living, evolving form of expression that can’t be easily co-opted or commodified. This program will be a mix of research, sonic experimentation, and collaborations with artists who embody the spirit of the liberation groove. Expect immersive soundscapes, layered compositions, and conversations that dig into the ways liberation language has morphed and adapted across time and geography. By blending original sound experiments with archival material and guest contributions, Fluid Code Transmissions will be both an artistic exploration and a call to imagine new, uncontainable forms of expression.

Jamika Alajon is a writer, author, and interdisciplinary artist who experiments with text, visuals, and sound. A key part of Alajon's practice involves creating and performing improvisational A/V “Anti-Lectures,” which integrate multiple mediums in a live setting. Sound plays a crucial role in these performances, shaping immersive, multilayered experiences. Alajon's work also explores the intersections of memory, narrative, surveillance culture, and fugitivity, contributing to a living archive that amplifies countercultural perspectives and voices from the margins. Alajon's sound work is diverse, incorporating elements of distorted field recordings, found footage, original compositions, and spoken text or poetry. Recently, Alajon created a soundscape for *Radio Whales*, a dance performance, and collaborated with Afrikadaa’s *Sonic Waves Studio* for an Anti-Lecture Lab. Each project reflects their ongoing exploration of sonic textures as a medium for storytelling, flipping dominant paradigme, and reimagining histories. www.jamikaajalon.com

Camille Wong (Los Angeles, CA) – Teresa Time
Oct 20, 2025 - Oct 29, 2025

Teresa Time explores the use of pirate radio as a method of resistance by examining minor acts of insurrection against government censorship. This work is based on the culture of pirate radio stations in the 1980s, when Taiwanese broadcasts were illicitly transmitted into China. At the center of this conflict was the beloved Taiwanese pop singer, Teresa Teng, whose voice became the symbol of these Broadcast Wars, enticing Chinese listeners to defect to Taiwan. As a result, the CCP, who maintained strict control of the incoming media, attempted to ban, jam, and disrupt the radio stations. Listeners in China resisted by adjusting the frequencies and recording live broadcasts onto tapes.

Using transmitters and archival materials (bootlegged Teresa Teng CDs, audio clips, and historical broadcasts), Wong reactivates this history at Wave Farm. Evoking James C. Scott’s concept of “peasant resistance,” listeners follow a set of instructions to locate the frequency of the broadcast, while it is disrupted by overlapping media and interference.

Camille Wong (they/she) is a research-based artist based in Los Angeles, CA. Their practice examines power, geopolitics, and historiography through the lens of media and spectacle. Working across video, sculpture, and writing, they explore how systems of power are embedded within cultural memory and social infrastructures. Often site-specific, their practice considers how we inherit our understanding of place and displacement. Their recent work focuses on media and rhetoric from the Cold War, exploring how these narratives shaped global ideologies and immigration patterns.

Their work has been shown at the Art, Design, & Architecture Museum at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and has exhibited their work throughout Los Angeles including the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Monte Vista Projects, and Art Share LA. They received the Faculty Award of Distinction in 2017. In an effort to stimulate cultural discourse regarding underrepresented voices, they founded Cult Club, an online literary arts magazine dedicated to the intersection of arts and culture. They received their MFA in Media Art at UCLA and dual BAs in Art and Environmental Studies from UCSB. www.camilleivywong.com

Bill Corrigan (Charlottesville, VA)⁣ – Research Radio Art Fellow
November 1 - November 30, 2025

Bill Corrigan is a sound archivist, musician, researcher and writer. Starting as a freeform DJ at Ann Arbor’s WCBN-FM, he has been digging into radio stations and archives across the United States, from Detroit’s WDET to Charlottesville’s WTJU, and has undertaken research and preservation activities at the Pacifica Radio Archives and the Library of Congress. He has made sounds for interdisciplinary ensembles Underword and the Llano Estacado Monad Band, and currently performs duets within the Resuscianne group. He is presently puzzling over the aesthetics of democratic participation, the rhetorics and putative realities of archival neutrality, and the fictive dimensions of documentary recordings. His work for Wave Farm promises to provide an instruction in navigation through the airwaves via the not-entirely-metaphorical medium of water.

Luna Galassini (Santa Fe, NM)⁣ – Research Radio Art Fellow
November 1 - November 30, 2025

As a Radio Art Research Fellow, Luna Galassini will contribute works of transmissions art originating in New Mexico and the broader Southwest. She will continue archival research that began as an exploration of mining and labor history in New Mexico, and soon expanded to include extant audio archives of historic field recordings, public radio interviews with downwinders and from inside the American Indian Movement's occupation of the Shiprock semiconductor plant, and educational radio programs on New Mexico's rivers, water rights, and land grants. She will focus especially on KUNM's Radio Performance Project, initiated and curated by Ned Sublette, a collection spanning documentary, radio play, long-form field recording, and experimental composition--including a 1979 performance of Alvin Lucier's "Music on a Long Thin Wire," broadcast for five straight days and nights from the roof of the Winrock Shopping Center in Albuquerque. Galassini will also contribute contemporary works to Wave Farm's archive, including artists working with shortwave transmission, low-power community radio, tape collage, performance works using analog broadcast equipment, and contributions from the DIY community of Very Low Frequency enthusiasts drawn to New Mexico's dark sky parks and quiet expanses.

Luna Galassini is a musician and artist based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her performances explore the somatic qualities of sound and the vernacular range of the voice through improvisation with found objects, handmade oscillators and receivers, and traditional instruments exploited for their resonant potential as speaker objects. As an independent researcher, she is interested in the translation of the electromagnetic spectrum into audible tones; in the nature of energy work and vibrational healing, particularly as it intersects with her day job as a bodyworker; and in the ecology and history unique to New Mexico, including its vast rural expanses, its troubled sites of extraction, and the aesthetic mythologies that obscure its political and cultural complexity. She has performed both solo and in ensembles at Cocoon (Santa Fe), Wave Archive (Tucson), High Desert Soundings, CO-OPt (Lubbock TX), ICA Santa Fe, the New Mexico Museum of Art, Human Resources, No Name Cinema (Santa Fe), Coaxial, and The Box (Los Angeles). Her video work has been exhibited at No Name Cinema, Currents 826, and REDCAT. She is a co-founder of Santa Fe Noise Ordinance, an experimental concert series that has hosted the Chacon/Nakatani/Santisteven trio, White Boy Scream, Twig Harper, Zachary James Watkins, and the Santa Fe Intertribal Noise Symposium, among many others. www.lunagalassini.com

Fabiana Gibim (Amambai, Paraguay - São Paulo, Brazil)⁣ – Arts Writing Radio Art Fellow
December 1 - December 31, 2025

As a 2025 Wave Farm Radio Art Fellow, Fabiana Gibim writes: "Streaming from an intimate interest in Alien Sound, drawing on what Kodwo Eshun discusses in More Brilliant Than the Sun as Alien Music, I propose writing an essay, culminating on a short book, that uses Tendayi Sithole’s The Black Register, Sun Ra’s MythScience, and Eshun’s concept of Alien Music as an experimental lens to explore how sonic practices articulate modes of Black and Indigenous aesthetic-world-making through vibration as epistemology, transmission, and formless formation. I will focus on the works of Kamari Carter and Gladstone Deluxe (Codes), the ANANSI Revolutionary Collective and SUNJIR0, and Celeste Oram’s TERRA RADIA workshop—all of whom engage with sound as an insurgent force that unsettles hegemonic temporal structures of listening, technology, and registry. Throughout this article, I will explore the breaks where Alien Sound is transmitted (and listened to, dislocated, created, destroyed)—where nothing is fixed in tradition, space, or temporality, but instead dislocated from any origin—proposing sound as a fugitive method of synthetic recombination."

Gibim is a performance artist, editor, and curator from the border of Brazil and Paraguay, born into the Guarani-Kaiowá Indigenous Nation. Her work explores concepts of sonic art in relation to the epistemology of vibration. She is interested in radical archives—both sound and printed matter—and dedicates herself to creating imaginary archives that experiment with the concept of “formless formation.” She is also the editor and founder of the São Paulo-based radical press, Sobinfluencia, working collaboratively with over 200 contributors and having published over 40 books and more than 50 mixed-media posters. She is co-founder of the Nocturnal Lab, laboratory of investigations on sound and night.

Gibim was a special curator at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale, where she received the prestigious John D. and Rose H. Jackson Award for outstanding work in artistic curation. Her efforts culminated in curating the exhibition “Art, Protest & The Archives” at Yale from 2023 to 2024. In 2023, she was a finalist for the Prêmio Jabuti (the "Tortoise Prize"), the most traditional literary award in Brazil, given by the Brazilian Book Chamber (CBL), for her work as the editor of the first book ever written in history, the Mesopotamian long poem “Inana.” Currently, Gibim lives between Brazil and New York, investigating sound, collage, radio work, and writing about sonic experimentalism. www.sobinfluencia.com

Wave Farm is Hiring!
WGXC Community Engagement and Program Assistant

Position Type: Part-time 20 hours/week
Salary: $26,000 ($25/hour)
Location: Acra and Catskill, NY
Start Date: January 2025

Note: Applicants must reside in the WGXC 90.7-FM Listening Area. See Coverage Map. 

Please note: Applications are no longer being accepted.
 

(Note: This position was created in fall 2024 as a temporary position, filled by Caroline Preziosi. Caroline will remain on Wave Farm staff in 2025 working with the expanded Arts in Corrections NYS program. This shift will allow Wave Farm to newly hire someone residing within the WGXC listening area for this WGXC position.)

The Community Engagement and Program Assistant is a part-time position that works in close collaboration with the WGXC Program Director to execute and maintain WGXC programming and bolster Wave Farm’s engagement with our broad constituencies through social media, on-air interviews, and other avenues of community participation. 

This position also works closely with Wave Farm’s Technical Director to provide technical support to WGXC station volunteers. The Community Engagement and Program Assistant reports directly to the WGXC Program Director.

WGXC is a program of Wave Farm, an international transmission arts organization driven by experimentation with the electromagnetic spectrum. We cultivate creative practices in radio and support artists and nonprofit organizations in their cultural endeavors.

Primary Responsibilities include:

• Maintain WGXC Community Calendar
• Monitor, field, and answer inquiries to info@wgxc.org 
• Attend weekly programming meetings with WGXC Program Director
• Attend weekly staff meetings with full Wave Farm staff
• Social Media

Shared Responsibilities:

• Coordinate with Technical Director to schedule programmer trainings and technical support
• Coordinate WGXC Afternoon Show interviews
• Update program schedule on the website including broadcast listings and audio archive 
• Identify and fill gaps in the program schedule
• Monitor 90.7-FM and RadioLogik
• Coordinate WGXC committees 
• Check/Maintain broadcast studios
• Participate in Program Application reviews, interviews, and onboarding 
• Attend and staff public events

Acra, NY—Wave Farm announced today fifteen grantees for the Fall 2024 round of the Media Arts Assistance Fund (MAAF) for Organizations, a regrant program with the New York State Council on the Arts. MAAF for Organizations grantees: Blank Forms, Squeaky Wheel, F.Y. Eye, Film Forum, Flux Factory, The Flaherty, ISSUE Project Room, Jacob Burns Film Center, Life Stories, Maysles Documentary Center, Sag Harbor Cinema Arts Center, Standby Program, UFO--Untitled Filmmaker Org, UnionDocs, and Youth FX.

The Media Arts Assistance Fund (MAAF) supports electronic media and film organizations, as well as individual artists, in all regions of New York State. For organizations, MAAF provides funds to support technical strategies for online development as well as to hire outside consultants to support organizational and professional development. MAAF prioritizes organizations that have missions specific to the media arts or dedicate the majority of their programming to technology as an art form. Multi-disciplinary organizations are considered on a case-by-case basis. All applicants must be current NYSCA grantees. Organizations are eligible to receive a maximum of $2,500 for each application opportunity. The biannual application deadlines are May 1 and October 1.

“Congratulations to all the grantees. We are proud to partner with Wave Farm to offer technical support to these vital organizations, so they can continue to grow and serve their communities,” said Erika Mallin, Executive Director of NYSCA.

Fall 2024 GRANTEES AND PROJECT DESCRIPTIONS

Blank Forms (Kings County) - Consultant for the Development and Accessibility of Artist Archives
Blank Forms will use MAAF funding to engage an archival and information specialist who will advise on the next stage of development of their archival services. Blank Forms’ archival services aim to preserve at-risk media and time-based art, and to build the legacy and public appreciation for under-recognized pioneers in those fields.

Squeaky Wheel (Erie County) - Strategic Planning Consultant
Squeaky Wheel will use MAAF funding to work with a professional consultant with experience in nonprofit strategic planning in order to develop a 2-5 year strategic plan for the organization. This process aims to assess the organization’s current resources, programming, and community impact in order to comprehensively continue to meet the evolving needs of the artists, youth, and community members Squeaky Wheel serves.

F.Y. Eye (New York County) - Development Consulting
MAAF funding will be used to support the engagement of a nonprofit development consultant who will work with F.Y. Eye staff to expand their knowledge and skill in fundraising, and will provide support in developing a diversified fundraising plan for the organization. This work will take place in conjunction with strategic planning in 2025.

Film Forum (New York County) - Capacity Interactive Boot Camp 2024
Film Forum will use MAAF funding to support the attendance of two staff members at the annual boot camp hosted by digital marketing and consulting firm Capacity Initiative. Film Forum aims to support their staff’s knowledge of digital marketing tools and resources.

Flux Factory (Queens County) - Website Redesign & Flux Alumni database
MAAF funding will support the engagement of a graphic design and web development team to redesign Flux Factory’s website. This project aims to improve the front-facing aesthetic of the site for the public, improve the Wordpress back-end architecture, and integrate Airtable with Wordpress so that databases may be seamlessly integrated into the site.

The Flaherty (Kings County) - Strategic development of an asynchronous Flaherty Film Seminar platform
MAAF funding will support the engagement of a consultant who will assist in the development of an asynchronous Flaherty Film Seminar platform for individual and educational use. This platform will feature not only films, but also accompanying reading materials and recordings of the conversations and exchanges that take place between artists, elders, and audiences during the annual Flaherty Film Seminar.

ISSUE Project Room (Kings County) - IT Advancement: Experimental Artists & Community Archive
ISSUE Project Room will use MAAF funding to engage an IT consultant to support improvements to their website. This project aims to deepen access to artist resources on their site, which will enable artists to most easily access grant opportunities, creative partnerships, and institutional collaborations. Funding will also support staff training in managing the backend of these improvements.

Jacob Burns Film Center (Westchester County) - 25th Anniversary Strategy
Jacob Burns Film Center will use MAAF funding to support their work with a consulting agency to plan key development goals and strategies for their 25th Anniversary (2026). The 25th Anniversary Plan will dovetail with Jacob Burns Film Center’s existing fundraising focus and provide a prelude to future efforts to raise funds for program development and capital projects.

Life Stories (Westchester County) - Life Stories Learning Collections
MAAF funding will support the growth of the educational section of Life Stories’ website: Life Stories Learning. The consultant will design and implement updates that will make the website more accessible and will increase primary source content.

Maysles Documentary Center (New York County) - Development Consulting, Phase 2
Maysles Documentary Center (MDC) will use MAAF funding to support their engagement with a development consultant. In this phase of the project, the consultant will focus on grassroots funding opportunities and community building within Harlem and the documentary film industry.

Sag Harbor Cinema (Suffolk County) - New Website Development for Greater Accessibility and Functionality
Sag Harbor Cinema will use MAAF funding to support the development of a new website for the organization. Through their engagement of a web developer, the new website will be flexible, dynamic, and easy-to-use. The website will also be mobile-friendly and include enhanced integration with their ticketing system platform.

Standby Program (New York County) - Website Optimization
Standby Program will use MAAF funding to engage a marketing and technology firm to implement updates to the organization’s website. Functionality improvements will include page speed, search rankings, security, restructuring of the donation portal, and mobile compatibility.

UFO--Untitled Filmmaker Org (New York County) - Strategic Fundraising and Board Development Planning
UFO will use MAAF funding to engage a development consultant to aid the organization in generating a long-term fundraising strategy for overall sustainability and supporting the development of UFO’s first Board of Directors. The consultant will advise on establishing and implementing management practices, systems, and an overall strategy that will support and structure UFO’s fundraising efforts.

UnionDocs (Kings County) - Financial Management Consultant
MAAF funding will support a financial management consultant who will evaluate and enhance the current budgeting, forecasting, and financial reporting systems at UnionDocs. The consultant will additionally bolster staff financial literacy and strengthen organizational capacity, accountability and transparency.

Youth FX (Albany County) - Youth FX Board Development Advisory
Youth FX will use MAAF funding to engage a consultant to guide the organization in the process of decision-making related to Board Recruitment and building an effective BOD Structure. The consultant will also provide a comprehensive review and refinement of the Youth FX Board Orientation Manual.

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About the New York State Council on the Arts
The mission of the New York State Council on the Arts is to foster and advance the full breadth of New York State’s arts, culture, and creativity for all. To support the ongoing recovery of the arts across New York State, the Council on the Arts will award $162 million in FY2025, serving organizations and artists across all 10 state regions. The Council on the Arts further advances New York's creative culture by convening leaders in the field and providing organizational and professional development opportunities and informational resources. Created by Governor Nelson Rockefeller in 1960 and continued with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature, the Council is an agency that is part of the Executive Branch. For more information on NYSCA, please visit www.arts.ny.gov, and follow NYSCA's Facebook page, on X @NYSCArts and Instagram @NYSCouncilontheArts.

About Wave Farm
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. For more information, please visit https://wavefarm.org

For more information about the The New York State Council on the Arts Regrant Programs with Wave Farm visit https://wavefarm.org/grants-services/nysca-regrants.

Acra, NY—Wave Farm announced today thirteen grantees for the Spring 2024 round of the Media Arts Assistance Fund (MAAF) for Organizations, a regrant program with the New York State Council on the Arts. MAAF for Organizations grantees: Adirondack Film, American Documentary, Aubin Pictures, Black Public Media, Buffalo International Film Festival, Chicken & Egg Pictures, Culture Hub, Educational Video Center, Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), Franklin Furnace Archives, Jacob Burns Film Center, Maysles Documentary Center, and Woodstock Film Festival.

The Media Arts Assistance Fund (MAAF) supports electronic media and film organizations, as well as individual artists, in all regions of New York State. For organizations, MAAF provides funds to support technical strategies for online development as well as to hire outside consultants to support organizational and professional development. MAAF prioritizes organizations that have missions specific to the media arts or dedicate the majority of their programming to technology as an art form. Multi-disciplinary organizations are considered on a case-by-case basis. All applicants must be current NYSCA grantees. Organizations are eligible to receive a maximum of $2,500 for each application opportunity. The biannual application deadlines are May 1 and October 1.

SPRING 2024 GRANTEES AND PROJECT DESCRIPTIONS

Adirondack Film (Essex County) - Strengthening Funding for Adirondack Film

Adirondack Film will use MAAF funding to support their organizational development. Through the engagement of two consulting firms working in collaboration, ADK Film seeks to identify and implement a strategic fundraising plan to strengthen their outreach and bolster program funding.

American Documentary (New York County) - Strategic Development and Human Resources

MAAF funding will support strategic development planning for American Documentary. Consultants will work directly with AmDoc’s External Affairs department, including their Marketing/Communications and Development teams, to create an 18-month development plan, define inter-departmental goals, craft key messaging and collateral for funders, and additional initiatives.

Aubin Pictures (New York County) - Impact Consultant for Organizational Development

Aubin Pictures will use MAAF funding to engage a consultant who will help guide the organization’s approach to sharing the impact of their past work and prepare new film impact campaigns. The consultant will also train staff members in order to help build their skills in this area.

Black Public Media (New York County) - Staff Consultant

Black Public Media will use MAAF funding to engage a consultant to evaluate and assess the organization’s current capacity, and identify opportunities for improved efficiencies and appropriate staffing. BPM will work with the consultant to assess the organization's programs and services, meet with staff to discuss their job duties, and facilitate a two-day workshop on organizational planning.

Buffalo International Film Festival (Erie County) - 2025-2027 Strategic Plan

Buffalo International Film Festival will use MAAF funds to engage an experienced strategic planning consultant who will meet with board and staff to assess and analyze organizational operations, infrastructure, programs, impacts, and goals. A three-year Strategic Plan will be created as a roadmap to sustainably guide organizational growth by strengthening BIFF's infrastructure and mission-driven programming and deepening engagement with and support for the communities that BIFF serves.

Chicken & Egg Pictures (Kings County) - Online AlumNest community platform

MAAF funding will support the development of AlumNest – Chicken & Egg Pictures’ online communication platform for their nearly 500 currently and previously supported filmmakers. The platform will enable their global filmmaker community to connect through curated groups, share resources, and plan virtual meetings. Funding will support the organization’s use of the Mighty Networks platform.

CultureHub (New York County) - Releasing LiveLab Broadcaster

MAAF funding will provide support for the public release of LiveLab Broadcaster, an open-source, browser-based tool for interactive streaming, which CultureHub will offer without charge. CultureHub will hire a creative coder to develop documentation, host workshops, and create demos that will support the wide release of this tool in the summer of 2024.

Educational Video Center (New York County) - Equitable Human Resources at EVC

Educational Video Center will use MAAF funding to hire an outside consultant to provide HR expertise in support of their staff. The consultant will work with EVC to review their existing HR manual and processes, resulting in a written report with recommendations for improvement. The consultant will additionally offer training sessions for the organization’s younger staff members.

Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) (New York County) - EAI Digital Storage Consultancy

To guide a long-term strategy and future fundraising efforts for their multimedia archive, EAI will use MAAF funding to engage an experienced consultant to audit the current digital storage strategy and make recommendations for a long-range plan to support EAI’s archiving and preservation services into the future.

Franklin Furnace Archive (Kings County) - Online Event Database Upgrade

MAAF funding will support Franklin Furnace Archives’ engagement of a consultant to design and build a new public portal for its Online Event Archives Database in an effort to make their archives more accessible to scholars and art enthusiasts using FF’s art historical records.

Jacob Burns Film Center (Westchester County) - Development Audit

Jacob Burns Film Center will use MAAF funding to engage a consultant to develop a comprehensive development and campaign readiness assessment following the Center’s recently completed strategic plan. A thorough development assessment will fully examine current fundraising efforts and make recommendations as to how these efforts might be optimized to support organizational growth.

Maysles Documentary Center (New York County) - Funding for Development Consultant

MAAF funding will support the engagement of a consultant to help Maysles Documentary Center build a long-term fundraising strategy. The consultant will design a strategy to build and strengthen relationships with family foundations and private donors, improve grassroots fundraising through membership and direct initiatives, and optimize annual gala planning.

Woodstock Film Festival (Ulster County) - Data Management Operations

Woodstock Film Festival will use MAAF funding to hire a certified data management consultant to train staff to maximize the potential of their project management software. WFF aims to improve staff’s understanding of this software to enhance operations and use the platform to its full potential.

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About the New York State Council on the Arts The mission of the New York State Council on the Arts is to foster and advance the full breadth of New York State’s arts, culture, and creativity for all. To support the ongoing recovery of the arts across New York State, the Council on the Arts will award $162 million in FY2025, serving organizations and artists across all 10 state regions. The Council on the Arts further advances New York's creative culture by convening leaders in the field and providing organizational and professional development opportunities and informational resources. Created by Governor Nelson Rockefeller in 1960 and continued with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature, the Council is an agency that is part of the Executive Branch. For more information on NYSCA, please visit www.arts.ny.gov, and follow NYSCA's Facebook page, on X @NYSCArts and Instagram @NYSCouncilontheArts.

About Wave Farm 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. For more information, please visit https://wavefarm.org

For more information about the The New York State Council on the Arts Regrant Programs with Wave Farm visit https://wavefarm.org/grants-services/nysca-regrants.

Acra, NY—Wave Farm announced today the artists and projects selected for the 2024 Wave Farm Transmission Arts Residency and Radio Art Fellowship Programs. Since 2005, Wave Farm’s international artist-residency program has fostered new work in Transmission Arts. This year the program will emphasize “Live Performance for an Expanded Studio Audience.” Each residency will conclude with a public event at Wave Farm, which is also a live radio broadcast on Wave Farm Radio: WGXC 90.7-FM Radio for Open Ears in NY’s Upper Hudson Valley. Since 2019, the Wave Farm Radio Art Fellowship program has supported community workshops and the creation of an online archive and weekly radio series celebrating noteworthy historic and contemporary radio artworks.

In 2024, Wave Farm welcomes Sally Ann McIntyre / radio cegeste (Aotearoa/New Zealand and Naarm/Melbourne, Australia), Austin T. Richey (Detroit, MI), Ginebra Raventós with Emilio Marx (Barcelona, Spain), Caroline Preziosi (Baltimore, MD / Callicoon, NY), Daniel Neumann (Brooklyn, New York), Fabian Lanzmaier and Andreas Zißler (Vienna, Austria / Germany), Kamari Carter and Gladstone Deluxe (New York, NY), Celeste Oram (New York, NY), ANANSI Revolutionary Collective with SUNJIR0 (Internationally Distributed / Nairobi, Kenya) and, Hans Kuzmich (Los Angeles, CA).

The 2024 program also inaugurates a new partnership with CU Boulder. In this exchange, the first five days of the residency will take place at Wave Farm and consist of research and early project development. The resident will then travel to Boulder where they will further develop their project in advance of a multi-channel public presentation there as well as produce a binaural mix prepared for stereo FM broadcast on Wave Farm Radio. This year also marks the second annual Rising Tide Award, which provides additional financial support to an applicant with a multidimensional life and background whose work is rooted in process, to further the pursuit of new ideas, experiments, and uncertainties.

The 2024 Wave Farm Residency and Fellowship Program received 258 proposals, originating from 28 countries and 29 U.S. states. Each artist or duo will live and work on-site at the Wave Farm Study Center for ten days during the program season, which spans June through October. Radio Art Fellows will continue their work remotely in conjunction with their one-month Fellowship engagement.

WAVE FARM RESIDENCY + FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM SELECTED ARTISTS AND PROJECTS 2024
(In chronological order)

Sally Ann McIntyre / radio cegeste (Aotearoa/New Zealand and Naarm/Melbourne, Australia) – ion and bird: a transmission for the Atlantic flyway
June 7 - 16, 2024. Public event: June 15.

Radio is sky. It sings through the mouths of birds on their journeys who navigate by infrasound and listen to the aurora as the sound of the lightning.

Radio is terrestrial. It is in the rocks, in the earthquake prone and mountainous zones of Te Wai Pounamu the South Island of Aotearoa New Zealand where the small birds called pīwauwau, or Rock wrens, speak a language that is almost too high for human hearing.

Migratory birds use magnetoreception, detecting the Earth’s magnetic field, as one of their tools to navigate on their long-distance journeys. With a frequency range of hearing considerably lower than human listening, certain species also orient through low-frequency infrasound, along coastline and oceanic landmarks that may serve as orientation beacons. ion and bird considers the links between this still indeterminate set of techniques within the embodied senses of birds, known since the nineteenth century and once mythicized as the “sixth sense,” and the sonic expression of bird songs and calls. In tuning in to less audible sky narratives and correspondences, it considers collaboration and communication with non-human species, intelligence beyond human perception, multispecies media histories, and radio as translation between worlds. As the VLF radio receiver converts the aurora's radio waves into a frequency audible to the human listener, and the crystal radio set harnesses tiny crystals of the minerals pyrite and galena within the simplest type of functional radio receiver, so may the navigational abilities of birds, emerging in part from magnetite-based receptors in beaks, or quantum sensing in avian eyes and ears, be understood to make audible a vibratory, embodied strata of forces that normally remains inaudible.

Using an expanded palette of electroacoustic and radiophonic instrumentation including bird-tracking telemetry systems used with migratory shorebirds on the Atlantic Flyway, and with an ear to more-than-human material histories of radio transmission, reception, and locality, ion and bird will tune into an aesthetic correspondence between bird vocalization and space weather, considering how the otherworldly chirps, crackles, and squeaks created by geomagnetic storms in the Earth’s ionosphere resemble the contact calls of migratory birds, and the phenomena referred to as the electromagnetic or auroral dawn chorus, sounds remarkably like birdsong. Mcintyre will be joined in-residence by her long-time partner and collaborator, film-maker and photographer Campbell Walker who will document the project in preparation for a standalone film.

Sally Ann McIntyre is an artist, writer, and expanded radio-maker from Aotearoa New Zealand/Lutruwita Tasmania living in Naarm Melbourne. Her research-led practice has paid increasing attention to sites where ecological and cultural narratives (recorded/transmitted signals/empiricism/documentary/zoologic museum collections) meet unheard, unremembered, untranscribed, or untranslated aspects of geographies (bad reception/pseudoscience/silence/extinction/electromagnetism/noise). Often working critically with the sonic representation of environments, the one-way collecting drives of the practice of field recording, conceived as a form of technologized “voluntary memory,” meet a contrasting, liminal “involuntary memory” often gleaned from the practice of small-scale radio transmission as a form of two-way, site-receptive “fieldwork” and an associated focus on revealing the chaotic nature of the inaudible energy spectrum. McIntyre teaches at the University of Melbourne, Monash University, and Deakin University in Media and Communications, Literary Studies and the Creative Arts. https://radiocegeste.blogspot.com/

Austin T. Richey (Detroit, MI) – Research Radio Art Fellow
June 21 - July 19, 2024

As Wave Farm's 2024 Radio Art Research Fellow, Austin T. Richey will contribute five new artists and works to the Broadcast Radio Art Archive. Richey's research will focus on artists who utilize new interfaces to develop an emergent soundscape or hide themselves within the sonic textures. The cohort will include Zimbabwean radio and sculpture artist Masimba Hwati, whose performances connect Shona ritual and contemporary diasporic African life, and Martin Freeman, a New York-based instrument maker who builds and leads workshops around solar-powered synthesis. Richey's interest in diasporic frequencies and environmental modulation developed from his own performance practice. Each Fellowship commences with a 10-day on-site residency. In addition to using this time on-site to inform his research, Richey will sound out Wave Farm through broadcast recordings of his own solar instruments, placed throughout the campus. These sounders will be complemented by a set of instruments—specifically built for his time at Wave Farm—that are only audible through EMF detectors.

Austin T. Richey is a musician, multimedia artist, and ethnomusicologist based in Detroit, Michigan, where he explores the resonances between diasporic African musical, dance, and visual arts and Detroit-specific genres such as Motown and techno. Richey’s current sonic practice reclaims public spaces through community-oriented DIY synthesizer-making workshops and site-specific, historically and environmentally informed sound installation. Through these workshops, Richey connects young sound makers to their environment via deep listening practices while teaching skills like electrical engineering, encouraging them to experiment with self-designed sonic expressions.

Richey has published original research in African Music, Opioid Aesthetics, and Sonic Signatures, has contributed research to the Public Broadcasting Service digital series Sound Field, and is currently turning his dissertation on experimental community music-making and griots in Detroit into a manuscript. His research is supported by the Frederick Douglass Institute, the Society for American Music, Humanities New York, the Knight Foundation, and the Presser Foundation. Collaborations include work with Sō Percussion, Bora Yoon, and extensive live sound installation and performance with Maritza Garibay as the duo Dominant Hand. He earned a Ph.D. from Eastman School of Music in 2023, is an instructor at Western Michigan University's Gilmore School of Music, and is the current Storyteller for Detroit Opera. https://austinrichey.com/

Ginebra Raventós with Emilio Marx (Barcelona, Spain) – Voices_in_Transmission: _Immersive_Radio_Phantom_Words
July 5 - 13, 2024. Public event: July 13.

Voices_in_Transmission: _Immersive_Radio_Phantom_Words aims to expand on Diana Deutsch's psychoacoustic phenomenon "Phantom Words" incorporating spatiality, multi-channeling, diverse languages, voices, and syllables into the exploration. The primary goal is to create a comprehensive sound bank using recordings exclusively from local radio stations to investigate the radio's role in auditory perception and neurological responses in the creation of phantom words. The project will explore how radio samples, including background music and sound effects, contribute to the perception of phantom words. Additionally, the project will enhance spatiality by incorporating several radio receivers and examining the electro-acoustic chain's impact on perception. Raventós will be joined in-residence with her Acoustic Heritage Collective collaborator, Emilio Marx who will contribute as a sound producer and technician. Trained in acoustic engineering, with an interest in acoustic heritage, Marx frequently uses his theoretical background to implement technology that enhances spatial translations.

Ginebra Raventós is a poet and sound artist. Her field of research crosses the voice, word, collective unconscious, and psychoacoustics through sound, space, and the moving image. She investigates the possibilities of expanding the field of action of poetry beyond the word in the text. In her pieces, Raventós displays her poetic universe, where voice, action, sound, image, space, and text are intermingled in an indispensable whole. She also explores the idea of repetition and trance, that is, the alteration of consciousness understood as the displacement to a new mental space and perceptual world. https://linktr.ee/Ginebraraventos

Caroline Preziosi (Baltimore, MD / Callicoon, NY) – Arts Writing Radio Art Fellow
July 19 - August 16, 2024

The Arts Writing Fellow is a critic and/or curator who will produce an essay about selected Wave Farm artists-in-residence work, including artist interviews. In this newly established Fellowship opportunity, Preziosi will consider the work of past residents whose projects implicate questions of climate change and human responsibility through intimate studies of biodiverse habitats, weather forecasting, insects, and machines. Preziosi's essay will explore possibilities of transmission as translation–between image and sound, between human and non-human language—in order to create bridges between ourselves and our precarious environment.

Caroline Preziosi is a writer, artist, and educator in Baltimore, MD and Callicoon, NY. She works in language, photography, sound, and installation. She has a BA in Writing from Johns Hopkins University, an MFA from School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and serves as a board member with ENGN Civic Creative Center, a 501(c)3 educational non-profit in NY. https://carolinepreziosi.com/

Daniel Neumann (Brooklyn, New York) – TONE FIELD HORIZON
August 2 - 11, 2024. Public event: August 10.

TONE FIELD HORIZON is a performance-installation for the Wave Farm Art Park, as well as a simultaneous radio transmission mixed live from the various points that make up the field. The project uses the Art Park as a spatial instrument. Neumann will install five remote stations, each consisting of a loudspeaker and a microphone. He will use his software instrument Room Tone Generator [RTG] to generate finely tuned tonalities that blend into the nearfield environment. During a culminating public program, on-site audiences will experience the tones in the environment (RTG within an ecosystem) expanding spatiality. Listening gets a tonal anchor for focusing attention as the visitors move through the different acoustic arenas. As visitors walk around the Wave Farm Art Park they experience the shifting acoustic horizon in relation to how close or far they are from the various RTG speakers. The microphones will pick up the altered environment. For off-site radio audiences, all five feeds will be mixed together and output for stereo broadcast over WGXC 90.7-FM and wavefarm.org/listen. This tele-audience will experience a very different acoustic horizon, an all-at-once conglomerate from the different locations.

Daniel Neumann is a sound artist, organizer, and audio engineer. He holds a media art masters degree from the Academy of Visual Art Leipzig where he studied electronic music composition. Neumann’s main area of focus is how sound interacts with space and how space and spatial perception can be shaped by sound. He works in hybrid installation-performance formats and understands sound as an intersubjective field enabled by audio procedures. Neumann’s work has been presented internationally at venues including: Zona Maco CDMX, TEA Tenerife, Sinne Helsinki, Pinacoteca Bellas Artes Manizales Colombia, Espacios Resonantes Santiago de Chile, Loop Barcelona; Sculpture Center, etc. He is represented by Fridman Gallery, New York. Curatorially Neumann runs CT::SWaM, an ongoing series presenting spatial sound works, now under the umbrella of the organization New Ear, for which Neumann serves as a founding Board Member. As an audio engineer, he has worked for Diamanda Galás, BlankForms, Time:Spans, MoMA PS1, Meredith Monk, Kevin Beasley, Phill Niblock, Ellen Reid, Missy Mazzoli, David Guetta, ACME, Alarm Will Sound, and more. http://danielneumann.org

Fabian Lanzmaier and Andreas Zißler (Vienna, Austria / Germany) – transmitter2ears
August 16 - 25, 2024. Public event: August 24.

transmitter2ears is a live performance/installation with two parabolic speakers, binaural microphones, radio transmission, and a synthesizer. Together they form an audio-feedback loop, open to the sounds of the environment and a performer/musician interacting with the audio-field of the highly directive speakers. In the performance, Lanzmaier and Zißler and their collaborators actively blur the lines between performer, listener, musician, and landscape, turning the whole ecosystem of the site into an instrument.

Andreas Zißler and Fabian Lanzmaier are transdisciplinary artists based in Vienna. Coming from different backgrounds (architecture, fine arts, and sound/music) they share an interest in sound and its relation to space. Recently, they have collaborated on different site specific installations, working with feedback systems, parabolic sound reflectors, and spatial audio. https://www.fabianlanzmaier.com https://www.andreaszissler.com/

Kamari Carter and Gladstone Deluxe (New York, NY) – Codes
Wave Farm / CU Boulder Exchange Residency
Wave Farm: August 30 - September 3, 2024. CU Boulder: September 3 - 8, 2024.

Codes is a newly-founded collaboration between Kamari Carter and Gladstone Deluxe that features an audio-visual durational performance using data extracted from live police scanner transmissions as a primary material for musical exploration. Deriving from Carter’s research-oriented practice revolving heavily around policing, incarceration, Black aesthetics, and surveillance, and Deluxe’s haptic, Afrological and techno-inspired analog compositional strategies, Codes works towards a synthesis of both schools of thought, and seeks to elevate the obfuscated.

Kamari Carter is a New York-based artist primarily working with sound, video, installation, and performance. His practice circumvents materiality and familiarity through a variety of recording and amplification techniques to investigate notions such as space, systems of identity, oppression, control, and surveillance. Driven by the probative nature of perception and the concept of conversation and social science, he seeks to expand narrative structures through sonic stillness. Carter’s work has been exhibited at such venues as Automata Arts, MoMA, Mana Contemporary, RISD Museum, Flux Factory, Lenfest Center for the Arts, and Wave Hill and has been featured in a range of major publications including ArtNet, Precog Magazine, LevelGround, and WhiteWall. Carter holds a BFA in Music Technology from California Institute of the Arts and an MFA in Sound Art from Columbia University. Kamari Carter is represented by Microscope Gallery in New York City. https://www.kamaricarter.com

Gladstone Deluxe is a New York-based artist working with percussion and electronics. As a percussionist, Gladstone is interested in how conceptions and politics of time are embodied, and can bleed into the social topography of a culture through rhythmic performance. As a technologist, they develop systems for the augmentation and amplification of percussive messages. His experimental approach towards composition and interface design is a collision of the spiritual and the cybernetic. In 2023, Deluxe released EPs with Black Techno Matters and is / was. Films that Deluxe scored were shown at the British Film Institute, a STARZ television premiere, the Hawai’i International Film Festival, and more. He’s appeared in galleries like The Warhol Museum, Rubin Foundation, Chashama, the Carnegie Museum of Art, and clubs throughout the U.S. In 202,4 he will collaborate with Moog Synthesizers, Sō Percussion, Attacca Quartet, and more. Gladstone also keeps busy as the timbales player for Las Mariquitas, which was recently featured in Rolling Stone. https://www.gladstonebutler.com/

Celeste Oram (New York, NY) – Community Engagement Radio Art Fellow
September 9 - October 7, 2024

As Wave Farm’s Community Engagement Radio Art Fellow, Celeste Oram will conduct the workshop TERRA RADIA: the (De-)Territorialization of the Radio Spectrum. Presented in three parts, the workshop gathers radio enthusiasts to reflect on the territorialization of the electromagnetic spectrum: that is, the conceptual, legal, political, scientific, and aesthetic frames whereby radio is described as if it were space or territory. The workshop will pose and discuss questions including: But how apt are those analogies? What do they elide or misrepresent about radio properties and technology? What political mechanisms do they naturalize? By what other conceptual means might we navigate and manage electromagnetic properties?

And what is at stake in these reflections? Well, the spectrum is a proving ground for some of the most urgent political re-calibrations of our time: the rights and privileges of corporate bodies; the future of the nation-state; Indigenous sovereignty and decolonial governance; overlapping sovereignties within shared territorial environments.

Presented in a hybrid format, an introductory experimental lecture-recital will be followed by collaborative Zoom sessions open to an international audience of radionauts and anyone who wants to learn about the political underpinnings of how we apprehend natural phenomena.

Celeste Oram is a composer with equal investments in radiophonic and transmission art, as well as live musical performance in the experimental and classical realms. Oram’s work explores the histories and micro-cultures of musical practice itself, as well as its socio-political entanglements. Her radiophonic pieces employ radio technologies (sometimes DIY) as a musical instrument in the pursuit of richly contrapuntal sonic textures. Often Oram’s work engages with the histories and cultures of both public and amateur radio, and their entwined development with colonialism and nation-building—especially in her home country Aotearoa New Zealand. Recent compositions for live performance span instrumental and vocal concert music, polyphonic songs, music for period Baroque instruments, experimental music-theatre, and orchestral music for dance-theater. Much of Oram’s musical language is rooted in a studied investment in early music, revivifying historical musical languages via experimental approaches. http://celesteoram.com

ANANSI Revolutionary Collective with SUNJIR0 (Internationally Distributed / Nairobi, Kenya) – Ansible Realm Connector
Rising Tide Award Recipient
September 27 - October 6, 2024. Public event; October 5.

Ansible Realm Connector is an innovative live docu-fictional radio play and Arkestral tele-performance that unfolds the narrative of the (fictional) inter-dimensional ansible, I.D.A., and the genesis of the (real) ANANSI Revolutionary Collective. Envisioned as a global collaboration, musicians, sound artists, and thespians will synchronize from diverse locations using tele-midi and low-latency audio transfer technology. This interdisciplinary tele-performance aims to transcend physical distances, creating a shared experience for a global audience. SUNJIR0 (Nairobi, Kenya) will anchor the project on-site at Wave Farm.

ANANSI Revolutionary Collective is a Pan-African group of artists distributed throughout the world that collaborate with each other on art and work. We co-steward a commons, follow the ANANSI philosophy, experiment with collaborative practices, and are building a participatory governance model. We are artists, activists, anarchists, inventors, economists, guerrilla theorists, creatives, creators, and collaborators. We are distributed throughout the globe and step with ease between the many worlds we inhabit. https://anansi.site/

SUNJIR0 is a trans-disciplinary artist, designer, creative technologist, and the catalyst of the ANANSI Revolutionary Collective. As a solo audio artist, they create immersive soundscapes and docu-fictional work that exists in the realm of science-fiction, Afrofuturism, and techno-politics. https://kadallah.com/

Hans Kuzmich (Los Angeles, CA) – Three Transmissions from the Carceral State
October 11 - 20, 2024. Public event: October 19.

Three Transmissions from the Carceral State is a live performance and radio broadcast bringing together three sound archives connected to the history of imprisonment in Upstate New York. The first set of recordings derives from a practice of listening to the electromagnetic and acoustic environments of active and decommissioned prisons in Wave Farm’s vicinity. The second set draws on Wave Farm’s archive of radio programs highlighting the analysis of imprisoned people, their families, and communities. Finally, a third set of recordings engage with current abolitionist organizing in Upstate New York. The three sound archives will be mixed in real time to evoke the prison as a physical structure and a discursive site. Listening to its past, present, and future, the project seeks to contribute to the abolitionist imagining of imprisonment’s afterlife.

Hans Kuzmich is a Belarusian interdisciplinary artist and scholar whose work attends to gender as an interface between subjects and the state with the desire to unsettle their regulatory logics. Working from a trans, diasporic position, Kuzmich creates moving image and sound installations that foreground phenomena on the edges of visibility and audibility, such as infrared light and electromagnetic fields. Kuzmich is currently completing a hybrid doctoral dissertation in Film and Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He received an MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles, a BFA from the Cooper Union, and attended the Whitney Independent Study Program. Kuzmich has been awarded artist residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, the Studios at MASS MoCA, and SOMA Summer. His work has been exhibited at Art in General, the Kitchen, the 8th Floor, Poetry Project at St. Marks Church, Performance Project at University Settlement, Temporary Agency, and Not An Alternative/No-Space (New York, NY); Underground Museum, New Wight Gallery, and Pacific Design Center (Los Angeles, CA); AS220 (Providence, RI); Beirut (Cairo, Egypt); and SOMA (Mexico City), among other venues. Kuzmich’s writing has appeared in journals (Theory, Culture & Society, Art Journal, and Native Strategies) and exhibition catalogs (Imagine Freedom: Art Works for Abolition, New Wight Biennial: Compassion Fatigue, and Sharon Hayes: There’s So Much I Want to Say to You). https://hanskuzmich.info/

About Wave Farm
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.For more information, please visit wavefarm.org

About the Wave Farm / CU Boulder Exchange Opportunity @ Atlas B2
In 2024, Wave Farm and University of Colorado, Boulder will invite an artist from the Wave Farm Residency Cohort to split their residency between Wave Farm and CU Boulder. The first five days of the residency will be spent at Wave Farm and consist of research and early project development. The resident will then travel to Boulder where they will further develop their project, making use of the Atlas Institutes’ B2 Center for Media, Arts & Performance facility and equipment. (See https://www.colorado.edu/atlas/b2/facilities-equipment and https://github.com/MerkelAcoustics/ATLASBlackBox). The culmination of this residency will be a multi-channel public presentation in Boulder at B2, as well as a binaural mix prepared for stereo FM broadcast on Wave Farm Radio. This artist will receive a single stipend of $2,500 to be used for artist stipend, travel, and accommodation expenses.

About the Rising Tide Award
Established in 2023 with the generous proceeds received from LoVid's Tide Predictor, an Art Blocks Curated series of onchain generative NFTs, an additional $1,500 will be awarded to a single resident. The Rising Tide Award aims to support an applicant with a multidimensional life and background, whose work is rooted in process, to further the pursuit of new ideas, experiments, and uncertainties. Artists with special circumstances that require additional funds such as: parents, artists from out of state/country, collaborators, and artists with non-traditional art/career experiences are encouraged to apply.

Wave Farm programs are 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; the Alexander and Marjorie Hover Foundation; the T. Backer Fund; the Joseph Family Charitable Trust; and hundreds of other generous individual donors, including WGXC Sustaining Supporters, who provide critical monthly support to Wave Farm's radio station WGXC 90.7-FM.