Acra, NY—Wave Farm announced today eighteen grantees for the Spring 2025 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 are: Adirondack Film, American Documentary, Buffalo International Film Festival, Chicken & Egg Films, CultureHub, Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), Firelight Media, HUDSY, Institute for Electronic Arts (IEA), Jacob Burns Film Center, Maysles Documentary Center, Millennium Film Workshop, Sag Harbor Cinema Arts Center, Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center, Third World Newsreel, Upstate Films, Women Make Movies, and Woodstock Film Festival.

The Media Arts Assistance Fund 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 2025 GRANTEES AND PROJECT DESCRIPTIONS
Adirondack Film (Essex County) - Strategic Planning and Fundraising Consulting
Adirondack Film will use MAAF funding to work with consultants in order to build and implement a new CRM database, expanding the capacity of the organization to modernize and professionalize fundraising strategies. Adirondack Film strives to build upon donor relationships, attain multi-year gifts, and diversify their fundraising portfolio in order to make a greater impact on the lives of their remote Adirondack community through the media arts.

American Documentary (Kings County) - Website Enhancement and Digital Strategy Consulting
American Documentary will use MAAF funding to complete a comprehensive redesign of its website. This design will modernize the website’s interface, enhance the user experience, and provide the AmDoc team with greater functionality and autonomy in managing content. This new design will improve communication and marketing of AmDoc’s mission, films, and impact initiatives to the public, showcase AmDoc’s 38-year legacy by highlighting archival footage and making it available to the public, and strengthen fundraising efforts.

Buffalo International Film Festival (Erie County) - Fundraising and Development Consulting
Buffalo International Film Festival will use MAAF funding to support organizational development through the engagement of an experienced fundraising and development consultant who will help assess and analyze BIFF’s budget, needs, and funding ecosystems in order to create a three-year Fundraising and Development Plan. The plan will improve and increase organization-wide fundraising efforts to help to strengthen BIFF's infrastructure and expand the impact of its mission-driven programming, improve efficiency, and deepen engagement with and support for the communities that BIFF serves.

Chicken & Egg Films (Kings County) - Organizational Development Consulting
Chicken & Egg Films will use MAAF funding to support the development of their first Theory of Change (TOC), a strategic internal project aimed at both deepening the equity vision for the organization and providing alignment and clarity for program staff. Chicken & Egg Films will hire a consultant to collaboratively refine the TOC draft with program staff and board members, in order to align Chicken & Egg’s organizational strategy to ensure an elevation of underrepresented voices in documentary filmmaking with intentionality and integrity.

CultureHub (New York) - Technical Strategies for Online Development
CultureHub will use MAAF funding to support the redesign of their website, including a transition from Squarespace to an open-source Content Management System (CMS). The project’s aim is to better communicate the organization’s mission and strengths to their audience, by using a platform with more design flexibility. CultureHub’s goal is to ensure that their 10+ year digital archive of past projects (including text, photos, and video) remains affordable to maintain in the long term. This project will also enable more creative, browser-based work on the site, integrating with their live streaming platform.

Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) (New York) - Strategy and Fundraising Consulting
Electronic Arts Intermix will use MAAF funding to support long-term strategy and fundraising efforts as they further develop the institutional reach and technological capabilities of their Educational Streaming Service (ESS), a pioneering digital resource for students and library users in the United States and worldwide that provides direct streaming access to EAI’s collection initially launched in 2013. Along with new UX and infrastructural developments, this plan includes a pilot project with the City University of New York (CUNY) educational system.

Firelight Media (New York) - Online Strategy and Engagement Consulting
Firelight Media will use MAAF funding to support a strategic initiative to strengthen digital infrastructure and audience engagement systems. As a leading nonprofit supporting nonfiction filmmakers of color, Firelight Media has experienced significant growth in recent years, expanding a suite of programs and community of artists. This project is an investment in expert-led technical development to keep pace with this growth—and to ensure that their online platforms serve both the organization’s mission and audiences effectively.

HUDSY (Ulster County) - Organizational Development and Cultural Sensitivity Training
HUDSY Community Project Inc will use MAAF funding to work with consultants to build organizational capacity to strengthen core competencies, support an environment that holds a diverse team of employees, and boost team cohesion, focusing on a comprehensive cultural sensitivity training for staff.

Institute for Electronic Arts (IEA) (Allegany County) - Experimental Media Arts Guidance & Future Planning, in partnership with Signal Culture
Institute for Electronic Arts at Alfred University will use MAAF funding to engage Signal Culture, an organization dedicated to experimental media, tool-building, and artist support structures. The consultation will contribute to organizational and professional development, training for staff, and guidance for the curation, collection, and physical layout of new media technology.

Jacob Burns Film Center (Westchester County) - Strategic Brand Identity Development
Jacob Burns Film Center will use MAAF funding to support a brand identity development initiative. As JBFC approaches its 25th anniversary, this project aims to more closely align the organization’s public image with the goals and values of their strategic plan.

Maysles Documentary Center (New York County) - Marketing and Design Development Consulting
Maysles Documentary Center will use MAAF funding to support Phase One of a development plan to improve marketing materials, branding, and overall public presentation. The consultant will help ensure consistency across the organization’s multiple platforms.

Millennium Film Workshop (Kings County) - Development of a Monthly Experimental A/V Performance Series
Millennium Film Workshop will use MAAF funding to support technical development in support of web and live streaming infrastructure and towards establishing a subscription with restream.io, which will expand their distribution network for live streamed programs.

Sag Harbor Cinema Arts Center (Suffolk County) - Maintenance and Revisions of New Website Development
Sag Harbor Cinema Arts Center will use MAAF funding to support a new phase of development for its website, to improve functionality, accessibility, and user experience, as well as communication and promotion of the organization’s special film programs and fundraising events.

Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center (Erie County) - Technical Strategies for Online Development
Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center will use MAAF funding to hire a consultant who will propose options and plans for a new website for Squeaky Wheel based on research and interviews with staff and stakeholders. This process will help the organization move forward with a redevelopment of their website, improving functionality and expanding capacity for Squeaky Wheel’s wide range of programs.

Third World Newsreel (New York County) - Consultant for Organizational Development
Third World Newsreel will use MAAF funding to support organizational development by integrating their new website with a digital marketing strategy. Third World Newsreel will engage an outside consultant for a two-phase project, first evaluating the website and digital marketing channels to prioritize which channels to connect and interact with their website, and then implementing the resulting new digital marketing strategy.

Upstate Films (Dutchess and Ulster Counties) - Stronger Online Marketing Strategies
Upstate Films will use MAAF funding to support the creation of stronger online marketing to strengthen search-engine optimization practices. A consultant will review, reconfigure, and improve their website in terms of its interface with search engines. The intention of this work is to help inform the public about Upstate Films’ programs and to increase participation in programs.

Women Make Movies (New York County) - Organizational Capacity and Strategy for 2025 and Beyond
Women Make Movies will use MAAF funding to hire a consultant organization to assist with developing a fundraising strategy, locate and secure new grants, and advise on how to best diversify revenue streams and build capacity as an organization in order to integrate new revenue streams into their overall organizational plan.

Woodstock Film Festival (Ulster County) - Unifying Organizational Technology for Greater Efficiency and Impact
Woodstock Film Festival will use MAAF funding to engage a consultant to optimize the use of the project management platform Monday.com, further integrating and connecting various software systems into a cohesive, user-friendly platform. WFF’s goal is to improve efficiency across departments, ensure smoother onboarding for seasonal staff and volunteers, eliminate redundancies, and enable more accurate, real-time tracking of metrics, engagement, and donations.

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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 of the state’s 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 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 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 wavefarm.org.

Arts in Corrections NYS Online Archive Launches
www.artsincorrectionsnys.org

Acra - Wave Farm is pleased to announce the launch of an online archive of artwork created through Arts in Corrections NYS, a program to facilitate and support arts programming inside New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (NYS DOCCS) facilities across New York State. Arts in Corrections NYS is a regrant program of The New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), facilitated by Wave Farm working closely with DOCCS.

The Arts in Corrections website is a dedicated archive for documentation of artworks produced in workshops in 2023 and 2024. The archive showcases a selection of work across multiple genres including songwriting, storytelling, printmaking, sculpture, and writing. Audio and transcripts from interviews between students in AIC workshops are additionally available on the website, and were produced as a collaboration of California Lawyers for the Arts (CLA) and Wave Farm.

Project management of the development of this website was provided by Nicholas Weist, Shandaken Projects Executive Director. Weist has served as an AIC teaching artist at Sullivan and Coxsackie Correctional Facilities since 2023. Weist said, “Shandaken Projects is fortunate to have participated in AIC NYS since its inception. The incarcerated individuals we have worked with through this program have demonstrated immense resiliency, creativity, and vulnerability in the classroom. This website honors their imagination and intelligence. Viewers will be able to listen to interviews with the incarcerated participants, hearing from them directly that there is a critical need for this program in New York State and beyond."

Wave Farm Executive Director Galen Joseph-Hunter said, “We are so pleased to be able to share the work created as part of the Arts in Corrections NYS program with public audiences. This website celebrates the talent and efforts of the individuals participating in AIC workshops, and wouldn’t be possible without the dedication of the program’s teaching artists, the collaboration of DOCCS staff, and the support of NYSCA.”

“Not only does this website document a wonderful portfolio of artwork, but we can also hear the participants themselves speak about the skills and insights they have gained from their artmaking,” said Erika Mallin, Executive Director of NYSCA. “This new website offers the public an opportunity to learn more about this critical program. NYSCA is so proud to support this initiative and commends Wave Farm and DOCCS for their incredible work”

New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision Commissioner Daniel F. Martuscello III said, “Rehabilitation and successful reintegration into the community have long been central to the mission of the Department. In 2023, New York State Council On The Arts (NYSCA) and DOCCS partnered to introduce the Arts in Corrections project to the incarcerated population across a number of New York State correctional facilities. Wave Farm has played a key role as NYSCA’s grant partner, helping to bring music production, storytelling, body movement, painting, and other creative and impactful arts-based programming to those in our care.

The Department is proud of the enrichment these programs have offered participants as they navigate the rehabilitation process. The artwork created not only reflects the depth and individuality of those in our custody, but also offers the public a powerful glimpse into their talents and potential.”

In 2023 and 2024, Arts in Corrections supported arts programming inside approximately 10 New York State facilities. In 2025, Arts in Corrections plans to expand to 15 facilities across New York State, supporting in-person workshops that provide system-impacted individuals with once-a-week programming led by teaching artists in a variety of disciplines including the visual arts, electronic media/film, music, movement, and literature.

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. In FY 2026, the Council on the Arts will award over $161 million, 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 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 arts.ny.gov, and follow NYSCA's Facebook page, on X @NYSCArts and Instagram @NYSCouncilontheArts.

About NYS DOCCS
DOCCS’ mission is to improve public safety by providing a continuity of appropriate treatment services in safe and secure facilities where the needs of the incarcerated population are addressed and where individuals under its' custody are successfully prepared for release and parolees under community supervision receive supportive services that facilitate the successful completion of their sentence. DOCCS recognizes the therapeutic value of offering arts-based programming to individuals in enhancing communication skills, supporting healthy forms of expression and increasing self-awareness. DOCCS’ vision is to enhance public safety by having incarcerated persons return home under supportive supervision less likely to revert to criminal behavior. By affording individuals the opportunity to participate in creative and expressive programming, DOCCS is seeking to enrich the incarceration experience and bolster the success rates of those returning to the community.

About Wave Farm
Wave Farm is an international transmission arts organization driven by experimentation with the electromagnetic spectrum. Wave Farm cultivates creative practices in radio and supports 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. Wave Farm operates FM radio station WGXC and hosts many online radio channels. Wave Farm provides fiscal sponsorship, consultation, and grants to artists and organizations.

For more information about Arts in Corrections NYS, click here.

Acra, NY—Wave Farm is pleased to announce eighteen grantees for the 2025 Media Arts Assistance Fund (MAAF) for Artists, a regrant program with the New York State Council on the Arts.

Selected through a competitive panel process from an application pool of 135 proposals, the 2025 MAAF Grantees are: James Autery, Lea Bertucci, Janet Biggs, AC Diamond, Sarah Drury, Tamar Ettun, JDSH, Gregory Kalliche, Victoria Keddie, Carolyn Lambert, Chico MacMurtrie, Keli Safia Maksud, Caroline Voagen Nelson, Brydie O'Connor, Will Rawls, Nimco Sheikhaden, Nina Sobell, and Elia Vargas.

The Media Arts Assistance Fund (MAAF) for Artists provides New York State media artists up to $7,500 for the completion and/or public presentation of new works in all genres of sound and moving image art, including emergent technology. Grant awards assist artists in completing new work, reaching public audiences, and advancing artistic exploration and public engagement in the media arts.

Detailed information about the eighteen 2025 MAAF for Artists funded projects is available below.

GRANTEES AND PROJECT DESCRIPTIONS
James Autery - Agnosia (Columbia County)
Agnosia is an experimental narrative short film about a young woman named Neva, who was born blind and has surgery to see for the first time in her life. Despite her courage and being very observant, she has a difficult time coming to terms with an overwhelming new sense that was far from what she expected while blind. A visiting psychologist studying her case helps her come to appreciate the beauty of her new sense and overcome the fear of her new, unknown world. Shot from a first person perspective, Agnosia attempts to show what it might look like to see for the first time. MAAF funding will cover submission fees to film festivals and assist in the public presentation of this film.

James Autery began photographing and printing in the darkroom in high school. He attended the University of Missouri-Columbia to study photojournalism, becoming a finalist in the Gordon Parks International Photo Competition in 2006. After dropping out of college, he started documenting train hoppers. In 2014 he became a full-time freelance photographer and video artist and made a mini documentary with the organization Project Prakash on their work studying the ability of prediction among children with autism. In 2017 he started filming for TIME. In 2018 he exhibited alongside Carolee Schneemann for the Hudson Winter Walk and filmed her in 2019. He has had exhibitions with Tanja Grunert Gallery, Second Ward Foundation, Film-Makers’ Cooperative, Private Public Gallery, Areté Venue and Gallery, Next to Nothing, Hudson Eye, Hudson Hall, Minneapolis Photo Center, Center for Contemporary Arts Santa Fe, and has had work listed on Paddle8. He has been an artist in residence with Second Ward Foundation for 6 years, during which he completed a 46 minute film, Mantra, an experimental documentary about the meditation of making art. Autery was a 2020 Media Arts Assistance Fund grantee and was a recipient of the Baer Faxt 2020 Artist Relief Fund.

Lea Bertucci - The Days Pass Quickly Immersed in the Shadow of Eternity (Ulster County)
Crystalline, minimal and dissonant, The Days Pass Quickly Immersed in the Shadow of Eternity is a new sound artwork and installation for multichannel speakers, electronics, and sampled early flutes. Featuring renowned flutist, early music scholar, and member of the medieval group Sequentia, Norbert Rodenkirchen, this work reaches back through the spans of history and catapults ancient music into an immersive present. A haunting contemplation of time, duration and memory that explores the phenomena of human hearing and evokes the primeval and futuristic simultaneously, in these waning days of the Anthropocene. MAAF Funding will support completion of this project, including documentation of the performance for preservation and distribution.

Lea Bertucci is an experimental musician whose works revolve around electronic and spatial extensions of instrument and voice. In addition to her longstanding practice performing with woodwinds, she has created compositions for strings, brass, percussion and other instruments, often incorporating electronics and multichannel sound. With an ear toward site-responsiveness and acoustics, her work has expanded toward installation and non-linear presentations of her music. Her discography spans over a decade, with a number of full-length solo works and collaborative projects, most recently with Lawrence English, Olivia Block, and Ben Vida. She has performed and exhibited extensively within the US and internationally with presenters such as The Whitney Museum, The Museum of Modern Art New York, The Metropolitan Museum, Blank Forms, Gagosian Gallery, Pioneer Works, The Kitchen, The Walker Museum, The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Tempo Reale in Florence, Muziekgebouw Amsterdam, Museo Reina Sofia Madrid, ReWire Festival and Unsound Festival Krakow.

Janet Biggs - Eclipse (Amazon, Sept. 7, 1858) (Kings County)
Eclipse (Amazon, Sept. 7, 1858) is an immersive multi-channel video installation of sights and sounds that takes the viewer deep into the Amazonian rainforest, full of strangler figs and howler monkeys struggling for survival. Imagery follows the path of a total solar eclipse that occurred in 1858, one hundred years before Biggs was conceived. The work originates in Biggs’ memories of her mother’s struggles with Sundowning Syndrome, a symptom of dementia that interferes with the ability to distinguish day for night. After her mother’s death, Biggs began a four year journey, placing herself in multiple paths of totality as she sought to reconnect with her mother. The path of totality has been described as a time when the entire biome reverses day for night. The installation concludes in a cloud forest, where expectations are inverted and otherworldly connections made possible. MAAF funding will support completion and public exhibition of this work, including video/audio editing and sound spatialization.

Janet Biggs is a research-based, interdisciplinary artist working in video, film and performance. She is recognized for her immersive and multidisciplinary approach, often incorporating sound, moving images, and language to create new perspectives and possibilities. Biggs’ work focuses on individuals in extreme landscapes or situations, navigating the territory between art, science and new technologies. She has worked with institutions from NOAA to NASA and CERN. Biggs’ work has been supported by the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and exhibited at museums and institutions worldwide. Biggs works with Cristin Tierney Gallery, NYC; Galerie Analix Forever, Geneva; CONNERSMITH, Washington, D. C., and Hyphen Hub, NYC.

AC Diamond - Radio Oracle – Governors Island (Kings County)
Governors Island, historically known as “Paggank” to the Lenape people, is a former military base and current cultural site in New York Harbor that hosts a range of ecological, artistic, and civic programs. AC Diamond’s Radio Oracle — Governors Island is a site-specific sound installation that draws on recorded radio signals captured around the island—from marine, aviation, and transit transmissions—as source material for a generative sound installation. These recordings are analyzed using feature extraction techniques that drive machine learning-driven behaviors. Ceramic resonators, created in collaboration with sculptor Halo Linn, serve as both sculptural objects and acoustic filters, diffusing sound across a dispersed array of handmade speaker enclosures. The installation responds to the electromagnetic, material, and political layers of the island. MAAF funding will support the presentation of the work as part of the Morphologies exhibition curated by Ana Anu + AC Diamond for Forest for Trees Collective in Nolan Park House 7B on Governors Island, open from May 17 - June 22, 2025.

AC Diamond is an intermedia artist whose work sonifies the unheard and unseen—giving voice to the ephemeral, the invisible, and the easily overlooked. Their practice unfolds across galleries, theaters, DIY venues, and public spaces, and spans sound, performance, interactive technology, archival systems, and creative direction. An archivist for over a decade, AC is the founder of Critical Interval, an archival consultancy focused on developing workflows for media-rich art collections. They also teach computer music and interactive media as Adjunct Faculty in Music Technology at NYU Steinhardt. Their creative work has been supported by the Media Arts Assistance Fund (2025), a NYFA/NYSCA Fellowship in Music/Sound (2022–23), and a Van Lier Fellowship at Roulette Intermedium (2020). AC holds an MFA in Electronic Music from Mills College (2018) and a BA from Bennington College (2010).

Sarah Drury - The Gowanus Augmented Reality Walking Tour (Kings County)
Sarah Drury's current project, The Gowanus Augmented Reality Walking Tour App, is a hybrid virtual-physical form of situated storytelling for smart devices. Gowanus AR uses mixed reality to invite the visitor to make connections between vivid representations of the past and the current moment of their sensory experiences. The Gowanus Canal is a famous post-industrial Superfund site, now re-zoned for high rise development as Brooklyn's newest high rent district. The Tour includes the Underground Water Ways Soundwalk, where voices from the past murmur and sing from underground springs that still run beneath our feet. The Tour leads visitors through this contested location, exploring watery thinking and watery embodiment as a new urbanist paradigm. MAAF Funding will support the completion of the work for the production of a downloadable app, as well as funding guided tour events for community audiences.

Sarah Drury is a media artist working in video art and installation, projection design for theater, sensor-based interactive projects, curatorial practice and augmented reality storytelling. Her projects often explore feminist and posthumanist embodiment via media technologies, devising critical narrative approaches using layered visual, sonic and/or textual forms. Drury's works have been presented nationally and internationally, including The Walking Project, a collaborative performance project on non-normative embodiment using wearable devices (with support from the National Endowment for the Arts) and interactive video design for Violet Fire: a Multimedia Opera About Nikola Tesla, presented at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave Festival and the National Theater of Belgrade. She has presented her work and writing at new media exhibition sites and conferences including the International Symposium for Electronic Arts (ISEA), the Stanford Meaningful XR Conference, Leonardo Electronic Almanac, the Cornell Sound Cultures Symposium, SIGGRAPH, the Brooklyn Museum, The Kitchen, the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, the Worldwide Video Festival and Hallwalls. Drury is an associate professor in the Temple University Film & Media Arts Department.

Tamar Ettun - IVF Documents (Kings County)
IVF Documents is a personal reimagining of an ancient healing ritual, addressing the somatic, emotional, and physical realities of In Vitro Fertilization. The piece features a group of people undergoing IVF or who are postmenopausal. In the video, people move with large bags filled with natural dyes in an empty pool in Fort Greene, referring to the derivation of IVF medications from hormones found in the urine of postmenopausal people. The video also incorporates animations using frames from the footage, alongside printed genetic testing results and medical bills. Ultimately, this work aims to establish a visual language for an experience that our culture continues to find difficult to articulate. MAAF funding will support completion expenses including color corrections, animation, and audio mix, in preparation for public presentation in 2026.

Tamar Ettun (she/they) creates immersive textile installations, sculptures, drawings, videos, and performances that reflect on somatic empathy––the process of responding to others through sensory-based, embodied experiences––in relation to trauma healing rituals. Ettun’s research-based and community engaged work was exhibited and performed at The Ford Foundation, The Walker Art Center, Pioneer Works, The Chinati Foundation, The Shelburne Museum, Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art, The Watermill Center, Art Omi Sculpture Garden, PERFORMA, Socrates Sculpture Park, The Jewish Museum, and Sculpture Center. Ettun has received many awards and fellowships including support from The Pollock Krasner Foundation, Interlude Artist Residency, Fountainhead, Moca Tucson, Stoneleaf Retreat, MacDowell Fellowship, Franklin Furnace, Iaspis, Art Production Fund, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Triangle Arts Association, Abrons Art Center and RECESS. Ettun is the founder of The Moving Company, an artist collective that created performance art with sculpture in public spaces, and a social engagement project with Brooklyn teens hosted by The Brooklyn Museum. Amongst other long term projects, Ettun’s multidisciplinary work Lilit the Empathic Demon has since 2020 explored the insidious side of empathy, empathy fatigue, trauma-healing modalities, and astrology as storytelling through text messages to a growing community. Ettun’s work has most recently been included in the new sculpture anthology “Great Women Sculptors” published by Phaidon Press (2024). She holds an MFA in Sculpture from Yale University.

JDSH - Co/lapse ​​(New York County)
Part essay, part documentary, Co/lapse adopts image-making processes tasked with the recognition of their subjects (like mugshots or some religious painting) in order to consider the formal and political entanglements of such practices. Conceptually, the work is made by exploring three interpretations of the concept of “recognition.” Each of these interpretations takes shape through the voice of a different person: a translator, a photography historian, and a migrant living and working in New York City. The voices and presences of these characters are braided throughout the film in order to form a layered image/discourse. In the end, Co/lapse attempts to use forms of image-making to consider the making (and most importantly, the potential unmaking) of social forms. MAAF funding will support final post-production in preparation for public presentation.

JDSH is an artist and wannabe translator. He works with the entanglement of narrative and image-making processes. Using photography, film, installation, and writing, he engages with practices of erratic positionality operating inside seemingly closed representation systems. The portrayal of these engagements often takes place at the intersection of the camera’s contradictory condition: between its purported objectivity and its propensity for deceit. Informed by photography’s history as a tool to regulate citizens and their movement, his work muddles established modes of identification by considering them against unmeasurable forms: fiction, memory, translation, and magical realism hinder those devices tasked with supervising self and belonging—such as passport photographs, migration regulations, biographical information, or national borders.

Gregory Kalliche - Anvil (Kings County)
Anvil is an exhibition centered around a 3D-modeled and animated video exploring the friction between simulated digital material and the principles of physics which govern them. The video is accompanied by a synchronized lighting program and multi-channel sound component, as well as a group of layered animation cels. The exhibition's architecture reflects digital rigging concepts: skeletal exterior walls display composited fragments as cells, while the fully-skinned interior serves as a container for rendered video. MAAF funding will support fabrication and supplies costs related to the installation as well as a public outreach event that will take place during the run of the exhibition.

Gregory Kalliche is an artist living in Queens, New York, working in Brooklyn. His work extends digital media into spatial arrangements of interconnected components featuring sculpture, sound, light, and electricity. This exchange between modes of image-making and image-presentation offers a way to explore how ideas are consumed both subliminally and explicitly in physical space. Recent exhibitions include Riddles, USA; Hangar Y, Meudon; Fall River MOCA, Massachusetts; PWA, Brooklyn; Exo Exo, Paris; and FRAC Grand Large, Dunkirk.

Victoria Keddie - Drift Choir (Kings County)
Drift Choir is a transmission-based system connecting Athens, New York, Berlin, and Bogotá in a month-long exchange of sound and image, running from May 1–30, 2025. It forms a closed-circuit network where listening, response, and acoustic presence constitute the core of participation. Rather than privileging clarity, efficiency, or reach, Drift Choir explores presence and human connection through a polyphonic play of space—where signal and noise, voice and place, dissolve into one another. The system amplifies involuntary gestures, ambient interference, and environmental resonance as expressive forms of communication. Through real-time, two-way channels, participants across cities engage in shared live programming and informal, drifting exchanges, forming a distributed intimacy that resists simplification. Here, interruption and distortion are not errors, but vital textures—carrying not just messages, but atmospheres. MAAF funding will support the post-production and public presentation of this work.

Victoria Keddie is an artist working with sound, video, and performance, examining acoustic phenomena and language. Her current projects focus on the complexities of phonology and the sonic dimensions of speculative architecture. She co-directed E.S.P. TV for over a decade, exploring televisual performance. Her work has been presented internationally, with recent fellowships from NYSCA/NYFA for Music/Sound (2022), the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics (2023), and the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Sound Art, and Experimental Music (2024). Keddie was a highlighted speaker and performer at the Salon Sophie Charlotte, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften in January 2025. She is a guest composer at EMS, Stockholm, in June and will be part of Biennale Son, Switzerland, in September 2025. Video works are distributed through Lightcone (FR) and The Filmmakers Co-op (US). Sound work is released with Raster Media (DE), Chaikin Records (US), and Fridman Gallery (NYC/US).

Carolyn Lambert - the trees, the brook, the air, the work (Ulster County)
the trees, the brook, the air, the work is a multi-channel video essay centered on the conditions of scientific research in this present moment. Recordings of lab technicians collecting samples, monitoring lab equipment, and traversing the watershed form the backbone of this piece set in Hubbard Brook in New Hampshire's White Mountains, an experimental forest known for its collection of ecological data and contributions to public policy. MAAF Funding will support completion expenses and installation development.

Carolyn Lambert is an artist working in video, installation and performance. Her work focuses on the increasing precarity of ecological and social relations in the wake of capitalist exploitation. Lambert has exhibited at venues including the Drawing Center, Picture Theory, and SculptureCenter (New York). Screenings of her work have occurred at the European Media Art Festival in Osnabrück (Germany), Bomb Factory (UK), and MUMOK (Vienna, AU).

Chico MacMurtrie - Dual Pneuma (Kings County)
Dual Pneuma is an interactive performance and site-specific installation composed of soft robotic performers and several sound-based terracotta sculptures. The soft-robotic performers evoke a humanoid body with four limbs that allow for a transition from quadrupedal to organic form and motion. Composed of inflatable, high-tensile fabric muscles, the artwork is capable of assuming a wide range of human, animal, and insect-like positions. The ceramic sculptures are cast directly from the soft-robotic figure. Compressed air will be channeled through them to produce whistling sounds, sonifying the artwork in reference to the water and wind-based huaco instruments of early Mesoamerican cultures. MAAF funding will support the completion of this project, especially the integration of computer-based sound and movement control.

Since the 1980s, Chico MacMurtrie has explored the intersection of art and technology through large-scale robotic sculptures, installations, and performances. A Guggenheim Fellow and Creative Capital Grantee, he works out of the “Robotic Church,” a former Norwegian Seamen’s Church in Brooklyn housing 50 of his percussive and sonic robotic sculptures. His ongoing “Border Crossers” project—a series of inflatable robotic performances along the U.S.-Mexico border—continues to foster interdisciplinary collaboration across institutions and border communities.

Keli Safia Maksud - Archē (ἀρχή) (Kings County)
Archē (ἀρχή) explores thresholds as a Third Space—a transitory space that blurs binaries such as inside/outside and public/private. Drawing from the Door of No Return—the monuments marking the forced departure of Africans onto slave ships—the installation features archways and doorways embedded with sensory-responsive elements that react to movement, light, or environmental shifts. Informed by the political philosopher Erin Manning’s concept of bodies as “relational matrices” that complicate strict oppositions between inside and outside, Archē (ἀρχή) considers how space is composed in and through movement and stillness and via a range of technologies and experienced through different sensory registers. MAAF funding will support completion of this work in preparation for public presentation at Smack Mellon.

Keli Safia Maksud is an interdisciplinary artist and writer working in sound, sculpture, installation, text, printmaking and embroidery. Concerned with histories of colonial encounters and their effects on memory, Maksud’s practice favors the space of in-between and its threshold and works towards destabilizing received histories in order to expose fictions of the state. Maksud earned her BFA in Painting from the Ontario College of Art and Design University, a Diploma in Art and Curatorial Studies at the New Centre for Research and Practice, and an MFA in Visual Arts at Columbia University. Her work has been shown at the Cue Art Foundation, Goodman Gallery, Salon 94, Huxley Parlour, Bamako Biennial, National Museum of Contemporary Art - Seoul, Galería Nueva and the Biennial of Contemporary Art Sesc_Videobrasil.

Caroline Voagen Nelson - Change for a Ride (Queens County)
Change for a Ride is a media installation incorporating projection mapping of animations on a sculpture built from recycled takeout containers. The piece explores the relationship of value and the environment through a conveyor belt animation about the history of currency during antiquity. An animated passageway of water appears on the glowing sculpture and the current pulls various forms of money along the ride. The etymology of currency, root latin word “currēns”, means to travel through, and its meaning extends to the currents of water and electricity. The sculpture is built to reference blueprints of an amusement park dark ride and a pinball machine; a nod to the facade of an entertainment spectacle to attract viewers. The ride includes 12 chapters, or loops, of currency––including coins from Ancient Rome, giant stones from the Island of Yap, Cowrie Shells from Egypt, and glass beads from Africa. The projection mapping layers animations on three levels, showing a macro view of the currency on the ride and a micro detailed view projected on the ground around the sculpture. A soundscape within the sculpture is created by sound designer Chris Burke. As we continue down this digital, plastic ride with intangible cash flow in today’s economic climate, Change for A Ride is a reminder of the origins of measuring value––questioning how we equate what’s valuable and its connection with the land. MAAF Funding will support completion of this work for its premiere at PS 122 Gallery’s exhibition, Roots & Routes: Tracings of Time, on view from June 7 through June 29, 2025.

Caroline Voagen Nelson is a media artist working in animation, digital art, and installation. Her work has a collaged, atmospheric aesthetic that brings to life moments from history, mythology, and memory. She deconstructs and rebuilds archives and environments to create surreal recollections of the past in the moving image form. Nelson works as a professor teaching Digital and Media Arts in New York City.

Brydie O'Connor - THE ROAMING CENTER FOR MAGNETIC ALTERNATIVES (Kings County)
THE ROAMING CENTER FOR MAGNETIC ALTERNATIVES is a short documentary following a mobile archiving center in a cargo trailer as it crosses the USA to digitize home video VHS tapes of LGBTQ+ folks who documented their own lives on video. In real time digitizing sessions, people watch their own histories as they are preserved, and give us a broader look into queer life since the 1980s. This film takes a road trip through the past and gives us a glimpse of an ever-expanding queer archive to come in the future. MAAF Funding will support completion of the film, collaborating with musicians, a sound designer, and colorist, as well as securing archival licensing and setting up community screenings.

Brydie O’Connor (she/her) is a New York based filmmaker. Her work activates archives through queering storytelling structures within the nonfiction space. Brydie’s work has been presented at The Museum of Modern Art, BFI, & DOC NYC, among other festivals and galleries worldwide. Most recently, Brydie was selected as the recipient of the Hulu/Kartemquin Accelerator, and she was an inaugural fellow in the UFO (Untitled Filmmaker Organization) Short Film Lab (2023-2024). She is a graduate of The George Washington University, and has developed her work at the Provincetown Film Society LGBTQ+ Filmmakers Residency (2024) and the On:View Residency (2024) in Savannah, GA.

Will Rawls - [siccer] (Kings County)
[siccer] is a multimedia video and sound installation about the photographic capture of black bodies in mass media and uses stop-motion animation as a filmmaking technique. The installation will be presented in New York in the fall of 2025. The work features several stop-motion videos, starring real people instead of animated figurines. In the creation of the films, the performers froze every time the shutter closed and improvised in the gaps between photographs, thus rescripting the terms through which blackness and queerness are made visible. The durational stop-motion films are projected on a series of green screens, thus creating layers of shadows/censorship as the work evolves. The sound art was developed around the rhythmic and incessant sound of the onstage camera clicks. This creates a rhythmic backdrop against which sound artists Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste (mixing live through Ableton) and Holland Andrews manipulate field recordings from swamps, original voice loops and electronic loops to create a sense of anxiety and distortion. The result is a saturated, sonic swamp environment that eerily slips between familiar and abstract. The show considers how Black gestures are relentlessly documented, distorted, and circulated in lens-based media. MAAF Funding will support the completion and public presentation of this work, including a re-design and reconstruction of the installation for its premiere in New York.

Will Rawls is a multidisciplinary choreographer whose practice encompasses dance, video, sculpture, works on paper and installation. Rawls' choreography explores language and gesture to stage performances of black presence and becoming. Rawls has presented solo exhibitions at 35th Bienal de São Paulo (2023), Art Basel (2023), Adams + Ollman (2022) and a multi-part installation, Everlasting Stranger, at the Henry Art Gallery (2021). He has also presented at the Museum of Modern Art, the Hirshhorn Museum, Performa 15, Danspace Project, The Chocolate Factory Theater, High Line Art, Walker Art Center, REDCAT, the 10th Berlin Biennale, and the Hessel Museum at Bard College.

Nimco Sheikhaden - Exodus (Bronx County)
Exodus serves as a portrait of two women, Trinity Copeland and Assia Serrano, who both face unique challenges following decades of incarceration and interrogates the broader societal and systemic forces that have shaped their lives. Exodus explores their struggles to rebuild their identities, relationships, and futures, while contending with the structural obstacles that continue to shadow their reentry. Through their stories, the film examines the enduring impact of the justice system, offering a profound look at resilience, healing, and the journey towards building a dignified life. MAAF funding will support the post-production and public presentation of this work.

Nimco Sheikhaden is a Bronx-based filmmaker. Her current project, Exodus, executive produced by Geeta Gandbhir, Blair Foster, and Rudy Valdez, premiered at the 2025 SXSW Film Festival. She produced the new iteration of Eyes on the Prize, a continuation of the seminal series, and previously produced HBOs award-winning Black & Missing. Her work spans major platforms like HBO and Netflix, working with renowned filmmakers such as Sam Pollard, Alex Gibney, and Shaka King.

Nina Sobell - GammaTime (New York County)
GammaTime, in collaboration with Ed Bear, will be a real-time participatory brainwave drawing performance. GammaTime aims to create a foundation for understanding and experiencing gamma brain waves as well as other brain waves through art and music. By engaging with the installation, participants will not only gain insights into their own brain wave activity and each other’s, but also experience the potential cognitive and emotional benefits of 40 Hz gamma stimulation. The project seeks to inspire, educate and provide a platform for creative exploration, ultimately contributing to the broader discourse on the intersection of art and neuroscience. MAAF funding will support the exhibition of this work later this year.

Nina Sobell is a multi-platform artist and electronic medium. Sobell originated Brain Wave Drawings, the synchrony of brainwaves between two or more people creating a combined physical and mental portrait by visualizing non-verbal communication interactively in 1973. She has been a pioneer in video work and Brain-Computer Interfaces, she created the first live interactive telerobotic web performance, and developed the first mobile webcam at NYU’s Center for Advanced Technology. Sobell was invited by Joseph Beuys to speak about her social sculpture Videophone Voyeur at Documenta 6. Her work has been exhibited at or is in the collection of: Menil Drawing Institute, Houston, Indexical Gallery, Santa Cruz, MUDAM, Luxembourg, Kunsthalle, Vienna, Mémoire de L’Avenir Galerie, Paris, VEKKS, Vienna, DIA, the Whitney, Hammer, LACMA, LAICA, LBMA, CAM Houston, Blanton Museum, MIT Vera List Gallery, Getty Museum, ZKM, Whitechapel, Zwirner, WP Phillips Gallery, Louisiana MOMA, Denmark, Kunst Forum; taught at UCLA, SVA and received NEA, NYSCA, Jerome, Turbulence, Franklin Furnace, and Acker awards. MFA Cornell; BFA Tyler School of Art, Temple U.

Elia Vargas - Energy is Entity (Erie County)
It takes 8 minutes and 20 seconds for sunlight to touch the Earth. Energy is Entity is a single shot experimental video that explores the metaphysics of this phenomenon. The entire video constitutes a single zoom shot of the sun that lasts the duration it takes for lightwaves from the sun to reach the camera/Earth. Accompanying the zoom shot is a low frequency modulation analog synthesis sound-score. Subtitles narrate a stark poetics of these conditions and an examination of Michael Snow’s zoom-film, Wavelength. Energy is Entity was captured on the one-year anniversary of an electromagnetic storm that caused aurora borealis in Buffalo, NY, during which Elia Vargas’ second child was born. Vargas’ spouse unexpectedly birthed her in their home, and Vargas delivered her. All that electromagnetic energy comes to us from the Sun. Did you ever think: it could be different? The Sun could be different. As a result, we could be different. The sun enacts the Earth. This rare Earth. MAAF funding will support materials and post production costs.

Dr. Elia Vargas is an artist and a scholar working across multiple mediums, ranging from video and sound to writing and performance, focused on nature-cultural media practices. He is a visiting assistant professor of Media Study at the University at Buffalo. In 2024, he received a NYSCA Artist Support grant for his work on Heliotechnics/Heliotechniques and was shortlisted for the Creative Capital grant. He collaborates widely, was commissioned by Goethe Institute to create a podcast on global technocultural exchange, and is the co-founder of the SF Bay Area art and technology organization, the Living Room Light Exchange. He holds a PhD from the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is currently finishing a book manuscript about crude oil, art, and media through a speculative approach.

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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. In FY 2026, the Council on the Arts will award over $161 million, 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 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 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 wavefarm.org.

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).

WAVE FARM RESIDENCY + FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM SELECTED ARTISTS AND PROJECTS 2025
(In chronological order)

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

Wave Farm is an equal opportunity employer. We offer a welcoming and inclusive environment in service to one another, our mission, and the diverse constituencies our programs serve. We do all of this with kindness, empathy, and respect for each other.

 

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.