A heartfelt and enormous thank you to the over 500 people who turned out to Eno on 4-screens with performances from Fred Frith + Eucademix (Yuka Honda) and SUNJIRO (Kadallah Burrowes) on May 29. The event was magical, and we are so grateful to the generosity of Eno director and Wave Farm advisor Gary Hustwit and to Greg and Sydney at the Hi-way Drive-in for their generosity and collaboration.
All are invited to turn out in-person on Saturday June 14, noon - 4 p.m. to celebrate "Talk To Me - Wave Farm" the newest addition to the Art Park created by Jordan Seiler and Ed Bear.
We are thrilled to be able to publicly share for the first time the work being produced through the Arts in Corrections NYS program. A newly launched online archive shares work created, and first-person stories from the multidisciplinary workshops taking place weekly inside prisons across New York State through this NYSCA supported regrant program administered by Wave Farm in collaboration with NYS DOCCS.
Grantees from both the Media Arts Assistance Fund for Artists and Organizations' spring application cycles are announced.
Wave Farm is one of 15 grantees selected for the Simons Foundation Open Interval cohort, a collaborative program for artists, scientists and arts organizations.
On Saturday, July 12, all are invited to participate in a "digital hygiene" workshop to learn basic cybersecurity skills and methodologies lead by WGXC programmer and Catskill Makers Syndicate principal Joe Demanso.
And, there is plenty of WGXC 90.7-FM news to share: new shows, special broadcasts, and in case you missed it recent archives of note.
Finally, a save the date for the June WGXC Pledge Drive. Ripples Make Waves, and we are asking the Wave Farm community to show their extra support in this moment where so many arts organizations, including Wave Farm, have received grant termination letters for federal contracts already underway due to the current administration "updating its grantmaking policy priorities to focus funding on projects that reflect the nation's rich artistic heritage and creativity as prioritized by the President."
Jun 14, 2025: 12pm- 4pm Wave Farm + WGXC Acra Studio
5662 Route 23 | Acra, NY 12405 | 518-622-2598
Visit Wave Farm to celebrate the newest Art Park installation! Visitors will be offered guided tours of the Wave Farm Art Park, Study Center, and WGXC Acra Studio.
Talk To Me - Wave Farm (2025 - ongoing) is an experiment in serendipitous social interaction, mutual aid, community building, and the power of strangers to alter the ground on which we stand. Built on the Talk To Me micro telephone network, each conversation is an opportunity for two strangers to touch each other's lives, however briefly. When activated, the pond-facing phone will call out to every person in the Talk To Me - Wave Farm community, all at once. You will speak with the first person to answer the call.
To improve society spend time with people you haven’t met. - John Cage
Talk To Me NYC (2022) was a network of five payphones that only called each other, placed on streets, one in each of NYC’s five boroughs. This serendipitous interaction machine ran for a little over a year and a half and created thousands of interactions and hundreds of meaningful moments between strangers. Every day New Yorkers would pick up the phone, and others would answer the call. Confusion was common, connection less so, but each call represented a moment in time in which two people were held in brief proximity. The forest-facing phone features an edited compilation of the audio that resulted.
Talk To Me - Wave Farm, is made possible, in part, by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature through a Support for Artists Grant, fiscally sponsored by Wave Farm.
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.
Browse the archive of artworks across genres including sculpture, printmaking, music video production, and storytelling, and listen to interviews between workshop participants now! artsincorrectionsnys.org
Selected through a competitive panel process, 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.
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: 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 (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.
Wave Farm selected for Open Interval, a collaborative program for artists, scientists and arts organizations
Marina Zurkow, multimedia artist, Becca Franks (Assistant professor of environmental studies, WATR-lab director and Wild Animal Welfare Program co-director, New York University), and Wave Farm's Executive Director Galen Joseph-Hunter will serve as one of 15 trios selected for Open Interval, part of the Simons Foundation's Science, Society & Culture division. Open Interval provides support for seven months of unbound exploration between a team of three — an artist, a scientist and a producing partner from a host arts organization.
This collaboration is supported through Open Interval, part of the Simons Foundation’s Science, Society & Culture division.
presented in partnership with the Catskill Maker Syndicate
IN-PERSON
Saturday July 12, 2025 1 p.m. EST
WGXC Catskill Studio
393 Main St., Catskill, NY 12414
or
REMOTE VIA ZOOM
Saturday July 12, 2025 3:30 p.m. EST
Learn basic cybersecurity skills to control your sensitive data and protect yourself from unwanted surveillance. The workshop will guide participants through concrete actions and a simplified step-by-step breakdown of setting up and maintaining personal digital security across your devices. The workshop will be followed by a Q&A session and discussion.
An in person workshop will be offered in Wave Farm / WGXC's Catskill studio at 393 Main Street in Catskill at 1pm on Saturday June 28th. A virtual workshop will be held via Zoom directly afterwards at 3:30pm. In person attendees are asked to bring a laptop and smartphone if possible. This workshop is free to attend.
Joe Demanso is an IT administrator, cybersecurity expert and host of WGXC show Thingularity. He is also a member of the Catskill Maker Syndicate. Joe Demanso is a proud cat servant residing in the beautiful foothills of the Catskill Mountains with his frankenbike bandit.
Produced by SVB
5th Mondays from 12 a.m. to 1 a.m.
Premieres Jun 30, 2025 90.7-FM in NY's Upper Hudson Valley and wgxc.org/listen everywhere
Waft through the mists of the quantum field: you are the beforetime and the aftertime all at the same time. You'll encounter forgotten and found sounds, haunted sonics, obsolete audio, distorted vocals, and maybe even some Wurlitzer organ. We'll explore the unseen, the rarely known, the unheard of. What lies after death? Who visits from other dimensions? How does one time travel? Where do the elementals live?
When will we listen? The Warped Echo broadcasts roughly around each solstice and equinox (3/31/25, 6/30/25, 9/29/25 + 12/29/25), and each one investigates a theme: Death, Visitors, Travel, Elementals.
Sarah Van Buren (SVB) is a raver, soundmaker, soothsayer, DJ, and library worker living in Stottville, NY. She works with music, sound, and collaborative performance to investigate buried histories and the unseen. Sarah facilitates communal rituals and resonates well with others: as the Youth Services Manager at Hudson Area Library, founding member of Community Rave Network, certified Deep Listening® facilitator, and longtime co-curator of 24-HOUR DRONE at Basilica Hudson, 2014-2024.
