Galen Joseph-Hunter is the Executive Director of free103point9, a non-profit arts organization cultivating Transmission Arts, experimental radio art, video, light sculpture, installation and performance utilizing the electromagnetic spectrum. Located in upstate New York and New York City, free103point9 supports artists exploring transmission frequencies for creative expression and is the license-holder for a full-power non-commercial community FM radio project (WGXC: Hands-on Radio) serving Greene and Columbia Counties in upstate New York.

Joseph-Hunter has served as Executive Director of free103point9 since 2002, and has worked at the video art organization Electronic Arts Intermix since 1996. Over the past thirteen years, she has organized and curated numerous exhibitions and events internationally including Video Jam (2001), co-curated with Michael Rush, at the PBICA, FL; Video Windows (2001) at the Stefan Stux Gallery, NY; Interactions (2002), co-curated with Lori Zippay, at the NY Center for Media Arts; Airborne (2005) in collaboration with and at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY; Spectral Garden (2006) free103point9 Wave Farm, Acra, NY; [silence] (2007), co-curated with Dylan J. Gauthier, at Gigantic ArtSpace, NY; and Off The Grid (2008), co-curated with Tianna Kennedy, Tom Roe and Jacqueline Shilkoff, at The Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY.

Joseph-Hunter is the editor and author of "Transmission Arts: the air that surrounds us" (PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, September 2009: MIT Press), and a forthcoming book about the Transmission Art genre (PAJ 2010.) She is the administrator of a NYSCA regrant providing distribution and exhibition support to New York-based media artists. Joseph-Hunter has served as a panelist/reviewer for the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, Experimental Television Center, Meet The Composer, and the Greene County Council for the Arts, among others.

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  • Distribution Application Seminar & Panel: New York City. Video documentation., Nov. 13, 2008. at Electronic Arts Intermix. Seminar: Galen Joseph-Hunter (Executive Director, free103point9). Panelists: Rebecca Cleman (Director of Distribution, Electronic Arts Intermix); Amanda McDonald Crowley (Executive Director, Eyebeam); John Mhiripiri (Director of Administration & Exhibitions, Anthology Film Archives); Michael J. Schumacher (Diapason Gallery & DRAW); and Milton Tabbot (Senior Director, Programming, IFP - Former Regrant Administrator). (video/mov)