31 Down

Formed in 2001 by Ryan Holsopple, 31 Down is a radio-transmission based theater company from Brooklyn, New York. The vision of the company lies in the hybridization of modern technologies with old technologies, systems, established genres, and forms. The theater company uses radio transmissions, wireless devices, and home security technology ...

Brett Ian Balogh

Brett Ian Balogh is a Chicago-based artist working at the intersection of objects, sounds, and spaces. His work involves the creation of instruments, systems, and environments that posit alternate relationships between ourselves and the world we inhabit. Balogh is currently interested in the ways that radio transmission and reception can ...

Alexis Bhagat

Alexis Bhagat’s work is dedicated to the destruction of authorship and authority through the cultivation of new forms for radically poly-vocal sound, transmission of promiscuous conversation, and obsessive never-ending correspondence. Currently, Bhagat is intrigued by the "lecture" as a form ripe for intervention. He speaks and writes on anarchism, prisons, ...

Matt Bua

Matt Bua makes installations, drawings, films, videos, and performance art pieces. His recent work takes form in large-scale fantastical spaces that redefine and re-imagine found objects and sustainable resources as functional elements in architecture. Bua’s present project is the construction of small scale examples of vernacular, experimental, and visionary architecture ...

Damian Catera

Damian Catera is an electro-acoustic composer/guitarist, sound installation creator and media artist. Catera's work reflects interests in sound-based composition/ improvisation, transmission, and socio-political critique. Recently he's been performing improvised "deCompositions" for live electronics, radio, and guitar. Catera's "deCompositional" process consists of an expanded instrument system, which samples and probabilistically processes ...

Melissa Dubbin and Aaron S. Davidson

Melissa Dubbin & Aaron S. Davidson have worked collaboratively since 1998. Their projects are multi-disciplinary in nature and include practices in video, sculpture, sound, performance and works on paper. Dubbin and Davidson’s current projects dissect the formal and structural aspects of filmmaking, and skew information sets, re-presenting bodies of knowledge ...

The Dust Dive

The Dust Dive’s unconventional sound borrows from ill-American landscapes, edge-city teenage hangouts, and overgrown, overlooked places. Conceived in a noisy railroad apartment in Brooklyn, New York, the trio’s songs possess the quirky sincerity of a youth recital while burrowing into mesmerizing, urban pastoral, and ghostly terrain. Employing violin, chord organ, ...

Joshua Fried

Fried’s “Radio Wonderland” turns the very bits and bytes of commercial culture into the driving backbeat to our dance of independence. In this developing solo, Fried abstracts live FM radio with laptop, electrified shoes hit with sticks, and a computer-hacked steering wheel (from a Buick 6). His software creations include ...

Anna Friz

Anna Friz is a sound and radio artist, and media studies scholar. She has been actively involved in Canadian independent radio since 1993, and was program director at CiTR (Vancouver) from 1998-2000. Since 1998 Friz has predominantly created self-reflexive radio art/works for broadcast, installation or performance, where radio is the ...

Max Goldfarb

The work of Max Goldfarb intersects many disciplines. His projects take the form of objects, improvised electronics, radio transmissions, publications, and performative situations

His ongoing project Mobile 49, centers around a radio-utility studio housed inside a converted emergency vehicle, drawing together many facets Goldfarb's creative project.

Goldfarb has ...

Ann Heppermann + Kara Oehler

Ann Heppermann and Kara Oehler are Peabody-award winning public radio producers and media artists based in Brooklyn and Boston. Their stories and long-form documentaries have aired nationally and internationally on public radio shows including: This American Life, Morning Edition, Weekend America, BBC, CBC, Radio Lab, Re:Sound, Marketplace and numerous others. ...

Tianna Kennedy

Kennedy’s experiments in transmission began as monthly improvisatory radio broadcasts in Bushwick, Brooklyn and now include performances, installations, sculpture, sound, video, writing and teaching. Though she has worked with many collaborators, Tianna has been particularly grateful to Chad Laird for 18 19 20, Greta Byrum for

Latitude/Longitude

Brooklyn-based artists Michael Garofalo and Patrick McCarthy began performing as Latitude/Longitude in 2004. Teasing melodies out of prepared and alternately tuned guitars while electronics murmur in a nest of instrument cables at their feet, the duo weave electro-acoustic dream songs from cross-circuit chaos.

In 2005 Latitude/Longitude released their self-titled ...

Sophea Lerner

Sophea Lerner is an australian sonic media artist and broadcaster currently working between Australia, Finland, and India. Her work brings together experience in group devised physical performance with 15 years of experimental radio and new media art into a collaborative art practice which explores mediated temporal experience. Lerner's radiomaking encompasses ...

LoVid

LoVid (Tali Hinkis and Kyle Lapidus) employs new media in their performances, videos, objects, and installations. They has toured the US and Europe extensively performing, exhibiting, and lecturing at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, P.S.1, The Neuberger Museum, The Butler Institute of American Art , Exit Art, Evolution ...

Todd Merrell

Since 1978 Todd Merrell has been fascinated with the imperceptible environment of electromagnetic radiation that shortwave radio and processing can capture, and transform into an immersive, musical environment. In 1991 he began exploring the musical possibilities of this world in a collaboration with Patrick Jordan. The result was SWR, a ...

Michelle Nagai

Brooklyn-based composer Michelle Nagai utilizes sound, physicality and concept to create site-specific performances, installations, radio broadcasts, dances, walks and other interactions that address the human state in relationship to its setting. These works and activities explore the exchange of perception between performer and audience/viewer. Nagai recognizes transmission, reception and “limbo” ...

neuroTransmitter

neuroTransmitter (Angel Nevarez + Valerie Tevere) came together in 2001 as a collaborative whose work fuses conceptual practices with transmission, sound production, and mobile broadcast system design. Through the combination of sound, installation, drawing, video, music production, performance, and further collaboration, nT’s work re-articulates radio in multiple environments and contexts ...

ben owen

Ben Owen's current work includes improvised and graphic score based performance, audio and video collaborations, and a weekly internet radio program. His early sound studies began with cassettes and live radio, in tandem with stone lithography printmaking and photographic slide projections. Owen's process of lithographic printing is balanced by the ...

Radio Ruido

Radio Ruido encompasses radio projects initiated by artist Tom Mulligan. Working both solo and in collaboration, these projects entail both composed installations as well as various improvised live sound situations. Often site-specific in content, they seek to challenge conventional concepts of radio as well as exploring and challenging the physicality ...

Tom Roe

Tom Roe is a sound transmission artist sometimes known as DJ Dizzy. He co-founded microradio station 87X in Tampa, Florida; and, with Greg Anderson and Violet Hopkins, founded free103point9 as a microradio collective in Brooklyn, New York in 1997. Roe performs with transmitters and receivers using multiple bands (FM, CB, ...

Michelle Rosenberg

Michelle Rosenberg is a sculptor and architect whose installations mediate interaction with sound.

In a series of work called "Dynamic Headphones,” Rosenberg modifies portable electronic headphones as well as creates acoustic headphones that utilize basic principles of physics. These devices experiment with the intimacy of listening to live and ...

Scanner

Scanner—British artist Robin Rimbaud—traverses the experimental terrain between sound, space, image and form, creating absorbing, multi-layered sound pieces that twist technology in unconventional ways. From his early controversial work using found mobile phone conversations, through to his focus on trawling the hidden noise of the modern metropolis as the symbol ...