You can listen to the Trans-X Symposium live today and tomorrow on NAISA Radio via http://www.naisa.ca/webcast (see schedule below).

Saturday May 26th ::

10:00 am Keynote Address: Foundations of Transmission Art by Galen Joseph-Hunter
Informed by her recent publication Transmission Arts: Artists and Airwaves (PAJ Publications: 2011), Joseph-Hunter will discuss key inventors, activists, and organizations, including free103point9, who have helped pave the way for Transmission Arts. Citations of specific artists and works will spark dialogue towards defining the qualitative principles of the genre.

Continue reading

Radius : Episode 23 will host Radio Cegeste. Sally Ann McIntyre lives in Dunedin, New Zealand, and works with radio, sound and writing. She runs the mini FM station Radio Cegeste as a project based platform for live transmission art :: April 28 & 29 at 12am CST ::

Radius will broadcast “dear friends who have died are all talking to me tonight / all at once”. As a site-specific, spectator-less, solo performance, “dear friends who have died are all talking to me tonight / all at once” re-constructs and re-imagines personal and public memory through the medium of transmission, as an appropriate framework for uncertain, shifting structural and social realities. Continue reading

free103point9 and the Greene County Council on the Arts are pleased to present, Transmittal, an exhibition offering Greene County residents and visitors a window into Transmission Arts: at the Greene County Council on the Arts, 398 Main Street, Catskill, NY :: opening reception: April 28, 2012 from 5-7:00 p.m. :: Curated by Galen Joseph-Hunter, free103point9’s Executive Director ::

The exhibition features an international and local roster of artists and organizations whose work celebrates the interdisciplinary nature of Transmission Arts and is made manifest in video, sound, radio, installation, performance, and work-on-paper. Continue reading

Trans-X Symposium: A Symposium About Transmission Art :: May 25-27, 2012 :: Call for Papers — Deadline March 16.

Rooted in the earliest experiments with radio, Transmission Art has continued to flourish with experiments with wireless communications technology over the past 100 years. The 21st Century is not excluded from this experimentation as artists have ventured into exploring a variety of mobile-based platforms and more lesser known forms of transmission such as VLF. The terrain of transmission art is dynamic and fluid, always open to redefinition. Continue reading