Wave Farm

A pioneer of the Transmission Arts genre, Wave Farm is a non-profit arts organization driven by expe

Wave Farm is a non-profit arts organization driven by experimentation with broadcast media and the airwaves. Our programs—Transmission Arts, WGXC-FM, and Media Arts Grants—provide access to transmission technologies and support artists and organizations that engage with media as an art form. Transmission Arts programs support artists who engage the transmission spectrum, on the airwaves and throug

h public events. The Wave Farm Artist Residency Program is an international visiting artist program. The Transmission Arts Archive presents a living genealogy of artists’ experiments with broadcast media and the airwaves. Wave Farm Radio is a continuous online radio feed and site-specific broadcast on 1620-AM. Wave Farm's WGXC 90.7-FM is a creative community radio station based in New York’s Greene and Columbia counties. Hands-on access and participation activate WGXC as a public platform for information, experimentation, and engagement. Wave Farm's Media Arts Grants program includes fiscal sponsorship as well as the New York State Council on the Arts in Partnership with Wave Farm: Media Arts Assistance Fund (MAAF) and New York Media Arts Map, which support electronic media and film organizations, as well as individual artists, in all regions of New York State through a regrant from the NYSCA Electronic Media and Film program.

06/05/2025

June 14: Visit Wave Farm to celebrate the newest Art Park installation: 𝘛𝘢𝘭𝘬 𝘵𝘰 𝘔𝘦 - 𝘞𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘍𝘢𝘳𝘮 by Jordan Seiler and Ed Bear. Take a guided tour of the Wave Farm Art Park, Study Center, and WGXC Acra Studio from 12-4 p.m. at Wave Farm’s campus in Acra, NY.

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 others 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.

Link in bio for details and directions.

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.

05/22/2025

📡🪨 Tune in today at 3 p.m. EST for an interview with artist-in-residence Riel Bellow, followed by a 4 p.m. live performance for FM of their radio play 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘳𝘰𝘤𝘬 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨! The performance features a score in collaboration with Rager ⁣
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WGXC 90.7FM on your RADIO DIAL in New York’s Upper Hudson Valley OR! Stream from anywhere on wavefarm.org/listen
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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.

05/16/2025

Riel Bellow is live from the Acra studio today and next week‼️ ⁣
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Tune in today, May 16 at 2 p.m. EST for 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘶𝘯 𝘪𝘴 𝘩𝘪𝘨𝘩 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘭𝘺 𝘨𝘦𝘵𝘴 𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘦 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭 𝘢𝘯 𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦 (𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘶𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘳). some sweet melodies for summer and odes to the star who’s light we spend all day under. made for listening by the water with ur friends

05/02/2025

Last call for tickets to 𝐄𝐧𝐨 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐞-𝐈𝐧! Join us on May 29th in Coxsackie, NY for sunset performances from Fred Frith and eucademix (Yuka Honda), with interstitial sounds from SUNJIR0 (Kadallah Burrowes), followed by the first ever simultaneous multi-version screening of the acclaimed generative documentary 𝘌𝘯𝘰, one of which will be rendered live in-person by director Gary Hustwit. Tickets are going fast! Linked you know where.⁣
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Thursday, May 29, 2025⁣
Doors open 7 p.m.⁣
Hi-Way Drive-In Theatre⁣
Coxsackie, NY⁣
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04/01/2025

📡 We are thrilled to announce our 2025 cohort of Artists in Residence and Radio Art Fellows. Selected from our largest application pool to date, these artists and practitioners will make new radio artworks, curate editions of The Radio Art Hour, write about transmission art, and conduct public workshops from April through December this year.⁣
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🔵 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)⁣
🔵 William Corrigan (Charlottesville, VA)⁣
🔵 Luna Galassini (Santa Fe, NM)⁣
🔵 Fabiana Gibim (Amambai, Paraguay - São Paulo, Brazil)⁣
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Subscribe to Wave Farm’s monthly email announcements for detailed information about each artist, their work, and their projects at Wave Farm.⁣
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Pictured above from left to right. Photo credits: Giulia Palladini by Carmen Casas Nieto; Camille Wong by Yuchi Ma.⁣
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01/27/2025

Attn NYS-based media artists: Wave Farm’s Media Arts Assistance Fund is accepting applications until March 1, 2025. Apply for up to $7,500 to support the completion and/or public presentation of a new or recently completed media artwork.⁣
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This graphic includes still from 2024 MAAF for Artists awarded projects (clockwise from top left): 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘤𝘵 𝘡𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘓𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘭 𝟸 by Miriam Simun; 𝘔𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘳 & 𝘓𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵: 𝘋𝘢𝘺 by Zain Alam; 𝘛𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘖𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘪𝘥𝘢𝘦: 𝘚𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘚𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 by Suzanne Thorpe and Stephanie Rothenberg; 𝘕𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘴 by Mark Fingerhut, Peter Burr, Bridget DeFranco, and Matthew D. Gantt.⁣
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The Media Arts Assistance Fund is a regrant partnership with the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA). ⁣
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01/10/2025

APPLY BY FEBRUARY 1 to Wave Farm’s 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐑𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐨 𝐀𝐫𝐭 𝐅𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐬.⁣
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This year, artists-in-residence will spend 10-days on-site at Wave Farm (Acra, NY) developing a new 55-minute radio artwork designed explicitly for terrestrial radio broadcast on Wave Farm’s creative community radio station .7fm Radio for Open Ears.⁣
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Radio Art Fellows will dedicate a month-long remote engagement researching and selecting radio artworks by historical and contemporary artists. Fellowships will commence with a brief, in-person visit to Wave Farm, and are awarded in three categories: Research, Community Engagement, and Arts Writing.⁣
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Full program details are linked up top.⁣
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This image was taken by Adam T. Deen during Fabian Lanzmaier and Andreas Zißler’s 2024 residency. 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘮𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳𝟸𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴 is a live performance/installation with two parabolic speakers, binaural microphones, radio transmission, and a synthesizer. Together they form an audio-feedback loop, open to the sounds of the environment. A performer/musician equipped with binaural microphones interacts with the audio-field of the highly directive speakers.

12/26/2024

Full details at our link in bio for this very special paid mentorship program in collaboration with in Catskill NY! Over 40 weeks in 2025, mentees will learn the ins and outs of presenting independent and experimental performance in a beloved venue. Applications are due by Jan 10‼️❤️‍🔥

11/01/2024

Saturday, November 2nd on The Radio Art Hour, tune in to Codes, by Kamari Carter and Gladstone Deluxe, originally performed at ATLAS B2 Center for Media, Art and Performance. Tune in live on 90.7FM at 3 p.m. in the Upper Hudson Valley or on wgxc.org/listen from anywhere 📡

Codes is a newly-founded collaboration between Kamari Carter and Gladstone Deluxe that features an audio-visual durational performance using data extracted from live police scanner transmissions as a primary material for musical exploration. Deriving from Carter’s research-oriented practice revolving heavily around policing, incarceration, Black aesthetics, and surveillance, and Deluxe’s haptic, Afrological and techno-inspired analog compositional strategies, Codes works towards a synthesis of both schools of thought, and seeks to elevate the obfuscated.

Link in bio for full details!

10/18/2024

Tomorrow, Saturday October 19th: in conjunction with the opening of Keith Sanborn’s 𝘋𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘧𝘶𝘭 𝘗𝘦𝘯𝘯𝘺 𝘋𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘧𝘶𝘭, tune in to WGXC for a simultaneous live broadcast of the installation.⁣
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🟢 Opening reception: Saturday, October 19th 5–8 p.m. at 393 Main Street, Catskill NY⁣
🟢 Tune in to WGXC 90.7FM in New York’s Upper Hudson Valley or stream from anywhere on wavefarm.org/listen⁣
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𝘋𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘧𝘶𝘭 𝘗𝘦𝘯𝘯𝘺 𝘋𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘧𝘶𝘭, a 6.1 audio video installation, dares to violate every remaining shred of “good taste” using the vehicle of Brecht and Weil’s much-abused “Moritat von Mackie Messer,” aka “Mack the Knife.” Over 200 versions collide, taking you from its origins in Weimar Berlin to the multiple travesties of Rat Pack Vegas and the many imitators of each on East Block TV and in cheesey Jersey nightclubs. Further stops along the way include Midwestern High School chorus practice and performances of ivy college a ca****la groups, not to mention jazz improvisation sessions, talent shows, and rockers doing high Kultur! A splendid time is guaranteed for all.⁣
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Link in bio for full details!

10/15/2024

Scenes from Hans Kuzmich’s recording process for 𝘛𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘢 𝘊𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦. This live performance and radio broadcast by Wave Farm’s current artist-in-residence is premiering this Saturday, October 19th at 1 p.m. — turn out in person to the WGXC Catskill Studio or tune in on 90.7FM and wavefarm.org/listen.⁣
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Link in bio to RSVP!📡⁣
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𝘛𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘢 𝘊𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦 brings together three sound archives connected to the history of imprisonment in Upstate New York. The first set of recordings derives from a practice of listening to the electromagnetic and acoustic environments of active and decommissioned prisons in Wave Farm’s vicinity.⁣
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The second set draws on Wave Farm’s archive of radio programs highlighting the analysis of imprisoned people, their families, and communities.⁣
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Finally, a third set of recordings engage with contemporary abolitionists organizing in Upstate New York.⁣
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The three sound archives will be mixed in real time to evoke the prison as a physical structure and a discursive site. Listening to its past, present, and future, the project seeks to contribute to the abolitionist imagining of imprisonment’s afterlife.

09/11/2024

Calling all radionauts, wave artists, transmission enthusiasts, and utopists: Registration is now open for a free Zoom workshop hosted by Wave Farm’s Radio Art Fellow Celeste Oram⁣
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𝐂𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐙𝐄𝐍𝐒 𝐎𝐅 𝐒𝐏𝐄𝐂𝐓𝐑𝐔𝐌, 𝐀𝐒𝐒𝐄𝐌𝐁𝐋𝐄! 𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐦 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 & 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐧𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐟𝐢𝐞𝐥𝐝⁣
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Register at our link into bio to participate on Friday, September 20 at 6 p.m. EST or Saturday, September 21 at 11 a.m. EST⁣
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This participatory workshop introduces you to the realm of spectrum management: the overlapping forces of law, politics, economics & technology that shape the landscape of the electromagnetic spectrum, and thereby the lives of the citizens within it. Up and down the electromagnetic field, we communicate, express our selves, and forge relationships. Our very personhood is therefore bound up in our access to spectrum and its regulation.

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