Program Information

Gregory Whitehead

Series:

Subtitle:

A show where art is not just on the radio, but is the radio.

Program Type:

Weekly Program

Featured Speakers/Commentators:

Wave Farm Radio Artist Fellow Karen Werner introduces Gregory Whitehead's "Dead Letters.

Contributor:

Wave Farm/WGXC 90.7-FM Contact Contributor

Date Published:

Feb. 17, 2021, 10:05 p.m.

Summary: Welcome to "The Radio Art Hour," a show where art is not just on the radio, but is the radio. "The Radio Art Hour" draws from the Wave Farm Broadcast Radio Art Archive, an online resource that aims to identify, coalesce, and celebrate historical and contemporary international radio artworks made by artists around the world, created specifically for terrestrial AM/FM broadcast, whether it be via commercial, public, community, or independent transmission. Come on a journey with us as radio artists explore broadcast radio space through poetic resuscitations and playful celebrations/subversions of the complex relationship between senders and receivers in this hour of radio about radio as an art form. "The Radio Art Hour" features introductions from Philip Grant and Tom Roe, and from Wave Farm Radio Art Fellows Karen Werner and Jess Speer. The Conet Project's recordings of numbers radio stations serve as interstitial sounds. Go to wavefarm.org for more information about "The Radio Art Hour" and Wave Farm's Radio Art Archive.

Credits: Gregory Whitehead is an American radio artist whose radio art is widely celebrated and enjoyed. It is very difficult to choose just a couple of his works for the Wave Farm Radio Art Archive from his many fantastic creations. Dead Letters is an early piece, created in 1985. It begins as an inquiry into the postal letters that do not arrive at their intended destinations. Gregory visited the New York City Dead Letter Office and from there, he writes, I simply followed whatever associative path was suggested within the language and performance of the interviews themselves. The subtitle of Dead Letters is: "the monologue of a hand cut off from the body cast out into the warehouse of undelivered feeling." There is much more to discover about Gregory Whiteheads radio art and his stunning writings about radio at his website gregorywhitehead.net - Introduced by Wave Farm Radio Artist Fellow 2019/2020, Karen Werner.

Notes: Wave Farm is a non-profit arts organization driven by experimentation with broadcast media and the airwaves. A pioneer of the Transmission Arts genre, Wave Farm programs provide access to transmission technologies and support artists and organizations that engage with media as an art form. Major activities include the Wave Farm Artist Residency Program; Transmission Art Archive; WGXC 90.7-FM: Radio for Open Ears, a creative community radio station based in New Yorks Upper Hudson Valley; a Fiscal Sponsorship program; and the Media Arts Assistance Fund in partnership with NYSCA Electronic Media/Film.

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