Together we will map a genealogy of artists, works, questions, and definitions in support of the genre. Artists are encouraged to self-identify their work within the context of Transmission Art practices. The resulting resources online and at the Wave Farm Study Center will provide extensive reference materials to artists, curators, students, and academics researching contemporary and historical practices in Media Art and Experimental Sound with respects to the topic of transmission.
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free103point9 defines Transmission Arts as a genre that encompass a diversity of practices and media working with the idea of transmission or the physical properties of the electromagnetic spectrum. Work in this genre is informed by an intentional use of space—often the airwaves. Transmission Art manifests in participatory live art or time-based art including radio, video, light, installation, and performance.
These projects harness, occupy and/or respond to the airwaves that surround us. Audience members are newly engaged, becoming participants rather than passive viewers and listeners. Installation or sculptural transmission works are often live, reacting to the frequencies specific to the works' location; or changing that information by adding new signals to the spectral environment.
