Profile
Independent radio producer and sound artist of narrative documentary; works presented in the U.S., Europe, UK, Australia, and Canada via online venues, virtual appearances, festivals, broadcasts, gallery installations, CD compilations; curator of sound art for HyperAcousia and founder and curator at Earlid.
Degrees Held
MFA, San Jose State University
Recent Publications
Radio Without Scaffolding: international online forum/interviews with 8 contributing experimenters in podcasting, including Love + Radio and Constellations, summer 2018, Earlid
Radio's Art: international online forum, 10 contributors, PDF of essays and 100+ comments, co-moderated with Gregory Whitehead, summer 2017, Earlid
The WHY: Conversations (2014), with Noah Saterstrom, Caroline Bergvall, Kevin Allen, Alexandra Eldridge, Helen White, Ed Bowes, guest curator, Trickhouse
Listening as a Form of Activism: Kevin Allen, Maile Colbert and Tessie Word, (2013), guest curator, Trickhouse
Performances and Appearances
Intermix, (propositions for performance installation), collaborative performance with UK interdisciplinary artist, Seth Guy, LAB451, fall 2018
Long Live the New Sound podcast of experimental sound, 2018
Fair_Play 2, 90 international women artists, Lieu Multiple in Poitiers, France, public listening sessions, 2018
Constellations, experimental storytelling podcast, Toronto, 2018
Datscha Radio: A garden in the air, live radio festival, held in a back-yard garden, Berlin, 2017
"Radio's Art," at Megapolis Audio Festival, Philadelphia Fringe Festival; Wave Farm's 20th-anniversary live broadcast on WGXC-FM Sept. 2017
Sound, people, animals and environments: A Sound Response
Deep Wireless Festival of Radio and Transmission Art & the TransX Transmission Art Symposium, Toronto, Canada, 2017
Radiophrenia: A temporary art radio station, Centre for Contemporary arts, Glasgow, Scotland, 2017, 2016
Founder, Earlid, an international online museum of various sound- and media-makers. Themed, quarterly exhibits; contextualized essays; sonic portraits/interviews/dialogues; annual open submission calls based on sound or theme (2015-present)
Research Interests
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sound art, sound culture, listening theory
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creative radio, narrative design, production concepts
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environment, natural/man-made disaster, media response
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listeners, media makers, audiences
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curating digital media
Awards And Honors
2018 | Radio Art Residency, (one of 8 finalists out of 150 applicants), invitational, international fellowship, Radio Corax, Halle/Saale, Germany, in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut
2018 | USA Fellowship, finalist (anonymous nomination)
2017 | Arts Council Santa Cruz County – Develop Grant, support for web portfolio re-design, HyperAcousia
2017 | Distinguished University Teaching Award, The New School, Provost’s Office, one of 13 semi-finalists (out of 189 nominations)
2010 | Sloan Foundation Development Grant, online technologies and pedagogy, The New School
Portfolio
HyperAcousia
Earlid