User:Angeliki/Grad project frequencies

A dialogue with the frequencies/ an invisible interlocutor

What do I want to make?

I want to make a series of approaches of understanding frequencies/electromagnetic spectrum and appropriate the technologies involved from a different perspective. Approaching it as an 'other'/an invisible interlocutor.

How do I plan to make it?

interviews with people that provoke these questions and imagining the radio from a different[feminist, poetic,..] perspective. -Did you see radio as a different tool than what is perceived to be? -In what level of involvement are you? Broadcasting, scanning, making radio stations, radio amateur license, pirate, legal/illegal. -How you realize the involvement of your voice in that?

engaging with the technology - Where the frequencies come from [satellites, devices on earth, stations]? How many of them involve voices?

proposing ways of sharing knowledge that are not visible (like including our bodies and voices in the process)

affect on space- affect on language [-Describe me your how it was to do such projects in [public] space. ]

-How do we gain this knowledge?

Why do I want to make it?

Because there is a dominant approach on those technologies, that were always creating channels of communication, which is limiting the potentials of such mediums regarding our bodies and subjectivities/ imagining potential futures [second orality and raadio caargo]. The first questions that initialized my interest were: - Why I don't know about using radio or about frequencies, the electromagnetic spectrum? Even though it is an interesting medium to me that gives access to another information and communication [existing for years and surrounding us/many communities are involved and develop it]? Is it because of the technical details, the legal constraints that makes it invisible or its context [cultural, social sphere around it]? - How the gender affects our involvement to radio technologies and culture? - What is our relation to antennas and radio? Is it only something that surrounds us and exists? It seems as an invisible "Big Brother" that surveil us, it's dangerous, military, it's male, it's scientific. I am fascinated by the intensity/surprise it can provoke when receiving data with antennas in real-time/in space and listening to audio/or even see the traces of a frequency. There is still a strong bias and prejudice on frequencies [aliens, surveillance, ghosts] that strengthens the distance of involvment.

Who can help me and how?

People I interview on imagining potentials of futures Roel with radio technology, understanding frequencies and electromagnetic spectrum Matt with references, prototyping [making antennas] Joana with prototyping [making embroidered antennas], references and discussion on embodied and distant voice

Relation to a larger context

There are several attempts [from feminists, artists, programmers, sociologists] of approaching hacking, technological cultures from a more feminist approach that involves the body, the vulnerabilities of the individual [text of hacking with care]. The radio is also used to empower communities and people to learn to make their own radio stations, share this knowledge. Many artists still find a reason to appropriate it.

I had a dream! [Amy]

!!!DRAFT DRAFT!!!

How I will do it: I will do that by creating a dialogue with the frequencies [by using antennas to listen to the frequencies, to map them in the space, ]. I want to focus on frequencies including voice samples, to intimate the dialogue. walking and listening to radio frequencies, conversations

questions:

• How is radio/frequencies produce and occupies space?
• What that reveals for the space (either physical or digital) and our surroundings?
• How walking and including the presence of our body into this media reveals hidden meanings and perspectives of our relation to it and the space?

https://nfcwproject.tumblr.com [Near-field communication] Approaching electromagnetic fields in space

-What is our relation with antennas and radio? why am I interested in them? -How do we gain this knowledge? -How the gender affects our involvement to radio technologies and culture? -Did you see radio as a different tool than what is perceived to be? -How did you set-up radio stations? legal or illegal? -How the speech and voice was part of your pirate radio attempts? -Describe me your how it was to do such projects in public space.