Galen Joseph-Hunter has served as Executive Director of Wave Farm, a nonprofit arts organization driven by experimentation with broadcast media and the airwaves, since 2002. Wave Farm’s programs—Transmission Arts, WGXC 90.7-FM, and Media Arts Grants—provide access to transmission technologies and support artists and organizations that engage with media as an art form. From 1996 to 2015 Joseph-Hunter worked closely with Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), serving as Assistant Director and then Executive Consultant. Over the past two decades, she has organized and curated exhibitions and events internationally, including “Wave Farm (in residence)” for TuftsPUBLIC at the Tufts University Art Galleries (2018–2019). She was the co-organizer of “Groundswell,” an annual exhibition event featuring broadcast, performance, sound, and installation works by contemporary artists conceived within the 250 acres of the Olana State Historic Site from 2013 to 2015. In 2015 and 2016 she curated the Columbia University Sound Arts MFA spring exhibitions. She has produced numerous radio programs for Wave Farm’s WGXC and stations internationally, including Climactic Climate for Kunstradio Vienna (2015). Joseph-Hunter is the author of Transmission Arts: Artists and Airwaves (2011) and “Transmission Arts: The Air That Surrounds Us” (PAJ, 2009).
Tom Roe, Artistic Director at Wave Farm, is a sound transmission artist who performs with transmitters and receivers using multiple bands (FM, CB, walkie-talkie), as well as prepared CDs, vinyl records, and electronics. One of the original founders of free103point9, which is now Wave Farm, he has written about music for The Wire, Signal to Noise, and The New York Post, among others. His writing also appeared in Undercurrents: The Hidden Wiring of Modern Music (2002). Roe has led many “Radio Lab” education lectures and workshops, speaking about how to perform with transmitters