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Shortwave Collective is an international feminist artist group using the electromagnetic spectrum (largely radio) as artistic material. We spend time together remotely and in hybrid forms—making, testing and sharing. Through this collective practice, we have created a new design for a homemade, ecological and open radio receiver that connects the listener to a fusion of natural radio emissions and many human-generated transmissions. A year after our founding, we published this design in MAKE magazine (2021), and have since delivered workshops nationally and internationally, developing new models through a participatory practice. As part of Struer Tracks Biennial for Sound and Listening (2023) we invited festival-goers and local residents to develop amplifiers in oyster shells with us, during our public art project Living Radio Lab (2023). We recently published reflections on our methodology for radio-listening as a plural, situated and embodied endeavour in Bodies of Sounds: Becoming a Feminist Ear (eds. Shin & Revell, 2024). We also shared our collective listening practice in a 22 hour radio broadcast for Radio Art Zone (2022) and in a short piece for BBC Short Cuts (2025).
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Alyssa Moxley is a sound artist currently based in France. She accesses narratives of identity, place, space, and embodied experience through sound. She utilizes microphone techniques, field recording, interviews, composition, digital and analog sound design, speaker placement, and sculpture to create detailed sonic interventions and environments that relate memory, emotion, and landscape. Alyssa is also a writer and a curator of sound and music events.
Brigitte Hart is an Australian sound artist working across performance and installation. Currently based in London, her practice explores relationships between voice, objects, histories and ecologies, often engaging text, environmental recordings, remnants and archives. Brigitte has developed installations, performances, and workshops for Supernormal Festival, Wysing Polyphonic x Somerset House Festival, Resonance FM, Soundcamp/Reveil, David Roberts Art Foundation, and Tate Britain. Brigitte is also a member of the London Bulgarian Choir.
Georgia Leigh-Münster is a New York-born and London-based independent contemporary art curator with a focus on urbanism, sound, video, and collectivity. She has programmed work at museums, commercial galleries, pop-ups, and DIY exhibition spaces, including the Palais de Tokyo, Royal College of Art, Copenhagen’s Dome of Visions and ARoS. From 2008-2013, she was Press Writer & Curatorial Fellow of the artists’ residency and collective Flux Factory in New York. She completed an MA in Curating Contemporary Art from the RCA in 2015, in addition to a BA in Art History from Bard College from 2008.
Hannah Kemp-Welch is a sound artist with a social practice. She creates works collaboratively and in community settings, often responding to social issues. Recent projects include Nomadic Listening (2024) a series of workshops and radio installation for Manifesta15 with communities in the Barcelona Metropolitan region, and o-o-radio! (2022), a project at Wysing Arts Centre constructing homemade radios with d/Deaf young people, to better understand how hearing aids operate.
Maria Papadomanolaki is a sound and transmission artist based in Chania, Crete, Greece. Her work and research focus on the role of sound and walking in the way we perceive, create memories, make place and identity within our environments. Maria has conducted site specific and creative research in a variety of contexts and locations ranging from busy urban junctions and nature reserves to remote ancient sites and mountain trails. Special importance is placed on the synergy of sound and transmission art with creative curatorial and ecological practices.