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sidered active. However, we are often invited to participate in festivals,
exhibitions and residencies based on our previous projects
incorporating micro-radio technology. We were participants in
the Deep Wireless festival in 2007 with a residency and installation
called Radioroam which uses a low-powered transmitter
as the central technology to the work. Last summer we taught a
two-day workshop at the Banff Centre, where participants built
simple FM transmitters, then recorded and edited localized field
recordings, which culminated in an outdoor collaborative installation.
We were recently part of a group exhibition at NSCAD
University, and there are projects coming up in the next two years
that incorporate radio transmitters.
notes
1. This e-mail interview was conducted by Marian van der Zon with the
founders of Radio Ballroom, Eleanor King and Stephen Kelly.
2. Daina Augaitis and Dan Lander, Eds. Radio Rethink: Art Sound Transmission
(Banff, British Columbia: Walter Phillips Gallery, The Banff Centre for the
Arts, 1994).
3. Kunst Radio, Toward a Definition of Radio Art, http://www.kunstradio.at/
TEXTS/manifesto.html (accessed September 11, 2009).