Shortwave Collective

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We are an international feminist artist collective, using the radio spectrum as artistic material.
Website:https://www.shortwavecollective.net/
Instagram:@ShortwaveCollective
Twitter:@SWaveCollective
‘Living Radio Lab’ Film by Francesca Oldfieldhttps://youtu.be/GWIHpcgnHYA

Last few tickets to our Open Wave-Receiver building workshop on Sat 2-4 in Edinburgh for @oshwassociation … it’s going to be such a great weekend and there may even be a few tickets remaining to the event itself!!

https://2025.oshwa.org/workshops/060-shortwave-collective/

Here’s Lisa testing out antenna reception by throwing it in the air, which produces a satisfying spectrum of signal and is a favourite listening method of ours…

You can now watch the ‘Living Radio Lab’ film, made by the mega talented Francesca Oldfield, in full in our profile above. We feel super lucky to have this wonderful documentation of this time in Struer… and hope the joy of experimenting together transmits over to you 😉📻✨

#womeninsound #womeninradio #soundart #soundartist #feminism

Another clip from a film we made with the wonderful Francesca Oldfield, launching in full on Saturday! 📽️
Sneak peak at something that's been in the works...

It’s been wonderful to join not just the CRiSAP panel (focusing on feminist sonic practices), but the whole cohort of 80 presenters at ‘Women in Revolt!’ at Tate for the past two days.

There’s a few zines at the welcome desk left to take home!

https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/women-in-revolt/women-in-revolt-radical-acts-contemporary-resonances

#womeninrevolt #soundart #feminism #feminist #experimental #womeninart #tate #collective #artcollective #zine #DIY

Women in Revolt!: radical acts, contemporary resonances | Tate Britain

Tate

We’ve had a great couple of days in Ghent, testing DIY radios with artists and researchers participating in Sound Arguments. Here we are on the top floor of
Orpheus Institute scanning for signals.

Stories from our travels here: https://shortwavecollective.net/news

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The Orpheus Institute invited us to be part of their Sound Arguments laboratory-atelier series in Belgium this month. We enjoyed spending two days with this group or artists, musicians and...

Shortwave Collective
We’ve had the nicest afternoon in Leeds making Open Wave-Receivers with cool people at Wharf Chambers. Got rained on whilst testing outside, but heard a fun mix of signals, including a French station!

We'll be guest lecturing at the Royal College of Art in London next week for RCA masters (of research) students. Will be lovely to share some of our collective's processes and experiments! Co-thinking/making in a collective comes with it's challenges but also so many great rewards when you operate as one multi-tendrilled unit. 🐙

#research #collective #radiowitches #AcademicFedi #academic #experimental #radioart #radio #London #University #womenintech #womeninart #soundart #womeninradio

We did our 1st online open wave-receiver workshop last night for the excellent folks at @oshwassociation #OpenHardwareSummit in NYC.

Georgia + Hannah talked people through things, Brigitte + Alyssa were testing & listening in their local neighbourhoods at night/amongst stinging nettles.

A new experience not being in the room w people to workshop ideas + testing but as always soooo great to see how different minds make different radios 💘💘

#ohs2023 #openhardware #ohsummit @makemagazine #oshwa

BERGEN?

The collective has been busy at Piksel Festival in Bergen over the weekend delivering workshops on making an Open-wave Receiver. As you can see, some local found materials for the circuits have made their way to the experimenting table such as a Club Mate bottle and an impressive stick!

#RadioArt #PikselFestival #SoundArt #Creatives #Stick