Projects
→ 2026 Clouded waters
→ 2026 Resonance FM
→ 2025 Radiogrrrl
→ 2025 SSTV
→ 2025 Feminist writings on CB
→ 2025 Listening ears
→ 2024 Politics of Breathing
→ 2024 Sonic Patterning
→ 2024 All without ever even stopping
Introduction
An investigation into the discriminatory nature of technology and technology-based art practices through sound and photography, focusing specifically on radio-based mediums and communications. The work is informed by contemporary Techno, Xeno, and Cyber-feminist theories to explore how technology could be used to create utopian spaces for women, nonbinary people, and trans folk. Developing knowledge through experimental practice and process on sound visual translation, the output for this project is a short film that utilises the weighty history of radio culture to explore bigger issues of gender bias.
Techno, Xeno and Cyber feminisms individually look at the relationship that women or people have with technology, computing, and the internet. With this concept in mind, I wanted to investigate data bending and how the transformation of media across formats could interject a feminist lens into a male-dominated landscape.
Focusing on radio communications as a basis for my experimentation, I began to take specific or outdated technologies and expand the parameters of that data exploring how translation can become the artwork.
Through glitching, distortion, and layers of sound, the film explores the movement from a very androcentric discomfort into a state of active ‘sonic agency’ and ‘feminist listening’, that mocks the outdated traditions of radio culture, in hope that one day the tone of discussion around women in technology changes.
The development of this piece would be to include live performance, further developing and reflecting on the topic of radio and the nature of transmission, continuing on theories of translated communication.
Audio
The audio of the video is combined with a compositional mix from a collection of radio broadcasts I have picked up and recorded.
To capture the radio I used a web-SDR for worldwide sources and my own CB radio equiptment for local ones, collecting and archiving the time that I spent flicking through frequencies.
The sound is compramised of static, overlaping stations and the distortion/skipping of radio.
Over all the hours, the majority of these discussions I have recorded are homophobic, sexist or rascist. Radio discussion is unmonitored, provoked and completely discriminatory. I present these sounds to shine light on a very closed community that emphasises existsing reservations about women and queer people in tech spaces in hope that one day these barriers will no longer prevent individuals from using tech.