Projects
→ 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Focusing on radio communications as a basis for my experimentation, I began to take specific or outdated technologies and expand the parameters of that data exploring how translation can become the artwork.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from a very androcentric discomfort into a state of active ‘sonic agency’ and ‘feminist listening’, that mocks the outdated traditions of radio culture, in hope that one day the tone of discussion around women in technology changes.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 for the video was a combination of the audio of the day and also a compositional mix from a collection of radio broadcasts I have picked up.
Using both a web-SDR for worldwide sources and my own radio equiptment for local ones I collected and archived the vast amounts of time that I spent flicking through frequencies.
By combining the sound with the static and the overlap of stations and the distortion/skipping of radio they become something new entirely.
I built up the tension for the piece my overlapping these audios at an increasing intensity.
Over all the hours, almost all of the audio I collected was compromised of men talking. Alot of these discussions are homophobic, sexist or rascist. Radio discussion is unmonitored and completely discriminatory the majority of the time. I present their voices to shine light on a very closed community that guards such a beautiful thing in hope that one day the tone of discussion around women in tech changes.
Using SSTV and analogue cb radios I orchestrated a short film following two girls navigating around central London. Using SSTV and analogue cb radio they try to find each other , utilising technofeminist and cyber feminist theory this film explores the theme of translation and communication. Specifically focusing on female relationships with technology and each other.
The film starts with layers of radio audio, whilst visually increasing in speed before it stops and the women gain authority and communication through feminist listening.