SSTV is a radio-based transmission that uses audio to send images, allowing me to combine my research on sound with photography; shooting, writing and transmitting images with a scripted feminist dialogue. When transforming an image or sound into something new you become aware of the binary of each and everything. In the translation space, something pre-existing can be manipulated or bent into new forms and definitions through the framework of ‘queering’ and ‘glitching’ in reference to the work of Legacy Russell, Mindy Seu, Laboria Cuboniks, and Judy Wajcman.
SSTV is an abbreviation of the title, slow scan television in reference to a communication type that was developed in the 1960s using a combination of radio and radar technology in order to send images via sound over long distance, even into space.
It usually operates of the 20 band frequency 14.23 MHz and is now used more by amature radio enthusiasts than anyone else to send specifically designed image and text as a form of hobbyist communication.