Artist Services
AIRtime RESIDENCIES
The annual AIRtime application deadline is April 1.
free103point9 defines “Transmission Arts” as a conceptual umbrella that unites a community of artists and audiences interested in transmission ideas and tools. This genre encompasses a diversity of practices and media working with the idea of transmission or the physical properties of the electromagnetic spectrum. Transmission art is generally a participatory live-art or time-based art, and often manifests as radio art, video art, light sculpture, installation, and performance.
The AIRtime residency program provides artists with valuable space in which to concentrate on new transmission works and conduct research about the genre using free103point9's resource library and equipment holdings. Ten residents are selected from an open application process each year. The residencies take place at free103point9's Wave Farm, a retreat-like setting on 30 acres in upstate New York.
AIRtime residents present their work on free103point9 Online Radio during their stay. free103point9 shares resources regarding preservation and archiving models with our residents. Artists are encouraged to archive recordings and other reproducible media with the free103point9 Study Center collection.
SCHEDULE AND FEES
Ten artists (or collectives) are selected from an open application each AIRtime season. Residency durations are flexible based on the schedules of participating artists, but typically last one week. The program is active July - October. Residents are provided with a stipend of $200. Groceries and meals are provided by free103point9 as well as local transportation for supplies. One resident is on-site at a time. Both program directors are available on site during the residencies for technical assistance and critical feedback.
Artists are required to archive completed works related to their residency with the study center research collections.
EQUIPMENT, RESOURCES, & TECHNICAL SUPPORT
Equipment
The Wave Farm equipment inventory includes audio and video transmitters, receivers, recording equipment, post-production equipment, and a unique array of instrumentation. The list below provides examples. A complete inventory is available to applying artists on request.
- Ten FM transmitters, various types
- Transmitter kits and circuits
- Assorted walkie-talkies
- Short wave radio transceiver
- Multi-band scanners
- Televisions, monitors
- Mixing boards, various
- Video mixing board
- CD burner
- Video recorders
- Mini-DV recorder
- MP3 recorder
- Handheld GPS device
- Professional solid state field recorder
- Computer (Titanium G4 Powerbook)
- Digital Performer post-production software
- Various antennae
- Assorted analogue and digital keyboards
- Various microphones
- Various cables, adaptors
- Various toy analog noisemakers
Resources
The Study center reading, viewing, and listening library contains hundreds of critical texts and transmission works. This growing collection of reference materials includes books, journals, articles, manuals, and DVD-ROMs specific to transmission arts, radio, video, performance, sound, media theory, and contemporary art practice. free103point9's organizational archives covering ten years of activities are also available to AIRtime residents.
Visit Wave Farm Study Center for inventories of library holdings.
Technical Support
AIRtime technical support is provided by Program Director, Tom Roe. With additional support from free103point9 Executive Director, Galen Joseph-Hunter.
Areas of support include:
- Transmission Equipment (transmitters, antennae, receivers, etc)
- Audio Production & Post-production (Digital Performer)
- Video Production & Post-production Various cables, adaptors
- Website Development
- Fabrication and other tools
Additionally, Galen Joseph-Hunter provides guidance regarding preservation, development, and administrative issues. Guest artists and curators are invited to provide on-site feedback as desired by each resident.
FACILITIES AND GROUNDS
Residents are housed in a private cabin (pictured above,) with WiFi access, on free103point9's Wave Farm. The cabin is situated across from the residency of Program Directors Galen Joseph-Hunter and Tom Roe where meals are provided. Equipment, studio space, and reading and listening libraries are also located here during the 2008 program. In the future, AIRtime will move to the Wave Farm Study Center. Construction on the Study Center began June 16, 2006. The building, which is being constructed in multiple phases, will include two bedrooms; a bathroom/shower; kitchenette; a library housing reading, listening, and viewing resources specific to transmission arts; a performance/gallery/studio space; an engineering/recording studio; free103point9 offices, and archives. (WiFi will be available throughout the Study Center.)
Wave Farm's grounds occupy thirty pastoral acres in New York' Hudson Valley Region. Located in the northern foothills of the Catskill Mountain Park, the Wave Farm topography includes meadows, two ponds, pine needle paths winding through a mature pine forest, and mountain views.
AIRTIME RESIDENTS
2007
- 31 Down (Benjamin Brown, Ryan Holsopple, Shannon Sindelar, Mirit Tal) (Brooklyn, New York)
- Cross Current Resonance Transducer (LoVid: Tali Hinkis & Kyle Lapidus, Douglas Repetto) (New York, New York)
- Evidence (Stephan Moore, Scott Smallwood) (Troy, New York)
- Sarah Kanouse (Murphysboro, Illinois)
- Raphael Lyon (Providence, Rhode Island)
- Kenta Nagai (Brooklyn, New York)
- neuroTransmitter (Angel Nevarez, Valerie Tevere) (Brooklyn, New York)
- Marisa Olson (Brooklyn, New York)
- Shawn Onsgard (Brooklyn, New York)
- John Roach & James Rouvelle (Brooklyn, New York)
- Click here for proposed project descriptions.
2006
- Anna Friz (Montreal & Toronto, Canada)
- 31 Down, METRONOMA (Brooklyn, New York)
- Stephanie Rothenberg, Zero Hour (Buffalo, New York)
- Sophea Lerner (Helsinki, Finland)
- Karin Bolender, Signal-to-Pink Transmissions (Weyers Cave, Virginia)
- Scanner, 24/48 (London, England)
- Jeff Fedderson, EarthSpeaker (Brooklyn, New York)
- Joe Milutis, Radiophonic Paterson (Providence, Rhode Island)
- FarmerBart, SOUNDseeds (Troy, New York)
- LoVid, Cross Current Resonance Transducer (New York, New York)
- Jesse Pearlman Karlsberg, Azariah (Troy, New York)
- Matthew Ostrowski (Brooklyn, New York)
- Click here for proposed project descriptions.
2005
APPLICATION PROCESS & GUIDELINES
Review Panel: The review panel includes free103point9 staff, members from free103point9's Advisory Board, and past AIRtime residents.
Please include the following in your application materials:
Artist Name:
Artist Contact Information:
Artist Resume / CV:
Artist Statement:
Without exceeding 300 words, please describe your current artistic practice
Proposed Project Narrative:
Without exceeding 1000 words, please describe your project. Please include your anticipated timeline for completion. Note: AIRtime residents are not required to complete projects during their residency stay; however, a copy of final work must be submitted to the Wave Farm Study Center upon completion.
Work Samples
Please include work samples relating to two or three past projects. Work samples should be submitted in electronic formats including jpegs, PDFs, QuickTime, MP3s, etc. Please do NOT submit slides.
Desired AIRtime Schedule:
Please identify the time-period or month you would like to be considered for; residency durations are flexible, though tend to average one week.
free103point9 Online Radio
How will your work during AIRtime be presented on free103point9 Online Radio. Please specify audio, video or both.
Deadline + Submission Address:
Materials must be emailed no later than midnight April 1 to:
info @ free103point9.org (subject: AIRtime Proposal: Artist Name)
or:
postmarked April 1 to:
free103point9 Wave Farm
AIRtime Proposals
5662 Route 23
Acra, NY 12405
AIRtime is supported, in part, by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Electronic Media and Film Programs of the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency; and the Greene County Legislature through the County Initiative Program, administered in Greene County by the Greene County Council on the Arts.