Shortwave Collective invite you to make a very simple radio. Working with a basic set of materials: wire, clips, tent pegs, and chosen or found objects, you’ll become co-researchers and experimenters, attaching our radios to metal structures as makeshift antennas and searching for signals.
We encourage you to bring / scavenge some scraps to customise your radio:
- Something flat and non-conductive, around A5 size.
- A tube (also non-conductive), the size and shape of a toilet paper tube.
- Small pieces of metal or mineral.
NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY. Our workshops have a feminist ethos and are designed as inclusive spaces to question and create together.
Shortwave Collective is an international, feminist artist group, interested in creative uses of radio. We meet regularly to discuss feminist approaches to amateur radio and the radio spectrum as artistic material, sharing resources, considering DIY approaches and inclusive structures.
https://www.shortwavecollective.net/
Shortwave Collective is an international group of creative practitioners from various backgrounds and disciplines (sound and radio art, activism, social science, media and artistic research) brought together by an interest in feminist practices and the radio spectrum. As a collective, they have a desire to learn together and to open a space to learn together-with-others as equal non-experts. They spend time in each other’s company making, testing, listening and sharing; sometimes ‘failing’, but more often laughing our way into serendipitous results that lead them to new practices and new situated ways of listening. Part of their feminist ethos is ‘learning through doing’. This is a way to de-mystify aspects of technology, which enables them to share their experiences more easily with each other, and with others. The collective’s approach aims to create an inclusive, collaborative, tech-based learning environment, one which acknowledges and attends to gendered education gaps and one that purposefully removes potential hurdles, such as unexplained components lists that assume knowledge.
£10 with 3 Day Festival Pass + Concessions / £15 Workshop only (includes radio kit)