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Welcome to “Active Radio”, the second issue of Wi: The Journal of Mobile Media. This issue was guest edited by Owen Chapman from the department of Communication Studies, Concordia …

For about 6 months in 2008 there was a mysterious sound in my house. No matter how we tried, we could not locate the source of a periodic buzzing that would quickly arrive and then vanish. I noticed it more during the daytime, when the house was …

By Anna Friz

Radio at its most basic is the perception of frequencies in the electromagnetic spectrum between 3Hz and 3000MHz, or below visible light. In our current configuration, terrestrial radio is characterized by wireless transmission in the service of point-to-point communications: a process of modulating …

By Caroline Martel

« En cette matière musicale plus qu’en aucune autre peut-être, le lien, la mystérieuse alchimie entre l’inné et l’acquis se manifeste et règne. […] Et voici que la pâte travaille l’ouvrier qui la pétrit, l’oblige à une ascèse, le …

By Samuel Thulin

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Through a series of experiments with the Tascam 464 Portastudio this project examines the cassette-based multi-track recorder as an obsolete technology, an articulation of mobility and sound-recording, and a site for creative possibilities. …

By Owen Chapman

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The Ondes Martenot was introduced in 1928 by cellist and pedagogue Maurice Martenot (1898-1980). His initial design used Audion tubes (patented by Lee deForest in 1906) to create two supersonic radio signals transmitted at frequencies very close, but not identical in terms of …

By Kristen Roos

Radio Art in the Expanded Field

In the essay “Cultural Confinement”, published in the October 1972 issue of Artforum, Robert Smithson writes on what he feels is a need for artists to create works of art that are outside of the gallery and museum …

By Marilei Fiorelli, Andre Lemos, and Rob Shields

“The persistent cultural obsession of Canadian literature, according to Survival in 1972, was survival. In actual life, and in both the anglophone and francophone sectors, this concern was often enough a factor of the …

By Jen Boyle and Alli Crandell

A group of women place heavy stones on a trail, at even intervals. These stones will guide the women and their children to the college where they serve as body slaves. The trail connects the closest …

By Marie-Hélène Lemaire

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Amplified Intimacies, curated by Lynn Hughes and Jean Dubois,1 was a group exhibition presented at Montreal’s Oboro Gallery from September 13-October 18, 2008. Bringing together a range of works taken from media arts, experimental …