Mendi and Keith Obadike have a show called "Numbers Station [Furtive Movements]," at the Ryan Lee Gallery in New York City through Oct. 10. Host Tom Roe interviews them about how they are using NYC police stop-and-frisk data, and turning those numbers into sound in the form of a spy "numbers station." Other radio stories about radio waves this week: Navy agrees to limit sonar for whales, dolphins; AM radio industry trying to get on FM; Fair Use wins in 9th Circuit Court; Company made music piracy ad, pirates music; and Robert Adrian, co-founder of Kunstradio, dies.
Only for airing the week of Sept. 19-26, 2015. Produced by Wave Farm, a non-profit arts group that began as a microradio project in Brooklyn in 1997. Now Wave Farm has an artist residency program, transmission arts library, and FM and AM radio stations in the Hudson Valley in New York. See wavefarm.org for more information.
Press release about the art show: "Mendi and Keith Obadike have a show called "Numbers Station [Furtive Movements]," a performance and installation of sound and objects through Oct. 10 at the Ryan Lee Gallery in New York that employs the radical misuse of the data that reduces Black bodies to numbers. "Numbers Station [Furtive Movements]" is the first in a new series of works originally conceived in 2010 that utilizes the structure of numbers stations- mysterious shortwave radio broadcasts used to transmit clandestine information by a single voice reading a series of cryptic numbers, punctuated by electronic sounds and music. Blurring the lines between music and information and between public and private communication, the Numbers Station series addresses the cerebral appeal made by data (a tally of bodies in official records) against the visceral reality of violence. Other Numbers Station projects engage with lynching statistics assembled by Ida B. Wells and numbers from slave ship manifests. Using a radio transmitter and tone generators, the artists will read a series of numbers culled from the self-reported Stop-and-Frisk data of 123 New York Police Department precincts. The numbers exist as the material, the subject, and the score of the work: the artistsâ voices and fragmented music tones are processed, broadcast, and played back in real-time during the performance and later as a recording for the duration of the exhibition. Mendi + Keith Obadike make music, art, and literature. Mendi (b. 1973, Palo Alto, CA) and Keith (b. 1973, Nashville, TN) began working together in 1996, creating conceptual Internet art and text-sound work before introducing sound installation into their oeuvre. They developed an intermedia practice working on themes of social filters, citizenship, and coding. Their work has been commissioned by The Kitchen, New York; New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; Whitechapel Art Gallery, London; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and the Center for Black Music Research, Chicago, among other institutions. They have exhibited widely at Centro Cultural de Merida Olimpo, Merida, MX; Danish Film Institute, Copenhagen; International Center for Photography, New York; MITâs List Visual Art Center, Boston; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase; and The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York.
This Week in Radio News: Mendi and Keith Obadike for Sept. 19-26, 2015
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