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Jamming the Signal
Shared by Karen Werner | Traced by Luke Drozd
Signal Jamming – cross course program Feb 2024 - Image by Thor Brødreskift
Signal jamming has long been used politically as a form of communication censorship. Playing with radios, transmitters, antennas, jamming scores and our attuned bodies, this course will create a laboratory of signal jamming and jamming with. Interference and jamming, approached artistically and spatially, can be generative limitations and points of entry for mis/communicating and listening actively. Embracing interference and minding the gaps, we will query and queer communication. Working beside and at times within the emergent BAS radio station in the school’s cathedral, our task will be to imagine, sense, design and enact forms of sending and receiving beyond our current conceptions.
Karen Werner is an artist and sociologist working with radio, voice, text and performance. Her recent focus has been on living installations and experimental radio stations of various scales and forms including SkottegatenFM (2021) and Radio Multe (2021-ongoing), a Bergen-wide AM, FM + online radio station with an accompanying unnamed shadow station. Karen's artwork has been exhibited at/ commissioned by Tonspur Kunstverein Wien and Maribor, Kunstradio, Australian Broadcast Corporation, Wave Farm, Hemera Foundation, MAG3 Wien, Kone Foundation and others.
Luke Drozd is an artist, illustrator and cultural producer from the UK, now based in Bergen, Norway. His solo practice takes a variety of forms, including writing, print, performance and sculpture. He has been exploring sound in various forms throughout his life and has slowly integrated sound in his artistic practice. He produces audio works under the moniker of Misery Bacon, as one third of Bergen improv trio Soft Noise Ensemble, and as one half of the spoken-weird duo Reet Maff’l alongside artist/musician Andy Abbott.
