{"id":28468,"date":"2017-09-24T08:57:33","date_gmt":"2017-09-24T12:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=28468"},"modified":"2017-09-24T08:57:33","modified_gmt":"2017-09-24T12:57:33","slug":"radio-exhibit-at-the-tate-modern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/radio-exhibit-at-the-tate-modern\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio exhibit at the Tate Modern"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo credit: Rebecca Crysdale<\/p><\/div>\n

Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Ed, who writes:<\/p>\n

An old friend of mine just emailed me from London after seeing an extraordinary modern art exhibit at Tate Modern. The exhibit, according to my friend Rebecca Crysdale, “is about how we are being overload by communications, particularly digital communications.” She says, “It was a very thought provoking exhibit.”<\/p>\n

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Photo Credit: Rebecca Crysdale<\/p><\/div>\n

[H]ere’s a link to Tate Modern’s web page for the exhibit. There appears to be lots of shortwave and other radios in these large sculptures, and SWLing Blog readers might enjoy trying to identify them. http:\/\/www.tate.org.uk\/art\/artworks\/meireles-babel-t14041<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Many thanks Ed and Rebecca for sharing! I just checked out the Tate Modern site–brilliant installations! I love the Tate Modern, but have never had the fortune of seeing a radio-centric exhibition. Amazing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Ed, who writes: An old friend of mine just emailed me from London after seeing an extraordinary modern art exhibit at Tate Modern. The exhibit, according to my friend Rebecca Crysdale, “is about how we are being overload by communications, particularly digital communications.” She says, “It was a very […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[508,3,43],"tags":[510,6522],"class_list":["post-28468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-2","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-radio-art","tag-tate-modern"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-7pa","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":42177,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/tate-modern-iss-installation-doubles-as-ham-radio-antenna\/","url_meta":{"origin":28468,"position":0},"title":"Tate Modern ISS installation doubles as ham radio antenna","author":"Thomas","date":"March 3, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Matthew, who shares the following tweet from Helen Leigh: This sculpture at the Tate Modern blew my mind this week. 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