{"id":34312,"date":"2018-10-01T10:17:46","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T14:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=34312"},"modified":"2018-10-01T10:17:46","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T14:17:46","slug":"ieee-spectrum-magazine-this-artist-made-a-radio-out-of-a-kitchen-sink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/ieee-spectrum-magazine-this-artist-made-a-radio-out-of-a-kitchen-sink\/","title":{"rendered":"IEEE Spectrum Magazine: “This Artist Made a Radio Out of a Kitchen Sink”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>(Source:\u00a0IEEE Spectrum<\/a> via Ed C)<\/p>\n

Amanda Dawn Christie\u2019s work commemorates the fading glory of shortwave radio<\/strong><\/p>\n

By\u00a0Stephen Cass<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Some artists work in oils, say, or marble. Amanda Dawn Christie works in radio. Not radio in the sense of performing on air. But radio in the sense of the giant cultural and technological phenomenon that is broadcasting, and specifically shortwave broadcasting.<\/p>\n

For decades, shortwave was the only way to reach a global audience in real time. Broadcasters such as the BBC World Service and Voice of America used it to project \u201csoft power.\u201d But as the Internet grew, interest in shortwave diminished.<\/p>\n

Christie\u2019s art draws from shortwave\u2019s history, representing it in sculpture, performance, photography, and film. Her focus is the life of the Radio Canada International (RCI) transmitter complex, located in Sackville, New Brunswick, near Christie\u2019s hometown. The transmitter was in operation from the 1940s until 2012. \u201cThose towers were always just a part of the landscape that I grew up around,\u201d says Christie. It took a radio-building workshop to spark her interest: \u201cI built a radio out of a toilet-paper tube…. I thought I did a great job because I picked up Italian radio. It turned out I did not\u2014I was just really close to this international shortwave site.\u201d[…]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Continue reading the full article at the IEEE Spectrum Magazine.<\/a><\/p>\n

So great to see SWLing Post<\/em> friend, Amanda Dawn Christie<\/a>, featured in the IEEE Spectrum! Thanks for the tip, Ed!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Source:\u00a0IEEE Spectrum via Ed C) Amanda Dawn Christie\u2019s work commemorates the fading glory of shortwave radio By\u00a0Stephen Cass Some artists work in oils, say, or marble. Amanda Dawn Christie works in radio. Not radio in the sense of performing on air. But radio in the sense of the giant cultural and technological phenomenon that is […]<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[508,3,43],"tags":[2674,7322,631,30,1158,1840],"class_list":["post-34312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-2","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-amanda-dawn-christie","tag-ieee-spectrum","tag-radio-canada-international","tag-rci","tag-sackville","tag-spectres-of-shortwave"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-8Vq","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16757,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/spectres-of-shortwave-near-completion\/","url_meta":{"origin":34312,"position":0},"title":"Spectres of Shortwave: near completion","author":"Thomas","date":"January 12, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Richard Langley, who shares this CBC New Brunswick article about Amanda Dawn Christie's film, Spectres of Shortwave: (Source: CBC) Amanda Dawn Christie launching documentary about demise of RCI towers Documentary 'Spectres of Shortwave' to be finished in time for possible premiere at Toronto's Hot\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Art"","block_context":{"text":"Art","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/art-2\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"SackvilleCurtainAntennas","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/SackvilleCurtainAntennas.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/SackvilleCurtainAntennas.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/SackvilleCurtainAntennas.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":21548,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/new-brunswick-town-haunted-by-the-radio\/","url_meta":{"origin":34312,"position":1},"title":"New Brunswick town “haunted by the radio”","author":"Thomas","date":"September 26, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm very happy to see that the CBC has reported\u00a0on the premier of Amanda Dawn Christie's film, Spectres of Shortwave. 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