This year marks free103point9’s 15^th Anniversary since forming as a Brooklyn-based artist collective in 1997. The last fifteen years have been full, to say the least, and we are taking some time this year to give serious attention to the rich archives amassed over the last one and a half decades. We are feeling especially excited about some of the landmark projects and milestones happening this calendar year:

free103point9.org + transmissionarts.org
We are elated by the recent soft launch of our newly designed organizational website at free103point9.org. A new and expanded version of our online Transmission Arts Archive has also just launched at transmissionarts.org. This Archive will experience considerable growth during our anniversary year as we work to build the content from our physical archives as well as solicit new participation from an ever more lively international community of artists working with the transmission spectrum. Thanks to the extraordinary talents of programmer Gabriel Farrell and designer Antony Katz (of Sorted) for making these new and improved resources possible.
 
On the FM dial...
A year ago this month, WGXC 90.7-FM (a program of free103point9) went on-air transmitting 3,300 watts to a potential 78,000 listeners in upstate New York’s Greene and Columbia counties. WGXC has a focus on creative community media. The WGXC Program Schedule is as diverse as the community it serves, and has brought local media to a region sorely in need of an alternative outlet. Late night hours and Saturdays, on WGXC, have a specific allegiance to pushing the boundaries of radio as a creative medium. Artists from all over the United States and abroad, who are defining the transmission arts genre, produce programs during these hours, and Saturday afternoons often feature live programming from AIRtime visiting artists.
 
Wave Farm Study Center & AIRtime Residency Program
The Wave Farm Study Center is nearing completion. We expect this long-awaited facility to officially open this spring/summer. The library will be a unique resource to those researching broadcast, sound, installation, and performance art with respect to transmission. Additionally, the Wave Farm Study Center will serve as a home for a WGXC 90.7-FM broadcast studio. And, with our building soon to be in service we are excited about the revitalization of our artist-in-residency program, which fosters new works produced in the transmission arts genre. Information about sumbitting a proposal to AIRtime is available at transmissionarts.org/residencies.
 
Transmission Arts Convening
Scheduled for the fall, free103point9’s Transmission Arts Convening will assemble artists, scholars, curators, and critics for a weekend of performance, discussion, and dialogue. The convening will further the work initiated with free103point9’s recent publication Transmission Arts: Artists and Airwaves (PAJ Publications: 2011). The Convening will create significant scholarly dialogue about the transmission art genre, which will be made available on free103point9's Transmission Arts Archive pictured below.

There is much more to report, and we're looking forward to sharing news about additional special exhibitions, broadcasts, and opportunites in the coming months. Until then...