• PROJECTS
  • The Unquiet
  • Thalassa Neon Julia
  • The Accursed Sound
  • The Year I Floated In Space
  • The Voice Moves The Air
  • Black Seas
  • Run out and on to infinity
  • The Treasury
  • Chairs Falling
  • Concertina
  • 273 Seconds
  • The Tangible Air
  • The Long Night Takes
  • A Strict Adherence To Time
  • A Year Of Radio Silence
  • Radio 16º 16º
  • FDBK
  • Dead Air
  • For me the noise of Time is not sad
  • Radio Silents
  • Radio Forest
  • Bedford Square

• COLLABORATIONS
  • Black Seas Ensemble
  • Fifths
  • Lanterner
  • Field Sound

• CURATING and PROGRAMMING
  • The Dim Coast
  • A Sound That Never Was
  • Nothing (Repeated)
  • Electronic Sound In A Shifting Landscape
  • Black White Red
  • What's Up Vienna! What's Up Montréal!
  • Send + Receive: A Festival of Sound
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Radio Forest
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Leonard & Bina Ellen Gallery
December 11, 2008 – January 17, 2009
Montréal
Group exhibition with
Steve Bates, Amélie Guérin-Simard, Mark Igloliorte, Miriam Sampaio, Meera Margaret Singh, Malena Szlam
Selection by Susannah Wesley and Michèle Thériault

Radio Forest is an installation consisting of projected video footage of passing transmission antennas along Northern Ontario’s Trans-Canada Highway, itself a networked circuit. Accompanying the video footage, but separate from it, are audio signals collected and processed from shortwave radio broadcasts. Connecting the two entities is a flickering light, acting as a beacon, emitted from a video monitor receiving the audio signal via its video input.

"Steve Bates’s video installation, Radio Forest, is an abstracted representation, in image and sound, of the lengthy network of antennas that run along Northern Ontario’s Trans-Canada Highway, symbolic of transience and communication but also of human presence and absence."