About

At the Archive of Noise Transmission, we are creating Commonspace wherein radio serves as a unifying force, fostering embodied learning and community space for marginalized artists. By emphasizing sound as the primary medium, we aim to bridge the gap between experimental and analog artistry, cultivating a comprehensive understanding of technology. “Broadcasting” originally emerged from an agricultural context, meaning the widespread dispersal of seeds. Drawing on this etymology, we firmly believe that radio bears the responsibility of serving the public interest. We are basing the model of distribution on our belief in free information and pirate radio techniques, seeking to dissolve institutional and governmental boundaries. Pre-technology, the theater underwent a transition from its origins of disseminating public news and historical narratives to becoming a commodified luxury confined to the private domain. Radio emerged as the inaugural virtual realm of electronic communication, assuming the role once lost in theater. Inter-media hybrids no longer reference reality but overlapping mediums, where the fantasy necessary to create and enact revolutionary action can exist as a fundamental right. Radio is an intersection of science, technology, media, art, and the humanities, opening up a platform for multiple mediums to interact experimentally, promoting solidarity, communication, and safe spaces for expression. As artists, we use our platform as a means to negotiate agency through sound, as opposed to relying solely on textual discourse or appealing to academic and governmental institutions. Inspired by the free radio movement and the resurgence of pirate radio operators reclaiming sonic space as communal resources, we have established a community radio station. Our aim is to offer a digital sphere wherein local community members can articulate their ideas freely. Our programming is collaboratively produced and distributed without restriction, providing a platform for emerging artists and activists within the city of Berlin.

FOUNDERS (ANTS)

Violet Robin Schubert is an interdisciplinary artist born in Texas, USA based in Berlin, Germany. They strive to find connections between the self and ecology through mixed media work, performance, sculpture, and painting. Bodies as an abstract form, both human and non-human, inspire thought on movement as identity. They devote themselves to community building through art. Creativity is found through shared space, food, movement, music, and conversation. They explore love, compassion, and queerness.

Nixie Maefly is a painter, sculptural installation artist, musician, and performer. He investigates themes of erotic mysticism, queer mourning, textural interplay and jouissance. Maefly works with fairies, faggots, and tomfoolery.

ANI
Every entity in our known existence carries a wave sign, a frequency and whether we like it or not we are sharing and receiving it all times. all the emotions, ideas and conditions we are placed with come from the same phenomenon. I’m just saying fuck it and I am going to talk shit in the forms of organically-distilled-mecha-crunchy-castrated-geeky shit until I drop. Bitch.