Jeff Kolar: Transmission Ecology | presentation & workshop
Date: Thursday, 17th of February at 6.00pm

Jeff Kolar is a sound artist and curator working in Chicago, USA. His work, described as “speaker-shredding” (Half Letter Press) and “wonderfully strange” (John Corbett), includes cross-platform collaboration, low-powered radio, and live performance. His work often activates sound in unconventional, temporary, and ephemeral ways using appropriation and remix as a critical practice. Jeff is a free103point9 Transmission Artist, and the founder and director of Radius, an experimental radio broadcast platform.

From the 3rd to the 28th of February Jeff is hosted in Ljubljana by CONA as a part of an international residency at JSKD.

Transmission Ecology refers to the dynamic and shifting relationship between energy, people, and devices. Using different scales of wireless technology, the workshop will examine how bodies, urban infrastructure, and cosmic environmental conditions can shape electro-magnetic waves. Participants will create several temporary and ephemeral radio stations, working together to make, break, and bend wireless circuits in real-time.

The workshop will explore the material aspects of the entire electro-magnetic spectrum and the use of transmission technologies as an artistic medium. Participants will be introduced to a variety of free/libre/open-source approaches to low-power radio transmission.

Participants are encouraged to bring-your-own wireless devices such as receivers, emitters, two-way radios, telephones, mobile phones, things capable of transmitting a signal. Together, we will make these devices 'speak' to each other. The workshop will be in English.

In collaboration CONA Institute and JSKD. The Educational Programme of Društvo Ljudmila, Art and Science Laboratory is supported by Ministry of Culture (in coproduction with Projekt Atol Institute) and City Municipality of Ljubljana – Department for Culture.