The Archive of Future Signals

The Archive of Future Signals is about the abandoned FM spectrum in Norway and imagining where those signals have gone.

It’s also about the politics of archives, a topic I became interested in while selecting works for a Radio Art Archive. The Archive of Future Signals questions archives and the ways they reveal but also conceal the past, present and possible futures of radio and radio art. Featuring the voices of Maia Urstad, William Kudahl and Karen Werner.

Author’s archive.

About the author

Dr. Karen Werner is an artist and sociologist working with radio, voice and performance. She makes works for radio broadcast, live lecture-performance-transmissions, radiophonic performance installations, and radio stations as artistic forms, including SkottegatenFM (2021), a mini-FM station based in her dining room, and Radio Multe (2021-ongoing), a city-wide FM + online radio station with an accompanying unnamed shadow station. In 2019-2020, Karen was Wave Farm’s Inaugural Radio Art Fellow, and curated works for their Radio Art Archive. She is an Artistic Research Fellow at the Bergen Art Academy, Norway.