Wave Farm to produce a new artwork with Simons Foundation

ACRA―Wave Farm is pleased to announce Lateral Lines, a work led by multimedia artist Marina Zurkow, animal welfare scientist Becca Franks, and Wave Farm’s Executive Director Emeritus Galen Joseph-Hunter, as part of the Simons Foundation’s Triangle Program.

This new iteration of the foundation’s Triangle Program is part of their “Infinite Sums” initiative.  

Lateral Lines is an algorithmic radio work that enters the sensory world of carp fish through their lateral line, the sensory organ through which they experience vibration, current and pressure and functions as a sense akin to both human hearing and proprioception.

How can we honor and appreciate their perceptual capacities without reducing them to metaphor or generic fish behavior? Built from a database of modular text and sound, each broadcast recombines into a new, tidal iteration. The work treats carp as sensing subjects living within the planet’s thin freshwater film and uses generative audio to explore symmetry, vulnerability and interspecies attention.

Lateral Lines will air through Wave Farm’s WGXC, online platforms and the Radia art-radio network.

“Wave Farm is so grateful to the Simons Foundation for supporting this ambitious and multi-faceted project.” said Joseph-Hunter.

“Presented as a series of 28-minute radio artworks that take form as a generative Hörspiel, or radio drama, Zurkow’s Lateral Lines wonderfully embodies our organizational mission and vision. Lateral Lines explores radio and transmission as artistic space, and will engage audiences in individual, intimate, and collective experiences via terrestrial radio broadcasts, in-person listening events and online streaming,” Joseph-Hunter added.

The work is supported by the Simons Foundation and is part of its “Infinite Sums” initiative. For more information, visit infinitesums.simonsfoundation.org.