SALLY MCINTYRE . NZ / AU
Sally Ann McIntyre is an Australian-New Zealand experimental sound and radio artist. She has worked in independent radio programming since 1996, and with experimental radio art in live performance since 2008 as the operator of the small-radius micro radio station radio cegeste. In radio cegeste’s transmissions, the use of hand-made radio transmitters to create live narrowcast fields of electromagnetic interference is augmented by the use of archival and pre-electrical sound technologies.
Sally’s recent work has focused on themes of transmission, memory, sound, silence and extinction, locating acts of ecocide and sonic erasure within particular sites, scoring species extinction as echo, noise and silence within the contemporary landscape, the museum and the archive. Her projects link the methods and materials of expanded-field radio ecology, the anarcheaological fossils of media cultures, the exploitative extraction economies of colonial science, and the poetics and politics of listening.
In 2016 her work Study for a data deficient species (grey ghost transmission) was commissioned as part of the exhibition Das Grosse Rauchen: the Metamorphosis of Radio, curated by Anna Friz for the Radio Revolten radio art festival in Halle, Germany. Her work, Collected huia notations (like shells on the shore when the sea of living memory has receded) was nominated for the 2019 Share Prize for contemporary artists working with technology and science in Turin, Italy.