Radio Chthulucene
Collaborative FM Radio Installation
June 3 - June 7, 2024
87.9 FM all around the UC San Diego campus
View the Transmission Map
Grab your portable radio and head to UC San Diego where you can uncover more than 60 mini radio stations broadcast on 87.9 FM between Monday, June 3 and Friday, June 7, 2024.
In this first-of-its-kind project, undergraduate students in the Visual Arts (Electronic Technologies 1) and Literature (Intercultural Writing Workshop) have partnered to conceive programs, build radio stations and create diverse content. The project takes inspiration from Donna J. Haraway's book Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene, in which Haraway "eschews referring to our current epoch as the Anthropocene, preferring to conceptualize it as what she calls the Chthulucene, as it more aptly and fully describes our epoch as one in which the human and nonhuman are inextricably linked in tentacular practices."
Presented as a site-specific radio garden that is available 24/7, campus community members and visitors to the university can meander walkways and eucalyptus groves to listen in on writing, audio recordings, sound and music connected to the idea of the Chthulecene era—which presents an alternative story about our present lives on earth.
Visit the class blog: http://radiochthulucene.com
How to:
- Requires a portable radio tuned to 87.9 FM. A phone app will not work.
- As you move around campus, you will pick up different transmissions. View the Transmission Map
- Join a tour on June 5th, 10:00 - 3:00 p.m. starting at the SME building