Installation view, freq_wave (Pacific; Los Angeles), Mt. Wilson Observatory. September 23-25, 2022. Co-curated by CM von Hausswolff and Robert Takahashi Crouch, presented by Fulcrum Arts. Broadcast live by Lookout FM on 96.7 FM LGAP-LP.
Listening to Meteors. LIve broadcast of Geminid Meteor shower, KGAP-LP 96.7 FM, December 13-14, 2022. Curated by Thomas Hurst, Sam Rowell, and Cameron Stallones.
Photo by: Sam Rowell
One of Lookout FM’s transmitters, an R.V.R. Eletronnica TEX 150, broadcasting hot on 101.5 FM.
Future Roots, Inc. / Lookout FM
Fund: $25,000
LOOKOUT FM is a West Coast terrestrial radio home for the broadcast of "transmission art:" experimental audio composition, modern serials, data sonification, radio plays, multi-day compositions, and radio-centric performances. Our broadcast areas in Burbank, Hollywood, and Pacific Palisades function as fully FCC-licensed FM exhibition spaces where transmission works are presented without chronological, structural, or commercial constraints. Radio is a public utility: we aim to foster an interest in artistic and abstract uses of the public airwaves.
The first LOOKOUT FM resident will be multi-disciplinary Lebanese-American artist Nour Mobarak. Mobarak excavates violence and desire—the compulsions and glitches in both a person or a nation state. Her body acts in voice, sculpture, sound, performance, writing, and video, as one hybrid part under current geopolitical conditions. For her LOOKOUT FM piece, recalling tactics from the Oulipo literary movement, Mobarak will transform text-based audio into “detourned” talk-radio compositions.
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