Radiant Center

2025
4 speakers, 4 speaker stands, seating, inkjet print on Dibond
4-channel audio, 45 min. loop
Dimensions variable

Radiant Center is a four-channel sound installation recorded on the Curonian Spit, a UNESCO World Heritage Site whose unique dune ecosystem is bisected by the Russian-Lithuanian border. The work draws from two months of field recording using radio receivers, hydrophones, and contact microphones to capture transmissions and vibrations propagating through sand, water, soil, trees, and border infrastructure, tracing how security apparatuses and environmental forces co-constitute this freighted terrain.

Radiant Center was developed during an artist residency at the Nida Art Colony of Vilnius Academy of Arts, Nida, Lithuania. It received an honorable mention in the 2026 Surveillance Studies Network Arts Prize.

Re-recording mixer: Thomas Neugebauer

Exhibition History

2026
Surveillance Studies Network Arts Prize Exhibition, Surveillance Studies Network Conference, Université Catholique de Lille, France (online)
Radiophrenia, 87.9 FM, Glasgow, UK; simulcast on Resonance Extra, London, UK, and Radio Tsonami, Valparaíso, Chile
Fold, Spindle, Mutilate, Culver Center of the Arts, UCR ARTS, Riverside, CA (curated by the UCHRI Defying Defaults in Technology and Culture Working Group)
Radio-Hull, 106.5 FM, DAÏMÔN, Gatineau, Canada
Eco Media Festival, School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California, Los Angeles

2025
Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Video Library, Paris, France (online)
Sound + Environment Symposium, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
SPAM New Media Festival, Georgetown Steam Plant, Seattle, WA
Radiant Center, Nida Art Colony of Vilnius Academy of Arts, Nida, Lithuania

Publications

“Radiant Center: Border Infrastructure and Aeolian Drift.” Anomos: The Journal for Post-Foundational Inquiry, special issue on “Migration and Technologies of Un/Bordering,” forthcoming.
“Radiant Center.” Surveillance & Society, Arts Forum, forthcoming.

Press

Afroditi Psarra, “SPAM Festival Special.” Transmission Ecologies, episode 40. Stegi Radio, October 30, 2025.