ddr.10: Talks, Workshops and Open Radio Discussion

Workshop Space

11am - 1pm Fabricating futures from the fragments

Zine making workshop

This workshop will take the format of an open discussion and zine making workshop. Led by girlwithoutaruler, this workshop will use Dublin Digital Radio's archival print material accumulated over its previous decade - its scraps of notes, old posters, flyers, and other disjecta - to reflect upon its past while looking towards the next ten years. The workshop will be streamed live on listen.dublindigitalradio.com

girlwithoutaruler i am a practice researcher based in dublin. my work moves between improvisation, queer-feminist methodologies, and collective making — through zines, film, and sound. my zine projects like no pain no gain and safe/brave explore shit craft as a method of refusal, care, and co-production. i’m interested in how failure, friction, and connection become spaces of study — and how we can make art and research that stay open, vulnerable, and unbound. sometimes that looks like glue and glitter. sometimes it looks like nothing finished at all.

1.30pm - Self-Organising, Feminist Pirate Radio, and Community Archives: A Conversation with Alessia Cargnelli 

Alessia Cargnelli and Tom O'Dea in conversation on Radio Pirate Women, Self-Organising and Archiving as Community Building

Alessia Cargnelli (she/her, b. 1990 in Trieste, Italy) is a Belfast-based artist and researcher. Alessia’s interests expand towards alternative forms of education, feminist-informed methodologies, artist-led collaboration, self-organisation, and activism. A recent Research Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow at the National College of Art and Design and the Irish Museum of Modern Art, she is co-founder of the artist-led initiative Soft Fiction Projects; a member of Turner Prize-winning Array Collective; and former co-director of the Catalyst Arts. In 2020, she took part in the 343 radio, a feminist and queer-led community digital radio based in Belfast, with a programme dedicated to Italian pop and folk music by women artists.

Tom O’Dea is an artist who works with mixed-media sculpture and participtory practice to explore ways that different forms of knowledge impact upon our ways of acting and being the world. His work interrogates the political implications of knowledge production, practices of computation and organisation in contemporary society. 

Tom is a lecturer in Sculpture and Expanded Practice at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin. He co-chairs the Network Ecologies research theme at CONNECT - Ireland's SFI Centre for future networks at Trinity College. He is also a member of the Orthogonal Methods Group (OMG), an artist-research group, is one of the organisers of Dublin Art and Technology Association (DATA) and is a long time volunteer at Dublin Digital Radio.

1.30pm - 2.00pm ¸

In this presentation, ddr. co-founder Seán Finnan presents his PhD research on Dublin Digital Radio, looking at how the station has reproduced itself for over a decade despite the precarity facing grassroots and DIY cultural organisations in Dublin. 

Seán Finnan is a writer and researcher. He is a PhD candidate in the TU Dublin School of Media, an Irish Research Council Government of Ireland scholar, researching DIY online radio. He is a research assistant on a Live Music Mapping Project of Dublin’s live music venues, a researcher-in-residence with ICRN, a European network connecting and supporting independent and community radio stations, and with Reset’s community radio working group, part of a wider European network of independent cultural and media organisations. He is currently working on Radioglossia: A Field Guide to Spectral Infrastructures, supported by the ICRN.

2.30pm - 3.10pm Radio Communities and Community Radio

This panel discussion reflects on community radio as a practice, one which constantly shifts according to changes in technologies, politics, and social contexts. It brings together older community radio stations with newly established stations to discuss traditions of community radio broadcasting on the island, what analogue radio can learn from digital stations and vice versa, and the continued relevance of radio in building communities despite changing media landscapes. This conversation will feature Roy Stam from Cork City's éist, ddr.'s Cathy Flynn and Jonathan Burke, and Sally Galiana from Dublin's NEAR FM

Sally Galiana

Sally Galiana has been involved in radio in Ireland since she joined Near FM in 1997. She has produced quite a few radio series looking at development education issues. Sally has been on the board of CRAOL and was Vice President and President of AMARC Europe (2011-2016). She has a degree in Journalism and a Master in International Relations

Jonathan Burke

Jonathan Burke is a DJ and community radio volunteer with ddr., where he hosts the monthly show Radio Frequency Interference (RFI). Alongside his radio work, he has helped facilitate community initiatives including ddr.'s Pride special Queering the Airwaves.

3.20pm - 4pm Open Aux: Streaming the Future

Join past and present members of Dublin Digital Radio as they reflect on the station's history, the station's bridging of scenes and social movements, its studio moves, parties, antics, and organising - and how we can continue to build a grassroots cultural infrastructure that sustains independent culture into its next decade. 

All talks to be livestreamed on listen.dublindigitalradio.com