Radio Farm is a participatory project created by Hiru Kolektiboa (Unai Ruiz, Jaime de los Ríos and Manglano) which aims to rescue alternative technologies as tools for developing free, experimental forms of audiovisual communication.
The project begins with a radio device that emits encrypted images transformed into sounds through FM waves. Any radio receiver –like the one in mobile phones – can tune into the broadcast and decrypt it in the form of an image with the help of a simple app. When interpersonal communications through large Internet platforms are constantly being monitored and monetised, this project aims to bring back pirate communication technologies. To do so, they revisit some of the tools that were used by Cold War activists to stay in touch beyond walls and borders. At the same time, it focuses on images using the aesthetics of glitches and game or interaction techniques, since the receiver can modify a photograph by means of sound interventions in the signal they receive.