As part of this year’s radio focus, curator and radio host Samantha Lippett joins the Radio WORM airwaves for three “Radio Conversations.” Joined by researchers and practitioners who orbit the web radio field, together they will untangle questions related to the emotions, archives, and localities of the practice.

2. Archives

Web radios create the sound archives of the future, but who owns the rights to this content when there is such a reliance on centralised systems? This conversation reflects on the problems of web archives and the task of preserving and conserving digital records far into the future.

Radna Rumping is a writer, artist, and curator based in Amsterdam. Her work is relational and collaborative, dealing with public space, experimental archiving, ways of gathering, and conditions of (in)visibility. Radio and sonic explorations have run like a thread through her practice: in 2015 she co-founded Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee, an online radio platform dedicated to the arts and between 2010 and 2020 she hosted the radio show Future Vintage at Red Light Radio. Her writing is often made public through sound – in the form of audio essays, mixtapes, and live readings.

Samantha Lippett is a curator and project manager based in Vilnius, specialising in community radio and public art. She is co-founder of the Independent Community Radio Network (ICRN) and is on the executive committee of Reset! Network. Together with artist James Prevett, she founded Out of Office Radio which is a mobile radio and set of tools supporting the Helsinki arts community. Lippett regularly advocates for independent media and community radio at public events and festivals including Le Guess Who?, Nuits Sonores, and Linecheck Festival. Last year she was nominated as Keychange Leader in recognition of her work on gender diversity in radio.

The Independent Community Radio Network (ICRN) connects and supports like-minded stations from across Europe. Founded in the Baltic-Nordic region, ICRN responds to the challenges faced by its members and exists to support, hoist, and progress the knowledge and sustainability of its field. ICRN’s activities include in-person exchange, co-broadcasting, advocacy, and workshops, as well as collaborations with like-minded organisations such Signals2Noise Festival, COSMOS, Le Guess Who?, and Reset! Network.