Who is Radio Sloss?

Radio Sloss is: 
Jonny Farrow

I work across disciplines: primarily in sculpture, printmaking, painting, sound, and transmission art. I research the liminal, the uncanny, the electromagnetic, and the dubious origins of popular mythologies. Coming out of New York City’s lower east side D-I-Y music scene of the 90s taught me to freely experiment in my work and to see my practice as being both intuitively and narratively driven. This, I believe, is the influence of songwriting on my practice as I am just as likely to start with a material (a riff) as I am a narrative (lyrical) idea. Recently I have been focusing on kinetic sculpture made from cast bronze, making objects that if not in motion, somehow suggest it. This motion always points to the body, sound, presence or absence, and intent. And working in several mediums and  disciplines allows me to play with ways to relate them all in space and in concept.

Bio:

Jonny Farrow (born 1969, Kentucky, USA) is a multidisciplinary artist who has shown and performed work in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Sweden, United Kingdom, Kuwait, Bahrain, and has had three solo and multiple group exhibits in the USA and the United Arab Emirates where he lived and taught at New York University Abu Dhabi from 2013-2022. He was a co-chair of the New York Society of Acoustic Ecology from 2007-2010 and in that capacity led numerous soundwalks, co-produced an album of phonographic compositions, and co-hosted the Giant Ear))) radio show produced for Wave Farm and broadcast on WGXC 90.7 FM in Hudson, NY. From 2011-2016 he produced The Distract and Disable Program also for Wave Farm and is a member of the NRRF Radio Collective with Anna Friz, Jeff Kolar, Peter Speer and Stephen Germana, who have been producing experimental pirate radio heard around the globe since 2012. In the mid-late 90's Farrow was a founding member/ songwriter in the indie rock bands Philco Bendyx and The Sixes. His music and sound works have been released by Hello CD, Dive Records, free103point9, and Must Die Records. And, he has performed with Moby on The Late Show with Conan O'Brien, as well as played his hand-built oscillators with Quintron and the Weather Warlock. Along with an MA in music from The City College of New York (CUNY), he holds an MFA in Studio Art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He currently lives and works between Vermont and Alabama where he is Assistant Professor of Art+Design at Troy University.