HASS Open Studio 2025

KS Brewer and Natan Diacon Furtado
November 3–7, 2025
Studio 1—Goodman and Studio Beta

Natan Diacon-Furtado's Community Portal is an open-source ancestral projection and transmission tool. It engages the public in embodied collaborative listening through the re-purposing of naval navigation and paranormal investigation technologies. A water-filled metal bowl is modified to become a ground-plane liquid antenna, engaging the FM radio spectrum as a space for investigation and recuperation of community connection(s). Connecting this antenna to a laptop converted into a software-defined radio “spirit box” allows a hand placed into the water to audibly modify the signals that are received. Additional hands placed into the water merge and amplify the antenna's signal, sharing agency and intention between you, your community, and your watershed, opening a space for joyful meaning-making and the potential to receive site and self-specific messages from other(ed) ancestral imaginations.

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Dates + Tickets

Installation
HASS Open Studio 2025
KS Brewer and Natan Diacon Furtado
Monday 3
November 2025
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Friday 7
November 2025
FREE

Studio 1 and Studio Beta

Presented By

School of HASS

Event Type
Funding

Antennas for Community Portal are designed in collaboration with Fun Stuff Design, Troy, NY. The work is partially funded by a HASS Production Grant.