Transmission

Transmission Transmission is a series of artists talks organised by Sheffield Hallam University in association with Site Gallery.

At the end of Nadja André Breton notes an extract from a morning newspaper: a wireless operator in charge of the telegraph post on the Ile de Sable had picked up a fragment of a message. It said ‘Something isn’t right’, but did not give the position of the aeroplane at that moment and due to the very bad atmospheric conditions and the interference produced by them, the operator was unable to make out any other phrase or to enter into communication. The message was transmitted on a wavelength of 625 metres, and given the strength of reception, the wireless operator was able to localise the aeroplane within a radius of eighty kilometres. It was a real press article, from 27 December 1927, and possessed, for Breton, the value of an oracle, revealing what he called ‘le hasard objectif ’ (objective chance). ‘Something isn’t right’, but nonetheless with that message is carried also the message of transmission itself, the act of sending and receiving. Transmission is the act of passing something on, via a channel. One might make a list of ways of transmission, including wisdom, enlightenment, education, messages sent over a distance through electrical or electronic means, and disease (which has both locus and route). In transmission, there is a move from one to another, and each may be changed in the move, in the encounter. Transmission draws on broad horizons, wide paths, and diverse fields. Transmission's output includes a lecture series in which staff from the department of fine art have each invited a friend to speak. It has also generated several series of publications, conferences, a print portfolio and an online archive. The series is convened by Dr Jaspar Joseph-Lester and Dr Sharon Kivland.

09/12/2021

16:00 and 18:00 | Monday, 13 December 2021

This afternoon's lecture in Transmission: Parliament: Rosa-Johan Uddoh, in Fine Art, Sheffield Hallam University, 4.30 t...
23/11/2021

This afternoon's lecture in Transmission: Parliament: Rosa-Johan Uddoh, in Fine Art, Sheffield Hallam University, 4.30 to 6.00 p.m. on zoom.

17/11/2021

Midway through his residency our artist-in-residence shares some reflections

17/11/2021

Meet a few of the people who were at the hub of the art world in the 1990s. Welcome to a symposium relating to the exhibition “Annika Elisabeth von Hausswolff – Alternative Secrecy”. Discover and take a closer look at the creative explosion and the artistic styles of the 1990s. What happened o...

16/11/2021

The screening of Basma Alsharif’ s film Ouroboros accompanied by a live-streamed performance from Catherine Feliz performing their musical project PrieSTusSSY as part of the Repeated Apparitions Programme.

16/11/2021

At the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, a massive survey, focusing on the famed artist's legacy, bypasses new readings of his oeuvre

Transmission: Parliament, this year's Sheffield Hallam University Fine Art lecture series continues tomorrow.
15/11/2021

Transmission: Parliament, this year's Sheffield Hallam University Fine Art lecture series continues tomorrow.

10/11/2021

The artist speaks to Allie Biswas about the medium’s gimmick-free nature

10/11/2021

12/11/2021

09/11/2021

Artist researchers are invited to submit proposals around the theme of simulation, models, metaphors and data in music. Proposals involving performance are…

The fourth talk in Transmission: Parliament, fine art, Sheffield Hallam University, is tomorrow, Tuesday 9 November, fro...
08/11/2021

The fourth talk in Transmission: Parliament, fine art, Sheffield Hallam University, is tomorrow, Tuesday 9 November, from 16.30 to 18.00.

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