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Jonna Brewer looks into some artwork that's really out there.

One of the experiments, Ghosts in the Air Glow by Canadian artist Amanda Dawn Christie, will give amateur radio operators and shortwave listeners an opportunity to help with on-going geospace research.

More than 50 researchers will be in Alaska in August for the resumption of a science summer school that culminates with experiments at the High-frequency Active Aurora Research Program facility operated by the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute.

On August 14, 2023 from 03:30–04:30 UTC (Aug 13, 23:30 EDT), interdisciplinary artist Amanda Dawn Christie will transmit the final composition of Ghosts in the Air Glow, an artwork developed for the ionospheric research instrument at the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ Geophysical Institute High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP).

HAARP's current research program has been called 'unprecedented.'

The University of Alaska Fairbanks is operating the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program facility, or HAARP, for 13 projects this month. The projects are the latest made possible by federal support for the ionospheric research facility in Gakona.

Among the projects is part two of an endeavor that uses HAARP’s high-power radio transmitter for art. It involves transmitting a signal into the ionosphere which can be picked by ham radio operators around the world and decoded into low-resolution TV images.

Ghosts in the Air Glow: is a transmission art project working with the HAARP Ionospheric Research Instrument to mix audio and images at the liminal boundaries of earth’s atmosphere and outer space. Composition No. 2 is a half hour transmission artwork that will be transmitted four times from the HAARP Ionospheric Research Instrument during the October 2022 research campaign.

Radio Survivor Podcast #190: April 24, 2019 -- Amanda Dawn Christie is an artist enamored with radios and radio waves. She joins us on the show to discuss her most recent transmission art project.

Radio Reference Forum: April 2, 2019 -- From March 26 to March 29, 2019, HAARP (High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program) conducted a series of experiments.

Alaska Public Media (PBS / NPR): March 27, 2019 -- Radio interview with Dan Bross, KUAC. Art and science are combined this week in a project at the High-Frequency Active Auroral Research Program, or HAARP facility.

Anchorage Amateur Radio Club: March 26, 2019 -- The AARC is assisting Professor Amanda Dawn Christie of Concordia University with reception and live streaming of her art/science transmissions from HAARP.