The ffiles (fka XX Files) is an intersectional feminist media collective grounded in community radio. Through innovative programming, the collective produces work that explores our current technological landscape in the broadest sense. Their work reflects an interest in themes that center around but are not limited to transmission practices, sound healing, electronic music discourse, noise, techno-feminisms, the voice, and much more.
The collective hosts a weekly radio show on CKUT 90.3 FM every Wednesday at 11:30 AM EST, as well as a monthly show on Montreal’s N10.AS. They also program and present live audio-visual performances, artist talks, pirate radio installations and DJ sets.
The ffiles is committed to validating and disseminating the voices and work of artists who face systemic barriers as a result of their race, sexuality, gender, lifestyle, class, ability. Through their programming, the collective seeks to create space for marginalized artists within the local scene, while mindfully trying to resist processes of tokenization and commodification in their efforts to participate in and contribute to anti-oppressive community networks.
Started by Deborah VanSlet and Kathy Kennedy, The ffiles first aired in 1996. In 1997, Valérie d. Walker joined the show that she will fuel for over 16 years along with co-hosts Anita Cotic, Bérengère Marin-Dubuard. In 2010, she welcomed Britt Wray. In 2011, the co-hosts Maia Iotzova and Maya Richman, and in 2014, Stéphanie Dufresne, aka Fanie de la Fresne, Amanda-É. Clément and Nnedimma Nnebe, aka The Urban Dweller.
The current team is composed of Julia Dyck, Amanda Harvey, Miranda Jones, Sophy Merizzi and Sophie Marisol. To learn more about the history of the ffiles, listen here.
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Entrevue avec Kyd Campbell, directrice d’Export2, qui nous parle de son implication sur un nombre de projets d’art public au Centre d’Art Médiatique InterSpace à Sofia, en Bulgarie, et étant l’hôte pour The Upgrade! à Sofia.
Interview with Virginie Laganière, video and sound artist, whose video works and sound installations have been shown internationally.
Interview with Manon De Pauw, video artist whose art practice focuses on self-representation and physical/geographical situations. Former artistic coordinator at artist-run center DARE DARE, and part-time teacher in Video and Media Arts at UQAM, she will speak of her upcoming show at the interdisciplinary festival, Vasistas.
Interview with Chantal Dumas, sound and radiophonic artist, speaking about her most recent work, Tanz.
Preview of 3 pieces by radio and sound artist Chantal Dumas’s most recent work, entitled Tanz, as she will be in on next week’s XX Files show.
Talk recorded of Donna Haraway, acclaimed academic and leading theorist on the relationships between people and machines, and professor in the History of Consciousness program at the University of California. The talk is entitled “We have never been human: Companion species in nature cultures”.
Macworld review and talk with Valerie D. Walker, analog and digital trans-media artist, speaking about her MAF studies in Textile Arts and Craft (Trans-media) at NASCAD University, in Halifax.
Tech 2005 Top 10 events list, as well as an excerpt from the presentation “Women and Free Software” panel, with guest speaker Fernanda Weiden, talking about the free software movement.
Interview with artist Mara Verna, speaking about the Hottentot Venus project about the Cape Town South African woman Sartje (Sara) Baartman (b.1789) who was taken to Europe in 1810 and put on display. After her death, in 1815, her body was dismembered and its parts were put on display. The project was exhibited at La Centrale in February 2003.
Interview with Jake Moore, installation artist, speaking about her MFA exhibit at Art Mûr and her background.
Interview with Nelly Eve Rajotte, sound and video artist, as well as member and administrator of Perte de Signal.
Wi-Fi ins and outs; What is it? How Does it work?
Interview with Nikki Forrest, video artist at Ectoplasm 5×2, describing her Open Media MFA at Concordia University and what she learned there.
Interview with Myriam Yates, speaking of being part of the exhibit at the MAC called “Urban Territories”.