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Article

Tune into Radio 100

30 November 2023
VIEW
Curator Amy Butterfield seated near a window, smiling
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Interview with a Radio 100 curator

Amy Butterfield shares the challenges and surprising discoveries of curating for Radio 100.
Amy Butterfield  / 
23 November 2023
Detail from a painting of the mascot terrier Nipper listening to a gramophone
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Radio 100: Spirits in the Material World

When radio took off 100 years ago so did the belief that airwaves offered a chance to commune with spirits.
Alexandra Heller-Nicholas  / 
23 November 2023
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New waves: The birth of radio in Australia

A look at the early days of radio, from crystal sets to first broadcasts and advertisements.
23 November 2023

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Nov 2023

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Tune into Radio 100
Tune into Radio 100

Across 100 days, the NFSA is celebrating 100 years of Australian radio with an online exhibition featuring a range of digital and audio stories that take you through the medium’s extraordinary evolution.

29 November 2023
Sound

Nov 2023

Recording a radio program from a home recording studio in 1927. One man sits at a desk, another at a piano while a third stands behind a microphone.
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New Waves: The birth of radio in Australia
New Waves: The birth of radio in Australia in 1923

A look at the early days of radio, charting its rise from crystal sets through to first broadcasts and advertisements, the emergence of commercial stations and radio personalities, and how the public’s voracious appetite for daily music, sport, news and conversation hinted at what radio would become.

22 November 2023
Radio

Nov 2023

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Interview with a Curator
Interview with Radio 100 Curator Amy Butterfield

Amy Butterfield shares the challenges and surprising discoveries of curating for Radio 100, including how Australia was a radio ‘vanguard’, dating the oldest radio broadcast in the NFSA collection, and – despite the gap in time – the parallels between the rise of radio and the internet as a means of human connection.

22 November 2023
Radio

Nov 2023

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Spirits in the Material World
Spirits in the Material World

When radio took off in the 20th century so did the belief that the airwaves offered the chance to communicate with spirits – an anxiety that cast a shadow over radio’s inception story and still endures with new technological advancements today.

22 November 2023
Radio

Nov 2023

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Nine Essential Moments in Early Radio
Nine Essential Moments in Early Radio

Professor Bridget Griffen-Foley outlines nine essential moments to know from the early years of Australian radio, 1923 to 1935.

22 November 2023
Radio
Sound

Nov 2023

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What does radio mean to you?
Radio 100: What does radio mean to you?

Industry insiders and radio fans answer the question, 'What does radio mean to you?'

22 November 2023
Radio

Oct 2023

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Ken Garrahy home movies
Ken Garrahy home movies: documenting gay social life in 1960s Sydney

Curator Nick Henderson shares excerpts from the home movies of Ken Garrahy, which are unique for documenting gay social life in Sydney in the 1960s.

BY
 Nick Henderson
20 October 2023
Film

Oct 2023

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Media Literacy
Media literacy: definitions, histories and practices

Guest writer Professor Michael Dezuanni discusses the importance of media literacy in the digital age.

BY
 Michael Dezuanni
19 October 2023
Documents
Film
Radio
Sound
Television

Oct 2023

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WINHANGANHA
WINHANGANHA: A new work by award-winning poet and artist Jazz Money

WINHANGANHA is a bold re-envisioning of our history – a new film work by award-winning poet and artist Jazz Money.

11 October 2023
Film
Posters

Aug 2023

Artist Richard Bell seated in his studio in front of one of his works: a coloured Indigenous map of Australia with the words PAYE THE RENT across it
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Deep Dive: You Can Go Now
Deep Dive: You Can Go Now – In conversation with Richard Bell

Watch a conversation with First Nations artist Richard Bell at the NFSA in January 2023.

BY
 Katie Maling
24 August 2023
Film

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Detail from the poster for the film WINHANGANHA showing an archival photo of two First Nations men wearing collared shirts and bush hats. The edges of the black-and-white photo is curled up as if on fire, and the collage also features fire and the red, yellow and black colours of the Aboriginal flag
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