This exhibition explores archival materials related to the historical Department of Radio and Television at the University of Alberta. 
Founded in 1927, CKUA was launched by the University of Alberta’s Department of Extension as an alternative to educational outreach through in-person lecture circuits in rural Alberta. Broadcasting initially from the UAlberta campus, the station focused from the outset on literary readings, dramatic performances, music concerts, and academic lectures. UofA faculty continued to develop CKUA radio programming for over 40 years following CKUA’s departure from campus, first under the Radio Service, and then the Department of Radio and Television (RTV).

Mike O’Driscoll is Professor in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta. He teaches and publishes in the fields of critical and cultural theories and his interest in material culture studies has focused on poetry and poetics, archive theory, book history, writing technologies, petrocultures, and the study of sound, listening, and literary audiotexts. O’Driscoll is a Governing Board Member of the SpokenWeb SSHRC Partnership Group and has edition of Jackson Mac Low’s The Complete Stein Poems has just been released by MIT Press.

Sean Luyk is the Digital Curation Librarian at the University of Alberta Library where he is responsible for the University of Alberta’s Aviary repository, and is a co-investigator on the SpokenWeb project. Sean is an Affiliated Researcher of the Sound Studies Institute, and a Fellow on the AVAnnotate Project, an Andrew W. Mellon funded digital humanities application for sharing annotations of audio and video artifacts and making digital exhibits and editions with AV materials.

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