Startalk is an audio/visual radio art piece depicting a network and history of seven independent Black radio stations in the US through paint, chalk, and sound. This work was informed by an ever-expanding audio/visual system that converts absolute locations into frequencies based on prompts centering Black music and autonomous Black spaces/entities. The audio component for Startalk was first broadcasted on Wave Farm’sWGXC 90.7 FM in July 2025, and the visual component first showed at Sanman Studios in November 2025.

Corey De’Juan Sherrard Jr. engineers a developing system for composing songs and generating objects that respond to the deficit of black post-capitalist propaganda within a world culture. He is a School for Poetic Computation alum and graduated from the University of Houston with a BS in Digital Media in 2020. Sherrard has exhibited visual and sound works at Sanman Studios, Sabine Street Studios, Cleve Carney Museum of Art, Basket Books and Art, and the George Washington Carver Museum and Cultural Center and has performed at Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, DiverseWorks, and Blaffer Art Museum. He was a recipient of the 2023 Jones Artist Award. He is a resident DJ and media manager at internet radio station Ice House Radio, spins jazz on his weekly radio show STEAM at KTRU-LP 96.1 FM, and is a member of experimental music group Essex Moor.