Montez Press Radio

Montez Press Radio

April 7, 2026

Zane Onckule and Elizaveta Shneyderman of curatorial collective RTRU discuss RTRU (Raudive Technoculture Research Unit), a group exhibition at KAJE that gathers around the figure of Konstantin Raudive (1909–1974), a Latvian writer, translator, philosopher, and parapsychological researcher known for his investigations into Electronic Voice Phenomena (EVP), the capture of disembodied voices onto magnetic tape. The exhibition title extends the name of the curatorial collective itself—RTRU (Riga Technoculture Research Unit), originally referencing the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit (CCRU) and the Baltic’s oldest technical university, Riga Technical University (RTU, est. 1862)—by substituting “Riga” with “Raudive,” aligning the exhibition’s subject with the collective’s own research framework.