Honor Harger is a New Zealander based in Europe, who works with curation and art-making, and has a particular interest in artistic uses of technologies.

Honor is current the guest curator of transmediale.10, the international festival of art and digital culture, taking place in Berlin 2 - 7 February 2010.

Her artistic practice is produced under the name r a d i o q u a l i a together with collaborator, Adam Hyde. Their work has been exhibited at the ICC in Tokyo, the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York; Gallery 9 at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis; Sonar in Barcelona; Ars Electronica in Linz; The Physics Room in Christchurch, New Zealand, and many other places. One of their main projects at present is Radio Astronomy, a radio station broadcasting sounds from space.

She is also a researcher at Z-Node (University of Plymouth, and the Zurich University of the Arts. Her research aims to create a sonic understanding of astronomical space, showing how radio can be used to make space audible.

From 2004-2008, Honor was director of the AV Festival, the UK's largest festival of electronic art. She was the first curator of webcasting for Tate (2000-2003), where she also curated events and concerts on art and technology at Tate Modern. She has also worked for Radio One and Artspace in New Zealand, the Australian Network for Art and Technology in Australia, and as a freelance curator on exhibitions and events around the world, including art.net.uk/now in India, <re:Play>; in South Africa and New Zealand, and Dots & Lines for the BBC and the Sonic Arts Network in London.

She has lectured widely including at the European Space Agency, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the National Museum of South Africa, California Institute of the Arts, the University of Westminster and the American Film Institute.

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