Signal Found Productions was established to recover and preserve the voices of the early internet’s gender-diverse creators—those who forged identity through code, camera, and connection before the advent of social media. Our work exists at the intersection of archival recovery and artistic narrative. Along with the Trans Wiki Project, we document the pioneers who blurred boundaries, built digital sanctuaries, and transformed the web. Each project revisits the formative years of online trans and queer expression, honoring the creators who shaped a cultural lineage that has too often been erased or overwritten. We are less a production company than a signal restoration initiative—amplifying what once risked being lost to time, neglect, or revision.The Signal Recordings
A series of personal audio narratives. Not podcasts. Not interviews. The Signal Recordings are quiet, archival recollections from the originators themselves—voices captured in stillness, recounting how identity, art, and technology converged in the early digital age. Each recording is a meditation: atmospheric, deliberate, intimate. The sound of lived history rather than performance. A whisper across decades.The goal is not to narrate history, but to let history speak for itself. More than a podcast. A record of existence before the feed.Projects
The Goddess Recordings
Trans pioneer of the early internet Raquel Reyes revisits the mythos of Goddess, her 2005 memoir, tracing the legacy of early trans self-representation and the culture it anticipated. She is joined by Jonathan Erickson, PhD, whose thesis Becoming the Mirror: Raquel Reyes, Trans Aesthetics, and the Myth of the Self-Made Woman serves as both framework and dialogue—bridging lived experience and academic inquiry.
Together, their collaboration re-examines the digital landscape that birthed one of the web’s first transgender icons, asking how identity was authored, archived, and mythologized in the pre-algorithmic age. Each recording becomes part oral history, part cultural excavation—a conversation between the document and the living documentarian.Coming Soon
The Digital Relic Room
A rotating exhibition of recovered imagery, HTML fragments, and media ephemera from the 1998–2008 web.