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CUE Art Foundation: Brian Gillis & Robin Lambert's FREE RADIO 2011 Open Call Selection - 24 Mar 2012 to 5 May 2012 Current Exhibition |
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Brian Gillis & Robin Lambert's FREE RADIO 2011 Open Call Selection With Free Radio, Lambert and Gillis proposed to build a functioning radio station inside the gallery with related educational materials and programming. The station will be built over the course of five days, used for a one-hour test broadcast when completed, and disassembled each week. The exhibition, and its related programming, will be on view at CUE from March 24 to May 5, 2012. PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Free Radio is a community-based project that uses CUE Art Foundation's gallery from March 24 - May 5, 2012 as a laboratory in which a different local community will be aided each week with the construction of an on-site radio station and the development of radio programming relative to that community. Each one-week session will be comprised of a series of activities directed toward community building, the development of a voice, archiving that voice, and providing the skills associated with radio technology that will culminate in a public broadcast produced entirely by that community and transmitted to the greater New York City metropolitan area. This process will be perpetually archived and transmitted via the internet as well, so as to simultaneously preserve and broadcast the process beyond the walls of the gallery and the range of the radio broadcast. The ultimate goal of this project is to publicly seed community development and training relative to radio broadcasting so as to make the notion of organizing a community to broadcast its voice something that is both more valuable and accessible to the public at large. Free Radio was conceived of by artists, is sited at CUE Art Foundation, and is driven by the reconsideration of the gallery as a cultural hub. The gallery will serve as a place that uses art to catalyze discourse and the dissemination of information, and as a site for tool building while mining and solidifying the identity of a community. Free Radio was born out of a belief that every community has a voice that could be a relevant part of a larger society, and an investment in the development and proliferation of that voice will make its community richer and in doing so will contribute exponentially to a population outside of its own. This project is made possible by an international organization of people ranging from artists and computer hackers to scientists and educators who are in place to work with specific local communities to facilitate community individuation, the development of a voice, and the weekly construction of a functioning radio station and culminating broadcast for the dissemination of that voice. Free Radio hybridizes the idea of a sourdough starter and the notion that teaching someone to fish is more valuable and resonant that merely giving someone a fish. Free Radio is as much about being a witness as it is about being a participant. As such, a primary concern is the incubation and perpetual broadcast of this process of community individuation and the mass dissemination of a voice, whether live or as an archived loop on the internet. It is about the mass distribution of open source information, which focuses on the democratization of a technology that is free to access, relatively ungovernable, easy to build, and so important to a free society -- RADIO. FREE RADIO IS: Brian Gillis, Eugene, Oregon gillislab.com Robin Lambert, Alberta, Canada robinlambert.ca Elizabeth Dunn-Ruiz, New York, New York verbalpyrotechnics.com John Park, Eugene, Oregon johnparkonline.com Ryan Paxton, Brooklyn, New York Mark DeBernadis, Brooklyn, New York saintjamesproductions.com |
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