today the new knowledge on Gernsback made me wonder about a project i shelved back in 2007. i spent a good amount of time on experiments in micro-broadcasting from 2006 - 2010. i built many FM transmitters from scratch that i used to form small bubbles of influence (temporary autonomous zones). i also wanted to tap into other media such as a colleague's iTunes partition on his laptop. i could broadcast Gary's playlists and mp3s throughout the art department. much of this research came from a sense of independent media and subversion of the bureaucracy official broadcast. the fire was stoked by desire to make handcrafted and to disrupt the culture of corporatized
black box culture. if you don't void the warranty you don't own it.
i was reading a lot about the early microradio movement and getting tons of information from Tetsuo Kogawa's
Polymorphous Space website. Here is a link to the famous
Toward Polymorphous Radio.
in 2007 i built my first TV transmitter. i was able to
transmit a picture across the room at the CADRE Laboratory reminiscent of Apollo Moon Landings video. i am reading Peter D'Agostino's anthology
TRANSMISSION (Tanam, 1985)while at the Signal Culture research residency. i begun to wonder whether i should pick up this line of experiments again. as of today, there are
only 7 nations that haven't really begun Analogue to Digital Switchover.
one of these is CUBA!! a really relevant place to be thinking about right now.
I think it would be groovy if we could set up and demo a wee radio station during HGCB to show what the Makers could do, we could curate our own playlists and such. I would put on a bright wig and huge sunglasses with glowsticks and a pacifier and dance around in the parking lot. (Not that I need a wee radio station to do that, but you see where I'm going.) Keep on keepin' on up there!
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