Posted by: Justin Grotelueschen on May 25, 2008 05:49 PM | Comments (0)

I’m jazzed that blogging about Radio Without Boundaries can stimulate a conversation about radio and art. Personally I'm fascinated with how the two disciplines intertwine and are made viable via their manifestations, primarily how they are transmitted to the masses. The Internet has revitalized this discussion, giving a new home to many artistic and experimental radio works that, in the United States anyway, otherwise were relegated to the commercial and (for the most part) public radio sidelines due to limited spectrum. (To be fair, I should recognize that stations with limited resources struggle to fulfill their basic mission of keeping their community informed, leaving little room to push the Boundaries.) But in a way the Internet, with all the content it offers and without a standard to efficiently get that content to the people who desire it, hasn’t done much to alleviate this problem. That’s why radio portals (I hate that word but can’t think of a better term) a la Transom, the Public Radio Exchange, and the Third Coast Festival site serve an important curatorial purpose in the US of A.

These blog pages are an experiment for us, and they can be an experiment for you, too. We’re interested in your experiences with radio and art. Follow along as the excitement builds and the RWB conference drops an exclamation point at the end of the Deep Wireless month, and during the conference you certainly can chime in (we'll open the comments when the festival starts and we're posting more regularly -- it's a spam issue -- yecch).

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