How exciting! My short doc Luchadora will have it’s WORLD PREMIERE at the 2015 Seattle International Film Festival. I am beyond excited! This year, SIFF will screen 450 films representing 92 countries: 193 features, 70 documentaries, 19 archival films, and 164 shorts (including mine!). Read the press release here.
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It was so exciting to have the kids from Denny International Middle School visit my Signal to Noise installation at Jack Straw Gallery. They had a blast playing with CB radios, learning about KRAB history and AM radio, and being inspired to create their own radio stations to broadcast to the world! Here are some…
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The time has come! I am excited and pleased to announce my Artist Talk. It will be on Friday, February 15th, at 7pm, at Jack Straw. The talk will feature adventures, revelations and tidbits from my latest exhibit, Signal to Noise: Imagined Frequencies of Radiophonic Space that’s currently showing at the Jack Straw New Media…
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Signal to Noise: Imagined Frequencies of Radiophonic Space An installation by Amber Cortes January 25 – March 8, 2013 Radio is a forward moving medium that collects, controls, and radiates information. On the FM dial, radio is a highly regulated and monetized space. But on other dials, the all but forgotten AM and shortwave, illegal…
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Farming 2.0: Young farmers use sustainable methods and social networks for a new kind of nationwide harvest The landscape of farming in this country is changing- the average age of the U.S. farmer is 57, and when these farmers retire, their land will go up for sale. In some cases this land ends up in…
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The fatal shooting of John T. Williams in downtown Seattle last week by a police officer has provoked outrage and questions from his family, friends, and community members. Amber Cortes presents this profile of John T. Williams and some of the people who knew him.
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Not your hipster’s Seattle: the political bombings of the George Jackson Brigade The George Jackson Brigade was an underground revolutionary collective active in the Seattle area from 1975-1977. They set off 15 bombings in solidarity with the prison and labor movement in the mid-seventies. Most of their bombings either destroyed buildings or cut power to…
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For the past few months, I’ve been participating in a kind of art experiment: a book club in which artists of all different genres first discuss, and then respond to the book by creating a project. The book, ‘An African in Greenland,’ is about a man who travels from Togo to Greenland– and the adventures…
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This year people all along the Hudson River are celebrating the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson’s historic journey of discovery. Over the summer, I got to spend some time along the Hudson and learned that the river is in a state of recovery from years of pollution and damage. I produced a radio piece for…
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