My first public performance with my SP-555 was a super fun collaboration with Greg Bem as EMBARREGG for uncarbopo (unpoetry meets Carbonation Press) at Casa del Xolo in Fremont. The event was celebrating a new release by Eric M. Acosta: Carbonation Press 004: underbelly. I provided ambient soundscapes underneath Greg’s spoken word reading of ‘Bright & Cruel’ using my…
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Excited to be speaking this Saturday for the performance series Foolish Oracle about a cool story I encountered at my job as the Digital Storyteller for the Washington State History Museum! It’s about the Unemployed Citizens League, a radical political and mutual aid collective of unemployed workers formed right here in Seattle during the Great…
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I was invited back by Residencia São João and radio collaborator Andrew O’Connor to help set up a pirate radio station at the fazenda! For Rádio Livre São José, I played some sweet Seattle tunes, talked abortion rights with Operação Milhas pela Vida das Mulheres. I’ll upload some of the sound files as soon as…
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I had a great time teaching my DIY noise maker spring box workshop for SOMSOCOSMOS at Residência São João in Brazil! Here’s the recipe I used, yum yum. Check out this video of the workshop to get an idea: We used Altoid tins, covered them in springs, and stuck a lil’ contact mic in there to…
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As part of my residency at Residência São João / Somsocosmos, I gave presentation about the history of Pirate Radio as tool for activism, and the possibilities for mesh wireless networks—communication networks made up of radio nodes organized in a mesh topology (essentially wifi pirate radio)—as a present and future tool for decentralized, off-grid communication.…
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I’m so excited to be curating and presenting Cinememe with collaborator Edward Wolcher! The event takes place every 2nd Thursday of the month, as part of Capitol Hill Art Walk, from 5-8pm or later at at Northwest Film Forum. About Cinememe: YouTube lolcats meet high art films in a durational, live video mashup of the…
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Manifesto returns! i’m super psyched to be reuniting with my fellow cukes and once again performing for ilvs straus’ dance narrative tale of awesomeness that explores the habits of sea cucumbers, gender, making art, and choosing to not to have kids. read a rad review of the premiere in May here (there is a pic…
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On June 21 I’ll be performing at Tukwila Revealed: “an epic exploratory walk along the southern reaches of the Duwamish, interspersed with performance, storytelling and art-making.” It’s kind of a lit/art/music crawl/walk/tour around an amazing part of the Duwamish River in Tukwila: a place where the river actually makes a 90 degree angle! Tukwila Revelaed…
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On June 6 I’ll be performing a multimedia piece with my co-conspirator Edward Wolcher at Ogopogo at the Pocket Theater. Ogopogo is kind of a mixed genre mash-up of poetry/prose/mixed media/theater put together by the good folks over at Babel Salvage. I’ll be projecting my film from my interactive website Fallout, the story of two…
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I’m beyond thrilled to be part of Manifesto, a Dance Narrative performance by ilvs straus. Why? Because I’m going to be working with and learning from one of my Seattle art heroes: someone who I consider a truly original and visionary artist/performer and whose work I’ve been following for quite some time. Because I will…
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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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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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