Audio Interference

"We did not go in there with the notion that we have all the answers to lead the working class, that we are the revolutionary leadership...the people who already understood the workplace, who understood the industry, who understood the union and its history were very often the rank and file workers who had been there for a long time." - Dan La Botz

"There were people in the buildings who modeled themselves after homesteaders and very much wanted to become homeowners, wanted the approval of the city, wanted to act respectable--and there were other people who were doing this as a critique of private property. There were people who were fixing up their space as if it was going to be their family home for generations, and there were people who just needed a temporary place to stay and were making the best of it." - Amy Starecheski

"People have knowledge, and they can put together stations that'll blow the doors off a government station...you get set up in the Amazon in Brazil, and you set up twenty dollars worth of equipment, you can blow a thousand miles out because there's nothing to interfere with that signal." - Rob Robinson

"We wanted it to have a kind of handmade look...it seemed like it would be better than a curtain and a potted plant, which had been the usual for a public access program." -- Deedee Halleck

"We wanted it to have a kind of handmade look...it seemed like it would be better than a curtain and a potted plant, which had been the usual for a public access program." -- Deedee Halleck

In this episode, Sabine Bernards talks to Deedee Halleck about the origins and history of Paper Tiger TV, the community media collective that became a pioneer in video art and public access television. You will also hear clips from some of Paper Tiger's early episodes.

Produced by Interference Archive.

"Bail is often described as incarceration's front door, because if you can't afford it, you're going to jail." - Peter Goldberg

"I think that people are going to see reflected in this so much from their own life and from the contemporary world, more than we want there to be." - Brad Duncan.

"There is a kind of magic to sitting down and knowing that if someone wanted to, they could hear my voice right now." - Mike Clemow

To mark the occasion of the launch of Season 2 of Audio Interference, we hosted a panel discussion on the use of podcasts as propaganda and community building tools.  You can listen to a recording of the event here: The event was held at Interference Archive on October 4, 2016. Panelists included: -Julie Golia, Director […]

To mark the occasion of the launch of Season 2 of Audio Interference, we  hosted a panel discussion on the use of podcasts as propaganda and community building tools.  The event was held at Interference Archive on October 4, 2016.  Panelists included:

 

-Julie Golia, Director of Public History at Brooklyn Historical Society and co-host and producer of Flatbush + Main

-Zaheer Ali, Oral Historian at Brooklyn Historical Society and co-host and producer of Flatbush + Main

-Aaron Lakoff, curator and host of Rebel Beat

-Kaitlin Prest, creative director and host of The Heart, a podcast and art project exploring love, bodies, gender and sexuality distributed by Radiotopia by PRX

-Tennessee Jane Watson, a reporter, artist and educator, who produces audio documentaries, oral histories, sound installations and youth media projects

-Mark Winston Griffith, Executive Director at Brooklyn Movement Center and co-host and co-producer of The Third Rail.

 

The panel was moderated by Louise Barry, one of the creators of Audio Interference.  

 

Produced by Interference Archive.