:: metaradio > providence ::

real time documentation CUBE2 :: 5.28-5.29 :: ongoing

website www.metaradio.net/providence

Metaradio > Providence is a live audioblog to which I publish snippets of commercial radio in real time. I record Providence radio stations off my car radio to the blog using an audioblogging-enabled cell phone while driving around the city. Maps featuring US Geological Survey and 2000 US Census data, as well as satellite imagery contextualize the audio posts alongside text posts featuring my research into the stations’ formats, and the projected identities of their listeners. This journey, as published on the Metaradio blog forms a cartographic representation of Providence, illuminating the contestational space between the airwaves and lived reality.

about the artist

Jesse Pearlman Karlsberg's work explores the overlapping territories of different communication technologies, ranging from satellite radio, to broadcast television, to cable Internet, to wireless telephony. He examines how power is embedded in the spaces occupied by these technologies. He utilizes sound and visual media to render such power dynamics audible, visible, and flexible. His work encompasses web design, installation, music for live performance, audio tours, and works for radio.