August 9th - ISEA
David Madrid’s “Block 2 Block” opened out the middle day of the week of NPR’s ISEA broadcast. Today’s show was all about the experience at San Jose’s Community Homeless Alliance Ministry (CHAM), a downtown church that helps homeless people through rough times. Not surpisingly the talk kept coming round to city politics.
“Block to Block” with David Madrid
We then moved onto something a little lighter in tone: “Traffic Island Disks“, day three. Saul Albert continued his exploration of what people were listening to on their headphones as they walk around downtown San-Jo. That leads to all kinds of chat – there are good messages in hip hop, rent is expensive in this city, and why you’d carry 200 cds around with you in your bag.
Wednesday’s Traffic Island Disks
NPR then welcomed Aaron and Ethan, two students from Switch, the in-house publication of San Jose State University’s CADRE Laboratory for New Media, the academic host for ISEA this year. The two students alternated music and talk of their own projects and those of their counterparts on the course.
Students from SJSU’s CADRE course present “Switch”
That was followed by Jenny Hager, a representative from the Education Team from ZeroOne and IISME fellow, together with Zoë, a UNESCO youth ambassador. They talked about their individual involvement in the show as well as the ‘really really really really really cool’ opening ceremony.
ISEA: Education Team and UNESCO ambassdor chop it up
The next studio guest happened to be walking past and was roped in by Michael Trigilio to talk shop. Daniel Fortune teaches internet production, both audio and video at SJSU and talked about the rising popularity of the internet as a vehicle for media. It’s all about being ’searchable’, he says.
Daniel Fortune from SJSU’s radio, tv and film dept
We then went remote to hook up with Zefrey in San Francisco for the mid-week edition of “Frank Prattle” with Joyce Grimm, Justin Hoover, Michael Zheng and Stephanie Syjuco. These four SF art types talked about the ‘Four on One’ show initiated by Michael whereby four curators zoomed in on one artist -Stephanie Syjuco - for their consecutive and sequential shows at outdoor art-space, the Garage.
Frank Prattle with Joyce Grimm, Michael Zheng and Stephanie Syjuco
Sheila Pinkel and Stephen Wilson stopped into the San Jose booth to talk about the state of play at the Leonardo Network. They talked about the dilemmas posed by an organization that has grown from a “fragile little thread of an institution” to “a rope”.
Representatives talk about current issues at Leonardo
And then Patrice Scanlon stopped in to play some experimental music. She described it as ‘dark heavy and distorted with some overall moments of serenity’. That rounded out the broadcast on this balmy evening in downtown San Jose.
Patrice Scanlon plays electronic experimental music