Amber – Page 5

Can the pot industry make buds with sustainability?

Grist

Breaking The Taboo Against Talking About Death

KUOW: Overheard In The Green Room

Technology You Can Wear

Jack Straw New Media Gallery Interview: AMBER CORTES

Bullitt Center: A Building That Functions Like An Organism

Homeschooling Gains Ground In Washington

Denny International Middle School Visits Signal to Noise

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…

Signal to Noise: Artist Talk

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…

Signal to Noise at Jack Straw Gallery

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…

Map: Do We Still Need Record Stores?

The Poetry of Rock And Roll

Farming 2.0: Young farmers

Farming 2.0: Young farmers use sustainable methodsÂ 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…

The Fatal Shooting of John T. Williams

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.

The George Jackson Brigade

Not your hipsterâ€™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…

Arctic Book Club Opening Reception

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…

Dredging The Hudson

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…

‘The Dance of The Giglio’

Every year, men from Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church in Williamsburg, Brooklyn hoist a four-ton, 68-foot statue called the Giglio into the air and move it six blocks while dancing ‘the Giglio’ under the sweltering sun. The event commemorates the San Paolino de Nola Feast, which originated in Nola, Italy. This year, Weekend America…

‘Radio Diaries’ Joe Richman at UnionDocs

Radio Diaries Produced by Joe Richman June 15 | 7 pm Suggested Donation $8/ students $5 The award winning Radio Diaries empowers people to “become reporters of their own lives”–then airs their stories on National Public Radio. Finding voices that often go unheard- teenagers, prisoners, AIDS patients- Radio Diaries trains people to share their stories…

UnionDocs!!!!

I just got a job at UnionDocs. UnionDocs a documentary arts collective and studio space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn (and in fact only blocks from my place!). They also run a residency program, six documentarians live upstairs and collaborate in curating screenings every week of feature length documentaries, with the director around for a post screening…

The Brian Lehrer Show

I just finished up an amazing internship at The Brian Lehrer Show at WNYC in New York City. The Brian Lehrer Show is a live, daily, two-hour long call in show that covers issues and news in New York and beyond. Working in live radio was an exciting challenge and I got to pitch and…

You Never Know Radio: Off The Ground

I am finally getting this whole project off the ground. It’s taken alot of time, coffee, and work to create so far, and it is now taking shape. First podcast coming soon!