This broadcast features the Prometheus Radio Project introducing "The Spectrum Roadshow" at The Sanctuary for Independent Media in Troy, New York on March 23, 2006. It was streamed live on free103point9 Online Radio.

A group of media reform activists with the Philadelphia-based Prometheus Radio Project visit the Capital Region to spread the word about how communities can shape their own information technology futures. There will be a 6 p.m. potluck during which they will conduct a teach-in on how to build "cantennas" for picking up wireless Internet signals, followed at 7 p.m. with a screening and talk about grassroots perspectives on media reform.

Community Wireless Pioneers To Appear In Troy: Prometheus Radio Project Introduces "The Spectrum Roadshow."

A group of media reform activists with the Philadelphia-based Prometheus Radio Project will visit the Capital Region on Thursday, March 23, 2006 to spread the word about how communities can shape their own information technology futures. They will be speaking about grassroots perspectives on media reform at 7 PM at The Sanctuary For Independent Media, 3361 6th Avenue in Troy, following a 6 PM potluck during which they will conduct a teach-in on how to build "cantennas" for picking up wireless Internet signals.

According to Prometheus organizer Dharma Dailey, "Communities can build, own, and control their communications infrastructure and that's what we'll be talking about in Troy."

The Prometheus Radio Project has first-hand knowledge of plans to build out wireless Internet access in Philadelphia, which is frequently cited as a model for other cities. They have proposed numerous strategies for making the service more affordable, more responsive and more accountable to community needs.

Tune in for selections from Wave Farm's Transmission Art Archive, a specialized online resource of artists' experiments with the electromagnetic spectrum in form or concept. The resource contains primary materials from early microradio broadcast collaborations among Brooklyn-based artists in the mid-nineties, transmission works created by the hundreds of artists who have participated in Wave Farm projects, broadcasts, and residencies, as well as historical and contemporary projects that comprise the canon of the genre.

Visit the Transmission Art Archive here.