Public Radio
The Newspaper Dispenser offers up text and image for public consumption. When transformed into a radio tuner, the dispenser extends a different form of dispersal – a sound-byte or series of sounds to be layered atop those of the urban landscape.
THE RADIO maps, conducts, and transmits aural space. Sound forms, like objects, transform and travel with the individual body. PUBLIC_RADIO connects the newspaper dispenser with the airwaves altering public expectation and engagement with the dispensing object. From July 20-21, 2002 as part of the Dispensing with Formalities series, a live radio transmission was performed and broadcasted in the vicinity of public_radio.