Abstract
Radio Healer is a concept born out of the Phoenix metropolitan area. It is a collaborative project designed to communicate with Arizona’s array of rich multi-cultural movements.
Radio Healer demonstrates a divergence comprised of visual and musical elements that represent traditional indigenous and contemporary non-indigenous forms of technology. The project functions to mediate and field-find community perspectives about the affects of technology on culture, and the human experience. Radio Healer utilizes these perspectives in a feedback loop that enables its performance to approach an empathetic reflection of its environment. Through its expression, it seeks and explores community themes in an effort to understand and represent the community’s discourse.
Understanding community perspective allows the project to evolve into an expression that can connect to its audience in meaningful ways. The project philosophy maintains that art works seeking to understand the perspectives of a community are vital to the well being of culture.
