Towned

Patrick Melroy
  • 5.0 (17)
  • Arts
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Exhausting conversations about art and culture in this contemporary shifting creative landscape. Join us as we navigate the transitions between analog to digital value systems. The constant shifting terrain of capitalism and its influence on the audience/user/citizen/human.

Episodes

  1. Feb 6

    George Yatchisin Poet Laureate

    Santa Barbara Poet Laureate George Yatchisin entered Transmission Station at the Community Arts Workshop for a wonderful conversation on a variety of topics. Per usual Patrick talked more than he wanted to and only later realized his missed opportunities. George was a very kind guest with brilliant things to say throughout.

    George Yatchisin Poet Laureate

  2. Feb 6

    Chinese Take Out & a Microphone

    Chinese Take Out and Microphones was an interactive art event dedicated to remembering the people we can no longer share a table with. Over shared cartons of Chinese takeout, participants were invited to step up to a microphone and tell stories—of important characters, legendary adventures, small moments, and lasting influences that shaped who we are. Voices were recorded to tape and broadcast as a living signal of memory and progress, carrying these stories beyond the room and into the air. Part communal meal, part oral history, part broadcast ritual, the night honored absence through presence, storytelling, and collective listening.

    Chinese Take Out & a Microphone

  3. Jan 27

    Clair Wentzel

    Artist and community member Clair Wentzel stops by transmission station during office hours and offers an excellent conversation about making art in Santa Barbara.

    Clair Wentzel

  4. Jan 27

    Phone Chain

    In a perfect game of telephone, artist Lucy Bell named this event Phone Chain, and I liked it so much we let it ride. Phone Chain (trademark Lucy Bell) was a workshop to rebuild a shared directory from memory, trust, and human connection. Participants begin by contributing the phone numbers remember by heart, then place live calls to friends and family to locate and verify additional numbers. Together, these fragments form a new phone directory compiled, designed, and printed as a zine. The resulting phone book is distributed only to the people whose numbers appear within it, creating a closed-loop network rooted in consent, intimacy, and lived relationships. Part social sculpture, part archival experiment, the workshop asks what it means to stay reachable in an age of infinite contacts.

    Phone Chain
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About

Exhausting conversations about art and culture in this contemporary shifting creative landscape. Join us as we navigate the transitions between analog to digital value systems. The constant shifting terrain of capitalism and its influence on the audience/user/citizen/human.

Information

  • Creator
    Patrick Melroy
  • Years Active
    2014 - 2026
  • Episodes
    4
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Patrick Melroy
  • Show Website
    Towned