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Letters

Series: Micro-Texts
From: Joan Schuman
Length: 00:02:01

Part of the audio sketch series, Micro-Texts, exploring culture and technology. Read the full description.
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Default-piece-image-2 A love letter in times of high technology: a perfumed, epistolary trek through the tactile and the sterile, odorless screen. Part of the audio sketch series, Micro-Texts, which consist of 11 creatively produced commentaries that explore the cultural impact of technology. Produced weekly in the last three months of 2000 for the PRI-distributed "Beyond Computers," each piece still reflects a contemporary view of how machines are ruling our lives.

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Piece Description

A love letter in times of high technology: a perfumed, epistolary trek through the tactile and the sterile, odorless screen. Part of the audio sketch series, Micro-Texts, which consist of 11 creatively produced commentaries that explore the cultural impact of technology. Produced weekly in the last three months of 2000 for the PRI-distributed "Beyond Computers," each piece still reflects a contemporary view of how machines are ruling our lives.

Broadcast History

All 11 commentaries/sketches were commissioned and aired weekly between September and December 2000 on the PRI-distributed program, "Beyond Computers," originating from KQED-FM. The show went off the air a few years later.

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