NPR Response

I enjoyed that NPR once again brought up the idea of play in their art. They said that in some of their projects they just wanted to get people on the radio and see what sort of sounds they would make. I think it's been very interesting for me to hear so many artists approach their art playfully and that has changed alot of what I thought about art. NPR has done projects with either a political goal or the goal of getting a general impression of public opinion and other objectives/statements they wanted to make, but other times they just wanted to create something that was fun for them and fun for participants. I think things like the City Walk tours are a good example of one of their art pieces that did not have much of a goal other than to entertain.

It was also interesting how their work, like most of the new media pieces we have looked at this semester, are multi-faceted pieces. They are a blend of performative, installation, music, informative, and political all combined in radio broadcasts. Just thought it was cool how many different types of art they could express via radio transmissions.