WHAT IS RHZ RADIO?
The RHZ Amateur Radio Network is a participatory experiment aiming to create the possibility of a legal, publicly owned and operated broadcast radio that is built like a peer to peer network.
Based on the FCC allowance for individuals to operate a 100 milliwatt micro-radio station, RHZ uses the internet to share content between micro-stations so they can broadcast the same content at the same time. Anyone can have their own radio station, starting with a hobby kit as low as $30!
RHZ is designed to follow the parameters of FCC regulation, abide by copyright law, and use only free open source software to distribute information, while simultaneously allowing the broadcast network to grow to the size of the social network that creates it.
Blending amateur technological experimentation and social activism, RHZ was designed as project for REBEL REBEL project series for Leefahsalung at New China Town Barber Shop.
Jeff Cain is an artist and designer who works with sculpture, video, sound, technology and performance. †As an artist, his work has been presented at Musee D'art Modern de Ville de Paris, Track 16, Leefalshalong at the New Chinatown Barbershop, CalArts, Crazy Space, Highways, The Wedge, and other Southern California venues. Recent projects have included making a collaborative video installation controlled by activity in the magnetosphere, documenting wind through the Mt Wilson Antenna farm, and progressing a video at the rate of cellular division. He has made collaborative projects with Lisa Adams, Carla Bozulich, Chris Goode, Rosanna Gamson, Lauren Hartman, osseus labyrint, and Michael Sakamoto. As a designer, his clients have included: Ron Athey, Anna Homler, Rachel Rosenthal, and Annie Sprinkle and he received a Lester Horton Award for Best Set Design with Anne Kaneko for Nesting Doll's High Fall. Jeff is also the director/curator of The Wedge, an itinerant curatorial artist's project founded in the historic Woman's Building near Chinatown. Having studied at Whittier College and Cambridge University, he is currently an MFA candidate in studio art at CalArts.
jeffbcain@sbcglobal.net
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