¡Colores!; International Electronic Cafe Poetry Readings

KNME-TV (Television station: Albuquerque, N.M.)

This is raw footage for Colores #409. Featured are folks participating in the international electronic cafe at KNME studio and elsewhere. Maralee Murphy (?) hosts/guides the experience and mentions some others involved such as Larry Godell, Joy Sky, Moro Monterro, and others. The first few minutes of the file are test shots with Michael Kamins and others, in Albuquerque. Starting 0:2:17 there is an introduction to the experience. She mentions a Canadian crew filming at her location. There are multiple poetry readings involved. This file is related to cpb-aacip-191-44bnzxds, a Colores episode about the Electronic Cafe. "A profile of Electronic Cafe network created to join people together from throughout the world through mass- communication technology -- videophones, internet, to create and share art, performances and ideas. Featured is world renown media theorist Gene Youngblood who has centered his life around the myth of the communications revolution. One of his beliefs is that television broadcasting is the most destructive force in the world. Youngblood sees the broadcast as a one-way, mass-audience delivery system owned and operated by those institutions that cause most of the problems in the world today/ However, this can be changed when everyone will have the opportunity to use media/broadcasting in a ""non-hierarchical conversational system instead of a communication system..."" As seen at work in Electronic Cafes.