Live video event from inside!
Tuesday, December 13, 2022
5:30-7pm Mountain Time
Follow this Zoom link to join our event.
If this link causes any trouble, please try registering for the conference and finding their Zoom link within the conference materials - instructions below.
Tuesday, December 13, 2022
5:30-7pm Mountain Time
Follow this Zoom link to join our event.
If this link causes any trouble, please try registering for the conference and finding their Zoom link within the conference materials - instructions below.
Join our incarcerated producers at Limon Correctional Facility for a live video conversation about Inside Wire, as part of the 5th International Carceral Geography Conference.
Our conference session is Prison Radio, Creative Disruption: Exploring the porosity of prison spaces through prison radio, and transforming spaces of dehumanization and isolation to inclusion and public engagement. More details about the session are at the bottom of this page.
This session will be co-led by Inside Wire producers live from our studio at Limon Correctional Facility: Jody Aguirre, Damien Burton, Benny Hill, Joaquin Mares, Tyler Nelson, and Anthony Quintana, Jr. They're joined by Dwayne Antojado and Marietta Martinovic, criminology researchers for RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, and by Seth Ready, Hotlines & Music Manager for Inside Wire and staffer with University of Denver Prison Arts Initiative (DU PAI). The session will be moderated by Ryan Conarro, General Manager and Program Director of Inside Wire, and Director of Creative Media for DU PAI.
Here's how to join us from your computer or phone:
If you'd like to, you may also register for the full conference. Here's how to do that:
Our conference session is Prison Radio, Creative Disruption: Exploring the porosity of prison spaces through prison radio, and transforming spaces of dehumanization and isolation to inclusion and public engagement. More details about the session are at the bottom of this page.
This session will be co-led by Inside Wire producers live from our studio at Limon Correctional Facility: Jody Aguirre, Damien Burton, Benny Hill, Joaquin Mares, Tyler Nelson, and Anthony Quintana, Jr. They're joined by Dwayne Antojado and Marietta Martinovic, criminology researchers for RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, and by Seth Ready, Hotlines & Music Manager for Inside Wire and staffer with University of Denver Prison Arts Initiative (DU PAI). The session will be moderated by Ryan Conarro, General Manager and Program Director of Inside Wire, and Director of Creative Media for DU PAI.
Here's how to join us from your computer or phone:
- Make sure you have the Zoom application on your device (download it here if you need to).
- Follow this Zoom link to join our event.
If you'd like to, you may also register for the full conference. Here's how to do that:
- Register here for the conference (it's free!).
- You will be asked to answer a few screens in order to complete your registration. On screen #2, after you enter your name and email address, please select 'Virtual Registration' (to indicate that you'll join by video rather than in person).
- Now, look for an email sent from the "5th International Conference for Carceral Geography Conference Team," confirming your registration. Note: this may take 10 minutes or so to come to your inbox. Also, the email may arrive to your Spam or Promotions folder, so if it doesn't come to your primary inbox, then keep an eye out for it there.
- In the email, click on the link "conference program."
- Enter the passcode to view the program. The passcode is #confinement2022.
- In the conference program, scroll way down to the section called "Presentation Abstracts - Day 2: Wed 14th December" (approx page 16). (Note: because the event is happening in Australia, it will be Wednesday for the in-person attendees - that's why the heading reads 'Wed 14th December.')
- Click on the "Online" link, below the line "1c Cultural Resistance 1: Prison Radio, Creative Resistance." This should open the link to our video event - voila! ... The heading you're looking for in the conference program looks like this:
We're very excited about this rare opportunity for our collaborators in prison to lead a dialogue in an international public forum, embodying the 'porosity' that is the focus of this session. We thank the Carceral Geography Conference for facilitating this session, and we thank the leadership at Colorado Department of Corrections and Limon Correctional Facility for saying 'yes' to this proposal.
Here's the full description of this event:
Prison Radio, Cultural Resistance: Exploring the porosity of prison spaces through prison radio, and transforming spaces of dehumanization and isolation to inclusion and public engagement
Colorado time: Tues December 13, 5:30-7pm
Colorado Prison Radio is the first statewide prison radio station in the United States, broadcasting from all state prisons and reaching every prison cell across Colorado. It broadcasts 24/7 from inside prison to the public, accessible anywhere via its web stream and the Inside Wire app. The content is created by incarcerated producers in collaboration with media producers and formerly incarcerated collaborators at University of Denver Prison Arts Initiative. This session shares original audio from Inside Wire producers in order to demonstrate how, as a broadcast media platform and a network of creative studio spaces, Inside Wire offers sites and practices of resistance against the extreme and dehumanizing isolation that is inherent in the design of carceral settings. It also provides a story-centered path toward actualizing the values of restorative justice.
Through the collaborative production of prison audio stories, inside-to-outside amplification of voices and the auditory experience of synchronous daily broadcasts, the prison space can be seen as a porous environment seeping out in the general community, echoing the fundamental bedrock of carceral geography. As a result, prisons are transformed from dehumanizing and isolating spaces to inclusive environments which promote public engagement. Inside Wire also flips the script on carceral surveillance, shifting from an auditory panopticon of listening in/on incarcerated people, to a space of mutual understanding in which prison staff and the public listen to incarcerated people, and hear them and their stories, first-hand, creating an important counter-current to discourses purveyed through mainstream platforms.
PANEL
Prison Radio, Cultural Resistance: Exploring the porosity of prison spaces through prison radio, and transforming spaces of dehumanization and isolation to inclusion and public engagement
Colorado time: Tues December 13, 5:30-7pm
Colorado Prison Radio is the first statewide prison radio station in the United States, broadcasting from all state prisons and reaching every prison cell across Colorado. It broadcasts 24/7 from inside prison to the public, accessible anywhere via its web stream and the Inside Wire app. The content is created by incarcerated producers in collaboration with media producers and formerly incarcerated collaborators at University of Denver Prison Arts Initiative. This session shares original audio from Inside Wire producers in order to demonstrate how, as a broadcast media platform and a network of creative studio spaces, Inside Wire offers sites and practices of resistance against the extreme and dehumanizing isolation that is inherent in the design of carceral settings. It also provides a story-centered path toward actualizing the values of restorative justice.
Through the collaborative production of prison audio stories, inside-to-outside amplification of voices and the auditory experience of synchronous daily broadcasts, the prison space can be seen as a porous environment seeping out in the general community, echoing the fundamental bedrock of carceral geography. As a result, prisons are transformed from dehumanizing and isolating spaces to inclusive environments which promote public engagement. Inside Wire also flips the script on carceral surveillance, shifting from an auditory panopticon of listening in/on incarcerated people, to a space of mutual understanding in which prison staff and the public listen to incarcerated people, and hear them and their stories, first-hand, creating an important counter-current to discourses purveyed through mainstream platforms.
PANEL
- Dwayne Antojado (Melbourne)
- Marietta Martinovic (Melbourne)
- Seth Ready (Denver, CO)
- Producers for Inside Wire: Colorado Prison Radio at Limon Correctional Facility in Limon, CO:
- Jody Aguirre
- Damien Burton
- Benny Hill
- Joaquin Mares
- Tyler Nelson
- Anthony Quintana Jr
- Ryan Conarro (Denver, CO) - Moderator