Experimental Half-Hour is a television show that started in August of 2010 in Portland, Oregon as a platform to broadcasts local and international musicians and performance artists, dancers, and comedians.

Our collaborators include established professional artists as well as new performers that excite and inspire us.

In addition to broadcasting locally and maintaining a free Internet archive,

we engage with the community by curating live multimedia performances,

screening episodes at local festivals,

and strongly encouraging public participation at tapings.

Experimental Half-Hour facilitates a connection between artists and the often underestimated resources our community provides to create, document, and share work with others.

Conceptual growth is stimulated by access to a broad range of new and old technologies ranging from live video broadcasting to glitch-based homemade video effects "stomp" boxes.

A video might be shot in HD, then edited on an analogue mixer. A visual artist might have the opportunity to play with a green screen for the first time or even experiment with the video medium.

Since the start of 2013 the show has relocated to the land of television,

Los Angeles

But unfortunately in 2007 the state of California passed a law that would change the future of public access

In doing so, the show has become more self- reliant due to the lack of public resources available. In Portland where its more for the people and by the people, it was easy for a dedicated person to host a live televised event with professional video equipment, but in Los Angeles due to the dismantling of cable access this is unavailable without renting or buying equipment.

We are currently looking into live video streaming The future of television.

Our influences Experimental Cinema Video Art Public Access

Experimental Cinema Avant Garde film or Experimental Cinema is a type of cinema that uses makes conscious use of the material of cinema in a way that calls attention to the medium. Not to be confused with Video Art, Experimental Cinema can still offer narrative or "voice" and may or may not have actors or dialogue. It tried to offer a story in a theatrical space.

INFLUENTIAL ARTIST Dziga Vertov Maya Deren Stan Brakhage Kenneth Anger

Video Art Term used to describe art that uses both the apparatus and processes of television and video. It can take many forms: recordings that are broadcast, viewed in galleries or other venues, or distributed as tapes or discs; sculptural installations, which may incorporate one or more television receivers or monitors, displaying ‘live’ or recorded images and sound; and performances in which video representations are included.

INFLUENTIAL ARTIST Nam Jun Paik Peter Campus Joan Jonas Phil Morton - copy it right, much like today's creative commons John Sandin - freely available schematics for his Image Processor calling it 'distribution Religion' o Religion

Public Access in the US Public access is a form of community television that was introduced in the late 1960's after a legislation was passed in the US by the Federal Communication Commission. Public Access is a form a free speech that is non commercial. It was a way to give the public the means to educate, train, and facility local programming.

Influential shows Concrete TV Gangagi David Liebe Hart Lets Paint TV

In 2011 we were honored to host one of our influences

Lets Paint TV!