Community Vault was a one-night showcase of community media from local-access stations across my home state that ranged from the absurd to the incredibly poignant.

far-off signals from far-out cinema
Community Vault was a one-night showcase of community media from local-access stations across my home state that ranged from the absurd to the incredibly poignant.
The objects that line the shelves of this museum’s walls couldn’t be more different — a pair of oven-melted glasses sits alongside a group of “flip” cell phones and an antique doorknob, among other exhibit configurations — but all of them, now divorced from their primary use, attain artifactual value in this museum setting. However, in the space between an object and the donor who once used it, an odd phenomenon emerges …