As part of the Digital Artist Collaboration at the JCCSF we have been examining the concept of ‘Home House Land Plot Place / Local Native Public Space’.

For our second session on November 17, 2014 we were asked by Jewish Educator Rachel Brodie to write a telephone poem. The structure of a telephone poem responds to the numbers in your seven digit phone number.

This 15 second video is written, performed and produced by Ben Doyle and explores local vs native, the identity of growing up in Oakland, and how strong we all need to be for survival.

About the Digital Artist Collaboration:
Sponsored by 3200 Stories, the DAC brings together a diverse group of artists and creative thinkers to wrestle with big Jewish questions through the creation and distribution of original digital content. Grounded in the concept of Midrash – a classic investigative process of Jewish texts – we will meet to immerse ourselves in a variety of Jewish “texts” (audio, video, text, and image). Through the exploration of big Jewish questions, concepts, ideas, stories, themes, traditions and practices the Digital Artist Collaboration will take a “Midrashic Posture” to prompt the production of digital content that uncovers meaning by “creating”.