With GoCast, you can
- document what you think is quirky, beautiful, terrifying, hilarious, or otherwise important in your community
- reveal your perspective and knowledge to the rest of the world
- explore your city through the eyes, ears and words of others
- participate in a network of local documentarians
Why Audio?
Stand at a CastPoint somewhere in the city and play it over your headphones. You hear information, opinion, art and memories, while your eyes and body are free to explore. In you, digital information connects to physical space. Unfamiliar people join your private headphone zone. At its core, GoCast is about bridging the divide between analog and digital, familiar and strange, private and communal, and using the energy created in those connections to catalyze good things.
Mission
All cities have an urban pulse, strong or soft, sometimes lost in the past or in a forgotten part of town. GoCast's goal is to help citizens find it, document it, raise awareness of it and nurture it.
GoCast is established on the belief that all residents of an urban area, regardless of class, race, gender, sexuality, disability, national origin, age, or religious affiliation, have a right to be educated about their city, heard when they raise their voices about it, and included in the decision-making processes that affect it. GoCast is a gathering place for the voices of a city.
Who is GoCast?
Aislinn Pentecost-Farren started GoCast in February of 2006. She has a background in anthropology, museum studies, documentary videography, and alternative education. She was raised in the Triangle (Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill and Pittsboro), and lives in downtown Raleigh. Aislinn is not just the brains behind GoCast, she also participates in all aspects of the organization from content-creation, to recruiting financial support, to designing and printing our famous "Official GoCaster" T-shirts.
Brian Webb is responsible for all web development and graphic design at GoCast. He joined GoCast in June 2006. Brian has lived in the Raleigh area all his life, and has a background in computer science, alternative education and communications. He holds a bachelor's degree in philosophy from NC State University, and spends a lot of time in coffee-shops in the greater downtown area.