Over The Edge - Don Joyce

Here’s an awesome, unique and historic piece of pixel art. Don Joyce, the host of the radio show Over The Edge from San Francisco’s community radio station KPFA and a member of the culture-jamming art and music collective Negativland made this piece of art way back in 1985. This piece presumably depicts either himself as an alien running the radio show, or an alien as a fan taping and calling in to the show.

This piece is also unique in that it appears as though it had to be printed in multiple segments and combined together to create the full image that you see here. This is a photograph of the printed piece.

Over The Edge is a live improvised audio collage program performed by the surviving members of Negativland each week on KPFA, and it still airs to this day. Don joyce passed away a few years ago. You can listen live and check out the show’s archives at https://kpfa.org/program/over-the-edge/ and you can learn about Negativland at negativland.com