New York
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June 2006
This month’s meeting examined participatory performance and interactivity in the context of contemporary sound art and new music.
The evening brought together three artists working with sound and music: Jesse Pearlman Karlsberg, Micah Silver, and Judy Dunaway. Each of these artists draws their audience into the creation of their work. Read On
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May 2006
Boo is an artist and researcher whose current practice deals with the uncanny nexus of life and non-life, information and matter operating in the contemporary techno-cultural arena.
Boo Chapple introduced her projects: I’ve Got Rhythm—a research project to make audio speakers out of bones. Good Vibration—an attempt to grow bone in vibration patterns caused by standing wave resonance in the tissue culture medium. Untitled project—investigation of galvanotactic E-coli bacteria. Read On
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February 2006
Cynthia and Paul conversed about the joys and pains of collaboration between a visual artist and a composer in a work that required a complex meshing of skills and concepts.
Cynthia Beth Rubin and Bob Gluck discussed their conception and construction of Layered Histories. They also described their respective previous works incorporating themes of Jewish cultural heritage, and explored how their ideas about the underpinnings of culture informed this collaboration, as well as the 1998 animation Inherited Memories, by Rubin, with music by Gluck (to be shown at the upcoming LA Jewish Film Festival). Read On
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May 2004
T U R N S is a word filtering, self-generating, fully collaborative database project based on both sharing and collecting one’s turning point story through both online writing and drawing.
The site addresses the significance of one’s personal “turn” as an experience so significant that decisions resulted which changed life’s direction. Seen through relational filters such as relationships, trauma, family, immigration, war — one’s submitted story or lifemap becomes part of the narrative pool and is understood as part of social memory. Such community based systems are built on the premise that meaning in a work of art is dependent on exchange and communication. T U R N S was created by Margot Lovejoy with Hal Eagar, Marek Walczak, and Jon Legere. It was selected to be featured as part of the 2002 Whitney Biennial and has been shown in Taipei at the Museum of Contemporary Art in 2001; as a multiuser installation at ZKM and the Madrid Media Lab in 2003 and the Bilbao, Spain Ciberarts Festival 2004. Read On
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November 2001
Cory Arcangel presented and entertained to a most enthusiastic crowd during the November 2001 gathering.
Cory Arcangel divided the tale of his beginnings in music and the digital medium into three parts. Begining with a 10 minute breakdown of his past projects starting with a video animation created with Apple IIGS image writer paper at the age of 9. The audience was then treated to an impromptu display of Cory’s guitar playing skills (with a piece by Bach: Allemande from Suite n. 1 in E minor, BWV 996).
In addition, Cory discussed his work in college with computers, which began with the Commodore 64, the Apple IIGS, the Macintosh 68k LCIII, the Macintosh Beige G3, and then trips to the thrift store to buy things he had as a kid. He reconfigures these obsolete computers to make unique projects not possible with the hardware and software on the market today. Read On
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