SonicCity is the crystallization of several ideas about net.art and web art i've had flitting about in my head for a while. It's an anonymous interface floating over a cityscape; the interface provides access via its buttons to a sonic experience, a poetry-and-music performance that the user puts together via rollovers. For me, SonicCity meshes the concepts of both interface and database|||||it is, after all, simply an interface to a database of media||||||"narrative" (or coherenence, as the kids at the school would say) is added by the aesthetics of the performance...
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SonicCity is the crystallization of several ideas about net.art and web art i've had flitting about in my head for a while. It's an anonymous interface floating over a cityscape; the interface provides access via its buttons to a sonic experience, a poetry-and-music performance that the user puts together via rollovers. For me, SonicCity meshes the concepts of both interface and database|||||it is, after all, simply an interface to a database of media||||||"narrative" (or coherenence, as the kids at the school would say) is added by the aesthetics of the performance...
Work metadata
- Year Created: 2002
- Submitted to ArtBase: Wednesday May 15th, 2002
- Original Url: http://www.lewislacook.com/SonicCity.swf
- Permalink: http://archive.rhizome.org/artbase/3453/SonicCity.swf
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Work Credits:
- Lewis LaCook, creator
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