Turbulence Spotlight: "Tabula Visum: Tabular Vision & HTML Cinema" by Patrick Lichty
November 17, 2006
Turbulence Spotlight: "Tabula Visum: Tabular Vision & HTML Cinema" by
Patrick Lichty
http://turbulence.org/spotlight/lichty
Both static and dynamic digital images have often been represented as
'translated' images, reinterpreted from an intermediate image file stored on
the web. Beginning with these files, Lichty has translated the images and
videos to pure HTML code. As such, they represent a very 'direct' method of
representation in the browser. In addition, there is a time-based element
that occurs when the tables load into the browser. Thus, "HTML Cinema" has
two dimensions; the time of the load, and the time of the serial.
Many of these images are excerpts from Lichty's wristcam photography and
video works. After conversion to pure code, several of the pages were
unmanageable; therefore, they are a hybrid of code and console handicraft by
the artist.
BIOGRAPHY
Patrick Lichty is a technologically-based conceptual artist, writer,
independent curator, animator for the activist group "The Yes Men," and
Executive Editor of Intelligent Agent Magazine. His work spans over 15
years, dealing with media narrative/criticism and information aesthetics, in
many different contexts. He works in diverse technological media, including
painting, mobile media, printmaking, kinetics, video, VR, generative music,
and neon. Venues in which Lichty has been involved with solo and
collaborative works include the Whitney Biennial and the International
Symposium on the Electronic Arts (ISEA). Lichty is a faculty member in the
Interactive Arts and Media Department at Columbia College Chicago.
For more Turbulence Spotlights please visit http://turbulence.org/spotlight/
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New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.: http://new-radio.org
New York: 917.548.7780 . Boston: 617.522.3856
Turbulence: http://turbulence.org
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Networked_Performance Blog: http://turbulence.org/blog
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Turbulence Spotlight: "Tabula Visum: Tabular Vision & HTML Cinema" by
Patrick Lichty
http://turbulence.org/spotlight/lichty
Both static and dynamic digital images have often been represented as
'translated' images, reinterpreted from an intermediate image file stored on
the web. Beginning with these files, Lichty has translated the images and
videos to pure HTML code. As such, they represent a very 'direct' method of
representation in the browser. In addition, there is a time-based element
that occurs when the tables load into the browser. Thus, "HTML Cinema" has
two dimensions; the time of the load, and the time of the serial.
Many of these images are excerpts from Lichty's wristcam photography and
video works. After conversion to pure code, several of the pages were
unmanageable; therefore, they are a hybrid of code and console handicraft by
the artist.
BIOGRAPHY
Patrick Lichty is a technologically-based conceptual artist, writer,
independent curator, animator for the activist group "The Yes Men," and
Executive Editor of Intelligent Agent Magazine. His work spans over 15
years, dealing with media narrative/criticism and information aesthetics, in
many different contexts. He works in diverse technological media, including
painting, mobile media, printmaking, kinetics, video, VR, generative music,
and neon. Venues in which Lichty has been involved with solo and
collaborative works include the Whitney Biennial and the International
Symposium on the Electronic Arts (ISEA). Lichty is a faculty member in the
Interactive Arts and Media Department at Columbia College Chicago.
For more Turbulence Spotlights please visit http://turbulence.org/spotlight/
Jo-Anne Green, Co-Director
New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.: http://new-radio.org
New York: 917.548.7780 . Boston: 617.522.3856
Turbulence: http://turbulence.org
New American Radio: http://somewhere.org
Networked_Performance Blog: http://turbulence.org/blog
Upgrade! Boston: http://turbulence.org/upgrade
Turbulence Artists' Studio: "La Conchita mon amour" by Christina McPhee
November 10, 2006
Turbulence Artists' Studio: "La Conchita mon amour" by Christina McPhee
http://www.turbulence.org/studios/mcphee/index.html
Needs Quicktime and Flash plugins
"La Conchita mon amour" is a multimedia site study of the aftermath of
debris flow in La Conchita--a beach town in southern California--on January
10, 2005. For eighteen months McPhee visited La Conchita at one month
intervals, shooting and drawing within the shattered spaces and vernacular
shrine building. La Conchita's setting of powerful natural cycles, from the
tides to the recurrence of debris flow in winter, found an algorithmic
analog through editing with seventies-era sequencers at the Experimental
Television Center, New York, in winter 2005; later McPhee remixed this
content in nonlinear digital editing. In summer 2006 she shot HD video; some
of this content is downsampled for the net. Kyong Mee Choi shared her
electronic voice composition, "TAO" (2005), for the video installation and
the net. "Special thanks to the people of La Conchita for allowing me to
explore their spontaneous structures built to defy indifference." (Christina
McPhee)
BIOGRAPHY
Christina McPhee traces new media landscapes at the peripheries of human
landscapes, where the psychic terrain of trauma meets environmental
instability and generative chaos. Her "La Conchita mon amour" video
installation is currently on view at Sara Tecchia Roma, New York.
"Carrizoprime," a new HD video, premiered at Cinemascope, SCOPE|Hamptons Art
Fair in July 2006. McPhee recently created the theatrical video installation
for Pamela Z's "Wunderkabinet," a multimedia opera based on stories from the
Museum of Jurassic Technology (Los Angeles) in debut at the LAB, San
Francisco (2005). Her digital prints won a James A. Phelan Award from the
San Francisco Foundation in 2003. McPhee's writings on media theory and
practice are published with Ctheory, Neural, drunkenboat, and for the
"empyre: soft-skinned space." She works with Terry Hargrave and his
architectural design studio at California Polytechnic State University.
To view more Turbulence Artists' Studios please visit
http://turbulence.org/studios
Jo-Anne Green, Co-Director
New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.: http://new-radio.org
New York: 917.548.7780 . Boston: 617.522.3856
Turbulence: http://turbulence.org
New American Radio: http://somewhere.org
Networked_Performance Blog: http://turbulence.org/blog
Upgrade! Boston: http://turbulence.org/upgrade
Turbulence Artists' Studio: "La Conchita mon amour" by Christina McPhee
http://www.turbulence.org/studios/mcphee/index.html
Needs Quicktime and Flash plugins
"La Conchita mon amour" is a multimedia site study of the aftermath of
debris flow in La Conchita--a beach town in southern California--on January
10, 2005. For eighteen months McPhee visited La Conchita at one month
intervals, shooting and drawing within the shattered spaces and vernacular
shrine building. La Conchita's setting of powerful natural cycles, from the
tides to the recurrence of debris flow in winter, found an algorithmic
analog through editing with seventies-era sequencers at the Experimental
Television Center, New York, in winter 2005; later McPhee remixed this
content in nonlinear digital editing. In summer 2006 she shot HD video; some
of this content is downsampled for the net. Kyong Mee Choi shared her
electronic voice composition, "TAO" (2005), for the video installation and
the net. "Special thanks to the people of La Conchita for allowing me to
explore their spontaneous structures built to defy indifference." (Christina
McPhee)
BIOGRAPHY
Christina McPhee traces new media landscapes at the peripheries of human
landscapes, where the psychic terrain of trauma meets environmental
instability and generative chaos. Her "La Conchita mon amour" video
installation is currently on view at Sara Tecchia Roma, New York.
"Carrizoprime," a new HD video, premiered at Cinemascope, SCOPE|Hamptons Art
Fair in July 2006. McPhee recently created the theatrical video installation
for Pamela Z's "Wunderkabinet," a multimedia opera based on stories from the
Museum of Jurassic Technology (Los Angeles) in debut at the LAB, San
Francisco (2005). Her digital prints won a James A. Phelan Award from the
San Francisco Foundation in 2003. McPhee's writings on media theory and
practice are published with Ctheory, Neural, drunkenboat, and for the
"empyre: soft-skinned space." She works with Terry Hargrave and his
architectural design studio at California Polytechnic State University.
To view more Turbulence Artists' Studios please visit
http://turbulence.org/studios
Jo-Anne Green, Co-Director
New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.: http://new-radio.org
New York: 917.548.7780 . Boston: 617.522.3856
Turbulence: http://turbulence.org
New American Radio: http://somewhere.org
Networked_Performance Blog: http://turbulence.org/blog
Upgrade! Boston: http://turbulence.org/upgrade
Ars Virtua Artist-in-Residence (AVAIR): Call for Proposals
Ars Virtua Artist-in-Residence (AVAIR): Call for Proposals
Deadline November 21, 2006
Ars Virtua Gallery and New Media Center in Second Life is soliciting
proposals for its artist-in-residence program. The deadline for submissions
is November 21, 2006. Established and emerging artists will work within the
3d rendered environment of Second Life. Each 11-week residency will
culminate in an exhibition and a community-based event. Residents will also
receive a $400 stipend, training and mentorship.
Ars Virtua Artist-in-Residence (AVAIR) is an extended performance that
examines what it means to reside in a place that has no physical location.
Ars Virtua presents artists with a radical alternative to "real life"
galleries: 1) Since it does not physically exist artists are not limited by
physics, material budgets, building codes or landlords. Their only
constraints are social conventions and (malleable-extensible) software. 2)
The gallery is accessible 24 hours a day to a potentially infinite number of
people in every part of the world simultaneously. 3) Because of the ever
evolving, flexible nature of Second Life the "audience" is a far less
predictable variable than one might find in a Real Life gallery. Residents
will be encouraged to explore, experiment with and challenge traditional
conventions of art making and distribution, value and the art market, artist
and audience, space and place.
Application Process: Artists are encouraged to log in to Second Life and
create an avatar BEFORE applying. Download the application requirements
here: http://arsvirtua.com/residence. Finalists will be contacted for an
interview. Interviews will take place from November 28-30.
About Ars Virtua: Ars Virtua is a new media center and gallery located
entirely in the synthetic world of Second Life. It is a new type of space
that leverages the tension between 3D rendered game space and terrestrial
reality, between simulated and simulation. Ars Virtua is a venue for new
genres; it is also a platform for showcasing traditional artists creating
still and moving images, for instance, who apply scripts to extend these
into the synthetic game environment. Ars Virtua maintains a close
relationship with the underlying animation engine that enables Second Life
architecture and 3D rendered "sculpture." Ars Virtua brings the art audience
into "new media" rather than new media to the museum or gallery, and calls
upon its audience to interact with the art and one another via their avatars
within the space.
About Second Life: Second Life is a 3D online persistent space totally
created and evolved by its users. Within this vast and rapidly expanding
place, you can do, create or become just about anything you can imagine.
Built-in content creation tools let you make almost anything you can
imagine, in real time and in collaboration with others. An incredibly
detailed digital body ('Avatar') allows a rich and customizable identity.
URLS:
http://arsvirtua.com/
http://arsvirtua.com/residence/
http://slurl.com/secondlife/dowden/42/59/52/?title=Ars%20Virtua
http://secondlife.com
"AVAIR" is a 2006 commission of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc., (aka
Ether-Ore) for its Turbulence web site. It was made possible with funding
from the Jerome Foundation.
Jo-Anne Green, Co-Director
New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.: http://new-radio.org
New York: 917.548.7780 . Boston: 617.522.3856
Turbulence: http://turbulence.org
New American Radio: http://somewhere.org
Networked_Performance Blog: http://turbulence.org/blog
Upgrade! Boston: http://turbulence.org/upgrade
Deadline November 21, 2006
Ars Virtua Gallery and New Media Center in Second Life is soliciting
proposals for its artist-in-residence program. The deadline for submissions
is November 21, 2006. Established and emerging artists will work within the
3d rendered environment of Second Life. Each 11-week residency will
culminate in an exhibition and a community-based event. Residents will also
receive a $400 stipend, training and mentorship.
Ars Virtua Artist-in-Residence (AVAIR) is an extended performance that
examines what it means to reside in a place that has no physical location.
Ars Virtua presents artists with a radical alternative to "real life"
galleries: 1) Since it does not physically exist artists are not limited by
physics, material budgets, building codes or landlords. Their only
constraints are social conventions and (malleable-extensible) software. 2)
The gallery is accessible 24 hours a day to a potentially infinite number of
people in every part of the world simultaneously. 3) Because of the ever
evolving, flexible nature of Second Life the "audience" is a far less
predictable variable than one might find in a Real Life gallery. Residents
will be encouraged to explore, experiment with and challenge traditional
conventions of art making and distribution, value and the art market, artist
and audience, space and place.
Application Process: Artists are encouraged to log in to Second Life and
create an avatar BEFORE applying. Download the application requirements
here: http://arsvirtua.com/residence. Finalists will be contacted for an
interview. Interviews will take place from November 28-30.
About Ars Virtua: Ars Virtua is a new media center and gallery located
entirely in the synthetic world of Second Life. It is a new type of space
that leverages the tension between 3D rendered game space and terrestrial
reality, between simulated and simulation. Ars Virtua is a venue for new
genres; it is also a platform for showcasing traditional artists creating
still and moving images, for instance, who apply scripts to extend these
into the synthetic game environment. Ars Virtua maintains a close
relationship with the underlying animation engine that enables Second Life
architecture and 3D rendered "sculpture." Ars Virtua brings the art audience
into "new media" rather than new media to the museum or gallery, and calls
upon its audience to interact with the art and one another via their avatars
within the space.
About Second Life: Second Life is a 3D online persistent space totally
created and evolved by its users. Within this vast and rapidly expanding
place, you can do, create or become just about anything you can imagine.
Built-in content creation tools let you make almost anything you can
imagine, in real time and in collaboration with others. An incredibly
detailed digital body ('Avatar') allows a rich and customizable identity.
URLS:
http://arsvirtua.com/
http://arsvirtua.com/residence/
http://slurl.com/secondlife/dowden/42/59/52/?title=Ars%20Virtua
http://secondlife.com
"AVAIR" is a 2006 commission of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc., (aka
Ether-Ore) for its Turbulence web site. It was made possible with funding
from the Jerome Foundation.
Jo-Anne Green, Co-Director
New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.: http://new-radio.org
New York: 917.548.7780 . Boston: 617.522.3856
Turbulence: http://turbulence.org
New American Radio: http://somewhere.org
Networked_Performance Blog: http://turbulence.org/blog
Upgrade! Boston: http://turbulence.org/upgrade
Turbulence Commission: "Cell Tagging" by Brooke A. Knight
November 3, 2006
Turbulence Commission: "Cell Tagging" by Brooke A. Knight
http://turbulence.org/Works/cell_tagging
The mobile phone occupies a space that is both connecting and distancing.
Seemingly ubiquitous, it has become an increasingly powerful tool,
functioning as a phone, PDA, browser, and camera. With "Cell Tagging" it
becomes a remote control that allows users to dial, draw, and speak. After
dialing the number posted on the website, users are asked to enter a
zip/city code that is significant to them. An aerial map of that place loads
onto the screen. After choosing a color and brush size from the palette,
users can use their cell phone keypads to draw directly onto the map. They
are asked to speak into the phone and say why that place and drawing is
meaningful to them. Users can save their drawings to the "Cell Tagging"
database where others may view them. Cell phone users "graffiti" the
sound-space around them, making every place their own. "Cell Tagging"
literalizes this act of marking.
"Cell Tagging" is a 2006 commission of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.,
(aka Ether-Ore) for its Turbulence web site. It was made possible with
funding from the LEF Foundation.
BIOGRAPHY
Brooke A. Knight is an artist and educator who has been working with digital
media for over a dozen years. He has exhibited in over 40 international and
regional venues, including Art Interactive, Photographic Resource Center,
Mediaterra 2001, and Experimenta 02. His current areas of interest include
webcams, the landscape, and text in all forms. Knight's writings have been
published in Art Journal and Sandbox. He is an Assistant Professor in the
Department of Visual and Media Arts at Emerson College, where he teaches
classes in interactive media.
For more information about Turbulence please visit http://turbulence.org.
Jo-Anne Green, Co-Director
New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.: http://new-radio.org
New York: 917.548.7780 . Boston: 617.522.3856
Turbulence: http://turbulence.org
New American Radio: http://somewhere.org
Networked_Performance Blog: http://turbulence.org/blog
Upgrade! Boston: http://turbulence.org/upgrade
Turbulence Commission: "Cell Tagging" by Brooke A. Knight
http://turbulence.org/Works/cell_tagging
The mobile phone occupies a space that is both connecting and distancing.
Seemingly ubiquitous, it has become an increasingly powerful tool,
functioning as a phone, PDA, browser, and camera. With "Cell Tagging" it
becomes a remote control that allows users to dial, draw, and speak. After
dialing the number posted on the website, users are asked to enter a
zip/city code that is significant to them. An aerial map of that place loads
onto the screen. After choosing a color and brush size from the palette,
users can use their cell phone keypads to draw directly onto the map. They
are asked to speak into the phone and say why that place and drawing is
meaningful to them. Users can save their drawings to the "Cell Tagging"
database where others may view them. Cell phone users "graffiti" the
sound-space around them, making every place their own. "Cell Tagging"
literalizes this act of marking.
"Cell Tagging" is a 2006 commission of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.,
(aka Ether-Ore) for its Turbulence web site. It was made possible with
funding from the LEF Foundation.
BIOGRAPHY
Brooke A. Knight is an artist and educator who has been working with digital
media for over a dozen years. He has exhibited in over 40 international and
regional venues, including Art Interactive, Photographic Resource Center,
Mediaterra 2001, and Experimenta 02. His current areas of interest include
webcams, the landscape, and text in all forms. Knight's writings have been
published in Art Journal and Sandbox. He is an Assistant Professor in the
Department of Visual and Media Arts at Emerson College, where he teaches
classes in interactive media.
For more information about Turbulence please visit http://turbulence.org.
Jo-Anne Green, Co-Director
New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.: http://new-radio.org
New York: 917.548.7780 . Boston: 617.522.3856
Turbulence: http://turbulence.org
New American Radio: http://somewhere.org
Networked_Performance Blog: http://turbulence.org/blog
Upgrade! Boston: http://turbulence.org/upgrade
Turbulence Commission: [meme.garden] by Mary Flanagan, Daniel Howe, Chris Egert, Junming Mei, and Kay Chang
October 30, 2006
Turbulence Commission: [meme.garden] by Mary Flanagan, Daniel Howe, Chris
Egert, Junming Mei, and Kay Chang
http://turbulence.org/works/garden
[meme.garden] is an Internet service that blends software art and search
tool to visualize participants' interests in prevalent streams of
information, encouraging browsing and interaction between users in real
time, through time. Utilizing the WordNet lexical reference system from
Princeton University, [meme.garden] introduces concepts of temporality,
space, and empathy into a network-oriented search tool. Participants search
for words which expand contextually through the use of a lexical database.
English nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are organized into floating
synonym "seeds," each representing one underlying lexical concept. When
participants "plant" their interests, each becomes a tree that "grows" over
time. Each organism's leaves are linked to related streaming RSS feeds, and
by interacting with their own and other participants' trees, participants
create a contextual timescape in which interests can be seen growing and
changing within an environment that endures.
The [meme.garden] software was created by an eclectic team of artists and
scientists: Mary Flanagan, Daniel Howe, Chris Egert, Junming Mei, and Kay
Chang.
[meme.garden] is a 2005 commission of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.,
(aka Ether-Ore) for its Turbulence web site. It was made possible with
funding from the Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Additional support
from the PSC-CUNY research fund.
For more information about Turbulence please visit http://turbulence.org
Jo-Anne Green, Co-Director
New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.: http://new-radio.org
New York: 917.548.7780 . Boston: 617.522.3856
Turbulence: http://turbulence.org
New American Radio: http://somewhere.org
Networked_Performance Blog: http://turbulence.org/blog
Upgrade! Boston: http://turbulence.org/upgrade
Turbulence Commission: [meme.garden] by Mary Flanagan, Daniel Howe, Chris
Egert, Junming Mei, and Kay Chang
http://turbulence.org/works/garden
[meme.garden] is an Internet service that blends software art and search
tool to visualize participants' interests in prevalent streams of
information, encouraging browsing and interaction between users in real
time, through time. Utilizing the WordNet lexical reference system from
Princeton University, [meme.garden] introduces concepts of temporality,
space, and empathy into a network-oriented search tool. Participants search
for words which expand contextually through the use of a lexical database.
English nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are organized into floating
synonym "seeds," each representing one underlying lexical concept. When
participants "plant" their interests, each becomes a tree that "grows" over
time. Each organism's leaves are linked to related streaming RSS feeds, and
by interacting with their own and other participants' trees, participants
create a contextual timescape in which interests can be seen growing and
changing within an environment that endures.
The [meme.garden] software was created by an eclectic team of artists and
scientists: Mary Flanagan, Daniel Howe, Chris Egert, Junming Mei, and Kay
Chang.
[meme.garden] is a 2005 commission of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.,
(aka Ether-Ore) for its Turbulence web site. It was made possible with
funding from the Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Additional support
from the PSC-CUNY research fund.
For more information about Turbulence please visit http://turbulence.org
Jo-Anne Green, Co-Director
New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.: http://new-radio.org
New York: 917.548.7780 . Boston: 617.522.3856
Turbulence: http://turbulence.org
New American Radio: http://somewhere.org
Networked_Performance Blog: http://turbulence.org/blog
Upgrade! Boston: http://turbulence.org/upgrade
