Correction: "Graph Theory" URL
http://turbulence.org/works/graphtheory
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
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: "Graph Theory" by Jason Freeman, with Patricia Reed and Maja Cerar
October 1, 2006
Turbulence Commission: "Graph Theory" by Jason Freeman, with Patricia Reed
and Maja Cerar
http://turbulence.org/works/graph theory
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"Graph Theory" seeks to connect composition, listening, and concert
performance by coupling an acoustic work for solo violin or solo cello to an
interactive web site. On the web site, users navigate among sixty-one short,
looping musical fragments to create their own unique path through the
composition. The navigation choices which users make affect future concert
performances of the work. Before each performance, the soloist prints out a
new copy of the score from the web site. That score presents her with a
fixed path through the piece; the order of the fragments is influenced by
the decisions that recent web site visitors have made.
"Graph Theory" 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 Greenwall Foundation.
BIOGRAPHIES
JASON FREEMAN'S works break down conventional barriers between composers,
performers, and listeners, using new technology and unconventional notation
to turn audiences and musicians into compositional collaborators. His music
has been performed by the American Composers Orchestra, Speculum Musicae,
the So Percussion Group, the Nieuw Ensemble, Le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, and
Evan Ziporyn; and his interactive installations and software art have been
exhibited at the Lincoln Center Festival, the Boston CyberArts Festival, and
the Transmediale Festival and featured in the New York Times and on National
Public Radio. N.A.G. (Network Auralization for Gnutella) (2003), a
commission from Turbulence.org, was described by Billboard as "an example of
the web's mind-expanding possibilities." Freeman received his B.A. in music
from Yale University and his M.A. and D.M.A. in composition from Columbia
University. He is currently an assistant professor of music at the Georgia
Institute of Technology in Atlanta.
PATRICIA REED (1977, Ottawa, Canada) completed her studies in Studio Arts at
Concordia University, Montreal (1999). In 2001-02 she attended the residency
program of CCA Kitakyushu, Japan; in 2003 she relocated to Europe, through
an artists' residency in Prague and Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart
(2003-4, 05). While maintaining an active artistic practice, she also works
as a designer with focus on developing interfaces and means of visualizing
scientific research, thereby making accessible complex information to a
broader audience. Recent design projects include the development of
information cartography/exhibition architecture for The Gallery of Research,
Vienna (2005) and a sociological web 'diorama', Paris:Ville Invisible, with
Bruno Latour (2004) which will be featured in an exhibition at Centre
Pompidou, Paris (2007). Graph Theory is Reed's first collaborative work
within the field of musical composition. She currently lives and works in
Berlin, Germany.
MAJA CERAR is a concert violinist who studied with Aida Stucki- Piraccini in
Zurich and with Dorothy DeLay in New York and is currently completing her
Ph.D in Historical Musicology at Columbia University. She frequently works
with composers, has premiered numerous works written for her, and has been
coached by Beat Furrer and Gyorgy Kurtag. Since her debut in the Zurich
Tonhalle in 1991 she has played as a soloist with orchestras in Europe,
given recitals with distinguished artists on international tours (Paris,
Rome, Washington, Chicago, New York) as well as at festivals in Europe
(including the Davos "Young Artists in Concert," the Gidon Kremer Lockenhaus
Festival, the ISCM World Music Days and the ICMC Barcelona), America (Aspen,
Vermont, Santa Fe, San Diego), and Asia.
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
Turbulence Commission: "Graph Theory" by Jason Freeman, with Patricia Reed
and Maja Cerar
http://turbulence.org/works/graph theory
[needs Macromedia Flash Player plugin; Internet Explorer 5+, Mozilla Firefox
1.5.0+, or Safari 1.0+]
"Graph Theory" seeks to connect composition, listening, and concert
performance by coupling an acoustic work for solo violin or solo cello to an
interactive web site. On the web site, users navigate among sixty-one short,
looping musical fragments to create their own unique path through the
composition. The navigation choices which users make affect future concert
performances of the work. Before each performance, the soloist prints out a
new copy of the score from the web site. That score presents her with a
fixed path through the piece; the order of the fragments is influenced by
the decisions that recent web site visitors have made.
"Graph Theory" 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 Greenwall Foundation.
BIOGRAPHIES
JASON FREEMAN'S works break down conventional barriers between composers,
performers, and listeners, using new technology and unconventional notation
to turn audiences and musicians into compositional collaborators. His music
has been performed by the American Composers Orchestra, Speculum Musicae,
the So Percussion Group, the Nieuw Ensemble, Le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, and
Evan Ziporyn; and his interactive installations and software art have been
exhibited at the Lincoln Center Festival, the Boston CyberArts Festival, and
the Transmediale Festival and featured in the New York Times and on National
Public Radio. N.A.G. (Network Auralization for Gnutella) (2003), a
commission from Turbulence.org, was described by Billboard as "an example of
the web's mind-expanding possibilities." Freeman received his B.A. in music
from Yale University and his M.A. and D.M.A. in composition from Columbia
University. He is currently an assistant professor of music at the Georgia
Institute of Technology in Atlanta.
PATRICIA REED (1977, Ottawa, Canada) completed her studies in Studio Arts at
Concordia University, Montreal (1999). In 2001-02 she attended the residency
program of CCA Kitakyushu, Japan; in 2003 she relocated to Europe, through
an artists' residency in Prague and Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart
(2003-4, 05). While maintaining an active artistic practice, she also works
as a designer with focus on developing interfaces and means of visualizing
scientific research, thereby making accessible complex information to a
broader audience. Recent design projects include the development of
information cartography/exhibition architecture for The Gallery of Research,
Vienna (2005) and a sociological web 'diorama', Paris:Ville Invisible, with
Bruno Latour (2004) which will be featured in an exhibition at Centre
Pompidou, Paris (2007). Graph Theory is Reed's first collaborative work
within the field of musical composition. She currently lives and works in
Berlin, Germany.
MAJA CERAR is a concert violinist who studied with Aida Stucki- Piraccini in
Zurich and with Dorothy DeLay in New York and is currently completing her
Ph.D in Historical Musicology at Columbia University. She frequently works
with composers, has premiered numerous works written for her, and has been
coached by Beat Furrer and Gyorgy Kurtag. Since her debut in the Zurich
Tonhalle in 1991 she has played as a soloist with orchestras in Europe,
given recitals with distinguished artists on international tours (Paris,
Rome, Washington, Chicago, New York) as well as at festivals in Europe
(including the Davos "Young Artists in Concert," the Gidon Kremer Lockenhaus
Festival, the ISCM World Music Days and the ICMC Barcelona), America (Aspen,
Vermont, Santa Fe, San Diego), and Asia.
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
Recent Turbulence Commissions
Turbulence Commissions launched during summer 2006:
MOBOTAG
by Marta Lwin
with funding from the Jerome Foundation
http://www.turbulence.org/works/mobotag
mobotag reveals the hidden layers of a city through an active exchange of
location based media and text messages via the cellphone. It's collaborative
phone tagging of the city. Part virtual graffiti, part walking tour, mobotag
creates a spontaneous and easy way for tagging a neighborhood via the
cellphone. Send and view messages, images, videos and sounds. See art, read
stories, and watch a hidden layer of the city reveal itself. Respond with
your media and participate in the creative expression and mapping of your
neighborhood. mobotag also features art projects including flyHere, a mobile
phone audio installation featuring native bird calls; bugBytes, collectible
graphical bugs originating at major telecoms around NYC; and lookHere, a
written work in short form by a native NY writer.
MONOLITH[S]
by Michael Takeo Magruder
with funds form the National Endowment for the Arts
http://www.turbulence.org/works/monoliths/index.htm
Monolith[s] juxtaposes two icons of British culture: stone circles
(Stonehenge, for instance) and the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).
Formulated according to motifs and proportions of ancient architecture,
infused with fundamental mathematics of modern digital communication
systems, each genesis of the artwork's geometry is unique. Variables such as
the time of day, the viewer's location on the Earth, and the position of the
Earth around the sun are incorporated into the artwork, thus instilling into
the realm functions of a rudimentary clock, global positioning system, and
solar calendar. [needs: The technical specifications are detailed on the
Setup/Help page. Please read them before proceeding.]
MY BEATING BLOG
by Yury Gitman
with funds from the Jerome Foundation
http://www.turbulence.org/works/beatingheart/blog
My Beating Blog is an attempt to take the journaling aspect of blogging into
a surrealistic future in which the author literally and metaphorically bares
his heart. For three weeks, a series of posts contextualizing heart-rate
visualizations, GPS-maps, and personal journal entries will give online
users a rare entrance into personal medical-grade statistics, stalker-level
location tracking, and the private thoughts of the blogger. Inevitably,
issues regarding privacy, exhibitionism, and voyeurism playfully emerge as
the blogosphere is infused with biofeedback and location technology. [needs
the following browsers: IE 6.0+, Firefox 0.8+ , Safari 1.2.4+, Netscape
7.1+, Mozilla 1.4+, Opera 8.02+]
SWM05: DISTRIBUTED BODIES OF MUSICAL-VISUAL FORM
by Troy Innocent and Ollie Olsen with the Shaolin Wooden Men and Harry Lee
with funds from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
http://www.turbulence.org/works/SWM05/
SWM05 features the distributed bodies of musical-visual form that are
inhabited by the Shaolin Wooden Men (SWM), a virtual band, a 'gang of
numbers'
MOBOTAG
by Marta Lwin
with funding from the Jerome Foundation
http://www.turbulence.org/works/mobotag
mobotag reveals the hidden layers of a city through an active exchange of
location based media and text messages via the cellphone. It's collaborative
phone tagging of the city. Part virtual graffiti, part walking tour, mobotag
creates a spontaneous and easy way for tagging a neighborhood via the
cellphone. Send and view messages, images, videos and sounds. See art, read
stories, and watch a hidden layer of the city reveal itself. Respond with
your media and participate in the creative expression and mapping of your
neighborhood. mobotag also features art projects including flyHere, a mobile
phone audio installation featuring native bird calls; bugBytes, collectible
graphical bugs originating at major telecoms around NYC; and lookHere, a
written work in short form by a native NY writer.
MONOLITH[S]
by Michael Takeo Magruder
with funds form the National Endowment for the Arts
http://www.turbulence.org/works/monoliths/index.htm
Monolith[s] juxtaposes two icons of British culture: stone circles
(Stonehenge, for instance) and the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).
Formulated according to motifs and proportions of ancient architecture,
infused with fundamental mathematics of modern digital communication
systems, each genesis of the artwork's geometry is unique. Variables such as
the time of day, the viewer's location on the Earth, and the position of the
Earth around the sun are incorporated into the artwork, thus instilling into
the realm functions of a rudimentary clock, global positioning system, and
solar calendar. [needs: The technical specifications are detailed on the
Setup/Help page. Please read them before proceeding.]
MY BEATING BLOG
by Yury Gitman
with funds from the Jerome Foundation
http://www.turbulence.org/works/beatingheart/blog
My Beating Blog is an attempt to take the journaling aspect of blogging into
a surrealistic future in which the author literally and metaphorically bares
his heart. For three weeks, a series of posts contextualizing heart-rate
visualizations, GPS-maps, and personal journal entries will give online
users a rare entrance into personal medical-grade statistics, stalker-level
location tracking, and the private thoughts of the blogger. Inevitably,
issues regarding privacy, exhibitionism, and voyeurism playfully emerge as
the blogosphere is infused with biofeedback and location technology. [needs
the following browsers: IE 6.0+, Firefox 0.8+ , Safari 1.2.4+, Netscape
7.1+, Mozilla 1.4+, Opera 8.02+]
SWM05: DISTRIBUTED BODIES OF MUSICAL-VISUAL FORM
by Troy Innocent and Ollie Olsen with the Shaolin Wooden Men and Harry Lee
with funds from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
http://www.turbulence.org/works/SWM05/
SWM05 features the distributed bodies of musical-visual form that are
inhabited by the Shaolin Wooden Men (SWM), a virtual band, a 'gang of
numbers'
UPGRADE! BOSTON: Robert Kendall + Michael Sheridan
UPGRADE! BOSTON: Robert Kendall + Michael Sheridan
http://www.turbulence.org/upgrade/
WHEN: September 26, 7:00-9:00 p.m.
WHERE: Art Interactive, 130 Bishop Allen Drive, at the corner of Prospect
Street, Cambridge. Free parking in the lot on the corner or take the T to
Central Square and walk 1 block.
< ROBERT KENDALL >
http://www.turbulence.org/upgrade/archives/09_26RK.html
Robert Kendall has been writing electronic poetry since 1990. He is the
author of the book-length hypertext poem "A Life Set for Two" (Eastgate
Systems) and other electronic works published at BBC Online, Iowa Review
Web, Cortland Review, Eastgate Hypertext Reading Room, Cauldron & Net, and
other web sites. His electronic poetry has been exhibited at many venues in
the United States, Europe, South America, Asia, and Australia, and he has
given interactive readings of his work in many cities. Kendall has taught
electronic poetry and fiction for the New School University's online program
since 1995. He runs the literary web site Word Circuits and the Electronic
Literature Organization's directory, and is co-developer of Word Circuits
Connection Muse, a hypertext tool for poets and fiction writers.
<< MICHAEL SHERIDAN >>
http://www.turbulence.org/upgrade/archives/09_26MS.html
Michael Sheridan's videosonic art and documentary films deal with themes of
survival, sustainability, and the tipping point between order and chaos. His
interest in these issues arises from his experiences of families,
institutions, and societies teetering on the verge of collapse or recovering
from conflict and disaster. Sheridan's artwork has been exhibited at the
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the Boston CyberArts Festival and the GASP
gallery in Boston. His work on documentaries has appeared on PBS, The
Learning Channel, The Discovery Network and National Geographic TV. Sheridan
has received numerous awards including those from the National Education
Media Network, the Columbia International Film and Video Festival, the
United Nations Association Film Festival, and EarthVision.
<<< UP NEXT >>>
Will Pappenheimer, October 26, 2006
Upgrade! Boston (http://www.turbulence.org/upgrade/about.html) is curated by
Jo-Anne Green for Turbulence.org (http://turbulence.org) in partnership with
Art Interactive (http://artinteractive.org). It is one of 22 nodes currently
active in Upgrade! International (http://theupgrade.net), an emerging
network of autonomous nodes united by art, technology, and a commitment to
bridging cultural divides. If you would like to present your work or get
involved, please email jo@turbulence.org.
If you no longer wish to receive these notices, please reply to this email
with "UNSUBSCRIBE" in the subject line.
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
http://www.turbulence.org/upgrade/
WHEN: September 26, 7:00-9:00 p.m.
WHERE: Art Interactive, 130 Bishop Allen Drive, at the corner of Prospect
Street, Cambridge. Free parking in the lot on the corner or take the T to
Central Square and walk 1 block.
< ROBERT KENDALL >
http://www.turbulence.org/upgrade/archives/09_26RK.html
Robert Kendall has been writing electronic poetry since 1990. He is the
author of the book-length hypertext poem "A Life Set for Two" (Eastgate
Systems) and other electronic works published at BBC Online, Iowa Review
Web, Cortland Review, Eastgate Hypertext Reading Room, Cauldron & Net, and
other web sites. His electronic poetry has been exhibited at many venues in
the United States, Europe, South America, Asia, and Australia, and he has
given interactive readings of his work in many cities. Kendall has taught
electronic poetry and fiction for the New School University's online program
since 1995. He runs the literary web site Word Circuits and the Electronic
Literature Organization's directory, and is co-developer of Word Circuits
Connection Muse, a hypertext tool for poets and fiction writers.
<< MICHAEL SHERIDAN >>
http://www.turbulence.org/upgrade/archives/09_26MS.html
Michael Sheridan's videosonic art and documentary films deal with themes of
survival, sustainability, and the tipping point between order and chaos. His
interest in these issues arises from his experiences of families,
institutions, and societies teetering on the verge of collapse or recovering
from conflict and disaster. Sheridan's artwork has been exhibited at the
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the Boston CyberArts Festival and the GASP
gallery in Boston. His work on documentaries has appeared on PBS, The
Learning Channel, The Discovery Network and National Geographic TV. Sheridan
has received numerous awards including those from the National Education
Media Network, the Columbia International Film and Video Festival, the
United Nations Association Film Festival, and EarthVision.
<<< UP NEXT >>>
Will Pappenheimer, October 26, 2006
Upgrade! Boston (http://www.turbulence.org/upgrade/about.html) is curated by
Jo-Anne Green for Turbulence.org (http://turbulence.org) in partnership with
Art Interactive (http://artinteractive.org). It is one of 22 nodes currently
active in Upgrade! International (http://theupgrade.net), an emerging
network of autonomous nodes united by art, technology, and a commitment to
bridging cultural divides. If you would like to present your work or get
involved, please email jo@turbulence.org.
If you no longer wish to receive these notices, please reply to this email
with "UNSUBSCRIBE" in the subject line.
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 Guest Curators: Ars Virtua
September 8, 2006
Turbulence Guest Curators: Ars Virtua
http://turbulence.org/curators/arsvirtua
A few months ago, we invited "Ars Virtua" (http://www.arsvirtua.com/)--a new
media center and gallery located entirely in the synthetic world of Second
Life--to curate an exhibition of Turbulence works for Turbulence.org. James
Morgan, Amy Wilson and Jay Van Buren rummaged through our ten-year old
archive and produced "honesty is our policy" with works by Cory Arcangel
(Urbandale), Nicolas Clauss (Heritage), and David Crawford (Stop Motion
Studies).
".Honesty may seem like a hokey notion in "real-life," but in an environment
like Second Life, honesty is all you have. Absent social cues, history,
nature, all one has to go on is the trust in another that this is how they
view reality, and to interact with anyone on a meaningful level, that
version of reality must be accepted." - Amy Wilson
"Ars Virtua" is a new type of space that leverages the tension between 3D
rendered game space and terrestrial reality, between simulated and
simulation. It 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. To visit Ars
Virtua simply create a free account in Second Life
(http://secondlife.com/join) and run the current client
(http://secondlife.com/download). Once you have this properly installed
follow this link - secondlife://Dowden/20/40 - directly to Ars Virtua.
Opening Tonight! September 8, 7-9 pm SLT (Pacific Time).
http://slurl.com/secondlife/dowden/42/59/52/?title=Ars%20Virtua"
BIOGRAPHIES
JAMES MORGAN has shown work internationally and has recently produced a
commission for ISEA2006/ZeroOne.
AMY WILSON is an artist represented by Bellwether in New York City. She has
shown her work at numerous places, including PS1, The Drawing Center, and
The Andy Warhol Museum, and has been reviewed in Art in America, The New
York Times, the Village Voice, and Time Out NY among others. She teaches art
history and drawing at the School of Visual Arts.
JAY VAN BUREN is an artist and web designer based in Brooklyn New York. He
has curated and worked in design under the name early-adopter.com for the
past 7 years. He was the founder and co-director of Videoland Gallery in
Manhattan's lower east side and has exhibited paintings in New York, Kansas
City and Washington DC.
For more Turbulence Guest Curators, visit http://turbulence.org/curators
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 Guest Curators: Ars Virtua
http://turbulence.org/curators/arsvirtua
A few months ago, we invited "Ars Virtua" (http://www.arsvirtua.com/)--a new
media center and gallery located entirely in the synthetic world of Second
Life--to curate an exhibition of Turbulence works for Turbulence.org. James
Morgan, Amy Wilson and Jay Van Buren rummaged through our ten-year old
archive and produced "honesty is our policy" with works by Cory Arcangel
(Urbandale), Nicolas Clauss (Heritage), and David Crawford (Stop Motion
Studies).
".Honesty may seem like a hokey notion in "real-life," but in an environment
like Second Life, honesty is all you have. Absent social cues, history,
nature, all one has to go on is the trust in another that this is how they
view reality, and to interact with anyone on a meaningful level, that
version of reality must be accepted." - Amy Wilson
"Ars Virtua" is a new type of space that leverages the tension between 3D
rendered game space and terrestrial reality, between simulated and
simulation. It 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. To visit Ars
Virtua simply create a free account in Second Life
(http://secondlife.com/join) and run the current client
(http://secondlife.com/download). Once you have this properly installed
follow this link - secondlife://Dowden/20/40 - directly to Ars Virtua.
Opening Tonight! September 8, 7-9 pm SLT (Pacific Time).
http://slurl.com/secondlife/dowden/42/59/52/?title=Ars%20Virtua"
BIOGRAPHIES
JAMES MORGAN has shown work internationally and has recently produced a
commission for ISEA2006/ZeroOne.
AMY WILSON is an artist represented by Bellwether in New York City. She has
shown her work at numerous places, including PS1, The Drawing Center, and
The Andy Warhol Museum, and has been reviewed in Art in America, The New
York Times, the Village Voice, and Time Out NY among others. She teaches art
history and drawing at the School of Visual Arts.
JAY VAN BUREN is an artist and web designer based in Brooklyn New York. He
has curated and worked in design under the name early-adopter.com for the
past 7 years. He was the founder and co-director of Videoland Gallery in
Manhattan's lower east side and has exhibited paintings in New York, Kansas
City and Washington DC.
For more Turbulence Guest Curators, visit http://turbulence.org/curators
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
