Turbulence Commission: "HRRAAGHP-TING!" by Olen Hsu, Dana Karwas and Steven Lam
April 28, 2006
Turbulence Commission: "HRRAAGHP-TING!" by Olen Hsu, Dana Karwas and Steven
Lam
http://turbulence.org/works/utter/index.html
"HRRAAGHP-TING!" is an Internet/video collaboration that connects image and
sound filenames available on the web to create an infinite chain of
associations. Extruded in real time, and in a linear format, they collapse
the Internet's spatial organization into a single screen to create a
cinematic experience. Each time "HRRAAGHP-TING!" is used, it generates an
entirely different set of visual, aural and linguistic relationships. This
Cagean play with chance destabilizes the intent and authorship implicit in
the communication of information; perverts intellectual property through
rampant decontextualization; and defies the expectations of the viewer
through live reorganization.
"HRRAAGHP-TING!" 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
OLEN HSU constructs installations in porcelain, paper and algorithmically
composed sound, converging new media, tactile forms and works for acoustic
instruments. He received his BA in Art History and Music from Yale
University, a BFA in Ceramics from the Kansas City Art Institute, and an MFA
in Sculpture from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. A fellowship
from the Dedalus Foundation brought him to New York where he participated in
the Artist in the Marketplace Program at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, the
Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center Artist-in-Residence Program for New
Music, and the BCAT/Rotunda Gallery New Media Artist Residency. Hsu is the
recipient of grants from the New York State Council on the Arts, the
National Endowment for the Humanities, the Joan Mitchell Foundation and the
John Michael Kohler Arts Center. His recent work has been shown at The Bronx
Museum of the Arts, the InterSpace New Media Arts Center in Sofia, Bulgaria,
and James Nicholson Gallery in New York. The artist currently lives and
works in New York City.
DANA KARWAS received a baccalaureate degree in Architecture from the
University of Kansas and holds a Masters in Interactive Telecommunications
from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. She is the co-founder of Gorilla
Kingdom, a multimedia production company based in NYC. Her main interest
lies in transforming and redefining social spaces through the medium of
technology. Her work is rooted in architecture and extends to the edges of
social and cultural dimensions. She has taught workshops on interactive
mobile technology and the connections between architecture and the visual
and sonic arts at the Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center, NYC.
STEVEN LAM is interested in revealing how information becomes distributed,
internalized, and performed. His practice is of glitches and reversals,
re-enunciation, redubbing, recasting, and appropriation. He employs humor
and a DIY sensibility to investigate contemporary issues dealing with
institutional and media critique and the relationship of aesthetics with
politics. Lam has exhibited at the Bronx Museum of Art, NY; Eyebeam, NY; LEF
Embodied Technologies show at Art Interactive, Boston, MA; Silverlake Film
Festival, Los Angeles, CA; Diverseworks, TX; The Windtunnel at Art Center
College of Art and Design, CA.; Aljira: Center for Contemporary Art, NJ as
well premiering video/choreographic work for various performance venues. He
received his BA in Art History and Art from Trinity University, and a MFA
from the University of California, Irvine.
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: "HRRAAGHP-TING!" by Olen Hsu, Dana Karwas and Steven
Lam
http://turbulence.org/works/utter/index.html
"HRRAAGHP-TING!" is an Internet/video collaboration that connects image and
sound filenames available on the web to create an infinite chain of
associations. Extruded in real time, and in a linear format, they collapse
the Internet's spatial organization into a single screen to create a
cinematic experience. Each time "HRRAAGHP-TING!" is used, it generates an
entirely different set of visual, aural and linguistic relationships. This
Cagean play with chance destabilizes the intent and authorship implicit in
the communication of information; perverts intellectual property through
rampant decontextualization; and defies the expectations of the viewer
through live reorganization.
"HRRAAGHP-TING!" 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
OLEN HSU constructs installations in porcelain, paper and algorithmically
composed sound, converging new media, tactile forms and works for acoustic
instruments. He received his BA in Art History and Music from Yale
University, a BFA in Ceramics from the Kansas City Art Institute, and an MFA
in Sculpture from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. A fellowship
from the Dedalus Foundation brought him to New York where he participated in
the Artist in the Marketplace Program at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, the
Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center Artist-in-Residence Program for New
Music, and the BCAT/Rotunda Gallery New Media Artist Residency. Hsu is the
recipient of grants from the New York State Council on the Arts, the
National Endowment for the Humanities, the Joan Mitchell Foundation and the
John Michael Kohler Arts Center. His recent work has been shown at The Bronx
Museum of the Arts, the InterSpace New Media Arts Center in Sofia, Bulgaria,
and James Nicholson Gallery in New York. The artist currently lives and
works in New York City.
DANA KARWAS received a baccalaureate degree in Architecture from the
University of Kansas and holds a Masters in Interactive Telecommunications
from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. She is the co-founder of Gorilla
Kingdom, a multimedia production company based in NYC. Her main interest
lies in transforming and redefining social spaces through the medium of
technology. Her work is rooted in architecture and extends to the edges of
social and cultural dimensions. She has taught workshops on interactive
mobile technology and the connections between architecture and the visual
and sonic arts at the Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center, NYC.
STEVEN LAM is interested in revealing how information becomes distributed,
internalized, and performed. His practice is of glitches and reversals,
re-enunciation, redubbing, recasting, and appropriation. He employs humor
and a DIY sensibility to investigate contemporary issues dealing with
institutional and media critique and the relationship of aesthetics with
politics. Lam has exhibited at the Bronx Museum of Art, NY; Eyebeam, NY; LEF
Embodied Technologies show at Art Interactive, Boston, MA; Silverlake Film
Festival, Los Angeles, CA; Diverseworks, TX; The Windtunnel at Art Center
College of Art and Design, CA.; Aljira: Center for Contemporary Art, NJ as
well premiering video/choreographic work for various performance venues. He
received his BA in Art History and Art from Trinity University, and a MFA
from the University of California, Irvine.
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
UPGRADE! BOSTON: JEFF TALMAN AND HELEN THORINGTON
< UPGRADE! BOSTON: JEFF TALMAN AND HELEN THORINGTON >
http://www.turbulence.org/upgrade/archives/05_06JT.html
http://www.turbulence.org/upgrade/archives/05_06HT.html
Join us for an evening of listening and dialogue with award winning sound
artists Jeff Talman and Helen Thorington.
JEFF TALMAN'S precedent-setting installations are featured in museums,
galleries, universities, religious buildings and other large, dramatic
and/or historic spaces. Often noted for their conceptual and visceral
impact, the installations offer an electrifying, sensual range of sound,
light, gesture, object, image and physical force. While urging the observer
to a reevaluation of the tactile, they introduce metaphor and underscore the
physicality of space through which sound emanates and soars.
Talman has created installations for the MIT Media Lab, The Kitchen, the
City of Cologne, Germany, bitforms, Eyebeam, Art Interactive, Art Omi and
others. Recent major awards include a 2006 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship
in Sound Art and a 2003 New York Foundation for the Arts Award in Computer
Arts.
HELEN THORINGTON is a writer, sound composer, and media artist. Her radio
documentary, dramatic, and sound works have been aired nationally and
internationally for the past twenty-six years. Thorington has also created
compositions for dance (Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane Dance Company), film
(Barbara Hammer), and installation that premiered at The Kitchen, the Berlin
Film Festival, the Whitney Biennial, and the Whitney Museum of American
Art's annual Performance series. She has also taken part as a composer in a
number of national and transatlantic distributed musical performances.
Thorington has won numerous awards and commissions, most recently for
9.11.01 Scapes and Calling to Mind, which is currently in a traveling
exhibition in Europe. She founded and produced the national weekly radio
series, New American Radio (1987-98) and has published many essays, articles
and reviews, most recently in two issues of Contemporary Music Review.
When: May 2, 7:00-9:00 p.m.
Where: Art Interactive, 130 Bishop Allen Drive, at the corner of Prospect
Street, Cambridge
REMINDER: MIKE MITTELMAN, April 27, 7:00-9:00 p.m.
http://www.turbulence.org/upgrade/archives/04_27MM.html
COMING UP ON JUNE 1: ERYK SALVAGGIO
http://www.turbulence.org/upgrade/archives/06_01ES.html
PLAN AHEAD: Upgrade! Boston schedule available here:
http://www.turbulence.org/upgrade/archive.html
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/archives/05_06JT.html
http://www.turbulence.org/upgrade/archives/05_06HT.html
Join us for an evening of listening and dialogue with award winning sound
artists Jeff Talman and Helen Thorington.
JEFF TALMAN'S precedent-setting installations are featured in museums,
galleries, universities, religious buildings and other large, dramatic
and/or historic spaces. Often noted for their conceptual and visceral
impact, the installations offer an electrifying, sensual range of sound,
light, gesture, object, image and physical force. While urging the observer
to a reevaluation of the tactile, they introduce metaphor and underscore the
physicality of space through which sound emanates and soars.
Talman has created installations for the MIT Media Lab, The Kitchen, the
City of Cologne, Germany, bitforms, Eyebeam, Art Interactive, Art Omi and
others. Recent major awards include a 2006 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship
in Sound Art and a 2003 New York Foundation for the Arts Award in Computer
Arts.
HELEN THORINGTON is a writer, sound composer, and media artist. Her radio
documentary, dramatic, and sound works have been aired nationally and
internationally for the past twenty-six years. Thorington has also created
compositions for dance (Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane Dance Company), film
(Barbara Hammer), and installation that premiered at The Kitchen, the Berlin
Film Festival, the Whitney Biennial, and the Whitney Museum of American
Art's annual Performance series. She has also taken part as a composer in a
number of national and transatlantic distributed musical performances.
Thorington has won numerous awards and commissions, most recently for
9.11.01 Scapes and Calling to Mind, which is currently in a traveling
exhibition in Europe. She founded and produced the national weekly radio
series, New American Radio (1987-98) and has published many essays, articles
and reviews, most recently in two issues of Contemporary Music Review.
When: May 2, 7:00-9:00 p.m.
Where: Art Interactive, 130 Bishop Allen Drive, at the corner of Prospect
Street, Cambridge
REMINDER: MIKE MITTELMAN, April 27, 7:00-9:00 p.m.
http://www.turbulence.org/upgrade/archives/04_27MM.html
COMING UP ON JUNE 1: ERYK SALVAGGIO
http://www.turbulence.org/upgrade/archives/06_01ES.html
PLAN AHEAD: Upgrade! Boston schedule available here:
http://www.turbulence.org/upgrade/archive.html
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
UPGRADE! BOSTON: MICHAEL MITTELMAN
< UPGRADE! BOSTON: MICHAEL MITTELMAN >
http://www.turbulence.org/upgrade/archives/04_27MM.html
Michael Mittelman is an artist, educator and publisher. His work, ranging
from net art to interactive installation, has been exhibited throughout New
England and abroad. As publisher of ASPECT Magazine, Michael has created a
channel for contemporary new media artists to deliver their work to a wider
audience, while simultaneously enabling educators to show video directly
from artists. Michael's current body of work, "Alternative Domestic"
explores psychological, cultural and social issues in the framework of a
domestic apartment.
When: April 27, 7:00-9:00 p.m.
Where: Art Interactive, 130 Bishop Allen Drive, at the corner of Prospect
Street, Cambridge
<< NEXT: AN EVENING OF SOUND ART WITH JEFF TALMAN AND HELEN THORINGTON >>
http://www.turbulence.org/upgrade/archives/05_06JT.html
http://www.turbulence.org/upgrade/archives/05_06HT.html
When: May 2, 7:00-9:00 p.m.
Where: Art Interactive, 130 Bishop Allen Drive, at the corner of Prospect
Street, Cambridge
The Upgrade! Boston schedule is available here:
http://www.turbulence.org/upgrade/archive.html
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/archives/04_27MM.html
Michael Mittelman is an artist, educator and publisher. His work, ranging
from net art to interactive installation, has been exhibited throughout New
England and abroad. As publisher of ASPECT Magazine, Michael has created a
channel for contemporary new media artists to deliver their work to a wider
audience, while simultaneously enabling educators to show video directly
from artists. Michael's current body of work, "Alternative Domestic"
explores psychological, cultural and social issues in the framework of a
domestic apartment.
When: April 27, 7:00-9:00 p.m.
Where: Art Interactive, 130 Bishop Allen Drive, at the corner of Prospect
Street, Cambridge
<< NEXT: AN EVENING OF SOUND ART WITH JEFF TALMAN AND HELEN THORINGTON >>
http://www.turbulence.org/upgrade/archives/05_06JT.html
http://www.turbulence.org/upgrade/archives/05_06HT.html
When: May 2, 7:00-9:00 p.m.
Where: Art Interactive, 130 Bishop Allen Drive, at the corner of Prospect
Street, Cambridge
The Upgrade! Boston schedule is available here:
http://www.turbulence.org/upgrade/archive.html
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
Winners of Turbulence's New England Initiative II
March 18, 2006
Winners of Turbulence's New England Initiative II
Turbulence is delighted to announce that the following three projects have
been commissioned via its New England Initiative II competition
(http://www.turbulence.org/ne2/guidelines.html):
1. "Cell Tagging" by Brooke A. Knight
http://www.brookeknight.com/turbulence/
2. "Variations VII: FishNet" by Mobius Artists Group
http://meotod.com/mobius/cage.htm
3. "WhoWhatWhenAir" by Philippe Block, Axel Kilian, Peter Schmitt and John
Snavely
http://destech.mit.edu/akilian/newscreens/muscletower/--%20WhoWhatWhenAir%20
--.html
Each artist/group will be awarded $3,500. Their projects will performed at
Art Interactive (http://artinteractive.org) and launched on Turbulence in
fall 2006.
The selections were made by Julian Bleecker, Helen Thorington and Michele
Thursz.
This project was made possible by the LEF Foundation. Many thanks.
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
Winners of Turbulence's New England Initiative II
Turbulence is delighted to announce that the following three projects have
been commissioned via its New England Initiative II competition
(http://www.turbulence.org/ne2/guidelines.html):
1. "Cell Tagging" by Brooke A. Knight
http://www.brookeknight.com/turbulence/
2. "Variations VII: FishNet" by Mobius Artists Group
http://meotod.com/mobius/cage.htm
3. "WhoWhatWhenAir" by Philippe Block, Axel Kilian, Peter Schmitt and John
Snavely
http://destech.mit.edu/akilian/newscreens/muscletower/--%20WhoWhatWhenAir%20
--.html
Each artist/group will be awarded $3,500. Their projects will performed at
Art Interactive (http://artinteractive.org) and launched on Turbulence in
fall 2006.
The selections were made by Julian Bleecker, Helen Thorington and Michele
Thursz.
This project was made possible by the LEF Foundation. Many thanks.
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: "Ten-sided" by Francis Hwang, et al
March 18, 2006
Turbulence Commission: "Ten-sided" by Francis Hwang, with Johannes
Gorannson, Jess Kilby, Tao Lin, Brendon Lloyd, Jessica Penrose, Glenis
Stott, John Woods, Taren McCallan-Moore, and why the lucky stiff
http://turbulence.org/works/ten-sided
"Ten-sided" is a textual performance in which ten authors collaboratively
improvise on a single online narrative. For three months, each author will
blog as a fictional character. All ten characters must somehow be connected,
and all ten authors are responsible for ensuring that this connection is
explored through the course of the story. However, authors are forbidden
from coordinating the story beforehand. Instead, they can only take their
cues from one another's public entries. The resulting improvisation
resembles a jazz performance or a session of exquisite corpse, but in a new
form of creative practice that comments on and employs the multi-vocal
nature of blogging communities.
"Ten-sided" 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.
BIOGRAPHY
Francis Hwang is an artist, writer, and software engineer. His earlier
artwork includes "The Unauthorized iPod U2 vs. Negativland Special Edition",
in which he combined a U2 iPod Special Edition with Negativland's back
catalog and auctioned the result online; and "firmament.to", which uses the
Google Web API to turn any HTML page into a free-associated index for the
rest of the web. His writing on technology and culture has appeared in Spin,
Wired, ArtByte, and FEED Magazine. An active member of the Ruby community,
he has spoken at the International Ruby Conference and currently serves as a
technical lead on free software projects such as Ruby-DBI and the
object-relational mapping library Lafcadio. He lives in Brooklyn with one
roommate, two computers, and two cats.
See http://www.turbulence.org/blog/archives/002239.html for additional
biographies.
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: "Ten-sided" by Francis Hwang, with Johannes
Gorannson, Jess Kilby, Tao Lin, Brendon Lloyd, Jessica Penrose, Glenis
Stott, John Woods, Taren McCallan-Moore, and why the lucky stiff
http://turbulence.org/works/ten-sided
"Ten-sided" is a textual performance in which ten authors collaboratively
improvise on a single online narrative. For three months, each author will
blog as a fictional character. All ten characters must somehow be connected,
and all ten authors are responsible for ensuring that this connection is
explored through the course of the story. However, authors are forbidden
from coordinating the story beforehand. Instead, they can only take their
cues from one another's public entries. The resulting improvisation
resembles a jazz performance or a session of exquisite corpse, but in a new
form of creative practice that comments on and employs the multi-vocal
nature of blogging communities.
"Ten-sided" 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.
BIOGRAPHY
Francis Hwang is an artist, writer, and software engineer. His earlier
artwork includes "The Unauthorized iPod U2 vs. Negativland Special Edition",
in which he combined a U2 iPod Special Edition with Negativland's back
catalog and auctioned the result online; and "firmament.to", which uses the
Google Web API to turn any HTML page into a free-associated index for the
rest of the web. His writing on technology and culture has appeared in Spin,
Wired, ArtByte, and FEED Magazine. An active member of the Ruby community,
he has spoken at the International Ruby Conference and currently serves as a
technical lead on free software projects such as Ruby-DBI and the
object-relational mapping library Lafcadio. He lives in Brooklyn with one
roommate, two computers, and two cats.
See http://www.turbulence.org/blog/archives/002239.html for additional
biographies.
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
