Turbulence Artists' Studios: {transcription} by Michael Takeo Magruder
January 20, 2006
Turbulence Artists' Studios: {transcription} by Michael Takeo Magruder
http://www.turbulence.org/studios/takeo/index.htm
[Note: this piece has very specific viewing requirements. See
{transcription} homepage]
{transcription} is a network-driven, heavily layered mesh of texts, sounds
and moving images captured live from the British Broadcasting Corporation's
internet news service. The random intersection of multiple data streams is
algorithmically recombined into a structured array that is simultaneously
garbled and readable. For instance, the apparent Asian characters--a rare
autobiographical allusion for the artist--are illegible, thus assuming a
symbolic quality for all viewers alike. The ephemeral images, submerged
beneath a static two-dimensional grid, both embody a machine-code aesthetic
and an intermittent depth that lends to their reality.
{transcription} is also a real-time media installation specifically created
for and currently installed in the Courtauld Institute of Art's back
six-level staircase. It consists of dynamic audio/visual structures
intermixed with static wall-drawn elements. The net-driven data is
back-projected onto a horizontally suspended screen situated in the lowest
well of the staircase. Monochrome, geometric patterns are painted directly
onto the ceilings above the staircase landings, visual abstractions of the
equations generating the network data stream--scribed in a data-language
that, like the fundamental components of the media itself, is opaque to
human perception.
BIOGRAPHY
Michael Takeo Magruder is an American artist based in the UK who received
his formal education at the University of Virginia, USA, graduating with a
degree in biological science. His artistic production has been exhibited
worldwide and encompasses an eclectic mix of forms ranging from futuristic
stained-glass windows, digital light-screens and modular sculptures, to
architectural manipulations, ephemeral video projections and interactive
net-installations. His work seeks to reflect upon the dualistic nature of
media as both information source and cultural stimulant.
{transcription} is supported by:
Courtauld Institute of Art
Turbulence.org
Arts Council England
King's Visualisation Lab, Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's
College London
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' Studios: {transcription} by Michael Takeo Magruder
http://www.turbulence.org/studios/takeo/index.htm
[Note: this piece has very specific viewing requirements. See
{transcription} homepage]
{transcription} is a network-driven, heavily layered mesh of texts, sounds
and moving images captured live from the British Broadcasting Corporation's
internet news service. The random intersection of multiple data streams is
algorithmically recombined into a structured array that is simultaneously
garbled and readable. For instance, the apparent Asian characters--a rare
autobiographical allusion for the artist--are illegible, thus assuming a
symbolic quality for all viewers alike. The ephemeral images, submerged
beneath a static two-dimensional grid, both embody a machine-code aesthetic
and an intermittent depth that lends to their reality.
{transcription} is also a real-time media installation specifically created
for and currently installed in the Courtauld Institute of Art's back
six-level staircase. It consists of dynamic audio/visual structures
intermixed with static wall-drawn elements. The net-driven data is
back-projected onto a horizontally suspended screen situated in the lowest
well of the staircase. Monochrome, geometric patterns are painted directly
onto the ceilings above the staircase landings, visual abstractions of the
equations generating the network data stream--scribed in a data-language
that, like the fundamental components of the media itself, is opaque to
human perception.
BIOGRAPHY
Michael Takeo Magruder is an American artist based in the UK who received
his formal education at the University of Virginia, USA, graduating with a
degree in biological science. His artistic production has been exhibited
worldwide and encompasses an eclectic mix of forms ranging from futuristic
stained-glass windows, digital light-screens and modular sculptures, to
architectural manipulations, ephemeral video projections and interactive
net-installations. His work seeks to reflect upon the dualistic nature of
media as both information source and cultural stimulant.
{transcription} is supported by:
Courtauld Institute of Art
Turbulence.org
Arts Council England
King's Visualisation Lab, Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's
College London
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 Spotlight: "No Animals Were Hurt" by Peter Brinson
January 13, 2006
Turbulence Spotlight: "No Animals Were Hurt" by Peter Brinson
http://turbulence.org/spotlight/brinson/index.htm
Needs Flash Player
"No Animals Were Hurt" is a short film about Alan Turing. The more views the
film receives, the closer it gets to telling his story.
The picture plays too quickly while the sound plays at normal speed, but
with each visitor the picture slows. After enough visitors, the sound and
picture will play at equal speeds, allowing the story to finish.
It is indeed short, but it gets longer with every 50 unique visitors. It'll
reach its full length upon receiving nearly 5000 unique views.
Whether it is at the movie theater or at home, we make decisions when we see
a film. We decide to go, and we decide whether or not we recommend it to
others. "No Animals Were Hurt" plays on these choices in order to highlight
the relative imbalance of which facts are and are not well known about
Turing. He is the father of modern computing, an accomplishment that's
impact on culture has few rivals. But even many of his biggest fans do not
know how and why he died. So if you want to see the end, tell a friend.
BIOGRAPHY
Peter Brinson is a filmmaker, game developer, and educator living in Los
Angeles. His work considers the narrative possibilities found in animal
protagonists, bot behavior, emergent systems, and game-play. His films,
internet technologies, and computer games have shown at home and abroad.
Brinson attended the University of North Carolina and the California
Institute of the Arts, and currently teaches at the University of Southern
California and the University of California at San Diego.
For more information about 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 Spotlight: "No Animals Were Hurt" by Peter Brinson
http://turbulence.org/spotlight/brinson/index.htm
Needs Flash Player
"No Animals Were Hurt" is a short film about Alan Turing. The more views the
film receives, the closer it gets to telling his story.
The picture plays too quickly while the sound plays at normal speed, but
with each visitor the picture slows. After enough visitors, the sound and
picture will play at equal speeds, allowing the story to finish.
It is indeed short, but it gets longer with every 50 unique visitors. It'll
reach its full length upon receiving nearly 5000 unique views.
Whether it is at the movie theater or at home, we make decisions when we see
a film. We decide to go, and we decide whether or not we recommend it to
others. "No Animals Were Hurt" plays on these choices in order to highlight
the relative imbalance of which facts are and are not well known about
Turing. He is the father of modern computing, an accomplishment that's
impact on culture has few rivals. But even many of his biggest fans do not
know how and why he died. So if you want to see the end, tell a friend.
BIOGRAPHY
Peter Brinson is a filmmaker, game developer, and educator living in Los
Angeles. His work considers the narrative possibilities found in animal
protagonists, bot behavior, emergent systems, and game-play. His films,
internet technologies, and computer games have shown at home and abroad.
Brinson attended the University of North Carolina and the California
Institute of the Arts, and currently teaches at the University of Southern
California and the University of California at San Diego.
For more information about 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
Floating Points 3: Ubiquitous Computing, Spring 2006
Dates:
Wed Feb 08, 2006 00:00 - Wed Jan 11, 2006
Floating Points 3: Ubiquitous Computing
February 8 and March 15, 2006
Emerson College and Live Online
Emerson College and New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc./Turbulence.org
announce a new speaker series, "Floating Points 3" [FP3] that will address
the subject of "Ubiquitous Computing" or "Ubicomp", where computing and
wireless capabilities are so integrated into the fabric of everyday life
(clothing, cars, homes, and offices) that the technologies recede into the
background and become indistinguishable from everyday activities.
[FP3] will consist of two moderated panel discussions, one on February 8 and
the other on March 15. The first will focus on artist-thinkers who work
collaboratively with research teams--including scientists--to produce
environments and systems that respond to the human presence; it will include
Mark Goulthorpe, Susan Kozel and Chris Salter. For the second panel, we have
invited artist-thinkers who question and confront the ongoing development of
technical objects and work creatively to subvert them, for instance, the
ever-enlarging practice of surveillance and data mining. Our guests will be
Adam Greenfield, Beatriz da Costa and Brooke Singer (Preemptive Media), and
Michelle Teran.
Panel 1 -- February 8th at 7 p.m. in the Bill Bordy Theatre, 216 Tremont
Street.
Mark Goulthorpe, Susan Kozel and Chris Salter
Mark Goulthorpe: In 1991, architect Mark Goulthorpe established the dECOi
atelier to undertake a series of largely theoretical architectural
competitions. Today, dECOi is an established architectural/design practice
that takes a fresh, exploratory approach to design. Goulthorpe will discuss
his interactive "Aegis Hyposurface" which dynamically mediates events
happening inside and outside of buildings. Goulthorpe currently divides his
time between the School of Architecture and the Media Lab at MIT.
http://architecture.mit.edu/people/bg/cvgoulth.html;
http://www.newitalianblood.com/showg.pl?idQ9
Susan Kozel: Susan Kozel is a dancer, choreographer, writer and Associate
Professor at the School of Interactive Arts and Technology (SIAT) at Simon
Fraser University in Canada. Kozel has a PhD in Philosophy and is co-founder
of Mesh Performance Practices. Her research combines a broad range of
interactive and responsive systems with performative practices (telematics,
motion capture, sensing, wearables). All of her work is about exploring and
expanding our physical and creative interface with technology. She will
discuss her current project "other stories" which utilizes the Vicon motion
capture system. http://whisper.iat.sfu.ca; http://www.meshperformance.org/
Chris Salter: Chris Salter is a media artist, director and composer based in
Montreal, Canada and Berlin, Germany. He develops and produces large-scale,
multi-media and interactive environments that merge space, vision and sound.
These environments respond in complex and subtle ways to audience presence
and activities. He is also a professor in the Design and Computation
Department at Concordia University. He will discuss his large scale
installation "Suspension/Threshold." http://www.clsalter.com;
http://www.sponge.org
Panel 2 -- March 15 at 7 p.m. The Cabaret, 80 Boylston Street.
Adam Greenfield, Beatriz da Costa and Brooke Singer (Preemptive Media), and
Michelle Teran
Adam Greenfield: An information architect and user-experience consultant,
Adam Greenfield's principal concern over the past half-decade has been "the
restoration of human users and their needs to a place of rightful centrality
in the design of technical systems." Most often, Greenfield says, complex
technical objects are designed without understanding of how people receive,
process and act on information, and this is a source of endless frustration
on the part of the people who use them. Greenfield feels there has been very
little knowledgeable resistance to the idea of ubicomp and the supposed
conveniences it will bring. He is the author of Everyware: the dawning age
of ubiquitous computing, to be published in March '06, which he hopes will
explain just what Ubicomp is, how it might effect us, and how we can effect
its eventual development. Greenfield is principal in the New York City-based
design consultancy, Studies and Observations. He was previously lead
information architect for the Tokyo office of Razorfish. http://www.v-2.org/
Beatriz da Costa and Brooke Singer (Preemptive Media): Preemptive Media
reengineers your thinking about mobile digital technologies imbedded in
everyday environments. In live performances and real time actions the PM
art, technology and activist collective disturbs, dislodges, and redesigns
new media technologies that are often ignored, like the bar codes on
driver's licenses or radio frequency information devices used for EZ pass on
highways. At the forefront of what is called locative media, Preemptive
Media repositions highly specialized technologies within the democratic
discourse of low-tech amateurism. PM will focus on their latest project
"Zapped" which addresses the mass implementation of RFID and its
contribution to the ever growing field of technology-enhanced surveillance
practices. http://www.preemptivemedia.net/
Michelle Teran: Michelle Teran is a Canadian media artist (Toronto) who
explores the performative potential of objects and space. Within her
practice she examines the intertwining of social networks and everyday
social spaces with their technological counterparts and creates
performances, installations and online works that are concerned with issues
of communication, surveillance, psychogeography, presence, intimacy, social
ritual, collaboration and public participation. Teran is co-founder of
"LiveForm:TeleKinetics" (with Jeff Mann); she will focus on their most
recent project, "Telepresence Picnic." http://www.lftk.org
About Floating Points: Floating Points is co-presented by Emerson College
and New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. (NRPA), a not-for-profit media
organization with offices in Boston and New York. Turbulence.org, a project
of NRPA, has commissioned over 100 works by both emerging and established
artists who explore the creative potential of the Internet and wireless
networks. Emerson College, located in downtown Boston, is the only
comprehensive college or university in America dedicated exclusively to
communication and the arts in a liberal arts context. Founded in 1880,
Emerson College enrolls 3000 undergraduate and 1000 graduate students, and
is committed to bringing innovation to communication and the arts. All
lectures are free and open to the public.
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
February 8 and March 15, 2006
Emerson College and Live Online
Emerson College and New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc./Turbulence.org
announce a new speaker series, "Floating Points 3" [FP3] that will address
the subject of "Ubiquitous Computing" or "Ubicomp", where computing and
wireless capabilities are so integrated into the fabric of everyday life
(clothing, cars, homes, and offices) that the technologies recede into the
background and become indistinguishable from everyday activities.
[FP3] will consist of two moderated panel discussions, one on February 8 and
the other on March 15. The first will focus on artist-thinkers who work
collaboratively with research teams--including scientists--to produce
environments and systems that respond to the human presence; it will include
Mark Goulthorpe, Susan Kozel and Chris Salter. For the second panel, we have
invited artist-thinkers who question and confront the ongoing development of
technical objects and work creatively to subvert them, for instance, the
ever-enlarging practice of surveillance and data mining. Our guests will be
Adam Greenfield, Beatriz da Costa and Brooke Singer (Preemptive Media), and
Michelle Teran.
Panel 1 -- February 8th at 7 p.m. in the Bill Bordy Theatre, 216 Tremont
Street.
Mark Goulthorpe, Susan Kozel and Chris Salter
Mark Goulthorpe: In 1991, architect Mark Goulthorpe established the dECOi
atelier to undertake a series of largely theoretical architectural
competitions. Today, dECOi is an established architectural/design practice
that takes a fresh, exploratory approach to design. Goulthorpe will discuss
his interactive "Aegis Hyposurface" which dynamically mediates events
happening inside and outside of buildings. Goulthorpe currently divides his
time between the School of Architecture and the Media Lab at MIT.
http://architecture.mit.edu/people/bg/cvgoulth.html;
http://www.newitalianblood.com/showg.pl?idQ9
Susan Kozel: Susan Kozel is a dancer, choreographer, writer and Associate
Professor at the School of Interactive Arts and Technology (SIAT) at Simon
Fraser University in Canada. Kozel has a PhD in Philosophy and is co-founder
of Mesh Performance Practices. Her research combines a broad range of
interactive and responsive systems with performative practices (telematics,
motion capture, sensing, wearables). All of her work is about exploring and
expanding our physical and creative interface with technology. She will
discuss her current project "other stories" which utilizes the Vicon motion
capture system. http://whisper.iat.sfu.ca; http://www.meshperformance.org/
Chris Salter: Chris Salter is a media artist, director and composer based in
Montreal, Canada and Berlin, Germany. He develops and produces large-scale,
multi-media and interactive environments that merge space, vision and sound.
These environments respond in complex and subtle ways to audience presence
and activities. He is also a professor in the Design and Computation
Department at Concordia University. He will discuss his large scale
installation "Suspension/Threshold." http://www.clsalter.com;
http://www.sponge.org
Panel 2 -- March 15 at 7 p.m. The Cabaret, 80 Boylston Street.
Adam Greenfield, Beatriz da Costa and Brooke Singer (Preemptive Media), and
Michelle Teran
Adam Greenfield: An information architect and user-experience consultant,
Adam Greenfield's principal concern over the past half-decade has been "the
restoration of human users and their needs to a place of rightful centrality
in the design of technical systems." Most often, Greenfield says, complex
technical objects are designed without understanding of how people receive,
process and act on information, and this is a source of endless frustration
on the part of the people who use them. Greenfield feels there has been very
little knowledgeable resistance to the idea of ubicomp and the supposed
conveniences it will bring. He is the author of Everyware: the dawning age
of ubiquitous computing, to be published in March '06, which he hopes will
explain just what Ubicomp is, how it might effect us, and how we can effect
its eventual development. Greenfield is principal in the New York City-based
design consultancy, Studies and Observations. He was previously lead
information architect for the Tokyo office of Razorfish. http://www.v-2.org/
Beatriz da Costa and Brooke Singer (Preemptive Media): Preemptive Media
reengineers your thinking about mobile digital technologies imbedded in
everyday environments. In live performances and real time actions the PM
art, technology and activist collective disturbs, dislodges, and redesigns
new media technologies that are often ignored, like the bar codes on
driver's licenses or radio frequency information devices used for EZ pass on
highways. At the forefront of what is called locative media, Preemptive
Media repositions highly specialized technologies within the democratic
discourse of low-tech amateurism. PM will focus on their latest project
"Zapped" which addresses the mass implementation of RFID and its
contribution to the ever growing field of technology-enhanced surveillance
practices. http://www.preemptivemedia.net/
Michelle Teran: Michelle Teran is a Canadian media artist (Toronto) who
explores the performative potential of objects and space. Within her
practice she examines the intertwining of social networks and everyday
social spaces with their technological counterparts and creates
performances, installations and online works that are concerned with issues
of communication, surveillance, psychogeography, presence, intimacy, social
ritual, collaboration and public participation. Teran is co-founder of
"LiveForm:TeleKinetics" (with Jeff Mann); she will focus on their most
recent project, "Telepresence Picnic." http://www.lftk.org
About Floating Points: Floating Points is co-presented by Emerson College
and New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. (NRPA), a not-for-profit media
organization with offices in Boston and New York. Turbulence.org, a project
of NRPA, has commissioned over 100 works by both emerging and established
artists who explore the creative potential of the Internet and wireless
networks. Emerson College, located in downtown Boston, is the only
comprehensive college or university in America dedicated exclusively to
communication and the arts in a liberal arts context. Founded in 1880,
Emerson College enrolls 3000 undergraduate and 1000 graduate students, and
is committed to bringing innovation to communication and the arts. All
lectures are free and open to the public.
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
Call for Entries: Turbulence New England Initiative II (Corrected)
Deadline:
Mon Jan 09, 2006 10:31
Apologies for leaving out the minor detail of the commission amount!: three
commissions at $3,500 each.
Call for Entries: Turbulence New England Initiative II
Turbulence.org is pleased to announce its 'New England Initiative II,
commissions at $3,500 each.
Call for Entries: Turbulence New England Initiative II
Turbulence.org is pleased to announce its 'New England Initiative II,
Call for Entries: Turbulence New England Initiative II
Call for Entries: Turbulence New England Initiative II
Turbulence.org is pleased to announce its "New England Initiative II," a
juried, networked art competition. Three projects by New England artists
will be commissioned and exhibited on Turbulence (http://turbulence.org) and
in real space (venue to be announced). The jury consists of Julian Bleecker,
Michelle Thursz, and Helen Thorington. This project is made possible with
funds from the LEF Foundation.
PROJECT CONCEPT: Net art projects are "art projects for which the Net is
both a sufficient and necessary condition of
viewing/expressing/participating" (Steve Dietz). They live in the public
world of the Internet. Recently, however, wireless telecommunications
technologies have enabled computation to migrate out of the desktop PC into
the physical world, creating the possibility of "hybrid" networked art,
works that intermingle and fuse previously discrete identities, disciplines,
and/or fields of activity such as the Internet and urban space. (See the
networked\_performance blog
Turbulence.org is pleased to announce its "New England Initiative II," a
juried, networked art competition. Three projects by New England artists
will be commissioned and exhibited on Turbulence (http://turbulence.org) and
in real space (venue to be announced). The jury consists of Julian Bleecker,
Michelle Thursz, and Helen Thorington. This project is made possible with
funds from the LEF Foundation.
PROJECT CONCEPT: Net art projects are "art projects for which the Net is
both a sufficient and necessary condition of
viewing/expressing/participating" (Steve Dietz). They live in the public
world of the Internet. Recently, however, wireless telecommunications
technologies have enabled computation to migrate out of the desktop PC into
the physical world, creating the possibility of "hybrid" networked art,
works that intermingle and fuse previously discrete identities, disciplines,
and/or fields of activity such as the Internet and urban space. (See the
networked\_performance blog
