Perhaps Defunct?
January 24, 2010
try here!
Oliver Laric
October 17, 2009
pretense city, here we come
October 4, 2009
does this mean that I can now refer to the act of eating as ‘fecal curation?’
perhaps it is time to emerge, groundhog-like
October 3, 2009
hello internets, did you miss me? I was busy. something to show, more to come:
I saw some traditional chinese paintings yesterday at the Hong Kong Museum of Art — with the mothers of all artist statements attached. Some of the scrolls were equally divided between text and image, with the image often partially obscured by imperial official-stamps-of-awesome. Admittedly the text stood alone as a piece of beautiful calligraphy, but I still laughed.
Good morning
August 16, 2009
It is July thirtieth, 2009, and I have stolen Bill Clinton’s hair.
Chris Mann
August 12, 2009
I just saw a chris mann prefromance/lecture. Not this guy:
who is terrible, and should be banned from the internet.
http://theuse.info/
Who is great! After the performance, he claimed that Freudian therapy was the start of all 20th century music. This notion warrants further investigation.
Audio/visual scoring
July 29, 2009
The time-based arts of the west (theater, film, art music) have developed paper-based systems for representation or planning. Theater and films have scripts, films and animations have storyboards, and music has scores. This allows for large ensembles of people to work together in a coordinated manner. Scores also allow for the rigorous analysis of music and film in the same manner as scientific figures allow for understanding of truths underlying data sets. A system of scoring for video performance works would allow for critical analysis and study of the medium and the creation of “written by/preformed by” works. Additionally, such a system could ease the relationships between multiple video performers and instrumentalists. It may be that every piece requires a different code for communication with performers. Developing a notational system is an experiment that will further my exploration of such works, but may find no applications.
a (cheeky) example:
what did I learn? that I do not like microsoft paint.
Liquid Architecture Standout
July 23, 2009
Last a few weeks I went to melbourne to check out the Liquid Architecture sound art festival. Parts of it were pretty good, parts mediocre: most notably the low level or correlation between published and actual start times for concerts.
However, all such concerns were erased when I saw Thomas Koner’s solo A/V set. I couldn’t tell if it was pre-rendered or in some way preformed live, but it was good. The set was thirty minutes long, and slow moving, but enthralling. The visuals were short on eye-candy, long on thoughtfulness: I think everything in it could be done in Final Cut, without resorting to too muhc After Effects gimmickry. For example: the first section was composed of video composed form footage of trains pulling in and out of stations. The processing was pretty simple: difference matting the shot with a time-shifted copy of itself, and luma-keying out regions of the image. “stuff I shot while walking around” has been done to death, but Koner has managed to make a compelling piece out of it. Check him out:
and again
July 14, 2009
Instant Coffee
Water
Whiskey
The oil that can be squeezed out of an orange peel.
Perhaps some sugar.
yummers.
huzzah.
June 30, 2009
“US troops began withdrawing from the country’s major cities and towns as the midnight deadline passed on Tuesday for troops to hand over security to Iraqi forces.”
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/06/200963054650513164.html
