...'This July 21 marks the 100th birthday of the late Marshall McLuhan, Canadian thinker and media visionary who defined the mass media age of television and predicted much of the information revolution that followed.
He coined the phrase 'the global village', declared that 'the medium is the message', and he described what we now realise is the internet, 30 years before it existed.
Yet, McLuhan also warned of an 'age of anxiety' and the loss of privacy in the age of electronic media.
Now, at a time when our work, social and family lives are governed by media and interconnectivity, what can we learn from examining McLuhan's message? And where are we heading in the digital era? The McLuhan Project is a major series of broadcasts on ABC Radio National and on ABC Digital Radio during the week of this significant centenary. Beginning on 16 July on ABC Radio National and on the weekend of July 23 and 24 on ABC Digital Radio.
ABC Radio National -
The McLuhan Project link
On Hindsight- Marshall McLuhan What are you doin? link
On Night Air - Media Mess Age link CBC links
Collection of essays stating that the concept of “accident” contains not just the idea that each machine carries its particular form of disaster but also the suggestion that the old distinction between timeless form and time-dependent processes is becoming increasingly unclear.
Failure and malfunction are inherent in all technological products. In The Art of the Accident, the concept of “accident” contains not just the idea that each machine brings with it its own form of disaster but also the suggestion that in a world of network technologies the old distinction between timeless form and time-dependent processes is becoming increasingly unclear.
Ars accidentalis recognizes the creative potential of the accident, the fall, and the instability of digital media. The book maps the transformation of space, time bodies, machines and architectures through the conceptual and noninstrumental use of the computer. The Art of the Accident includes essays and interviews from composer Dick Raaymakers, biologist Humberto Maturana, urbanist Paul Virilio, literary scientist Katherine Hayles, endophysicist Otto Rössler and computer scientist Steve Mann. It also contains a series of artistic interventions by people such as Knowbotic Research, Perry Hoberman and Diller Scofidio. This fully illustrated book takes a synthesizing approach towards intersecting practices in art and science, outlining the basics of an ars accidentalis.
this was one of the earliest Vocaloid songs ever 'created'. I still remember that amazed fascination I felt, watching "robots" sing so well...
heres some others- 'Miriam' vocaloid songs
Vocaloid MIRIAM Demos:MIRIAM Demo: "Never Give Up".
(NOTE: All vocals on this demo are sung by Vocaloid MIRIAM). Composed, Programmed and Produced by Andy Power. MIRIAM Demo: "Is This It?".
(NOTE: All vocals on this demo are sung by Vocaloid MIRIAM). Composed, Programmed and Produced by Anders Sodergren. MIRIAM Demo: "Under The Moon".
(NOTE: All vocals on this demo are sung by Vocaloid MIRIAM). Composed, Programmed and Produced by Anders Sodergren.
but these are the ones I rea-aly like... scatt'n away
LEON+LOLA Demo: "Dupdah".
(NOTE - All vocals on this demo are by either Vocaloid LOLA or Vocaloid LEON). A humorous piece featuring a kind of non-verbal "scatting", featuring LOLA and LEON singing together. This one illustrates Vocaloid's freedom! You can use any sounds a human could utter, and more! As you can see, rhythmically, harmonically, and melodically speaking, the sky's the limit! Written, programmed and produced by Anders Sodergren. LEON+LOLA Demo: "Freaky Sheep".
(NOTE - All vocals on this demo are by either Vocaloid LOLA or Vocaloid LEON). An abstract avant garde piece of rhythmic vocal sculpture (or to put it another way, weird) that illustrates how easy it is to explore new sonic territory with Vocaloid. Written, programmed and produced by Joe Hogan. Who did Joe get to sing what? Basically its 50/50 between the two singers. The harmonised stereo delay arpeggio type thing at the start is LOLA on the left and LEON on the right. The offbeat "sha" that comes in is both singers, again panned left and right. The "sar" bassline is Lola (way below her natural range!). The "ah, ah, ah, ah, ah" 4-part block chords figure contains two of each singer. The really high pitched tune that comes in at 0:24s is LEON (way above his range!). The whispered "taka-taka" thing that can be heard clearly at 0:33s is LEON, and that kind of bassy pitched kick-drum type sound that happens at the same time is also LEON. Switching between singers during a sequence is easy with Vocaloid.
Utter. well done Simon Simon Biggs Little Pigs network a treasure, and inspiration, I too am going spare with text to sound software trying to score sounded-language
“Tenori-on is a sequencer styled electonic music instrument developed by Yamaha. The instrument has been developed in collaboration with media artist Toshio Iwai in order to design a new digital musical instrument for the 21st century.” via analogik.com Atom playing listen for the jazz beat and syncopations
Ferrofluids are so amazing, above video showcasing how it reacts to the sound. Sachiko Kodama made an impressive art out of it, and in next step she created new experience Morpho Tower to make it easier for people to see what ferrofluid are capable of…
Take a look at Morpho Tower and nice interview with Sachiko Kodama
Interview with video artist Steina Vasulka. From the TV show "Kuhinja", a weekly programme on the phenomena of contemporary culture, produced by pro.ba (www.pro.ba), a Sarajevo based independent TV, film and video production company. Broadcast Thursdays 22:30 CET on BHT1 (www.pbsbih.ba)
the critical browser Uses the bookmark feature to contextualize your viewing
Let's say you are a political scientist researching the rising popularity of right-wing parties across Europe. Choose a text that best suits the nature of your surfing and bookmark it! Each time you hit the site, the words will appear in the browser. Think about the potential. If you're looking at pornography for your feminist studies course, you can frame your research with a few simple clicks::
This gem found on ...Rene Turner site Fudge the Facts, she is one of the members of the collective De Greusen site Fudge the Facts full of riches
On her site there are lots of great frames for distributing ideas and themes. Also an interview with Ruth Catlow and Marc Garrett, co-founders and co-directors of Furtherfield.org and the HTTP Gallery, they discuss their approach to networked production and culture. Keywords: community, collaboration, mail art, Fluxus, DIY, DIWO and networked environments.Its a The Skype-streamed lecture that took place Feb. 2009, part of a three-day MA seminar entitled, “From Representation to Participation”. Examining participatory and collaborative art practices, the seminar was organized by Renée Turner at the Bergen National Academy of the Arts in Norway.
"Iris GarrelfsCLICK HERE is a composer/performer intrigued by change, fascinated with voices and definitely enamoured by technology. She often uses her voice as raw material, which she transmuted into machine noises, choral works or pulverised “into granules of electroacoustic babble and glitch, generating animated dialogues between innate human expressiveness and the overt artifice of digital processing” as the Wire Magzine put it.
Described as the Diamanda Galas of Glitch, Iris’ training into creating through voice began very early on. Her parents sang in the village choir, and would often practice at home with Iris making up new melodies, 2nd and 3rd voices to whatever was being sung. She got into the attractions of technology as a teenager, stumbling across her dad’s pulp si-fi magazines. Iris is still waiting for an implant that will siphon off her sonic nerve impulses, fragments of melody, rhythm and correlation floating around in her body and brain. A vital part of her work, be it using voice or other sound material, is improvisation and the use of random elements, the ephemeral fragility and risk implied in giving up control to me moment, a sonic singularity.
Iris performs solo as well as in collaboration with other artists, for example Robert Lippok (To Rococo Rot), Kaffe Matthews, Scanner, Si-cut.db and others. She also performs with the improvising group Symbiosis Orchestra. Recording collaborations include si-cut.db and Freeform - the latter has beeng re-released as part of the Bernt Friedman compiled and remixed compilation "Condensed" on Nonplace
The recent album Specified Encounters, released on the French label Bip-Hop, has been moulded from dissected voice sounds. Her new release on the other hand, fresh of the press, is her first ever 10" vinyl piece, the radio project "(Talking) Space To Space" on the German art-label lich-tung, uses no voices at all. She is currently working on a globe-spanning "(Talking) Space To Space" installation and is very much looking forward to a residency at the Mexican Centre for Music and Soundart in 2007.
Music making aside aside, Iris is the co-founder of London based underground playground and test tube for current sound Sprawl. Artists featured have included Kim Cascone, Scanner, Kaffe Matthews, Christian Fennesz, Taylor Dupree and more. She is a regular on London’s soundart radio station Resonance FM and sits on the Sonic Arts NetworkBoard of Trustees. As an outspoken person, Iris gets invited as a speaker and panelist at conferences and events in the UK and abroad, most recently at Visiones Sonoras in Mexico. Iris has appeared on TV, for example and ARTE TV in "Well Tempered Computer - Are Computers able to compose" and most recently on ITV's Mixmasters TV. This project has been released by Moonshine in the US and has received a nomination for Best Music DVD at the Dancestar Awards" from Iris's web
Ruth Catlow from netbehavior wrote: Hi Kathryn, Thanks for your post. It got me thinking about how important the visibility of other women's work is to me in my daily doings. There is then something about a lot of this works' basis in networks that makes me feel much more connected to it than I might be to work of other women artists. in the meantime I have been thinking about... Annie Abrahams - for one of my favorite early netart works, Separation http://bram.org/separation - and for her networked performances including the multiple series with panoplie http://aabrahams.wordpress.com
Mary Flanagan - for her energetic explorations as academic, educator, artist and programmer at the intersection of games, art and feminism and exploring collaborative approaches to thinking about values in http://www.valuesatplay.org/
Aileen Derieg - her writing about life in the Freie Szene in Linz on the Furtherfield blog http://blog.furtherfield.org/?q=blog/8 and translations of writing at the intersection of art, technolgy and social change.
The De Geuzen crew - Renee Turner, Femke Snelting and Riek Sijbring - especially for their project Female Icons http://www.geuzen.org/female_icons/
Kate Southworth- her thinking on feminism/networks and her ongoing artistic collaboration with Patrick Simon with Glorius Ninth http://www.gloriousninth.net
Ele Carpenter - http://www.elecarpenter.org.uk/ for tech inspired and facilitated participation with Open Source Embroidery, her curatorial project exploring artists practice that explores the relationship between programming for embroidery and computing.
Kate Rich - her imaginative, sideways and wonderfully parasitical project, Feral Trade, for trading goods along social networks. She has constructed a live shipping database, The Feral Trade Courier, "for a freight network running outside commercial systems. The database offers dedicated tracking of feral trade products in circulation, archives every shipment and generates freight documents on the fly." http://www.feraltrade.org/
Kale Brandon -For her part (with Kate Rich) in Cube Cola, the first "open source soft drink" http://sparror.cubecinema.com/cube/cola and (with Heath Bunting) in Border Xing
Liza Haskel - early work in collaborative media art practices involving critical engagement in the politics of technology http://mediaartprojects.org.uk
Francesca da Rimini/Gashgirl - early dirty cyberfeminism and current exploratory work on "small media, soft ecologies" http://www.sysx.org/gashgirl/
Hannah Higgins - her book Fluxus Experience - not strictly technological but so closely connected in my mind to a more connected and distributed art experience
Lucy Lippard -for dematerialization of the art object, for offering precursory context for net art but mainly for articulating the tensions for women artists looking to work with parity in a patriarchal, market driven art world
Susy Gablick - her book Conversations before the end of time (not overtly technological -but somehow contextual)
Sadie Plant - her books 'Zeros and Ones' and though not strictly technological, her book 'The Most Radical Gesture' about Situationism seems relevant too
Finally I just have to slip Bjork in there for all of her songs which are full of blips and bleeps and glitches and technical experimentations and for her video with Chris Cunningham - All is Full of Love http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjAoBKagWQA
Of course there are lots of others and I am resisting the temptation to add in a list of honorary women (yes men!)
Finally I am excited by the prospect of attending Eclectic Tech Carnival this year in September http://eclectictechcarnival.org/node/864 for a "gathering of women interested in technology". It seems like a great thing. Perhaps you should come too:)
The Eclectic Tech Carnival is a gathering of women interested in open source technology. It's been held at least once a year since 2002, each time in a place where there is an interested group of women willing to host it. Its roots are in the Genderchangers hardware and FLOSS courses.
Women from all over the world organise the /etc through mailing lists, IRC and IRL meetings - and women come from all over the world to participate in the /etc.
The week-long carnival includes workshops on installing open source and free software, looking at Linux, building websites, chat conferencing. In addition there are art exhibitions and cultural discussions & presentations.
Collaboration is working together. Can two people work together without ever having met?
Doron Golan and Michael Szpakowski demonstrates that they can...
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent:
The exhibition takes its title from Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by the philosopher of language Ludwig Wittgenstein. It explores a collaboration between two artists across geographical distance through the ineffable language of image.
Israeli video artist and filmmaker Doron Golan and British artist, composer and educator Michael Szpakowski both make digital films, which they share through websites and email lists, exploring the mystery of everyday life and of being a human in this place and time. Over the years, the two artists have developed a dialogue and friendship through the exchange of their work. Since 2005 they have collaborated to found and curate DVblog.org, a groundbreaking early platform for art films on the Internet. And yet they've never met face to face. HTTP Gallery in North London is pleased to host the first meeting between Golan and Szpakowski and their art, in real space. Making their online collaborative process physical, the central installation has three elements: a new silent film by each of the artists with a new musical composition by Szpakowski. Bearing their shared sympathies in mind, the artists have independently determined the length and subjects of their films. As a result, the correspondences and resonances between the works are as yet unknown, and will change constantly. The collaborative installation will be accompanied by elements of their independent practices, including a new installation by Szpakowski utilising video and silver birch branches and a selection of Golan's recent videos, engaging with elements of life in the Middle East and his native Israel, to which he has returned after many years living in New York City.
HTTP Gallery based near North London's thriving Green Lanes area is London's first dedicated gallery for networked and new media art. Working with artists from around the world, HTTP provides experimental approaches to exhibiting artworks simultaneously in physical and virtual space, and for online projects that explore participative and collaborative art practice. Projects on DVD, real-time, webcast, software art and live art also play a role in their curatorial work.
... this blog continues to be a bag of tricks ... l originally started it to share sound art links but it has been revamped and is now focusing on language. Like the 'unsound' it still ranges from spoken and sung cacophonies, links to writers such as Stein but now many others, my furiously fitful notion of sounded language and its scores, and hybrid or experimental writing, especially with a flarffy twist. It previously worked for me as a research space for my PhD so posts before April 2023 will reflect that. Just to be clear 'unsound' for me is no way a value judgment ... majena mafe
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