Jamie Allen » 2007

Art Generator

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What would electronic art be like if we were to free it from the burden of the electric grid?

For the Art Generator project, a human-powered generator powers the works of a group of invited electronic artists. At workshop events, pieces are created, added, removed and interconnected over the duration of the show. Exhibited as part of Exit Art’s Electric Lab.

Partners: LoVid, Rich Miller, Ian Curry, Greg Shakar, Paul Davies, Exit Art

ghostbustour

admin — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 13:38:04 +0000

A multimedia walking tour of New York City, augmented by the use of portable media devices. Sites relevant to the original film ‘Ghostbusters’ compose the tour path, with video content relevant to the film, geography and history of New York comprising the tour. ghostbustour is an attempt to re-attach ʻmedia memoriesʼ with our experience of lived space and time.

Partners: Rob O’Neill, Tom Ainslie, Melissa Barrett, Lia Bulaong, Mike Horan, Derek Wang, Tali Padan, EYEBEAM, Tekserve, Conflux

Links: ghostbustour, wmmna

circuitMusic

admin — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 13:31:18 +0000

“Just as the audience began nodding along, Allen dove even deeper into the sounds, working single tones like the sonic equivalent of clay, shaping drones from raw static, feedback and electricity.” – Marc Weidenbaum

circuitMusic is a platform for improvisational audio circuit building with raw op amp components. (photos by Will Schrimshaw and Alessandro Altavilla)

Partners: STEIM, Eyebeam, Bent Festival, Fun Night at Columbia CMC

Links: disquiet.com, vertexlist, midnightpoutine, eyebeam.org

Binaural Architecture

admin — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 14:23:33 +0000

Binaural Architecture steals from binaural recording techniques (which capture the spatial imprint of the human head), replacing the human skull with architectural-scale objects.

Microphones are symmetrically affixed to buildings, capturing a unique, large-scale, three dimensional sonic imprint. Buildings imaged so far include the Military Island U.S. Army recruitment center in Times Square. Composed pieces from this material have being presented as part of EspaceSono at the SAT Galerie in Montreal.

Partners: SAT Montreal

season of the bit

admin — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 14:20:11 +0000

The Commodore 64 personal computing platform is a musical rendering platform that has, in many ways, never been surpassed technologically or aesthetically. Season of the Bit is a DJ act and research project featuring video game and chip tunes from the 70′s and 80′s, a collaboration with Michael J. Horan.

Partners: Michael J. Horan, Vertexlist

Links: seasonofthebit.com

Killing Lena

admin — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 14:17:18 +0000

A single scanned image of Lena Soderberg took up favor amongst digital imaging researchers in the 1970s. The image has been used as a comparative standard in thousands of image compression tests, publications and algorithm shoot-outs for fomats such as JPEG and GIF. “Killing Lena” is Lena’s most famous photo repeatedly exposed to the algorithms she unwittingly helped develop.

NIME 2007, NYC

admin — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 14:15:36 +0000

Curatorial work for 2007′s New Interfaces for Musical Expression conference.

Partners: New Interfaces for Musical Expression Conference, Harvestworks

Links: NIME 2007

tranzducer

admin — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 14:13:49 +0000

Production and bookings for a monthly series of art and performance events at experimental media center LEMURplex in Brooklyn, New York.

Partners: LemurPlex