jamie allen

Acoustic Subtraction

jamie — Wed, 18 May 2011 20:05:06 +0000

Acoustic Subtractions are events in public space: Twenty minutes of white noise followed by twenty minutes of “silence.”

The audible world is masked and cancelled out by the potentials of all sound, the act of listening cleansed by its own saturation. Saturate every atom. This piece was devised by Will Schrimshaw and Jamie Allen for Resonator (2010). Acoustic subtractions have been undertaken in a number of locations internationally, including Kielder Forest, UK, Semperdepot, Vienna, Suncheon Wild Tea House, and Platoon Kunsthalle Seoul and the Eyup Sultan Mosque in Istanbul.

Partners: Will Schrimshaw, worm/detour, AV Festival, Platoon Kunsthalle, Mullae Art Space Seoul

MLB

admin — Tue, 10 May 2011 13:08:16 +0000

An international invitational for white-light and noise performance practitioners. Studio recordings at STEIM, as well as video releases highlighting artists involved in noise aesthetics, directness in electronic performance, hardware minimalism and signal synaesthesia.

Partners: Canada Council for the Arts, STEIM.org, worm/detour, Culture Lab, Jo Kazuhiro, Yao Chung-Han, Loud Objects, Phil Stearns, Atsuhiro Ito, OT301, RHIZ, Issue Project Room (Thanks to Adam Parkinson, Michael J. Horan, Ko Le Chen)

Link: mlbmlbmlb.com

Data Calorimetry

jamie — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 13:42:30 +0000

Twined applications in 1804 and 1809 by Campillo and Sömmering gave us the first long-distance electrical telegraph. These electrochemical contraptions comprised simple on/off switching at the transmission end, coupled to wires immersed in tubes of acid at the receiving station. The tubes were labeled with a unique alpha-numeric character, and hydrogen bubbles resulting from electrolysis of the acid would convey both message and meaning.

Data Calorimetry is an interactive installation comprised of two computers serving up digital documents to one another. These documents detail the natural history of electrical telecommunications development. The data cable connecting the two servers has been spliced, and placed in a tube containing a strong acid. As data is transmitted through this acid, glitches appear on screen, hydrogen bubbles are produced, and a metered temperature rise give a sense of the material energy and power of digital information.

Partners: Culture Lab

Contact

admin — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 21:06:18 +0000

jamie@heavyside.net

CIID
Toldbodgade 37b
1253, København K
Denmark
DK +4550960790

About

admin — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 18:35:50 +0000

Hi. I’m Jamie Allen and I like to make things with my head and hands. These things involve peoples’ relationships to creativity, technology and resources – and mostly attempt to give people new, subversive and fun ways to interact with all of these. I am Head of Research at the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design, where I help chart a course for research and experimentation at the institute, with colleagues in the Research team and Labs.ciid.dk. I am also a PhD candidate with the European Graduate School (Media & Communications). My own projects and events have been featured in a number of media outlets, including Wired.com and the New York Times. I am very grateful to have been supported and hosted by a number of international friends, festivals and venues, including:

Korea Foundation (KR), Issue Project Room (NYC), Sonic Circuits (DC), Nikolaj Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center (DK), FACT (UK), Transitio (MX), Arts Council England (UK), Northern Film and Media (UK), Arts Council Korea (Seoul), Eyebeam.org (NYC), The Canada Council for the Arts (CA), STEIM (NL), Baryshnikov Dance Foundation (NYC), Joyce Soho (NYC), The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (NYC), Exit Art (NYC), Harvestworks (NYC), La Société des arts technologiques (MTL), Washington State University (USA), The University of British Columbia (CND), The Tisch School of the Arts (NYC), The Tank (NYC), Tonic (NYC), Vertexlist (NYC), Chelsea Art Museum (NYC), Mushroom Arts (NYC), Medianoche (NYC), The Bent Festival (NYC), The Edinburgh Festival (UK), The Glasgow School of Art (UK)

Teaching & Workshops

admin — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 17:05:04 +0000

I like to learn and teach.

In the past I have taught at the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU, the Pratt Institute of Art and Design, and the Kolding Design School, and am currently involved with workshops and teaching at the Copenhagen Institute for Interaction Design, amongst others.

I’ve been advising people on the uses of on- and off-line technologies for over 10 years now – mostly when they get interested in things like museum and art exhibitions, interaction design for art and music. I often help others design of interactive spaces, exhibitions and objects, and have worked with ESI Design, the American Museum of Natural History, Argyle Design and a number of other design groups. I also design and deliver workshops with other people on specific topics like electronics, multimedia software, and other tools, as well as more conceptual investigations into how these same things have come to shape what it means to be a human being. I’m interested in helping technologies get along with creative people better.

Please get in touch if you’d like to chat about anything at all.

How Does Anyone Ever Get Anything Done Around Here

admin — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 14:04:10 +0000

A time-compressed version of the original A-Team television series, based on a single, personally-memorable aspect of the show. The 98-episode series is contracted to scenes showing the handwork Sergeant Bosco Albert (Bad Attitude) Baracus during the preparatory interludes prior to each episode’s concluding showdown. Original re-orchestration of the A-Team theme recorded with Aby Vulliamy and George Murray.

Resonator

admin — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 00:52:58 +0000

Resonator (part of the AV10 Festival) is an event looking at resonance and vibration in the context of sound art and related pursuits. An international group of metaphysicians and artists working with sound are brought together for a week long process: talks and discussions, technical workshops, physical building sessions, sound walks and other ‘field trips’ and collaborative creation of artwork. At the end of the process a gallery exhibition is prepared from sketches, models and prototypes created during the week. Co-organised with Will Schrimshaw.

Partners: AV10, Arts Council England, Culture Lab, Nurit Bar-Shai, James D’Angelo, Martin Howse, Brandon LaBelle, John Stuart Reid, Ann Rosén, Hankil Ryu, Kanta Horio

Link: largervibrationalcontinuum.org

CURRENT

admin — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 10:38:35 +0000

CURRENT is a set of illuminated elements along the front and rear cheeks of a set of 20 beach chalets along the East coast of the UK. A number of cedar slats which clad the huts are replaced with white lighting elements that react dynamically to local wind speed – animating and visualizing the energy of the wind. A wind turbine is installed near the chalets, and this system provides all the energy required to drive the artwork. Co-created with Laura Harrington.

Partners: Laura Harrington, Inspire Northumberland, Culture Lab

Link: Current at Inspire Northumberland, Journal Live

From Here On Out

admin — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 01:13:20 +0000

A multimedia GPS walking tour of Newcastle city center, exploring the industrial social-history of the city. Energy and infrastructures hardware are digitally layered onto the real cityscape, and experienced in-place. Human performers and physical items spotted in the city are further used to merge uncanny media and real worlds. Commissioned by Wunderbar Festival 2009.

Partners: Wunderbar Festival, Northern Film and Media, Andrzej Wojtas, Guy Schofield, Rachel Gay, Culture Lab

Link: http://fromhereonout.org/