There’s a show opening at the Art Gallery in Knoxville this Friday (Dec. 1). In case you don’t live in Knoxville (and for once I wish I did, actually the Art Gallery there has a kickin’ program, better than the MAC here in Montreal anyway) Getting back to the point, we all can take part in one of his ongoing experiments in networked sound by logging into Auracle.org and participate (friday Dec 1, 6-11pm that’s -5GMT). Yes, rather than talk about the networked culture, be a part of it. And while your at it, have a look at Max’s website and realize how great he is.
Archive for November, 2006
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Max Neuhaus Net
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Anything a sensor!
Well, almost anything. A group of EU scientists have developed a system called “Tai-Chi” whereby using a set of acoustic sensors (or microphones in the parlance of our times) you can detect the location of touch on a any surface. (I imagine as long as it has a certain amount of reverberance; soft materials just wouldn’t work) Looks pretty cool. I cant wait to see this available to artists! I can think of a million great ways to use it already. Here’s some links. and a video is here.
Every three years the US Library of Congress is forced to review the ARTIST TALK - DAN OVERHOLT: Dan has created a few really nice interfaces and works while at MIT and UCSB! check him out! - November 30, 2006 6:30 PM, Concordia University 1515 Ste-Catherine West EV –1-615 [MORE INFO]
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RES Fest lowdown
Admittedly, I didn’t make all the screenings, but I did make the 10 years of resfest, Cinema Electronica, and the Shorts One - State of the Art. To start off with there were commercials, but what’s new about that anymore in the cinema? Not much except I actually liked one of them. And I feel horrible for it. The animation is great, the soundtrack fabulous, but it was for Nike, and ya know, its a bit like enjoying starbucks. Looks good, smells good, but deep down we all know the truth. Well, a festival has got to get paid right?
Some of the standouts were “Food Fight” by Stephan Nadelman, “Rabbit” by Run Wrake, “I am (not) Van Gogh” by David Russo that totally delivered a stop-motion, pushing the limit on what is possible, and while I usually dont like voice overs that push the story along, this one actually worked.
I’ve been to see Cinema Electronica since the days in San Francisco, and I looked forward to it, I even bought tickets in advance and paid the additional $2 to avoid the sell outs. well, no sell out here. Too bad, there were some things worth seeing. Gnarls Barkley’s Smiley Faces (dir: Robert Hales) had a some nice cgi and managed to insinuate gnarls into rock history. Hifana’s “Nampoo” was like the old muppet show on acid, with all sorts of puppets singing along to the track. Groovisions’ “2283″ super cool animated parade made me want to be there. All in all these were pretty good, and were a great way to kick off a saturday night. I’m sure most of these can be scrounged up on the net.
Sunday Night’s 10 year retrospective featured the greatest hits of the decade, and they all stood the test of time quite well. Eric Henry’s “Wood Technology…” from 1997 still was fun, EBN still rules the video mashup, and my favorite was a tie between 
Barnstormer’s 2003 “Letter to the President” and Stefan Nadelman’s “Terminal Bar”. Lots of fun, but after seeing so much of the digital film fests, like this and OneDotZero screenings, it might be that we’re so used to all the “new” techs that in fact the ones that hit home the most are all about fun and/or the actual content. Great to see the festival is still going strong after 10 years, and I hope they continue to push forward, but maybe a stronger, tighter series will help…
