This event is organised by oudeis, association for the development of current artistic expression. Please see the website here for full info. For those who can not make it to the exhibition stay tuned this work will be online later in December.

Above: Both performances in full of Trav—erse at Open Ear - Network, Canterbury Christ Church University, Broadstairs Campus, England on the 20/11/07 (or here on YouTube) and Open Ear Cardiff, ATRiuM, Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries, Wales on the 13/06/08 (or here on YouTube).

Exploring radio waves on a world band analogue radio, the performance should be perceived as both a linear and non-linear journey progressively moving through the sonic space of broadcast wireless networks and the physical geographies and cultural spaces they both represent and permeate.

The performance traverses and returns across a radio band, a technological interface, along linear trajectories. Sounds with no correlation between their representation on this band and their ‘actual’ location will be captured, layered, reworked, transformed within new media to create a cultural and social sonic dérive where all spaces exist simultaneously.

Trav—erse has been performed twice at Open Ear - Network, Canterbury Christ Church University, Broadstairs Campus, England on the 20/11/07 and Open Ear Cardiff, ATRiuM, Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries, Wales on the 13/06/08.

Click image above for a larger screen shot of the RE:corder interface

Trav—erse was performed using the RE:corder application designed and created by the artist in max/msp. For related work employing RE:corder see RE:soundings and RE:soundings (interference variant).

Open Ear in Cardiff

On June 13th 2008, Open Ear hosted a free one night only event of experimental work in the ATRiuM Theatre at the University of Glamorgan’s newly built ATRiuM, Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries, Cardiff, Wales (http://cci.glam.ac.uk/) which was curated by myself. The event presented a series of interdisciplinary performances and projections by various sound and visual artists / groups working across the areas of art, music, media and new technologies within live performance / projected contexts under an open theme.

What did this mean?

There was no imposed theme instead artists were asked to present time-based works based on their themes, their continuing research, as an event which was intended to explore diversity and interdisciplinary nature of audio-visual arts. Proposed performances / projected works could be new or pre-existing works, improvised, dynamically generated (such as software art) or pre-composed, abstract or figurative, individual or collaborative, experimental, site specific and much, much more. The only constraints stated that proposals were required to be:

1. time-based (remember this is a audience based event in a theatre)
2. and ether audio-visual, audio only or visual only work (selection preference was given to works which are audio-visual).

Above: Stills of all the performances. Click image to view more.

Videos of the performances are available here.

The line-up for the evening was as follows:

Performances:

• Ampersand & Mitsuka (http://www.ampersand.tv/)
• Malte Steiner (http://www.block4.com/)
• Richard Bowers, Ian Watson, Nic Finch & Jon Ruddick (http://www.richardbowers.co.uk/, http://www.myspace.com/phantomheadrecordings, http://www.chameleonic-design.com/, http://www.jacuzzi-junta.org/)
• Paul Adams (http://www.mrpauladams.com/)
• Garrett Lynch (http://www.asquare.org/)
• Georg Boenn
• Matt Wright (http://www.matt-wright.co.uk/)
• Rob Smith & Ben Challis

Projections:

• Energie! by Thorsten Fleisch & Jens Thiele (http://www.fleischfilm.com/)
• Future Memories by Scott Kildall (http://www.kildall.com/)
• Emanations by Brian DeLevie & Isshaela Ingham (http://www.briandelevie.com/)
• Try Hard Johnny! by Valentina Besegher & Alessandro Massobrio (http://www.besegher.com/, http://www.flushingdevice.it/)
• Archisonics: Vertigo by John Kannenberg (http://www.johnkannenberg.com/)
• Drishti II by Jen-Kuang Chang

The Venue

The University of Glamorgan’s newly built ATRiuM in Cardiff, Wales opened in 2007 and houses the Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries which comprises of Art & Design, Media & Communication and Drama & Music. Situated in central Cardiff, Wales, this specially-designed building contains cutting edge technology and facilities including industry-standard studios, a theatre and cinema.

Open Ear, audio-visual events and performances are supported by The University of Glamorgan, ATRiuM, Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries, Cardiff, Wales.

Open Ear

Open Ear, formed in 2006, is a loose collaborative group of like minded individuals creating audio-visual art and organising live events within club, gallery, open air or site specific venues. Our principal interests include collaboration, live performance, generative audio-visual work, hybridised art, DIY soundart, circuit-bending and networks.

Download paper here: http://www.asquare.org/work/netart-beyond/netart-beyond.pdf

Abstract

In under a decade and a half, net.art has developed from an obscure to a hyped form, gaining acceptance in the institution and being absorbed into popular culture. Why net.art has become associated with the web and not networks in general is evident within the form itself. The advantages the web embodies as an arena to conceive, create and present art means the web is for artists all at once their message, medium and [web]site.

This paper will identify and trace the pre-web origins of net.art to evaluate what contribution they can make to net.art’s future development beyond the browser. Within this context, Web 2.0 and more particularly the Internet of Things will be discussed as a means to enable this. Examples of progressive net.art practice will illustrate the evolution of net.art into a networked art.

Details

This article is available here in English under a Creative Commons licence.

License:
Creative Commons, Attribution-ShareAlike
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/

Previously published in French as Net Art : au-delà du navigateur… un monde d’objets in an issue of the academic journal Terminal, Technologie de L’information, culture & société (Terminal, Information Technology, Culture & Society) titled Net Art, Technologie ou Création? (Net Art, Technology or Creation) and available through Editions L’Harmattan.

Above:A.u.t.o.m.n.e. / Autumn : renew performed at Open Ear Cinema, Canterbury Christ Church University, Broadstairs Campus, England on the 11/03/08 (or here on YouTube).

A.u.t.o.m.n.e. / Autumn : renew is an audiovisual performance performed by Frédérique Santune at the Open Ear Cinema event on the 11th of March 2008. The software, designed by me in max/msp, allowed the artist to perform live with a video through voice and gesture.

Above: Stills of the performance. Click image to view more.

The performance takes as it’s starting point a graphic video A.u.t.o.m.n.e. by the artist. In the performance her voice over distorts the image and sound of the video in a variety of chosen ways. The intention of the performance is to describe the process of it’s own creation. In doing so it erases bit by bit the memory of it’s own making.

Above: Frédérique Santune performing A.u.t.o.m.n.e. / Autumn : renew

Above: Click image for larger screenshot of the software Untitled.

Above: Networks without nodes, a reworking of Paul Baran’s On Distributed Communications: 1. Introduction to Distributed Communications Network (1964)

Network

A network is any system of interconnected points / locations, nodes, which become greater, augmented, than when in isolation. While emphasis is most often placed on the nodes, it is the connections / links / lines / flows, the spaces between, the hinterland of the network, and their resulting mesh / matrix, which provides the site, means and context for the networks ability to transfer and transform. Similarly art can be thought of as a space in-between:

“The work of art occupies a pivotal point between two sets of behaviour, the artist’s and the spectator’s. It is essentially a matrix, the substance between. It exists nether for itself nor by itself.” (Ascott, R. 2003, Telematic Embrace)

On November 20th 2007, Open Ear hosted an event curated by myself entitled Network presenting performances on this theme.

Sound and visual artists / groups working with networks as a thematic or technical element to their work within live performance contexts were invited to contribute to the event. Proposed performances could include the use of networks to dynamically generate or enhance performance, to collaboratively create a performance through a network, to discuss the nature of networks and their impact on society etc. All proposed performances were required to be audio-visual, audio or visual with selection preference given to audio-visual works and up to a maximum of 30 minutes each.

The line-up for the evening was as follows:

• Paul Adams (http://www.myspace.com/mrpauladams)
• John Wild: Invisible Geographies 50MHz-6000MHz - The Conduit (http://johnwild.info/)
• Matt Wright (http://www.matt-wright.co.uk/)
• Pascal Bouchet Asselah: In the night, the light (Dans la nuit, la lumière) (http://www.signalsurbruit.org/)
• Garrett Lynch (http://www.asquare.org/)
• Cracktux: Noise Garden (Oli & Sonicvariable)

Above: Stills of all the performances. Click image to view more.

Videos of the performances are available here.

The Venue

Canterbury Christ Church Broadstairs Campus, situated on the east coast of Kent, England approximately 30 minutes from Canterbury, opened in 2000 with a wide selection of higher education courses. The campus is committed to the arts and cultural regeneration of the area and regularly host’s events, exhibitions and performances on site.

Open Ear, audio-visual events and performances 2007 – 2008 are supported by Canterbury Christ Church University.

Open Ear

Open Ear, formed in 2006, is a loose collaborative group of like minded individuals creating audio-visual art and organising live events within club, gallery, open air or site specific venues. Our principal interests include collaboration, live performance, generative audio-visual work, hybridised art, DIY soundart, circuit-bending and networks.

Above: Performance of RE:soundings (interference variant) at Open Ear - Interference, Canterbury Christ Church University, Broadstairs Campus, England on the 16/10/07 (or here on YouTube).

Feedback audio looped or networked through a laptop is used to explore the aural and visual patterns of wave forms. Overlapping, passing in and out of phase, the waves simultaneously create a constructive and destructive interference which result in new patterns within a naturally occurring chaotic system.

RE:soundings (interference variant) was first premiered as part of the Open Ear Interference event.

Click image above for a larger screen shot of the RE:corder interface

RE:soundings (interference variant) was performed using version 2 of the RE:corder software designed and created by the artist in max/msp. For related work employing RE:corder see RE:soundings and Trav—erse.