I’ve posted about the ground breaking work of Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz before and mentioned their work Hole in Space in a post elsewhere and how it has inspired other more recent works. Somebody has now posted historic video documentation of the work to YouTube which is well worth seeing.

The images above show the original work and a more recent reconceptualisation of it. More information about the work available here.

Originally seen on Turbulence.

Infinite Glitch is a online automated system that generates a live audio-visual stream from media files freely available on the web.

Every day an incomprehensible number of new digital media files are uploaded to hosting sites across the internet. Far too many for any one person to consume. Infinite Glitch is a stream-of-conciousness representation of this overwhelming flood of media, its fractured and degraded sounds and images reflecting how little we as an audience are able to retain from this daily barrage…Source audio and video files are ripped from a variety of popular media hosting sites, torn apart, and recombined using collage and glitch techniques to create an organic, chaotic flood of sensory input.

My little piece of privacy by Niklas Roy is a ‘smart’ curtain:

The curtain is smaller than the window, but an additional surveillance camera and an old laptop provide it with intelligence: The computer sees the pedestrians and locates them. With a motor attached, it positions the curtain exactly where the pedestrians are…The whole setup works really well. But in the end, it doesn’t protect my privacy at all. It seems that the existence of my little curtain is leading itself ad absurdum, simply by doing its job very well. My moving curtain attracts the looks of people which usually would never care about my window. It is even the star of the street, now!

Originally seen on pietmondrian.com.

Ivy Noise by Daniela Di Maro (DDM) and Roberto Pugliese is an interactive sound installation consisting of 87 speakers, 2 microphones, 16 MP3 players, notebooks and MaxMSP software.

Electric wires climb the white walls, following not a casual pattern, but a defined one, after an accurate study of the growth of the ivy. Black lines design organic forms; brances form which unusual flowers blossom: conical speakers of various dimentions. A previously defined soundscape is given forth by some of these peculiar buds which acts as a background to the acoustic improvisation, determined instead by the human presence. Every noise is being captured by a series of microphones and random samples are taken in real time by a custom designed software, and rendered back through the speakers. Voices, steps, movements, nourish the installation. The totally synthetic sound, generated by this technological parasite creates however the illusion of being in a natural environment. A psychoacoustic journey, in which nothing stands still; everything is being transformed in an unstoppable and impromptu process of metamorphism. An experience which through multisensory stimulation creates a relation between man and technology, hypothesizing not only a peaceful coexistence of the two elements, but even an eco-sustainable hybridization, reinforced by the use of recycled materials.

I’m particularly interested in the visual presentation of this work which is similar to many works I’ve posted about in the past e.g. works which visually are a rhizomic or mesh based network. It’s worth having a look at the artists MySpace site as they have several other works that use cables or have drawings which are similarly rhizomic/mesh like.

Thanks to Frédérique Santune for the link.

Quintetto by Quiet Ensemble is an installation which employs the:

casual movement of objects or living creatures used as input for the production of sounds. The basic concept is to reveal what we call “invisible concerts” of everyday life. The vertical movements of the 5 fishes in the aquarius is captured by a videocamera, that translates (through a computer software) their movements in digital sound signals.

Originally seen at Colossal.