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Art is a Reflection of Artificial Life

For decades now, technology has been far surpassing the technique of the typical artist. With several artists, including myself stuck in the dimensions of the screen, it is hard to begin to dissect the devices which transmit visual information. Video Artists attempted this in the 70s and 80s, Paik/Abe and Rutt/Etra paving the way by [...]

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Live Without Dead Time

Live Without Dead Time, a web collage of memes surrounding America’s obsession with commodity and ego is now online at http://livewithoutdeadtime.info.
I shall be working on this website off and on for the next year, but several pages are now available to be viewed. Comment about the site here if you like.
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Audiobombs Hit the Streets This Spring

The history of graffiti will reveal the political rhetoric of the oppressed through images and slogans. Indeed, the voices of many otherwise unheard have shined through the use of graffiti. Look at all the tagging of graffiti artist signatures on trains and underpasses. The graffiti image may seem ambiguous and ever changing, sometimes incomprehensible. This [...]

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I Walk, Don’t Run, When I Drive I’m on Drugs…

I Walk, Don’t Run, When I Drive I’m on Drugs. The drugs of the information age. Sometimes I walk to school on the weekends. My fiance and I share a 2001 Subaru Outback Limited Sedan. She drives to work, a twenty mile roller coaster ride, while I trek 2.5 miles through South Side Syracuse with [...]

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Artist Statement for Physical Computing Project #1

Untitled is an experiment in human perception and augmented reality. Visible light is usually represented in the center of a graph of the electromagnetic spectrum. This graph reveals the narrow bandwidth of electromagnetic radiation humans can actually perceive. Cameras and antennas can be calibrated to sense all other wavelengths. This dependence on the apparatus for [...]

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Info Hunter/Gatherer (remix) Concept

A video screen projects on a vast wall in a dark space. A hunting spear rests on the floor, ready to be clutched by any willing participant. News headlines roam the video projection, flocking together on and off the screen.

Someone picks up the spear. Suddenly, news headlines scatter and flee the scene. The [...]

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Telepresence

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The prefix tele- has been overused throughout the 20th century to mean “at a distance”. Categorically, tele is the prefix for any communication medium we are so accustomed to using. The telescope was possibly the first instrument used for vision across distances. The telephone is for speaking at a distance, the television was originally [...]

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Paul Virilio and The Vision Machine

In his essay “The Vision Machine”, Paul Virilio addresses the role of technology in shaping the perceptions of man. He continues where Walter Benjamin left off, arguing that spatial distance has been erased by telecommunication. Physical locations meet inside of the screen, where every point on Earth is instantaneously accessible from every other point (Doesn’t that sound like the properties of a Hologram?). The philosopher also argues that the instantaneous nature of the screen destroys human memory. In this work, Virilio prophesies that computer technologies will progress to the point where they will perform the seeing for humankind.

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Lev Manovich on “The Language of New Media”

Lev Manovich defines New Media through existing concepts found in cinema theory, art history, literary studies, and computer science in his book The Language of New Media. Manovich includes a website for the reader, with over 300 illustrations of artwork and commercial projects detailed in the book. Concerning the Architecture of the Internet and the [...]

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William Gibson on Locative Art

Gibson explains the locative dimensions of computer art practice in Chapter 13 of Spook Country. The main character Hollis interviews Bobby Chombo, a recluse GPS hacker and programmer who never sleeps in the same square of the virtual GPS grid twice…

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