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#9 January 2007
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"What kinds of compositional
techniques can be used to create a music that recognizes
the emergence and the potential of becoming found in a digitally-based
or telematic interaction with art and media?" Composer
and sound artist Nobert Herber explores the field of computer
games and interactive media where the line between "composition"
and "instrument" is increasingly blurred. |
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"software art is conceptual
art's acknowledged son" is the hypothesis around which
art critic and curator Domenico Quaranta builds his anyaliseis
on genealogy of software art: "Is the history of conceptual
art relevant to the idea of software as art?"/"Is
the idea of software as art relevant to the history of conceptual
art?"
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"It is
possible to trace one history of electroacoustic music through
the analysis of the role played by dissonance. We can also
use the concept of noise as a guide through the evolusion
of the music that makes usse of electroacoustic technologies."
Composer, musicologist and curator Miguel Álvarez
Fernández deconstructs the reading of history of
electroacoustic music. |
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"Today
sampling and collaborative authoring enlivened in the digital
environment seem to be on their way to liquefy the state
of writing once again, opening our eyes to another mode
of authorship." With sampling as starting point, artist
Sachiko Hayashi relocates several issues relevant to the
culture of digital media. |
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Sound artist
Art Clay's "China Gate" is a music project which
utilises GPS to coordinate musicians whose physical presences
are dispersed throughout a city. By "using wearable
computing technology within global ubiquitous networks as
an art tool," "China Gate" tries to open
up civic space for "one of the most important functions
of public performance: social interaction. " |
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"New
media artists, notably net artists, analyse the issue of
time. Their field of interest includes time as a whole,
their own time and the viewer’s time....If there is
a navigable cyberspace – does it imply navigable time
as well?" New Media Art historian Ewa Wojtowicz examines
net art practice that employs time from various perspectives. |
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Hz Net Gallery presents 5 international
net art works: Hypertemporality Animations by
Peter Baldes, 15x15 by Richard Vickers, CitySnapper_5[Berlin]
by Olivier Vanderaa, SuperImpositions by Position
and {transcription} by Michael Takeo Magrude. |
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