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World Listening Day 2015 comes around and neoscenes is there with a live improv stream performance that is also part of the Changing the Course of Nature performance sequence.
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neoscenes makes several appearances at the Balance/unBalance 2015 Conference at ASU in Phoenix, presenting the paper The Energy of Archive: Re-membering the Cloud and also presenting the performance project Changing the Course of Nature on a panel Environmental Data for Creative Projects and Community Engagement with Mél Hogan, Laura Forlano, Liz Miller, and Gisele Trudel.
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Lloyd Dunn (of nula) commissions neoscenes to produce a work for Galerie Díra in Prague. Working with water seems to be an obvious choice, given the archive: water fills the hall is the result. It will be on-site for February and into March -- drop by for a listen if you are in Prague!
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The hopkins/neoscenes Kickstarter Campaign ends with a resounding success on the books: A Return to Roots: From Photographic Vision Back to Print. The goal -- to fund a large-format inkjet printer with appropriate supplies -- gives me the opportunity to produce major new large-format works on paper after years away from printing. Stay tuned for evidence of what happens (see kickstart in the tech-no-mad blog for details)
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Pedro Bericat sends a call to participate in one of his Mute Sound CDs -- the "1 minute autohypnosis..." Project Number 16 (neoscenes is track 15).
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well, it's DONE, after 4 months of writing, 2 years of research, and one year of it wending its way through the glacial university bureaucracy. The Regime of Amplification. Now published, per se. The creative project paralleling the dissertation is the tech-no-mad blogspace that is ever active and expanding. It contains much material from the research. Now for the post-doc in the EuroZone.
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Suzon puts a call out for the one-year birthday celebration of her project waterwheel. so neoscenes jumps in with a twenty-minute improv with material from Echo Park, the Yampa, and North Iceland.
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Roger puts a call out, and neoscenes had just the piece for inclusion on Volume 4 of the Explorations in Sound series, The Sound of Live Performance (Cat #FNCD007). Download a zip of the whole album here.
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phase two of the Migrating Art Academies project comes to a close after two full years of actions, much of which is documented in the book I just finished editing with Mindaugas. More info at http://www.migaa.eu/.
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radio aporee presents flickering wastelands IV: another round of the 48-Stunden-(Berlin-)Neukölln Kunst und Kulturfestival at Udo's place, so I prep a 30-minute video of flickering wastelands from the Wendover residency. (archive video)
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Mari invites me to join the aether9 crew for a live improv video feed for Camp Pixelache @ Pixelache at the Kerava Art Museum in Kervo, Finland on a cold day in March 2010. I got up extra early and sent a live sunrise feed from Prescott, Arizona to the exhibition half-way 'round the world.
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2009 is the last year for the netarts award -- after 14 years of searching for the best of network-based creativity -- sponsored by the Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts. this year's Grand Prize goes to the Furtherfield/Furthernoise crew for the live-online visual-sonic collaborative platform VisitorsStudio. (my curatorial comments)
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as part of my research at UTS, I become an associate at the Centre for Media Arts Innovation along with a stellar crew of creatives!
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a special live/streamed event, radio aporee presents flickering wastelands III in its long-standing open-house tradition. good foods, good sounds, good people. part of the 48-Stunden-(Berlin-)Neukölln Kunst und Kulturfestival. neoscenes, fresh back from many weeks on the road in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado and in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona will take you, with hydrocarbons flaring, on a drifting trajectory through spaces that dwell restlessly between ears and leave traces of soot, soil, and water. (archive audio stream)
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completely forgot to announce the 2008 netarts award at the Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts with the Grand Prize going to Yoshiyuki Katayama with his work Conch. (my curatorial comments)
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Jane Crayton, former student of neoscenes and founder of the Front Range dorkbot chapter, dorkbot303, invites me down to the Denver Open Media Studios for an hour-long presentation live broadcast on Community Cable 57 and KGNU (and online) on occasion of the 2-year anniversary of the dorkbot org. (broadcast archive)
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Kinds of Light :: Infinite Jest :: David Foster Wallace. to honor DFW in his untimely passing at his own hand, the .microsound network activates to produce a plethora of interpretations (interpolations) of B.S. Meniscus Films, mine here, Kinds of Light (audio) more...
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another massive FINALLY! getting to the end run of the book that I worked on as co-editor with Zil, Mindaugas, and Vytautas. I was also English copy-editor. Migrating Realities / Migruojanti Realybė. sourced in the migrating realities project, it's a documentation of the conference and exhibition.
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a big FINALLY! getting 425 negatives scanned, cleaned up, and uploaded from more than 30 years ago. Most of these have not been seen before. Do you recognize any of these people? Gaithersburg High School, Gaithersburg, Maryland, 1975-6. A bit of history.
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Udo Noll, the impelling force behind aporee maps invites me to participate. no hesitation. it's a realization of a long-running idea of his to place sounds and to be able to receive those placed sounds. a convergence of his prodigeous programming skills, his imagination, available technologies, and some enthusiastic participants makes this an exemplary project that is still actively developing new aspects. do a search on neoscenes, and stay tuned!
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the Regime of Amplification: A Primer comes to release in advance of the book. I'm a little tired of reiterating arguments about the general topic within the space of various mailing lists and situations, so, here it is. dense, speculative and without the superstructure of the rest of the world-view within which it came-to-be. that will come later.
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neoscenes proposes to the tmp.deluxe temporary space for art and media a special dialogue event: dialogue, as the open exchange of life-time and life-energy, is a direct source of inspiration for the self and other. it is also a source for those who might be around. 28 May 2008. documentation possibly forthcoming. |
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neoscenes joins superfactory for a DIY workshop mission 21-25 May at the Vilnius Academy of Art in Lithuania. the workshop ends with a plug-in party in the center of town at the Academy Gallery.
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facilitating the two-day workshop on hybrid spaces at Z33 in Hasselt, Belgium with a luminous international guest-speakers list will be an interesting exercise in rapid networking. 06-07 May, will it work? join us and find out!
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miga invites me to participate as speaker and performer at the migrating realities event 04-05 April 2008 here in Berlin. a rare live visual-sonic performance will be sandwiched between an unrelated remote presentation at another conference in the US and a short presentation here on the History of Glass and Virtual Reality. (simulation of live performance -- it's a simulation in that I can't record the full audio output and the video together when working live, but you'll get the idea!)
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neoscenes joins two sets of old friends at noplacard -- a mix in between the (((NOMUSIC))) festival and the placard headphone festival, check out the live web-mix, Saturday, 16 February 2008, 15:00-16:00 CET (GMT+1) Paris
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neoscenes joins the Transmediale 2008 conspiracy with an underground streaming mix: moving forest der PEOPLE’S FRONT in einer Verschwörung mit kein.org und inura (International Network for Urban Research and Action) rufen auf zu einem Akt der Auflehnung. Die Russen nahmen die Moltke-Brücke ein. Die Gefangenen nahmen die JVA Moabit ein. Wir nehmen die Gefangenen mit. Wir sind alle 129a. Die Mauern sind gesprengt. Die Daten sind vermint... Friday, 01 February 2008, 19:00 - 20:00, live improv mix. (archive stream)
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neoscenes cranks up the sonic streaming for the global 2008 art's birthday party with friends in Austria, Japan, Germany, Canada, France, Australia, the Czech Republic, and elsewhere: Thursday, 17 January 2008, live improv mix. (archive stream)
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support neoscenes when you go holiday shopping on Amazon.com, or anytime, for that matter. check out this page which gives information on how to help neoscenes sustain the delivery of idiosyncratic output to the techno-cultural-sphere.
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after some (more!) server traumas (sturm und drang) during November 2007, the travelog limps back into existence -- new sounds and images are being uploaded on a irregular basis during the latest year of nomadic movement, often retrospective entries will expand the archive significantly. stay tuned to the portraits 2007 project, the
bed series, more sounds remixes, and the regular musings.
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neoscenes is invited by networker-amigo Raul Marroquin to be a guest on his monthly network television talkshow De Hoeksteen Live! taking place at DeBalie in Amsterdam, 29 December 2007 and 26 January 2008
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neoscenes is invited as co-curator for another round of the netarts 2007 project at the Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts in Tokyo -- awarding Feral Trade (Kate Rich) the Grand Prize. (my comments) |
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neoscenes facilitates the workshop Remote Presence: Streaming Life at the Pixelache2007 Architectures of Participation Festival in Helsinki. on 31 March 2007 from 2000 - 2400 EST (GMT+2) there is a live/online collaborative streaming event -- send us a stream, or just tune in, relax, and chill out. (archive stream)
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neoscenes is invited as guest-artist for the inaugural killerTV / Connect broadcast 14 March 2007 at the new Waag space in Pakhuis de Zwijger, Piet Heinkade 179, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Sher and Janine organize a great evening including Canadian choreographer André Gringas, food by Pepe Mensink. and live sound performance by ookoi -- (archive stream)
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neoscenes is off on a global tour from January through May including lectures, presentations, dialogues, & workshops in California (UC - Santa Barbara and UC - San Diego), England (London), Germany (Hamburg, Bremen, Kiel, Leubeck), Netherlands (Maastricht, Amsterdam), Belgium (Brussels), Finland (Helsinki), Estonia (Tallinn), & Australia (Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra).. Primary workshops will be held at the Pixelache2007 Festival in Helsinki and at COFA/UNSW in Sydney. drop me a line if you are on the trajectory -- it'd be great to cross paths.
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Club TransMediale 2007 hosts the massive a/v jam share.mobile BERLIN at MAO, 29-30 January 2007: neoscenes participates as share.nomad from NoCal, feeding a sonic stream in along with share.bremen and share.montreal (archive stream)
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another year passes and it's art's birthday -- 17 January again, 2007! Networker August Black and I have a rendezvous in Santa Barbara and ten minutes on the ORF Kunstradio/EBU satellite feed for a dada improv -- 2130-2140 GMT. (archive stream)
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neoscenes :: drift is a 60-minute sonic work distilled from a tasty layer-cake of ambient sonic environments and a distinctive electronic substrates. crumbs? dross? or a brisk tour of the matrix? (audio)
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with an eye on tapping back into the energies and activities of 'my' former students, neoscenes is re-vamping a special page dedicated, collectively, to them. pragmatically it is an attempt to reflect on 20 years of teaching and get an indirect handle on some of the results.
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neoscenes joins polar/solar networkers Amanda Hendricks and Sophea Lerner in San Francisco for a streamed sonic collaborative breakfast initiated by Andrew Burrell and the Hybrid Radio Research Group as part of the Aural Degustation: Tasty Bites to Feed the Ears exhibition at the College of Fine Arts Galleries in Sydney, Australia. (more...) (archive stream)
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neoscenes is invited to participate in the no man's land collaborative online project organized by Varsha Nair and Katherine Olston of womanifesto international art exchange based in Bangkok, Thailand. neoscenes also contributes to the network infrastructure by facilitating the group mailing list... (local documentation)
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neoscenes makes a rare live-and-unstreamed meatspace appearance as part of sharedj's series of visual-sonic performances at bar Mundial (505 E 12th St between Ave. A and B, Manhattan, NYC) on Sunday, 16 July 2006, 20:30 - 22:00 (8:30-10:00 pm) -- "this solo set is a spontaneously constructed ambient drift through the personal neoscenes archive of text, audio, and video retrieving material relevant to the moment. The space constructed is warm and humane with some dystopian fragments tossed in to remind us all that there is still work to be done. Revolution is a live praxis."
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back with furthernoise for the Month of Sundays series of live visual-sonic performances using VisitorStudio, a real-time visual-sonic collaboration tool. neoscenes is taking the 18 June 2006 slot that will be simultaneously screened at The Point in the Bronx and the Watershed in Bristol. (archive stream)
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blossoming out of the soundtransit project which is governed by a Creative Commons Attribution license, Nick Mariette made a custom remix from the archive for broadcast on FBI 94.5 FM in Sydney. a neoscenes sample starts things off, and there are several other neoscene samples mixed into the 40 minute broadcast made on 23 April 2006. nice! (archive stream)
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furthernoise, furtherfield? what's this? a dynamic network collective rooted in London, but with ether links around the globe. they host the VisitorStudio, a real-time visual-sonic collaboration tool -- right down my line. so, a performance as part of their Month of Sundays programming is organized from the blooming desert to the cyberscapes.
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another addition to the webspace -- most Black and White images are available as archival silver prints in a variety of sizes. of course no digital reproduction can give the true feel for a fine print, so, be prepared for a dilectable experience in viewing when confronted with "the real thing!" so far only a few images have been formally entered onto this space, but when neoscenes has time to cull the massive silver print archive and re-present that richness, it'll expand... eventually.
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good friend Kevin passes after a two year fight with cancer. with the help of his brother James, I was able to get Kevin's modest website -- featuring some of his many paintings -- modified into a memorial that will grow as contributions come in from his many friends and colleagues. I'll add more of his painting work as I process a dvd's worth of reproductions shot in his Brooklyn studio.
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recently finished, a new DVD, indeterminacy, is ready to head out the door. four new video works, island, skipper, crossing the yampa, and indeterminacy:fragments explore aspects of liquid skies, edge lines, the poetics of Smetana, and other visceral eye-raking. copies many be ordered through PayPal, or other means -- see the DVD page for more info...
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as part of the global Music for Peace Project funksoup presents deCrypt0graphic -- an experiment within a new paradigm for interaction, moving from an age of information and coding, to an age of the imagination where "hard and fast" choices do not need to be made because "hard" will give way to supple, Stony Brook University, Wang Center, 10 April 2005. (stream index)
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welcome to The Box, a project by the students of the "Networks, Dialogue, Tactical Media, and Creativity" workshop, University of Bremen, Department of Informatiks, 24 February 2005... (video)
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Soundscape-fm:Berlin is the second major located ambient sonic-art project in the Soundscape-fm series initiated by Sara Kolster and Derek Holzer of umatic.nl. as a frequent visiting lecturer in Berlin, neoscenes has a few recent sonic landscapes to contribute from the new imperial center of European culture.
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Trebor Scholz invites me to do a remote presentation on New Media Education at the Institute for Distributed Creativity coming up 23.Feb.2005 when I'll also be doing a workshop at University of Bremen, Department of Informatik.
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Mark Amerika (alt-x) and You Minowa (Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts, Tokyo) invited me to join in the Art on the Net 2004 project (opening 11.04) that the Museum hosts -- "promoting the Internet as a space for artistic expression." As one of four curators, we were asked to nominate works that fit our profile of exemplary network-based art. Not so easy, but in the end, the joint selection of works is pretty good.
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a meat-space visit to Baltimore and the home of long-time net-worker and friend Steve Bradley of art@radio, after a 6-year hiatus, called for something to happen. jet-lag was kept at bay by lively conversation, and in the upstairs studio, we performed a special edition live sonic improv, "forces in equilibrium," for art@radio -- streaming out into the ether network. (stream index)
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Andrea invited me to contribute a print ("Cottonwood, Skull Valley, Arizona, 1986," above, 16x20", selenium-toned on the old Agfa Portriga - before they "new & improved" it!) to the Riverkeepers Benefit Auction in Manhattan in November. Apparently it fetched something beyond its reserve. Not that I need a tax break or anything. It's a favorite image, done with the Graflex 4x5 a few miles from Prescott. A magnificent poplar tree at least 2.5 meters in diameter in the middle of a large field. I had to keep my eyes open for the bulls at the other end of the range...
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The (no)music crew from Strasbourg initiated their fifth major
streaming marathon during a 48-hour period on 18 October 2004. I joined in with a 1 hour stream from a simple studio in Trondheim. it was an interesting stream, though I had a few moments of technical problems relating to a mysterious static noize that started up in my encoding machine. more... (archive stream) |
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Trondheim Matchmaking is an annual festival for new technology and electronic arts in Trondheim, Norway. Arranged by Trondheim Electronic Arts Centre, TEKS. I was invited in to present a workshop (along the usual lines of "networking, tactical media, dialogue, and creativity") as well as doing a presentation/performance at the TMM2004 event itself. Good to be back in Trondheim and hang with the TEKS crew! more...
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The Long Night of Radio Art is an "on-line, on-air, and on-site event, simultaneously and collaboratively produced by artists from many networked locations around the world, using audio- and video-streaming." It featured several network streaming remixes to exemplify and expand on the "Re-Inventing Radio" conference in Linz, Austria. neoscenes sent a stream from the offices of the Vilma collective who generously offered their connectivity in Vilnius, Lithuania, to art@radio in Baltimore, Maryland where a 10-hour audio stream :: jamming radiophonic space :: was assembled.
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I got together with Mark McLaren of sijis (the home of music with limited appeal) at his invitation to have a chat about the workshop that I ran at RAM6 (see next entry) under the now-familiar title "Networks, Dialogue, Tactical Media and Creativity." The interview is included in episode 24 of Down With the Chairman. (archive stream)
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the Re-Approaching New Media series of hybrid workshop-seminars-happenings continued into RAM#6 which took place in Vilnius, Lithuania (08.04). the Vilma collective was the (fine) host .org. Prime movers in the Baltic states active new media scene, Gedimas and Nomeda invited me to run what ended up being a Very Experimental workshop which turned out quite nicely (special thanks to Voytek for inspiration), and then I stayed on in Lithuania to network with other regional connections at the Art Academy and elsewhere. more...
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The Overgaden SoundArt Festival (08-09.04) brought neoscenes together with nine other curators and more than 100 artists working at the intersection of art, sound, music, and technology together for a month-long exhibition and performance series located at the Overgaden Art Center in Copenhagen, Denmark. Björn Ross, the initiator, is another networking friend from way back. a little bit more in the travelog... (screening)
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anyware / Beyond The Dream Syndicate, a hommage to Tony Conrad was a live and online collaborative sonic event at Klub Jeleni, Prague, Czech Republic. neoscenes, was invited to generate a video-sonic input into the remix. Also connected with a large happening was the shardj collective in NYC, USA as well as other participants in Brussels, Montreal, London, and elsewhere, anyware!
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choreographer and performance artist Josephine Dorado, part of the anatomix collaborative group based at deWaag in Amsterdam invited neoscenes to collab with a video stream into the live dance performance, Son(net)Subterfuge (04.04)... (documentary video)
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as a Nordic artist, I was awarded a three-month artist-in-residence grant, part of the NIFCA MediaAir program. the residency was on the island Suomenlinna, part of Helsinki, Finland, and I was attached to the Center for Music and Technology at the Sibelius Academy
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ethernity -- at the end of a 2-week intensive workshop at the University of Bremen, Department of Digital Media & Informatiks, my students created this 6-hour live/online streaming happening.
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My First Recession: Critical Internet Culture in Translation, a book by Geert Lovink, internet activist and founder of the Institute of Network Cultures, features one of the first critical surveys of "new media" education, and includes substantial commentary from an online discussion we had concerning strategies and problems in this complex social space...
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