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#fubar_expo 2k21 curator’s cut #02
The second night of Fubar video screening evenings [which can be found at the main “LIVE” session] will bring us the following work:
- Thomas Jourdan : analog Not analog [02’52”, 2021]
- Joe Gilling : Spectres of the New Realm [03’42”, 2021]
- Constant Voisin : hakuba [03’46”, 2021]
- Andre Perim : Rust in peace [07’04”, 2021]
- Andrei Jay : Prism Rain [13’11”, 2021]
- Paloma Kop : Magnetic Field Recordings [24’43”, 2021]
analog Not analog
analog Not analog is a live coding system for visuals. Based on openFrameworks and Clojure. The aNa visualization server can mix generative code fragments with different inputs channels in real-time: a WEB cam, a microphone, movie files, image sequences, a joystick or Open Sound Control messages. The visualization server is written in C++ and the OpenGL shading language.
Thomas Jourdan
I have been working with graphical algorithms since the 80s. For the first time I was able to use a drum plotter during my training. At that time you had to develop the algorithms yourself. Since then I am fascinated by generative methods, procedural textures and evolutionary strategies for computer graphics. Now I’m working on a software somewhere between digital media, glitch art and live coding.
https://metagrowing.org/
Spectres of the New Realm
Custom 6.1 surround sound array. Projected visuals.
Spectres of the New Realm is an intense and immersive experience which combines sonified data, near-defunct audio/video, and saturated human voices. The work illuminates the hidden world of digital culture. Data mining. Bots. Fake news. Information overload. Documentation obsession. All-encompassing noise, crackle, bleeps, and voices fill the space. A means of reviving dead media. An awakening to the future.
Spectres of the New Realm documents a state of modern living. Digital culture today is overwhelming and heavily saturated with information. The human brain was primitively not built for the vast cataloguing of digital data as it does now. The audio/visual piece reveals the hidden mechanics which mediate our everyday virtual interactions. It bombards the viewer with striking colours, shapes, and textures. The piece questions what the future means now, when we have effectively lost our ability to rationalise futurity though our fetishization of archaic aesthetics and total psychological immersion within the virtual.
Joe Gilling
Joe Gilling is an audio artist based in Brighton UK, known for works exploring the collision between technology and life.
Joe currently works on a variety of audio/visual projects which exploit technologies and define what it means to be human today. Whilst studying digital music and sound arts in 2018, Joe began releasing commercial digital music projects online and took on bespoke commission proposals for advertising campaigns. His approach to sound is influenced by a broad spectrum of styles, often resulting in the creation of music which adheres to no single genre.
https://www.joegillingmusic.com/
hakuba
Shot during a drive in Hakuba. i-frames were altered through python, then processed through Signal Culture’s Frame Buffer. Then, the result was imported into Davinci Resolve and re-processed with a trail effect, before getting color-graded.
Constant Voisin
Born in France, in 1996. After studying cinema for two years, I went to Japan in 2016 and started to make experimental films while learning the basics of filmmaking around the director Sono Sion. I participated to the series “ami.exe”, a narrative work including glitch art. To me, the medium is a way to express the alteration of memories and perception.
Rust in peace
Basically the work was made throughout digital deterioration and databending. Multiple consecutives copies were made using the chroma-key effect until the original image became unrecognizable and gave way to new possiblities.
Andre Perim
Andre Perim is a Musician/Multimedia Artist with a critical view of the relations between society and technology in the digital era.
https://www.andreperim.com
Prism Rain
6 video mixers and 18 video cables connecting them in an intricate lattice of neuromorphic engineering. no external video inputs were used in this project, all structures were discovered in the signal flow using various wipe patters, color correction, and geometrickal displacements. music made using a kurweil k2000, several VSTs, and amphibian songs.
Andrei Jay
Andrei Jay is a mathematician, video artist, educator, and soft/hardware designer. Andrei’s main focus is on de-emphasizing the consumerist nature of technology based art and artistic and educational communications by designing open source video synthesis systems, working heavily with “e-waste” and “dumpstered” components, and hosting a wide variety of free and donation based pre-recorded and live workshops and tutorials. Andrei’s secondary focuses include the study of nonlinear dynamics and iterative feedback systems in digital and analog signal processing chains, emergent behavior and complex systems, and analog digital hybrid video signal systems as spatio-temporal research tools Andrei would prefer no pronouns if at all possible but ‘they’ works if you absolutely require one.
https://andreijaycreativecoding.com/
Magnetic Field Recordings
Vector synthesis using Oscilloscope Graphic Artist, Phosphorm, and modular synthesizer, rescanned from Leader oscilloscope using a digital camera. Combined with footage shot Brooklyn, upstate New York, Chicago, and Central Asia from 2015-2020. Sounds were produced using the same signals used in the oscilloscope, combined with radio receivers and processed through granular resynthesis and effects. The resulting composition is a hybrid space combining the environment’s imagery and solar radiation with electronically produced signals and transmissions. We scan through various morphing geometric forms and drifting radio signals, exploring the harmonics and textures.
Paloma Kop
Paloma Kop is a video and sound artist using feedback, electronic hardware, and hybrid media processes to produce compositions, installations, and performances. She deconstructs the boundaries between material space and electronic space, and is interested in the universalities between natural phenomena, computing, and chaos. She holds an MFA in Electronic Arts from Alfred University and has performed at venues such as Ibrida*Pluri Festival, Transient Visions Film Festival, and Ambient Church.
https://palomakop.tv/
