August 15th, 2008
We’ll see if I can’t revamp the old blog and start adding some new content, writings on work, thoughts on games and thoughts on art works I find compelling or not so compelling. Anyway stay tuned.
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August 20th, 2007
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June 25th, 2007
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May 15th, 2007
I began this project by thinking about the consequences of data that has been stored but cannot be accessed and that may be present but is not seen or heard. Thinking about intangible data led me to ask a number of questions: What is revealed when there is no data? What can be found in the gaps? What does silent data sound like? To explore these and similar questions I looked for the data surrounding data, the often overlooked data. I discovered that what is overlooked is interesting and at times revealing, and contributes something important. The hiss and scratch of a record player’s needle being set down on a vinyl record and the flicker of light and whirring of film winding through a projector are part of the retro audiovisual experience. In the digital world of CDs and DVDs the tell tale signs of media are minimized and can be overlooked, but they are not absent. The sound of a CD or DVD ejecting or spinning up to speed is an aspect of the digital experience of music and movies, which depend on mechanical components.
To create Ode To FaceBook I recorded and looped the sounds that everyone tends to ignore when leaving comments, tagging photos and reading messages online. The composition includes the sounds of scanning images, zooming a camera, plugging in a computer and peripherals, clicking and scrolling through profiles, typing a password, and ejecting a photo CD. In the tradition of John Cage, I refocus attention to present the unheard sounds, but have done so in a digital world, not a concert hall. The silent data of FaceBook is amplified and transformed into music.
Conversation Pause amplifies present but ignored sounds in a thirteen minute cell phone conversation. I often call my dad when I am going somewhere, and he tells that he knows when I am talking and walking because the phone amplifies the background noise when I am not speaking. The microphone is voice activated. When the sound of my voice drops off, the volume on the microphone increases automatically, making the phone sensitive to the sounds around me. These sounds are recorded during breaks in the conversation. These indistinct sounds often prompt the question, “Are you still there?” Data fills the gaps of the conversation, and the data is meaningful. It reveals location as well as presence or absence.
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May 9th, 2007
this is just a color proof of “lets just ba-bomb the mushroom kingdom,” tonight I’ll be printing a few more then transferring found headlines over the image.
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April 30th, 2007
Reading Bush’s “As We May Think” made me think about the consequences of data that can and cannot be accessed. Cage’s “Lecture on Nothing” made me think about data that is not heard or not seen. Inaccessible data and unheard sounds are alike and can have the same effect. Cage recognized that something can be found in silence. The silence, like the sound, is data. This has triggered a few new questions. What is revealed when there is no data? What can be found in the gaps? What does silent data sound like? What does the unseen data look like? How do missing parts of profiles constitute identities?
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April 30th, 2007
The first design for my Super Weapons of Mass Distraction series. This print is “lets just ba-bomb the mushroom kingdom.” Carving of 4 blocks is done, printing will begin this week.
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