On Space Curves as a Substrate for Audiovisual Composition
Lance Putnam / United Kingdom
University of London
In this talk, I present the use of spatial curves as a fundamental construction for audiovisual composition. Curves provide an attractive starting point for audiovisual synthesis, as they provide a natural translation between sound and graphics.
Systems for producing curves for art, design, and scientific research date back to at least the 18th century, and we see similar constructions persisting through mechanical, electronic, and digital technologies. Digital technologies break with the past allowing a precise and interactive control of these curves that allows a much more adjusted perceptual-computational circuit.
Contemporary uses of spatial curves will be presented through my own audiovisual compositions and collaborative projects, including the recent “Mutator VR” virtual reality experience that plunges the user into a multitude of procedurally generated sci-fi alien worlds.
- Date
- June 2, 2017
Sounding Conflict: Aural Experiences in the Everyday
Pedro Rebelo / United Kingdom – Portugal
This talk will present methodologies and strategies associated with recent participatory sound arts projects in the UK (Sounds of the City, Belfast), Brazil (Som da Maré, Rio de Janeiro) and Portugal (Sou Cigano, Castelo Branco). These projects explore how sound is related to ideas of place, identity and the everyday. The participatory strategies rooted in authors such as Paulo Freire and the notions of broadcast creativity (Georgina Born) inform this work that aims to affirm the sound arts as a vehicle for social intervention, documentation and change. These projects have identified the power of sound when it comes to space, territorial politics and conflicts.- Date
- June 2, 2017
Chris Marker, all the media/arts together
Raymond Bellour / France
Novelist, essayist, critic, editor, filmmaker, projector, multimedia artist, musician even, there are few fields in which Chris Marker did not excel. This conference will be devoted mainly to the series of works that, from Zapping Zone (1990) to The Hollow Men (2005), have been developed as multimedia works (installations and CD-Rom), inventing new spaces and new constellations in a work that , however, has been faithful to the cinema until the end.- Date
- June 5, 2017
The challenge and contribution of digital media to the history of today art. The idea of « anarchive »
Anne-Marie Duguet / France
The anarchive series of digital archives about and with artists such as Antoni Muntadas, Michael Snow, Thierry Kuntzel, Jean Otth, Fujiko Nakaya, Masaki Fujihata and Peter Campus, is an example of the possibilities provided by new technologies to produce other ways of thinking and making art history. Beyond the creation of singular interfaces and of comprehensive databases, several principles have to be underlined such as speed, multiple connections of different layers, modes of visualization, dynamic digital archives easy to modify and expand.d.
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- June 12, 2017
The Art of Imaging Music – Music Recording in Acoustic Spaces and in Virtual Acoustics
Martha de Francisco / Colombia
Recording engineers and music producers face particular challenges when picturing the ambient sound of large ensembles and concert performances of classical music. Throughout the development of recording technologies over the last 130 years different solutions have been proposed and applied. In the 21st century high-definition audio techniques allow innovative immersive sound recording and virtual acoustics to be explored in order to create the ultimate listening experience.
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