Posted on: April 7, 2016
A series of digital decompositions, or ‘glitch’ works. These captured still images of decomposed digital video imagery are generated automatically by a computer using malfunctioning or obsolete codecs, or digital media compression and decompression software scripts.
Posted on: April 7, 2016
Radio News is a site-specific art installation consisting of approximately twenty digital alarm clock radios. (depending on the installation space). The radios are arranged into suspended columns of differing heights, and receive transmissions containing individual words cut from the latest global financial news headlines. These words are spoken by a remote synthetic voice and broadcast at randomly generated frequencies via a digitally controlled FM radio transmitter. This results in a frequency controlled three-dimensional sound diffusion system, where synthetically… read more
Posted on: April 7, 2016
In Lucier”s Vespers (1972), Collins (2010) describes his experience of performing this as a sonic architectural portrait. A reconnection of sound to physics, architecture, animal behavior. Here, he claims that Lucier linked sound with animal survival, sound as a human instinct. We can draw analogies with Lucier””s other work here such as Quasimodo the Great Lover (1970) where the story of experience has been compressed into a concentrated form, a compressing of time if you like, leaving us with… read more