Posted on: August 27, 2013
Posted on: April 7, 2016
Performance software application (2012) My Computer Is Sitting In A Room is a synthetic and technical reimagining of Alvin Lucier”s I Am Sitting In A Room. Here a computer speaks the words from Lucier’s original script and records, and replays itself doing so, over and over again. In this particular performance you can hear the small internal speaker of the laptop beginning to distort as the resonant feedback of the piece increases. This is the laptop”s own response to… read more
Posted on: April 8, 2016
‘Great technology is beautiful technology” (Gelerntner in Brummett 1999) One only has to picture the image of Apple”s iPod and iPhone, or look around at any of the technology in your immediate environment right now to appreciate that we are surrounded by pleasing, clean, free-flowing curves with minimalist controls, switches and buttons. Brummett (1999) suggests that we also have a sensory relationship with our technological objects, and therefore we can appreciate the decayed machine just… read more