Ocean Voices by Halsey Burgund with Wallace J. Nichols: “I am using the website to not only collect voices of people from around the world talking about their experiences with the ocean, but also to create dynamic audio collages combining these voices with instrumental music. But I need many many more voices from all sorts of people from all around the planet, so please check it out, speak your mind, and share it with your friends!

The second part of Ocean Voices will be a performance taking place at the California Academy of Sciences in June, 2010 to celebrate World Ocean Month as well as the 100th anniversary of Jacques Cousteau’s birth. Several of Jacques’ grandchildren will be in attendance and we’re hoping that this combination of conservation and art/music will help open people’s eyes to the importance of the oceans to the overall health of life on this planet.”

Works & Process at the Guggenheim presents Levels of Nothingness — a performance-installation by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, featuring Isabella Rossellini :: September 17, 19, 20, 21, 2009; 7:30 pm :: Peter B. Lewis Theater, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Avenue, New York City.

Levels of Nothingness, co-written by philosopher Brian Massumi, is inspired by Vasily Kandinsky’s explorations of synaesthesia, most notably in his Yellow Sound (1912), a composition in which he proposes linking the senses using levels of abstraction. Lozano-Hemmer employs a computerized microphone to analyze live voice in real time and extract physical and linguistic data that, in turn, controls a full rig of rock-and-roll concert lights, creating a color show that surrounds the theater. Continue reading

Golan Levin makes art that looks back at you
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Iraq Lullaby Service is a singing syndication service provided by kanarinka for Iraqi blogs during 2009, the year in which the US is to begin ending its occupation of Iraq. Continue reading

Relation entrecoupée | A fragmented relation. from Annie Abrahams on Vimeo.

A webcam mediated conversation treated to reveal the significance of void in regular human intercourse. (2009) 15 min. Subtitles in English. Continue reading

Post-Anatomical Architectures - Microdances - Undoing the PanChoreographic — a 2-Day Workshop with Jaime del Val/REVERSO and Common Body :: May 9, 2009; noon - 8:00 pm + May 10; 11:00 am - 3:00 pm :: MediaLab Prado, Madrid :: Call for Participation — email jaimedelval [at] reverso.org.

Surveillance cameras are placed on the skin, pointing to the skin, in different places anywhere on the body, becoming an interface (or intrabody) in an interactive system (or intra-active body) for the performance/ metaformance of Microdances. The nearly legible abstract moving fragments of the body are projected like an architecture, onto buildings as an urban intervention, or indoors, producing an immersive space. Always look at the projection as you move, let the projection move you. Continue reading

In 2008 Mexican artist, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, created an art installation in memory of the terrible student massacre that took place in Tlatelolco 40 years earlier.

Participants speak freely into a megaphone placed where the massacre took place on the ‘Plaza de las Tres Culturas’. Based on the volume of the voices, the brightness of a 10kW searchlight is altered. As the searchlight hits the top of the building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, it spawns three additional searchlights, one pointed to the north, one to the southeast towards Zócalo Square, and one to the southwest towards the Monument to the Revolution. Continue reading

Primal Source (video documentation) from haque d+r on Vimeo. Continue reading

Seeming somewhat gimmicky at first, “Taiwa Hensokuki,” a 2006 work by Mohri Yuko, is comprised of two IBM laptop computers that have speech synthesis software installed - one set to move from text to speech; the other set to speech recognition. Mohri’s work, included in the Extended Senses exhibition, provides a new setting for a technological function by challenging the computers to interact with themselves rather than with the typical human user. The two wall-mounted computers are set up to have a conversation by transmitting and exchanging their data, which in turn cycles and morphs into something mundane and incoherent. In fact, Taiwa means ‘dialog’ in Japanese, and Hensokuki can be translated as ‘transmission.’ Continue reading

Mother’s Day by Smadar Dreyfus :: September 13 - November 8, 2008 :: Extra City Center for Contemporary Art, Tulpstraat 79, 2060 Antwerp, Belgium.

Extra City is delighted to announce the premiere of Mother’s Day (2006 – 08), a multi-channel sound and video installation by Smadar Dreyfus (1963 Tel Aviv, lives and works in London). Following on from her seminal large scale installation Lifeguards (premiered at the 9th Inter-national Istanbul Biennial, 2005), Mother’s Day is part of Dreyfus’ investigation into the role of the voice in the constitution of contested public spaces, as well as its function as a mediator between individual and collective and its implication in the negotiation of cultural perspective. Continue reading