Turbulence Commission: This and that thought. by BFFA3AE [Needs Speakers]:

This and that thought. takes the form of a narrative. Visually, the project consists of the hex codes of the 216 web safe colors and a colorless box next to each, arranged in a grid. The arrangement is based on the van der Corput seqeunce which orders the colors from black to white through an unintuitive trajectory. The user is invited to click on any hex code which triggers an aural narration based on a fictional narrative of an episodic nature, jumping from subject to subject through connections sometimes obvious, sometimes oblique. Each segment of the narrative is visually associated to one of the colors by a reveal in sync with the narration. Continue reading

SON[I]A #116: Interview with Kenneth Goldsmith (17’48”) — poet, university professor, and founder and main editor of Ubuweb, the Internet’s largest archive of artistic avant-garde material. An underground project that has no institutional backing or budget of any kind, Ubuweb is an influential repository that is as exhaustive as it is personal, reflecting the preferences, quirks and obsessions of its creator.

SON[I]A talks to Goldsmith about the origins, ideas and operation of Ubuweb:
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Michaela Melian: Memory Loops — 300 Audio Tracks on Sites of NS Terror in Munich 1933–1945 :: A project by the Municipal Department of Arts and Culture of the City of Munich / ‘Freie Kunst im öffentlichen Raum’ in cooperation with the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation / Radio Play and Media Art Dept.

With Memory Loops, Munich is creating a virtual memorial for the victims of National Socialism. Michaela Melián’s audio work of art comprises 300 German and 175 English audio tracks which, from 23 September, 2010 onwards, can be called up under www.memoryloops.net and downloaded free of charge. Continue reading

David Rokeby, Very Nervous System (1983-) Documentary Collection — From the Introduction by Caitlin Jones and Lizzie Muller: […] “This artwork is a particularly interesting case study for the Indeterminate Archive for two reasons. Firstly, it offers an unmatched demonstration of the importance of experience in media art. Very Nervous System is, as many audience members pointed out in our interviews with them, essentially an empty room until someone walks in and activates it. It is a work that is brought into being very literally through experience.

Secondly, it is a seminal work in the history of media art, with a lifespan of more than 28 years. Its celebrity and longevity pose some particularly interesting questions about documentation and contextualisation of media artworks over time and through change. Continue reading

The Temporary Travel Office is pleased to release the first volume in its Stories in Reserve series of guide books.

The series will feature original guided tours created by artists, activists, historians and storytellers that span from polemic narrative to experimental soundscape. Taking its title from 20th Century scholar Michel de Certeau’s The Practice of Everyday Life, the series will attempt to engage with “fragmentary and inward-turning histories, pasts that others are not allowed to read.”

Stories in Reserve: Volume One presents three audio guides that take reader-listeners on journeys within the territory known as North America. Continue reading

free103point9 presents The Bike Box by Sabine Gruffat and Bill Brown :: July 16-25, 2010 :: Opening: July 16; 6:00 – 10:00 pm :: Devotion Gallery, 54 Maujer Street, Brooklyn, NY.

The Bike Box is a mobile-media bicycle library and interactive installation housed in the Devotion Gallery. The Bike Box allows participants to check out cheap, durable, technology-enhanced bikes and a free open source iPhone application developed by David Gagnon of the Games Learning Society at UW-Madison especially for this project. As participants pedal around central Brooklyn, they are able to contribute site-specific audio through the iPhone application, as well as listen to a curated collection of geo-specific sounds provided by a variety of local land-use experts, historians, poets, artists, and other interpreters. Continue reading

City as Studio: EXB 10.03 presents Ghumakkad Baaja — An open collaboration between Prayas Abhinav, Hemant Babu, Ram Bhatt and Nishant Sharma :: June 26, 2010; 6:30 pm :: Sarai-CSDS, 29, Rajpur Road, Civil Lines, Delhi, India.

Ghumakkad Baaja is a demonstration of an open and unregulated way of doing audio transmissions along with discussions about transmissions, public networks and “selling air”.

* Can we be active broadcasters and not just passive consumers? * Can we create and share audio/video content in a widely accessible way? * Could there be a platform much like satellite T.V, but in an on-the-move outdoor friendly format without needing a multi-crore license? Continue reading

[Image: Trigger Points for the composition of Michael Mastrototaro, aka MACHFELD] Audiomobile — A mobile sound installation for cities by Matt Smith and Sandra Wintner with: Eva Ursprung (A), Martin Pichler (A), Norbert Math (A), Heike Kaltenbrunner (A), Michael Mastrototaro (A), Luka Princic (SLO) :: Registration for a ride :: November 27 – December 4, 2009 :: Bad Radkersburg, Styria, Austria.

Audiomobile invites you to explore ‘Sonic Maps’ while driving around in a comfortable vehicle that encourages dialogue between a random assortment of passengers and that is equipped with a multi-channel audio system and GPS positioning system. Continue reading

The mission of the Media Fragments Working Group, part of the Video in the Web Activity, is to address temporal and spatial media fragments in the Web using Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI). It involves breaking up video so you can link to points in the timeline (deep hyperlinking), enabling video to be broken up into parts. See this.

From – Use cases and requirements for Media Fragments: Audio and video resources on the World Wide Web are currently treated as “foreign” objects, which can only be embedded using a plugin that is capable of decoding and interacting with the media resource. Continue reading

Mixed Relations | Technesexual – Mixed Reality Live Audio Performances and Workshops with Elle Mehrmand and Micha Cardenas :: October 2 (Performance @ Entijuanarte at the Centro Cultural de Tijuana (CECUT), October 4 (Performance @ Arse Elektronika X, in San Francisco), and October 15-16 (Workshop @ TURN*ON, Montreal).

Technesexual uses DIY biometric sensors that were made by hand to create live audio which will be heard in real space and virtual space at the same time. It is a Mixed Reality performance exploring relationality between people and between people and technology. Continue reading