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LAB[au] Manuel Abendroth
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lab[au] invited with the sPACE,navigable music ...> online project for the soundtoys 'convergence' exhibition and included in the online database http://www.soundtoys.net ...> , a website for new experiments in audio visual media, sound and interactive art. about convergence
......jump to ...> Convergence -The Soundtoys exhibition.2002. Convergence - new audiovisual experiences online and offline. A showcase of artists who use new musical interfaces and explore the audiovisual. Curated by Stanza. Convergence the
soundtoys exhibition is being shown at the ICA in London as part of
the Cybersonica festival at the new media centre from june 5 th to mid
july. ...> The exhibition showcases artists who use new musical interfaces and explore new media for creative purposes. The exhibition reflects the current fascination with creatives from all disciplines focusing on new media and software for audio visual expression. Many artists are developing their own programs, pushing beyond the boundaries of the standard new media technologies, and standard interfaces. Overall the soundtoys site is here to explore and have fun with. No doubt you will find the many technologies a hassle, and your machine might crash, but maybe this is also the point when artists push technologies. The artists fascination with new technology has devloped so fast that artists have to write their own software and develop their own technology in order to overcome the limits of current interactive media, to enable the 'new' to take form. The merging of the audio and the visual is increasingly becoming a central issue in the development of interactive media. Web artists are fusing the arts, incorporating a wide range of approaches to the medium of the Internet and audio visual practice. Artists are producing new audio visual experiences, and this includes art, games, generative music and interactive environments. Advances in computer and online technologies have provided a whole new way of artistic expression and experience which incorporates opportunities for non-linear experience and interactivity as well as this convergence. Artists are attracted to a sense of connection and convergence which is one of several qualities inherent to the Internet as a medium for creative expression; sound,visual effect, time, movement and interaction all provide new parameters for the development of contemporary art. Artists have always been influenced by technology. The convergence of hardware and software has enabled many types of creatives to meet or converge. We are now seeing the emergence of a new art form. As this newness unfolds a history will unfold with it. At the moment there is a blurring of the boundaries as many approaches are adopted, and this is confused further because of the constantly changing and developing nature of technologies which also allows for the artwork themselves to change. We are starting to see a much bigger emphasis on works that generate and evolve. Formal relationship to art will change as the artists relationship to the process changes. Online, we have net.art - artists that are specifically addressing the uses and abuses of the Internet as a medium for creative expression. Within this context artists are exploring many technologies including shockwave, flash, vrml and java. And offline we see more application driven interface experiments using technologies such as max, super collider, and exploiting multi user systems, generative audio, and graphics displays. This exhibition addresses the blurring of these boundaries and presents artists working at the edge of software development and arts practise and the new musical interface. The exhibition offers insights into the diverse and creative nature of the web which is available to today's artists. These works could been seen as a new art form, or as a contribution to the new music and electronica. txt from the www-site In recognition of the pioneering experimental works continually being produced by artists for the internet Soundtoys.net has been established to provide a space for the exhibition of exciting new works by a growing community of audio visual artists, while also providing a forum for discourse around new technologies and the nature of interactive media. The site is intended to provide a meeting point for this growing community of artists and users, and in addition to the exhibition of audio visual projects, the site contains areas for artists interviews, links to resources, and texts by contributing writers where serious issues around interactive arts, audio visual synthesis, generative art, and a history of interactivity are discussed. Hopefully it is a fun and entertaining site to visit , while also providing valuable information for all parties. Soundtoys (www.soundtoys.net) may take the form of art, games, generative music, interactive environments, shockwave movies, etc. They might be described as the fusion of audio and visual output through new technologies made available for the internet. But because this site intends to encourage the expansion of the possibilities of this new media, hard and exclusive definitions are avoided, and each contributing artist to the exhibition is invited to provide their own views to help develop the dialectic. The soundtoys site offers insights into the diverse and creative nature of the web which is available to todays 'creatives'. Increasing numbers of these artists are exploring, researching and playing within the parameters of the medium: Designers, painters, film makers, installation artists, writers, photographers, printmakers, musicians, each bringing to the online audio visual domain their own intent, their skill set, their history. So many threads are interweaving to make this rich ever-evolving tapestry. This diversity which is inherent to the internet is reflected not least in the variety of technologies explored in the works showing on the soundtoys site. The internet has become the the leading economic and artistic tool for our age. Words like 'emergence' are used to explain the propulsion of these medias into our daily lives. Convergence is used to describe the meeting of medias,and their the fusion through new technology. Our exhibition series and website is for artists to explore the paradigm of audio visual practice. The soundtoys site features a journal section which aims to provide a forum for debate around the creative use of new technologies for the internet, past, present and future. All interested parties - artists, writers, programmers, scientists, philosophers - are encouraged to post their related essays, texts, articles and debates, and we envisage that this journal will become a valuable reference and research tool which will inform current practice and future development. txt from the www-site Soundtoys.net currently features contributions from these artists..... area3 .. ian andrews .. jim andrews .. amy alexandra .. bakteria. detlef bursiek. julian baker. beth carey .. gregoire clique. steven clark. jonah brucker cohen. corby and baily .. trip dixon .. carla diana .. eric deis . duodecimo . flx. martin franklin .. andy forbes .. ana galkina. michiel van der haagen .. andy huntington .. leafcutter john . brian judy . andy greenwood. ixi . mickel knaven. john klima. shirin kouladjie .. simon lalli .. labau .. golin levin .. christina mcphee .. hidekazu minami .. jey malaiperuman. wade marynowsky. richard mullarky .. jason nelson .. glorious ninth .. photon. emilie pitoiset .. tina la porta pelado. perestroika. peter luining .. benjamin louis .. rikard lundstedt .. rechord. adam rogers. semiconductor. sascha. jonathan snyder .. antoine schmitt .. greg sidel .. barry smylie .. yoshi sodeoka .. soda . squidsoup .. stanza .. submeta .. michael szpakowski. brad todd. toxi .. tomoo. peter traub .. michael trommer .john webb ade ward. andy wilson. john woodward .. jeff wookey .. chris yewell Special thanks to all those artists and contributors and everyone that sent in material ....thanks...stanza |
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