Posted by tmemmott in Media Work, Sounds, on October 10, 2015
The QWERTY Octet is cinematic score generator developed in Flash. The application combines 80 short musical phrases to generate an abstract score that is coupled with images and text to create a pseudo=filmic environment. Each replay of the work allows the musical phrases, images and text to recombine in a different manner. The piece runs 180 […]
Posted by tmemmott in Media Work, on October 10, 2015
ONLINE AT: http://goo.gl/IdkvDS Self Portrait(s) [as Other(s)] is a recombinant portrait and biography generator. The piece recombines the self-portraits of a dozen well-known painters as well as biographical text on each. Accordingly, the generated pictorial and textual portraits are no longer self-portraits, but “selves” portraits, with subjects that are more than one. The piece deals with identity in an art-historical […]
Posted by tmemmott in Media Work, on October 10, 2015
WORK DETAIL (PDF) Lexia to Perplexia was developed 1998-1999 and debuted on the web in early 2000. The work is a deconstructive/grammatological examination of the Internet apparatus as “delivery machine,” exploring the processes and phenomena of attachment and networked being; and, as Katherine Hayles has stated, (provide) “a set of interrelated speculations about the future […]