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Distraction And Feedback: Sound, Noise And Movement In Aotearoa New Zealand, Su Ballard
Distraction And Feedback: Sound, Noise And Movement In Aotearoa New Zealand, Su Ballard
Su Ballard
If sound is a material and digital media have lead images toward a realm where they engage materiality at a deeply coded level, then it is only logical that at some point sound and image will meet on similar ground. In Aotearoa New Zealand artists playing with and shifting the distinct materialities of sound and image enabled by, and in response to, digital technologies have generated significant bodies of work. Much of this work does not only cross the boundaries of sound and image but blurs their material distinctions. This short essay focuses on some recent installations by artists Nathan …
Information, Noise And Et Al, Su Ballard
Information, Noise And Et Al, Su Ballard
Su Ballard
At their most simplistic, there are two means for shifting information around - analogue and digital. Analogue movement depends on analogy to perform computations; it is continuous and the relationships between numbers are keyed as a continuous ordinal set. The digital set is discrete; moving one finger at a time results in a one-to-one correspondence. Nevertheless, analogue and digital are like the two companions in Serres' tale. Each suffers the relationship of noise to information as internal rupture and external interference. In their examination of historical constructions of information, Hobart and Schiffman locate the noise of the analogue within its …
Old Noise, New Sounds: Sonic Explorations In Gallery Spaces, Su Ballard
Old Noise, New Sounds: Sonic Explorations In Gallery Spaces, Su Ballard
Su Ballard
Leon Narbey's electronic sound and light installation Real Time opened . New Plymouth's Govett-Brewster Art Gallery in February 1970. It was a noisy exhibition. Fluorescent and neon lights constructed flickering visual spaces, swathes of black polythene disguised all internal architecture, and recording microphones and movement triggers transferred sounds from one space to another. It was simultaneously disorientating and exhilarating. Real Time was a major installation in a minor location. Outside the centres of an already. peripheral country, Real Time raised the possibility of networked electronic installation transgressing the mainstreams of both "gallery art and media art." It did this by …
Information, Noise, Et Al., Susan Ballard
Information, Noise, Et Al., Susan Ballard
Su Ballard
Divided into three sections, Error brings together established critics and emerging voices to offer a significant contribution to the field of new media studies. In the first section," Hack," contributors explore the ways in which errors, glitches, and failure provide opportunities ...