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#20, July 2015
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This article
surveys past practices of designed systems that
have addressed the creative production of
soundscape, the 'positive' vector of soundscape
activity relative to the 'negative' critique of
noise, annoyance and environmental degradation.
Identifying thirty such systems ranging from
research prototypes to commercial platforms to
mobile apps to artworks, this paper proposes the
term Mobile
Augmented Soundscape as an umbrella
category to summarize and crystallize a
tradition of practice that can inform and guide
new configurations through the development of
wearable technologies.
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This essay
reflects the role of sound and listening in
dance-theatre, music theatre and live art by
taking a closer look at an influential recent
publication, Composed Theatre. Aesthetics,
Practices, Processes (2012), edited by
Matthias Rebstock and David Roesner. Drawing
attention to current experiments in multi-media
performance and the dissemination of particular
techniques of embodiment (cf. Min Tanaka's 'body
weather' practice and its focus on listening to
the environment), the author then offers a
detailed critique of the compositional and
performative strategies, and especially the
processual devising of sound, that are featured
in the book on composed theatre.
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The theory of
computation is concerned with the limits and
nature of what is possible in computing.
It is a useful theory to artists whose medium is
computing; it helps them understand how far/near
the horizons of digital art are. It is
philosophically profound and links the work of
Godel, Turing, and the synthesis of philosophy,
logic, and mathematics. Familiarity with the
theory of computation should be an important
part of any significant philosophy of computer
art.
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In this essay the
metaphor of the cyborg - which currently exists
as a powerful symbol for human-machine
interaction in our digital society - is used to
analyse the practice of generative computer art,
which according to Philip Galanter is: "any art
practice where the artist uses a system, such as
a set of natural language rules, a computer
program, a machine, or other procedural
invention, which is set into motion with some
degree of autonomy contributing to or resulting
in a completed work of art."
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Cyborg theory was
supposed to allow human bodies to become more
harmonious with the extremes of outer space. But
a side effect was that it made us more
harmonious with human life on this planet.
Aspects of high-fidelity audiophile sound were
born from the same research attempting to
prepare humans for zero-gravity, and while today
we do not all carry nuclear oxygen-exchangers
inside of us, urban life is inseparable from a
pair of headphones.
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By analyzing the
work "The Pirate Cinema" by artist Nicolas
Maigret - a live streaming of file sharing
activities on networks using the BitTorrent
protocol - this article addresses some important
issue such as the visual representation of the
peer-to-peer systems and the schizophrenic yet
hyper-controlled and surveilled way we access
contents and data on the internet.
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Technology
has changed the way we read, write and
learn. For example, eBooks have changed
the publishing industry and grammar
check technology silently shapes our
writing, while in the field of digital
humanities researchers are constantly
developing new theories and tools that
will shape the future of education. In
this ever-changing panorama, 'anarchic
trollism' collides with Wikipedia's
'positivistic darwikinism': the two
different philosophies that will be
contextualized and briefly analyzed in
the following article.
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The
digital scene has brought about a change
in many people's relation to social
phenomena as well as building
conventions surrounding contemporary
art. The text attempts to
establish a background for digital art
scene and examine some of the various
attitudes and practices involved
curators may have regarding quality
assessment and selection criteria.
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