Theodore Darst is curating a video screening this Saturday December 11th at Infoporn II (@ The Co-Prosperity Sphere) in Chicago from 8pm. Along with some other great works, I Am Sitting In A Room + Remix will be screening. If you haven’t checked it out already you should go to this!
During a few beers at GLI.TC/H a few months ago myself and notendo noticed the arcade machine in the corner was totally glitching out!
These kind of natural glitches happen all around us every day when we least expect it, but if you’re lucky enough to have caught these glitches on camera submit it to the Glitch Safari group and help create a map of glitches!
There’s groups on Flickr and Vimeo for you to submit to. Submissions are left open, but just be sure your image is of a found glitch and, for extra points, geotag it and describe where you found it.
Happy snapping!
Planning any sort of meeting? Don’t leave it to common sense to decide on the most appropriate time, use this random date generator instead!
Originally built for a.a.s, you can download a copy for yourself. Once loaded press Enter to stop on a date. The date is generated in the format dd/MM/yy/hh/mm/ss. You’ll need Processing and the Commodore 64 font (convert it using Processing), though you can use any font if you want.
On Wednesday 27th October I did a performance at Birmingham City University as part of my studies in Digital Arts in Performance. For this performance I wanted to look at the environment and conditions you need in order for errors to occur and to observe them. In order to observe an error you need a very rigid system and regularity. When there’s something that breaks this pattern you know it’s an error.
In this performance each person was given a Stylophone Beatbox, a pair of headphones that played a metronome and sheet music to read from. I acted as a performer and conductor, although my only instructions were when to begin and end, to read the sheet from left to right and play to repeatedly. The errors in this system occurred due to our individual interpretations of the instructions given to us and lack of understanding of the instrument. An instrument can take years to master and, although the level learning curve is claimed to be quite low, the Stylophone is still a difficult instrument to master, as demonstrated.
You can find each of these scores on UploadDownloadPerform.net
Song for Stylophone Beatbox - Song by Victor Smith for Rolf Harris Song for Stylophone Beatbox - Hate Me Now Song for Stylophone Beatbox - Amen Break
Changing Room is being showcased as part of Sonorities Festival of Contemporary Music and The Two Thousand + Ten symposium from November 4-7th.
You may remember this piece from last year at Eastside Projects. Unlike last time instead of one artist having a week to develop work this time a group of artists will have a day to produce something.
Myself, Ana Benlloch and Rachel Darke will be building and showcasing our work in the space on Saturday 6th November with a ritual ‘performance’ taking place from around 1pm
Changing Room will be showcased at Sonic Arts Research Centre. The ritual will be taking place simultaneously at Transitional Space in Second Life and at The Cage in Walsall from around 1pm. If you intend to take part in the ritual at Walsall get there for around 12pm.