The Data Portraits API allows you to access the Scan History collected by Data Portraits installations by yours truly and Lisa Gwilliam. It is currently a REST-like API, meaning that the apparatus for fetching data is a simple URL. There is currently only one function (getScans) with several options for grouping and response formats. Here’s a basic run down. …read more
Featuring films, videos and performances by:
Eric Cheevers, Ben Coonley, Brian Frye, Andrew Lampert, Jeanne Liotta, Yasue Maetake, Jason Martin, Erik Moskowitz & Amanda Trager, Optipus, Ray Sweeten, Cartune Xprez, Genevieve White, Seth Fragomen, Allison Somers, Courtney Fathom Sell & Billy Feldman, Henry G. Sanchez, Pia Coronel, Matthew de Leon, Steve Cossman, Erica Russo, Valerie Khoudari Ratner (w/ music by Michel Mazza), Alex Lake, Rachael Morrison, Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa, James Gannon & Joseph K. Gannon, Melissa Skluzacek, Joe Lueben, Stephanie Wuertz.
Microscope Gallery is curating the first BOS Film Festival, as part of Bushwick Open Studios 2011 and in conjunction with the BOS Music Festival. BOSFF offers 2 nights of film, music videos, YouTube channel works, live performance, and more from emerging to internationally recognized film & video artists. The 5 programs each day include: featured artist presenting & performing their works in person, group shows by artist collectives, and curated programs including Bushwick Survey, a selection of short films & videos by Bushwick area artists who responded to our call for submissions. Come have a look!
V. Carpaccio's Portrait of a young woman rendered as a Data Portrait
QR codes are images of data. They are digital entities that reside on analog materials. Furthermore, you can embed any kind of data you want in them (thank you Denso Wave!) up to 7kb numeric. I wanted to make images with these images of data. Not an image inside one bar code, but an image made up of thousands of bar codes each with discreet data. These images would contain the visual information that we interpret as humans, and they could also store a substantial amount of data that could only be interpreted by machines. The image (or actually, the material the image is printed on) is suddenly a random access floppy disk, a browser, a tracking device, a vehicle for presenting dense layers of intersecting information, and some of this information must be excavated with machines. This is where the idea for Data Portraits starts. …read more
.. to my updated website!
So, I finally broke down and switched over to a pre-fabricated “CMS”.. WordPress. What can I say. For all my technical savvy, WP seemed like a tool for dummies, and yet there it loomed, ominously, beckoning me out of my comfy custom-mysql-php safe-space.
As it it turned out, it hasn’t been too terrible. I’ve managed to port most of my custom features into a custom wordpress theme and plugin. I’ll be posting some notes about that whole process in the Internets category. I also added a Bio, CV, Contact page and Image section with stills from my videos very (very) quickly.
Video stills from some of the older work.
MICROSCOPE Gallery is a new art space specializing in the works of film, video, sound and other time-based artists. The artists we present are independent, radical, experimenters and risk takers who range from the emerging to recognized pioneers and innovators.
MICROSCOPE also offers an ongoing screening, performance, and lecture series complementing the exhibitions as well as programs that showcase other artists.
Conceived in the heat wave of 2010, MICROSCOPE is the realization of a recurrent dream, dissolving the barriers between the white walls of the gallery and the darkened setting of the cinema/concert hall/theater space.
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Ray Sweeten will be presenting material produced in residency at the Experimental Television Center, followed by a live oscilloscope/audio improvisation.
Most of his videos are driven by audio sources in varying degrees of abstraction. Video Feedback is driven by Sine Wave oscillators. Live, two-channel audio is fed into the X-Y input of an oscilloscope, creating realtime Lissajous patterns.
We’re extremely proud to present this very special visual & sound performance as the 1st of Microscope Gallery’s Events Series, which will continue three times a week, Saturday through Monday, every month, for… until we can no longer resist!