Composer | Sound Designer

Rehearsing my TweetScore for Friday’s Twine performance @ the long cente: Protos Festival.

This is a video I recently scored for ASC.

Three Junctures Of Remix opened at UCSD’s gallery@CALIT on January 17 and runs through March 15. The mixed media installation is curated by Curated by Eduardo Navas with artwork by Mark Amerika and Chad Mossholder along with Giselle Beiguelman, Arcángel Constantini, and Elisa Kreisinger. This group of international artists explore and consider the implications of the creative act of remixing. The art works crossover and explore three junctures (moments of production) of remix: the pre-digital/analog; the digital; and the post-digital. The exhibition considers how computing has changed and enabled people to recombine pre-existing material with unprecedented ease and relatively low costs. You can listen to some of the audio art and experimentation at one of the multiple artist websites. The installation celebrates truly experimental work that challenges people to look, listen, and think just a little bit differently.

Postscript: Writing After Conceptual Art features the work of over fifty artists and writers exploring the artistic possibilities of language. Presenting works from the 1960s to the present, the exhibition includes paintings, sculpture, installation, video and works on paper that raise questions about how we read, look at, hear, and process language today. A major current underlying the exhibition argues that the field of literature known as “conceptual writing” can be seen as engaging in a provocative dialogue with the field of contemporary art, producing new insights into the meaning of both literature and art. Co-curated by Nora Burnett Abrams and Andrea Andersson, Postscript is the first exhibition to examine the work of conceptual writing, investigating the roots of the movement in the art of the 1960s and 70s and presenting contemporary examples of text-based art practices.

Artists and writers featured in the exhibition include: Mark Amerika & Chad Mossholder, Carl Andre, Fiona Banner, Erica Baum, Derek Beaulieu, Caroline Bergvall, Jen Bervin, Jimbo Blachly & Lytle Shaw, Christian Bök, Marcel Broodthaers, Pavel Buchler, Luis Camnitzer, Ricardo Cuevas, Tim Davis & Robert Fitterman, Monica de la Torre, Craig Dworkin, Tim Etchells, Ryan Gander, Michelle Gay, Kenneth Goldsmith, Dan Graham, Alexandra Grant, James Hoff, Seth Kim-Cohen, Sol LeWitt, Glenn Ligon, Tan Lin, Gareth Long, Michael Maranda, Helen Mirra, Jonathan Monk, Simon Morris, João Onofre, Michalis Pichler, Paolo Piscitelli, Vanessa Place, Kristina Lee Podesva, Seth Price, Kay Rosen, Joe Scanlan, Dexter Sinister, Frances Stark, Joel Swanson, Nick Thurston, Triple Canopy, Andy Warhol, Darren Wershler, and Eric Zboya.

[ Twine, Mark Amerika, Lydia Lunch | Performance ]

[ A track composed by myself with Mark Amerika is featured in this premier issue ]

Ctrl-Z is a peer-reviewed international online journal and exhibition space from the Centre for Culture & Technology at Curtin University.

The journal flickers at the intersection of multiple possible relations between ‘new’, ‘media’ and ‘philosophy’, disrupting any notion of these being understood as a simple series of modifying terms.

To what extent, for example, do ‘new media’ represent a new concept and mode of art, or provide for radically different forms of social and political practice? What kinds of histories, social formations and aesthetic transformations may be called for or identified by ‘new media’ understood in the broadest possible sense of the term?

What does philosophy have to say about new media, given that it has never had much to say about ‘old’ media? What are the implications of media — new or old — for the objects or fields of enquiry (existence, knowledge, ethics and so on) that have traditionally been the domain of philosophy? What might a philosophy of (new) media look like? What forms and concepts might it invent?

Alternatively, have art and philosophy been made redundant by new media? Or can electronic and networked communications technologies function as new media of philosophical investigation and creative practice? Is a new philosophy (a ‘new ontology’, for instance) or a philosophy of ‘the new’ possible today and, if so, to what extent must such philosophy allow for questions of (the) media?

To what extent, too, do new media necessitate a rethinking of traditional concepts of communication and representation? If these concepts may be seen to underpin traditional ideas of community and the public (to which, historically, journalism has addressed itself), then what might new media have to say to and about contemporary political, professional and philosophical frameworks for traditional media practice?

These and similar matters — questions concerning culture and technology, as it were — are the focus of  Ctrl-Z, which welcomes creative and critical submissions in experimental, traditional or multimedia formats.

[ MUSIC and SOUND DESIGN ]

Mark Amerika ‘s new artwork has launched. Glad to have been a part of this work (I scored the videos). Other great collaborators include Rick Silva and Julie Rooney.

[ The Museum Of Glitch Aesthetics ]

Music: Chad Mossholder

Video: Rick Silva

also on:

http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/2012/04/showtime-mark-amerika-video-trailer-for-the-museum-of-glitch-aesthetics/