Andrea Polli on 18 Jul 2000 18:51:14 -0000 |
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apologies for cross postings: "Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc." wrote: > July 11, 2000 > FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE > > Andrea Polli > Rapid Fire > > Andrea Polli is one of the ten artists selected to participate in THE > FUTURE OF THE PRESENT 2000. The live art on the Internet series presented > by FRANKLIN FURNACE, in collaboration with Parsons School of Design, > Digital Design Department and the NetArt Initiative. > ____________________________________________________________ > > Rapid Fire On-Line web site premiere, Friday, July 14, 2000 > <http://www.franklinfurnace.org> > > Web traffic tracked from Friday, July 14 to Friday, July 28 > Tracking information visible on-line and in performance on Friday, July 28th > ____________________________________________________________ > > Rapid Fire is a collaborative project focusing on the exploration and > implementation of Intuitive Ocusonics, a process in which voluntary and > involuntary eye movements create a visual and aural landscape. > > Intuitive Ocusonics is the four-year effort of Andrea Polli, an > experimental programmer, sound artist, and technologist who takes social > implications of new technology to the extreme. She sees herself as a > neo-concretist, merging and re-framing ideas of concrete art, music, and > poetry. Intuitive Ocusonics melds visual and aural information through > high end data transfer and tracking technology first developed by the US > military. > > Rapid Fire On-Line turns the voyeuristic lens back on itself by tracking > the spread of information via the internet, a 'virtual fire'. For two > weeks from July 14 to July 28, visitors to Rapid Fire On-Line will be > tracked by their geographical location. After July 28th, live and > on-line animated data visualizations designed by interactive artists > Lourdes Costa and Andrea Polli will be presented for each of the seven > days' site activity, allowing a live and on-line audience to visually track > the history of the web site's traffic. > > Rapid Fire On-Line also presents documentation of performances using > Intuitive Ocusonics in the form of Quicktime video and RealAudio, and > simulations of Intuitive Ocusonics which the user can operate to create > visual poems from interactive typographic systems created by digital > designer Seun-Ju O. > > THE FUTURE OF THE PRESENT 2000 is made possible by the faith and foresight > of Jerome Foundation, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc., > the Heathcote Art Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts' > Technology Initiative, the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal > agency, and The Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology. > > Click http://www.franklinfurnace.org/links03.html > to visit 'This Month's World Wide Events'. > > ---------------------------------- > Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc. > 45 John Street, #611 > New York, NY 10038-3706 > T212.766.2606 > F212.766.2740 > http://www.franklinfurnace.org > mail@franklinfurnace.org > > Martha Wilson, Founding Director > Michael Katchen, Senior Archivist > Harley Spiller, Administrator > Tiffany Ludwig, Program Coordinator _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list Nettime-bold@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold