Artist(s): S/N Coalition

Bio:
S/N Coalition is an electronic art group, which works extensively with video, sound, animation, photography and locative media. Their exhibitions often include
performative elements and mediated footage, pushing both experimental and conceptual ideas around media. S/N members include Jennida Chase and Hassan Pitts who have been creating collaborative work together since 2008.

Project Information:
The Handy-Video remix collection is a new media project in which S/N Coalition remix the urban landscape of Berlin. The remixes are video/sound-hybrids, which visually feature street art and sonically feature various neighborhoods, transportation systems and markets. Over 150 remixes were installed back in to the cityscape via QR-Codes. The codes are accessible via internet enabled CCD devices (such as cell phones and mp3 players).

Artist E-mail Address: jumpcutjen@yahoo.com
Website: www.signaltonoisecoalition.com
Taubman Museum: www.taubmanmuseum.org/main/exhibitions/watch-it-video-art

Artist(s): Alejandro Schianchi

Bio:
Theorist, professor, and artist, lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He’s candidate for Master in Electronic Arts, graduate from the University of Cinema in B.A. in Cinematography, he’s also an Electronic Technician in Computers. Professor in several fields in the Electronic Arts career at the University of Tres de Febrero, has also teached at University of Buenos Aires in the Faculty of Architecture and Design, University of Cinema, Cievyc and University Maimónides. Has made installations, videos, photographies, videosculptures, performances, and has shown his works in Germany, USA, Canada, Spain, Romania, Denmark, Slovenia, Peru, Brazil, and in the most well know places in Argentina. Won a mention in the Limbo award of Electronic and New Media prize in conjunction with the Espacio Fundación Telefónica and the Buenos Aires Museum of Modern Art.
Has made presentations about Art & Technology in ‘Cátedra UNESCO de Turismo Cultural’, AAMNBA, 2009; ‘Medida Italiana: Videoarte Italiano’, Espacio Fundación Telefónica, 2010; ‘GLI.TC/H’, Chicago, USA, 2010; ‘Pursuit: Failure Symposium’, Berlín, Germany, 2010; ‘ISEA 2011’, Istanbul, Turkey; among others.

Project Information:
Using code to generate a three dimensional shape that moves exactly the same volume to a real-world geographic location, as determined by the axes of latitude, longitude, and height chosen. Using a mobile device (smartphone) with Internet connection capability, GPS, camera, and Layar application installed you can display the virtual object located in real space.

The physical movement of the body of the viewer with his/her device to the point where is located the virtual object requires us to think of a real mapping to a virtual overlay. The user / viewer is forced to display physical movement to get a virtual production “hosted” on the Internet is not common, since all of your data is presumed to be accessible equally to all geographical locations connected to it, without the need to physically go to them.
On the contrary, from the point of view of the project, which places the objects in the world does not need to move, because with only the numbers for desired latitude and longitude can place the object anywhere in the world.

The places (until now) are:

- Galería Arte x Arte (Bs. As., Argentina)
- Centro Cultural General San Martín (Bs. As., Argentina)
- MALBA (Bs. As., Argentina)
- Galerías Pacífico (Bs. As., Argentina)
- Guggenheim Museum (N. Y., EEUU)
- Centre Pompidou (París, Francia)
- ZKM (Karlsruhe, Alemania)

More Information: schianchi.com.ar/obras/sintitulo2011.html
Artist E-mail Address: schianchi@gmail.com

Artist(s): Anaisa Franco

Bio:
Anaisa Franco, 1981. Work as an artist. Since 2006 she has been developing works in Medialabs and residences at Medialab Prado, Mecad, MIS, Hangar, Taipei Artist Village and Mediaestruch. She has been exhibiting in America, Europe and Asia as 5th Seoul International Media Art Bienalle, Seoul, Korea. ARCOmadrid, Vision Play at Medialab PRADO, Sonarmática at CCCB, Barcelona, Spain. Tekhné at MAB and Mostra LABMIS in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Live Ammo in MOCA, Taipei. SLOW at Plymouth Art Centre at England, and many others. She has a Master in Digital Art and technology at University of Plymouth in England and graduated in Visual Arts at FAAP in Sao Paulo. She creates robotic sculptures that interconnect the physical with the digital, re-signifying concepts of psychology, providing behaviors, imagination and feelings for the sculptures.

Project Information:
Connected Memories (2007), is a machine that symbolically function processing and bringing to the conscious level stored remembering. The work structure is made by a database in expansion that stores memories in form of narrations and audio visual.
The installation is formed by two transparent light sensible sculptures that dialogue between each other, exchanging memories, feelings and remembering. Each head has a Bluetooth and the people could interfere in the dialogue by sending text messages and videos using their mobile devices. The system immediately reproduces the files through a synthetic voice and TV, which are stored, been part of the head’s collective unconscious memory database. The heads also emit feelings that are expressed through light intensities that feel the user presence in the space.

Colaborators:
Jordi Puig (Programming Max Msp)
Eduard Aylon (Programming Arduino)
Theo Firmo (Voice and Music)
Claudia Dorei (English and Portuguese Voice)
Claudia Missura (Portuguese Voice)
Carol Lee and her friends (Korean Voice) Recorded at NelsonStudios

Special Thanks to everybody who collaborate and took part in this project.
Jordi Puig, Vanina Hofman, Berta Diaz, Perla Montelonga, Eduard Aylon, Theo Firmo, Juliana Mundim, Maarten Bertheux, Joo Yun Lee, Gabriela Greeb, Nelson Nicastro, Claudia Missura, Claudia Dorei and everybody who participate.

More Information: anaisafranco.com/projects_connected.html
Artist E-mail Address: anaisafranco@gmail.com

Artist(s): Leila Nadir and Cary Peppermint (aka ecoarttech)

Bio:
We, Leila Nadir and Cary Peppermint, founded ecoarttech in 2005 to explore environmental issues and convergent media from an interdisciplinary perspective. Leila earned her PhD in literature from Columbia University in 2009 and was Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow in Environmental Humanities at Wellesley College in 2010-2011. Cary is Assistant Professor of Digital Art at University of Rochester and has created new media art for over twenty years. His works are in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, Walker Art Center, Rhizome.org at the New Museum for Contemporary Art, and Computer Fine Arts.

Our collaborative explores what it means to be a modern ecological being amidst networked environments, including biological systems, global cultural exchanges, international commerce, industrial grids, digital networks, and the world wide web. Merging primitive with emergent technologies, we investigate the overlapping terrain between “nature,” built environments, mobility, and electronic spaces. Our recent work includes commissions for the Whitney Museum of American Art, Turbulence.org, and University of North Texas and exhibitions/performances at MIT Media Lab, Smackmellon Gallery, European Media Art Festival, Exit Art Gallery, and Neuberger Museum of Art.

As former New Yorkers living upstate but with continual contact with NYC, we are intrigued by the effects of city-country relationships on the artistic imagination, especially with rural spaces becoming increasingly networked. In 2011, we will be “off-the-grid” artist-residents at Joya: Arte+Ecología, in an Eastern-Andalusian national park. We are also at work launching our own residency program in the Maine mountains where new media practitioners will be invited to make art in networked treehouses.

Project Information:
Indeterminate Hikes + (IH+) is an Android app that transforms everyday landscapes into sites of bio-cultural diversity and wild happenings. Generally devices of rapid communication and consumerism, smartphones are re-appropriated by IH+ as tools of environmental imagination and meditative wonder, renewing awareness of intertwining biological, cultural, and media ecologies and slowing us down at the same time.

The app works by importing the rhetoric of wilderness into virtually any place accessible by Google Maps and encouraging its users to treat these locales as spaces worthy of the attention accorded to sublime landscapes, such as canyons and gorges. This project extends from ecoarttech’s belief that ecological awareness must be based in the places that humans actually live, not just in relatively uninhabited natural spaces. We also believe it is essential that conversations about environmental sustainability and ecological management be democratized through the arts, and not only considered within a scientific context.

Artist(s) URL: www.ecoarttech.net
Artist E-mail Address: lcnadir [at] gmail [dot] com

Artist(s): MissPixels

Bio:
Born in Quebec, Canada, MissPixels has flourished in the Visual Arts community for over 20 years. Being an illustrator for iStockPhoto and Getty Images, graphic designer and freelance art director, she then turned to the iPhone in 2009 as her main medium for artistic expression.

In 2010, Wired Magazine named two of her pieces “Best SmartPhone Photo”. Meanwhile, the MoMA (Museum of Modern Art of New-York) tweeted about her famous piece “4th of July” to its 400,000 followers. Two years later, she becomes the first iPhoneography artist worldwide to give a TEDx talk, adding to her long list of accomplishments.

Receiving worldwide recognition for her work in iPhoneography, she has become the Canadian reference in Mobile Art. MissPixels has participated in several exhibitions in countries such as Italy, Australia, the United States, Canada and Spain. She has received countless accolades and has given conferences and workshops in London, Montreal as well as New York City and Barcelona. Always willing to share her vision and inspiration, she actively gives back to the artistic community through numerous interviews in various newspapers, magazines and books.

Project Information:
Just before reaching REM sleep, our brain is imaged through data and feverishly fighting to stay in action. The states intersect, object, action. I work as a rural landscape EEG mapping stylized the state of my brain when taking pictures. Between the excitement and the contemplative state, the landscape has a different pictorial diagram.

Artist E-mail Address: hello@misspixels.com

Artist(s): Annie Wan

Bio:
Annie Wan (PhC, Center For Digital Arts & Experimental Media (DXARTS), University of Washington, Seattle US) is an international contemporary artist, often creates artworks concern with a notion of what is the “intra-relationship” between spaces and sites, materials and immaterial, inter-relationship between the site and the context. Her works have been exhibited at festivals in Europe, Asia and North America, including Art+Communication Festival 2004 (Riga, Latvia), Multimedia Art Asia Pacific Conference 2004 (Singapore), ZeroOne/ ISEA 2006 (San Jose, US) and French Pavilion in 10th Venice Architecture Biennale (Venice, Italy). In 2010, She works as an Artist-in-Resident at Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Science (IAMAS), Japan.

Project Information:
Around the Corner presents a telematic software art which engages physical spaces. It is a locative iphone application, structured around the manifestation of locative animations in hybrid space.

When users launch this semi-autonomous software, their current locations will be marked on the map and they will be uploaded to a internet server, together with their current date and time. The server side software will analyze features of users’ locations and match with the texts, generated via markov chain algorithm, based on Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities. Then, random place marks with generative texts will be placed on users’ maps automatically.

Each line of generative text will be matched with a clip of pre-recorded video or audio on the server. Their matching processes will be based on feature analysis of the audiovisuals. When the users click on a particular place mark, s/ he can listen/ view that matched audio or video clip. The entire algorithmic process will be started again when the users click “update location” button.

The plot of the interactive narrative is simple, imagine you are supposed to meet someone on the street but can’t him/ her at a particular time.

Artist E-mail Address: anniewan@uw.edu

Artist(s): Hector Leiv

Bio:
Hector Leiva is a Brooklyn-based artist using networking systems as a means of investigating the complex relationships between memory and time. From installation-based work to mobile applications, he works on creating opensystems that allows for audience interaction to further question their own relationships with memory and time. He graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art with a BFA and MFA in 2008 and 2011 respectively.

Project Information:
The Matter of Memory is continuously developing piece that investigates the relationship between the creation of memories and the physical space that embodies them. Using a smart-phone as the platform to allow the user to record sound and have it tethered to their GPS location, anyone running this app can record his or her memories within a place of importance. Uploading their memory will allow other people to listen to it on the condition that any other user must be within 100 feet of the place of initial recording to listen to it. This physical constraint of the 100-foot radius in order to listen to a digital recording is a method to engage in an experience that focuses on how the physical spaces we move through contain history and their own memories. These memories left by individuals have their own importance, which shouldn’t be ignored when analyzed against “objective” history.

Artist E-mail Address: hexxorleiva@gmail.com

Artist(s): Rosângela Ap

Bio:
Rosangela Ap was born in 1977 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. She is an artist, designer, researcher, teacher andindependent curator. Bachelor of Visual Arts (2009), with a degree in Visual Arts (2009) at the Art Institute of UNESP, Sao Paulo. Now, she makes the course of Master of Arts (2011-2013) at Unesp. CAPES scholarship (2011-2013). Since 1996 she participates in art shows and his works are present in the Musée deL’Elisée (Switzerland) and other institutions as well as appear in print and online catalogs.

Project Information:
Projeto Panorâmicas 360º
The project aims at producing 360 degree panoramic images from image capture with mobile devices, mostly mobile phones, questioning the ownership and use of these images by artists or by users. Since 2006, the developed images – digital, print or videographic – are displayed in art shows both in the context of art and technology and site-specific or relations with the urban landscape.

Artist E-mail Address: rosangelaap@gmail.com

Artist(s): Aaron Oldenburg

Bio:
Aaron Oldenburg is a game designer and new media artist whose primary interest is in game rules as an expressive medium. His video and interactive work has exhibited in festivals and galleries in New York, Berlin, São Paulo and Los Angeles, including SIGGRAPH and FILE Electronic Language International Festival.

Project Information:
Make an invisible world visible by making noise. In a “blind” game without sound, use your voice to find your way.

Chase a man through a maze and inscribe your voice on his body.

It was created for the June 2011 Experimental Gameplay Project challenge, “MASHUP”. It is an echolocation-based video game with a voice-activated silent soundscape. The intention is to make visuals that are rendered in the way that audio is experienced.

“[L]ike the fire, sound is always coming into and going out of existence, evading the continuous presence that metaphysics requires; like the fire also, sound is heard and felt simultaneously, dissolving subject and object, interior and exterior. Like the river, sound cannot be called “the same” since it changes at every point in its movement through a space; yet like “Soul,” it does not strictly belong to the object. Nor can sound’s source and ending be defined, for it originates as already multiple, a “mix,” which makes it impossible to speak of “a” sound without endangering the structure of Western thought itself.” – Frances Dyson, Sounding New Media

This game requires a built-in microphone.

Additional Projects:
Title: small spaces
Project Information: Escape large crowds by virtually hiding in a small space nearby.
Status: View Project Information
Medium: Unity3D
Device(s): iOS

Title: ThatTimeIAlmostDiedAtAConcert
Project Information: This is a silent game that proceduralizes the experience of trying to follow a story though interaction with the waveform.
Status: View Project Information
Medium: Processing
Device(s): Android

Title: Ohrwurm
Project Information: An experiment in implied sound and auditory hallucination.
Status: View Project Information
Medium: Processing
Device(s): Android

Title: Sound Swallower
Project Information: In this game, your goal is to run and collect fragments of your environment’s auditory history before it is erased.
Status: View Project Information
Medium: Unity3D, GPS
Device(s): iOS

Artist(s): Seth Indigo Carnes

Bio:
Seth Indigo Carnes
Manhattan, NY

Born in California, Made in NYC. Seth Indigo Carnes is a conceptual media artist whose works focus on the creation of emotive experience and spiritual goods. His projects explore the boundaries that permeate contemporary society: high / low culture, private / public, self / group, nature / machine.

Past exhibitions include P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, White Box (NYC), Emily Harvey Foundation (NYC), Witzenhausen Gallery (NYC), Fountain Art Fair (Miami), Lund 2014 (Sweden), The Drop (NYC), and the luggage store (SF). He has collaborated in the past with Paul D. Miller, Shepard Fairey, and The Roots.

Carnes holds a BA in History from Pomona College and a MS in Integrated Digital Media from NYU Polytechnic.

Project Information:
iheart poetics is an iPhone app for creating and sharing interactive visual poems that merge text and imagery as one.

Take a picture, and then write anything you feel, whether a poem, one word or a caption Or start with text and add an image later. iheart poetics is flexible and saves your work as you create.

Share and build an ongoing love note with your partner, an evolving joke about a day in the life, or write a poetry book together…the possibilities are endless. And you can always share poetics as an image via email, MMS, Twitter, and Facebook.

The iheart poetics app opens up the poetics form and usage to the world-at-large; it will also serve as an essential creative and research tool by which the project can continue to develop concepts of mutable text, conceptual writing, and bookmaking in the 21st century.