Re: Just added to the Rhizome ArtBase: the Ecstasy of Communication by lucas kuzma

even after installing the jsyn====this applet still
throws an exception–what gives?


bliss
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— Geert Dekkers <[email protected]> wrote:

> sorry to keep moaning – I really do have an
> up-to-date system (mac os
> 10.3.5, and the latest java engine) but the applet
> will not load. Or is
> it just me?
>
> Geert
> (http://nznl.com)
> On 28-okt-04, at 21:18, Rhizome.org wrote:
>
> > Just added to the Rhizome ArtBase …
> > http://rhizome.org/object.rhiz?28613
> >
> >
> > + the Ecstasy of Communication +
> > + lucas kuzma +
> >
> > In a typical neural network application, layers of
> simulated neurons
> > are used to compute an output based on some input.
> The Ecstacy of
> > Communication explodes the network to a human
> scale, both in terms of
> > space and in terms of time. The result is a
> spatially-situated
> > conflation of neural network and swarm
> intelligence, a population of
> > sound-making devices interacting with each other
> and the sounds in
> > their environment. Our focus shifts to the very
> activity of the
> > network; the generative process itself becomes the
> art.
> >
> > The piece comments on the role of the artist
> working with increasingly
> > mechanized composition methods. From serialism,
> through chance
> > operations, to recursive grammars and neural
> networks, the composing
> > subject is progressively removed from local
> decisions and begins
> > designing processes and systems, developing form
> in the abstract,
> > playing with intensities, with intuition. The work
> also serves to
> > inquire if recent non-symbolic approaches to AI
> are more appropriate
> > in the making of art and perhaps in the modeling
> of intelligence. It,
> > furthermore, brings our attention to the
> spatio-temporal specificity
> > of sound, exploring some of the co-determining
> interplay between sound
> > and architecture. Finally, the work calls
> attention to contemporary
> > society caught up in a frenzy of networks and
> signals, in what
> > Baudrillard called an "Ecstasy of Communication".
> >
> >
> > + + +
> >
> > Biography
> >
> > Lucas Kuzma is a media artist, musician,
> programmer, and interaction
> > designer living in Los Angeles. His personal works
> utilize generative
> > systems for the production of aural and visual
> art, explore the
> > confluence of sound and space, and examine data
> mappings between time,
> > space, and frequency domains. Kuzma holds a BS in
> Computer Science and
> > a BA in Philosophy with an Artificial Intelligence
> minor from Case
> > Western Reserve University and an MFA in Design
> and Media Art from
> > UCLA.
> >
> >
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