G.H. Hovagimyan:

Sound Art is everywhere these days. Peter Sinclair and his

experimental soundlab Locus Sonus have a video up on the web called

Audio Geo.
<http://nujus.net:8000/locus/perfLS0406.mp4> I'm trying to get

Locus Sonus over here for the Digit Festival in August.
<http://www.artsalliancesite.org/> The grant forms are in and we

are keeping our fingers crossed.

MTAA has a podcast blog called To Be Listened To...
<http://mtaa.net/2bl2/> It's also a sort of audio exquisite corps.

You can upload a sound work of your own to anyone of the 8 original

feeds. I checked out my seed which is called, In a park in Europe as

you wait for the sun to rise and the snow to stop. There was one

other upload from
Anni Abrahams & Jan de Weille. <http://www.bram.org/sound/
index.html> It's a really terrific bit of electronica. This site is

quite interesting and taking the time to explore the sound art is

very rewarding. The bonus is that if you make sound art you can add

your file to the database.

Internet video is also quite big, especially viral video. A good

place to look is Doron Golan's DVblog. <http://www.dvblog.org>

Doron's doing a terrific job of presenting a good mix of experimental

videos and oddities. This site has become so popular that Doron had

to go to a bigger server.
My video Smart House <http://www.dvblog.org/?submit=Search&s=Smart
+House> got 5,000 downloads in one week.

I put up two new rants for RANTAPOD <http://spaghetti.nujus.net> I've

added some simple video techniques and editing chops to enhance the

impact. I've been working with the idea of using digital sound and

video to enhance, isolate and amplify performative gestures. The

affect is quite startling.

I've added a direct mp4 link from the rantapod page so that if you

are on a linux box or can't click the quicktime video enclosure you

can click on the mp4 link. I've also redesigned the rantapod web/
blog interface making it it simpler and cleaner. You can grab the

direct rss feed at the bottom of the page or you can subscribe via

iTunes here<http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/
viewPodcast?id=149186577&s=143441>

Finally, one of my favorite media artists, Christina Mc Phee is

having an exhibition in Finland <http://www.cartes-art.fi/mcphee/
index_english.html
> Christina is on her way to becoming a major force in the new media

scene.