Olson has served as Editor & Curator at Rhizome, the inaugural curator at Zero1, and Associate Director at SF Camerawork. She's contributed to many major journals & books and this year Cocom Press published Arte Postinternet, a Spanish translation of her texts on Postinternet Art, a movement she framed in 2006. In 2015 LINK Editions will publish a retrospective anthology of over a decade of her writings on contemporary art which have helped establish a vocabulary for the criticism of new media. Meanwhile, she has also curated programs at the Guggenheim, New Museum, SFMOMA, White Columns, Artists Space, and Bitforms Gallery. She has served on Advisory Boards for Ars Electronica, Transmediale, ISEA, the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences, Creative Capital, the Getty Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Kennedy Center, and the Tribeca Film Festival.
Olson studied Fine Art at Goldsmiths, History of Consciousness at UC Santa Cruz, and Rhetoric & Film Studies at UC Berkeley. She has recently been a visiting artist at Yale, SAIC, Oberlin, and VCU; a Visiting Critic at Brown; and Visiting Faculty at Bard College's Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts and Ox-Bow. She previously taught at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts' new media graduate program (ITP) and was Assistant Professor of New Media at SUNY-Purchase's School of Film & Media Studies. She was recently an Artist-in-Residence at Eyebeam & is currently Visiting Critic at RISD.
Transparent Processes at The Kitchen
Transparent Processes
November 9 (Wed) 8pm $8
Curated by Nick Hallett
This evening of live visual music, expanded cinema, and nouveau psychedelia features work in which sound and image stem from the same source. Performers include Ray Sweeten and the collaborative groups LoVid (Tali Hinkis and Kyle Lapidus), I Love You (Seth Kirby and Ana Matronic) and the duo of Sandra Gibson and Luis Recoder. Avoiding digital technology, these artists create synesthetic lightshow environments by means of antique equipment, consumer electronics, and home-made instruments in ways that make evident the relationship between process and result.
Music programs at The Kitchen are made possible with generous support from the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust and The Aaron Copland Fund for Music.
Media and film programs are made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.
for more information, contact Nick Hallett at nick@maisonduchic.com
Radio Astronomy
Streaming from Deep Space
"One of the peculiar aspects of streamed transmissions is the immediate delocalization of informations, thanks to the pervasive structure of the net which allows a personal and continuous 'international telecast', bringing any local content to screens in remote places. This is true both for video and audio transmissions, with the latter sometimes even more tied to the territory they are brodcasted from and expressions of a culture that needs to be understood and contextualized before being enjoyed. Thus, the place the sounds come from is reduced to the simple title displayed by the sound player while the data inexorably fill the buffer and the audio card processor before hitting our ears. Despite this, the farther the source of the transmission is, the more fascinating the listening opportunity will be. Radio Astronomy is based on this principle. It's an ambitious project by Radioqualia (Honor Harger and Adam Hyde) realized through collaborations with several radiotelescopes scattered throughout the globe. The sounds coming from deep space are intercepted and decoded by the radiotelescopes themselves and channeled to a sound stream that is then made available on the net, connecting any place reached by the net to the frequencies coming from light years away. As the authors themselves say, Radio Astronomy is "a radio station that transmits sounds coming from outer space", and one of its greatest features is the possibility to hear really distant frequencies amplifying the feeling of distance we have gotten used to since the advent of the net." --neural.it [Related]
Movie Mincer by Sergey Teterin
Movie Mincer is a PC-compatible device that was constructed
by artist - Sergey Teterin, an old mincer is used as a
laptop-connected device to manually generated video streams.
Movie Mincer uses XnView, a free software to view and convert graphic files.
Inside the purple rabbit
The Passion.Room, by Fabrice Coniglio and Andrea raViola from ConiglioViola, is an installation for VJing: the shooting and editing are done in real time inside the huge inflatable rabbit and visitors are invited to participate to the passion-themed performance.
The inside of the rabbit's belly hosts masks, accessories and costumes and is totally green: using the chroma key system, whatever happens inside the Coniglio will be filmed, mixed (mixer video + laptop), edited, added on a surreal background and sent to the video projectors.
To be enjoyed at the XII Biennial of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean - Naples 2005 till September 28. Via random and exibart.
Digital Derive & Redefining the Basemap
Basemaps as Sites for Reinvention
[....] "Digital Derive harnesses the potential of mobile phones as an affordable, ready-made and ubiquitous medium that allows the city to be sensed and displayed in real-time as a complex, pulsating entity... Digital Derive (re)presents the city displayed simultaneously in the Kunsthaus Graz and in a publicly accessible website... The Real-Time City Map will register and visually render the volume and geographic source of cell phone usage in Graz, thus showing a different layer in the use and experience of the city. Furthermore the users of A1 Mobilkom Austria in Graz will be tracked anonymously by 'pinging' their cell phones as they move through the city. The record of this movement will be collected, processed and finally displayed as set of dynamic traces showing their paths through the city on the same map..." [More....]
