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.
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF NEW MEDIA/INTERMEDIA-PURDUE UNIVERSITY
Rosanne Altstatt:
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF NEW MEDIA/INTERMEDIA
PURDUE UNIVERSITY
Position: Entry level, tenure track academic year appointment beginning August 14, 2006.
Salary: Commensurate with experience and qualifications.
Responsibilities: Teach cross-disciplinary courses and develop curriculum in New Media/Intermedia across the four divisions of the Patti and Rusty Rueff Department of Visual and Performing Arts and in association with the Purdue University Envision Center for Data Perceptualization. Courses taught will depend upon candidate’s areas of expertise. Possibilities include: net art, computer animation, computer-mediated performance and object art, video installation, video design for dance and theatre, design as performance, show control systems, Max/MSP/Jitter, scripting and/or programming for visual and performance artists, and related areas. Continuing professional work in creative endeavors and/or research beyond Purdue University is required as is participation in usual departmental activities.
Qualifications:M.F.A. or equivalent professional experience required. Professional experience and university teaching preferred. Applicant must be a practicing New Media/Intermedia artist with a strong theoretical basis and have expertise in two or more of the following: motion capture, CAVE™ technology, motion graphics, tele-presence, robotic or sensor-based technology, performance art, programming and/or scripting, human-machine interface, virtual reality, or other related areas.
Department: The Patti and Rusty Rueff Department of Visual and Performing Arts is comprised of four divisions (Art & Design, Dance, Music, and Theatre) and has more than 950 undergraduate majors, 57 graduate students, 58 faculty and 15 professional and administrative staff members.
Facilities: The Yue-Kong Pao Hall of Visual and Performing Arts is a state-of-the-art facility with eleven computer labs, design and performance studios with integrated technology, and rehearsal, performance, and exhibit spaces dedicated to the visual and performing arts. Audio production studio and performance spaces, music computing, visualization of three-dimensional objects and environments, motion capture, digital photography ...
The return of the Net Art Open
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The Art of Database
The Art of Database
Much digital art has a database of files as it’s content. In several pieces that I’ve done both in collaboration with Peter Sinclair and in my own solo work assembling the files for the database is a key, if unseen, element to the work.
In A Soapopera for Laptops and A Soapopera for iMacs (1998-2005) a database of text files that were spoken by text-to-speech voices were assembled. The four characters, Fred, Ralph, Princess and Kathy correspond to the native synthetic voices of the Mac OS. Each character had a series of conversational tidbits, repartee, songs and exclamations. The front-end programming, a Max MSP patch assembled the text and fed it to the voices to be spoken using keywords triggered by speech recognition. Therefore the art of database has a synchronic two-part process, the files are assembled according to the manner in which they will be presented by the front-end program and the front-end program is written with the database in mind.
Sonification/Listening Up:
Research Made Audible
Sonification/Listening Up--by Carrie Bodle in collaboration with MIT Haystack Observatory--is a multi-speaker site-specific sound installation on I.M. Pei's iconic Building 54 at MIT. The speakers broadcast audio representations of sound waves embedded in the Earth's charged upper atmosphere, or ionosphere, a region under active radar study by the Atmospheric Sciences Group at MIT's Haystack Observatory. This project utilizes sound as a representation of research at MIT, extending to the public what is normally invisible. [....]
Tempest
TEMPEST is based on the surveillance technology known as Van Eck Phreaking - computer screen content can be reconstructed remotely by picking up the emitted EM-field of the screen.
TEMPEST utilizes this technique to transform purely generative graphic into a composition of noise which again is fed back into the image generating process. Several AM receivers are tuned into different frequencies of a screen and plugged into an audio mixer for further sound processing. The graphics on the screen become a means of producing sound and it is only the graphics which determine the different timbres and rhythms.
By Erich Berger.
