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.
Jed's Other Poem (Beautiful Ground)
"Jeddy-3 the humanoid was assembled in the kitchen out of spare parts. Before Jed's system died he wrote poetry."
Beautiful Ground is an unsolicited textual music video for Grandaddy's The Sophtware Slump, programmed in Applesoft II, on a 1979 Apple computer with 48K of RAM. This is one of his poems. Via the "Young man pretending to be a design studio in Brooklyn NY", Stewdio.
· Jed's Other Poem (Beautiful Ground)
Five Streams
Anarkali, Bhagavad-Gita, and Who Knoweth Himself
In a piece stunning to both the eyes and ears, this work-in-progress by Ibrahim Quraishi reinterprets ancient texts to examine Islam in the five nations of South Asia-India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. Five Streams is a theater performance that integrates live and pre-recorded voice, dance, 3-D animation, and interactive sound installations to illuminate the three foundational texts in the cultures of the region: Anarkali, a tragic court romance of Mughal India; the Bhagavad-Gita, the deeply philosophical climax of the Indian epic Mahabharata; and Who Knoweth Himself, a mystical treatise by the Sufi philosopher Ibn al-Arabi. Paul Miller a.k.a. DJ Spooky and choreographer Parul Shah are among a large group of collaborating artists, many of whom will participate in a 2-week residency at MASS MoCA. Presented in collaboration with The Asia Society. [via eyebeam reblog]
dorkbot Tokyo Taking Off
dorkbot Tokyo #000002 will take place at Machida International Print Art Museum in Tokyo on the 2nd of October. This time, the event's theme is "bend++," that is to "bend" various electronic artifacts and turn them into something. The first dorkbot in Tokyo (#000001) took place on the 12th of May this year (general summary in English). A couple of presentations I can't help talking about: the music/noise performance by Atsuhiro Ito and the demonstrations by "Tocho Denki Daigaku/Onshitsu Kojo Iinkai." Ito played a fluorescent light tube. The noice produced by a lit fluorescent light tube is amplified to produce explosive feedback noise of low frequency flickering.
"Tocho Denki Daigaku/Onshitsu Kojo Iinkai (Electro-Eavesdropping University/Sound Quality Improvement Committee)" is a unit of two journalists from the magazine called Radio Life. Radio Life is a magazine that discusses hacking techniques that are likely frowned upon by the general public. Their feature articles goes like: "It's OK not to pay NHK subscription fee!," "How to record satellite TV porn using PCs," "All about Yahoo Auction Scams' Techniques," "How to listen to Military Air Band," "Police's Wireless Communication & Hacking: The 25 years." Anyway, the unit presented things like "a sex doll that moves", "powering things with $1,000 worth batteries", and "a DJ performance using a human body as an electric switch" (see the photo below.)
[Human body transfers music. Users experience rhythmical electric shock while serving as part of the electric circuit. ]
related websites:
- RealTokyo on dorkbot #000001
- Radio Life article on dorkbot #000001
Workstudy Opportunity @ The Banff Centre: Banff Alberta, Canada.
mike pelletier:
Workstudy Opportunity @ The Banff Centre: Banff Alberta, Canada.
TITLE: Computer Technician Work Study, Interactive Media
DURATION: OCTOBER 2005 — MARCH 2006
STIPEND: $425 per week
APPLICATION DEADLINE: SEPTEMBER 30TH, 2005
The Creative Electronic Environment (CEE), as a whole, is a technical support team committed to supporting artists in computer and non-computer based mediums at the Banff Centre. CEE has been in existence for over 20 years and is comprised of four areas: TV/Video, Technical Services, Photography and Interactive Media.
As the Work Study you will:
-Provide technical support and training for Mac & PC hardware and operating systems;
-Provide technical support and training for printing, digital imaging and CD production;
-Provide technical support and training for the following multimedia software:
-Maya, Final Cut Pro, DVD Studio Pro, Cleaner, Director, Dreamweaver, Flash, Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, Premiere, QuarkXPress, and others;
-Technically and creatively assist artists and program participants.
Work study programs are intended to provide the participant with a combination of learning opportunities and supervised, practical work related to the participant’s learning objectives. Learning opportunities may be formal sessions and/or workshops, or may be informal opportunities arising out of the situation of the moment. The work portion of the experience will primarily focus on activities that compliment the participant’s learning objectives, as the work relates to the real and ongoing activities of The Banff Centre. This position is responsible for providing general computer support to artists in the Computer Studio and in their studios including answering software questions, teaching, and orientation to equipment; installing software and hardware; relocating equipment; and providing computer support to organizers and speakers at events.
The Banff Centre is looking for someone with a good understanding of and some experience in technical tools supporting the Arts. The ideal candidate will be proficient with ...
