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Ben Baker-Smith
Works in Chicago United States of America

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Ben Baker-Smith is a visual artist exploring new interpretations, approaches to, and manipulations of existing media formats.

In addition to his work as an artist, Ben maintains bitsynthesis.com and is a contributing writer for vagueterrain.net
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Ende Tymes Screening – Brooklyn – May 17


Modulating Fashions in Fades and Wipes and SNObound, the two most recent video works from Evan Kühl and myself, are being screened tomorrow night as part of Ende Tymes at Outpost in Brooklyn, NYC.

This will be the world premier of Modulating Fashions in Fades and Wipes, and the New York premier of SNObound. Evan will be there in person, so come check out the show!


Bus Tops – animations on London bus shelters


Some English chaps got together and built 30 awesome red LED panels, and installed them on the roofs of bus shelters in 20 London boroughs. The project, Bus-Tops will be showing animated and still artworks for the next 8 months or so, primarily targeting people sitting on the top level of double decker buses. See the BBC report below, and this video documentation for a clearer view of a panel in action.

The last half of February has been “glitch” themed, curated by DoDD, moderator of the Glitch Art group on Flickr. During this time a selection of my works has be screened alongside the creations of Glitch-Irion, Stallio, Pixel Noizz, Notendo, Hellocatfood, and Gridworks1.

EDIT: Here’s a video of the Glitch works in action:

Below are my submissions. Under each GIF is the video recording it was sourced from, sculpted using a combination of old analog video hardware and custom-built signal generators. Londoners, check the project page for scheduling times / locations.

If anyone has video footage of my designs in action, please please please send me a copy!

SNO 005B

SNO 12B

SNO 001A

SNO 009B


GLI.TC/H 2011 Recap


The second annual GLI.TC/H noise & dirty new media gathering was held this past November. As part of the festivities, Evan Kühl and myself performed Vaudeo Signal at Enemy (Chicago) and at Steim (Amsterdam). Unsound, a selection from the Vaudeo Signal DVD, was also screened in Birmingham.

Thanks go out to all the organizers who put together such an exciting program of works, and for getting them presented in 3 cities, in 3 countries, in 3 weeks!

Vaudeo Signal @ Enemy, Chicago – 11.05.11

There’s a nice summation of the previous night of performances in Chicago on the fnewsmagazine website.

Vaudeo Signal @ Steim, Amsterdam – 11.12.11

A video overview of the multi-faceted Amsterdam GLI.TC/H show is available here.

Bonus: “found glitch” on the plane to Amsterdam

Thanks to Jackie for recording our Chicago performance, and to the gif-makers who created the Amsterdam gifs… if any of these images are yours please let me know and I’ll credit you!

For more videos, downloads, and show information, please visit vaudeosignal.com.


LGRU Networked Graphics Demoparty


Hosted by WORM in Rotterdam, Netherlands and online at lgru.hotglue.me.


Upcoming Events in November!


November is an exciting month! There are a bunch of events coming up quick, so I’m just going to bullet them here:

 

November 5 (Chicago, US) -

Evan Kühl and I will be performing Vaudeo Signal at GLI.TC/H Chicago this Saturday night at Enemy (1550 N Milwaukee Ave) 8pm. Stick around after our set to see ARCANEBOLT, GODXILIARY (Nullsleep, Minusbaby, Mikrosopht), and more!

 

November 12 (Amsterdam, NL) -

We will be playing at Steim as part of the second leg of GLI.TC/H. This performance will be markedly different from the previous one, and will be Vaudeo Signal‘s 220v / PAL debut! The show starts Saturday night at 8pm.

 

November 17 (Leeds, UK) -

Light Being, a selection from our debut release, Vaudeo Signal, will be shown at the Leeds International Film Festival.

 

November 17 – 20 (Bergen, NO) -

I will be attending Piksel to install Infinite Glitch and enjoy a host of workshops and performances.

 


Speed Show #Brussels


GlitchBot was recently a part of Speed Show #Brussels. Thanks to Anne Roquigny & Yves Bernard for putting it together!


when we ran out of formats, there was ExtraFile


To help demonstrate “the importance of image file formats for digital art”, Kim Asendorf has created a handful of esoteric formats (4bc, bascii, blinx, cci, mcf, uspec, xff) and an application to convert between them and their more common bretheren (jpg, tiff, etc).

I had the honor of being part of a team of beta-testers / format hackers, and can attest that the new formats are a lot of fun to explore. By expanding the number of available image formats, they inject new life into the field of text / hex image hacking. The ExtraFile application is also a handy tool for general databending experiments, as it automatically refreshes the displayed image each time a change is made to the image’s source code.

The project has now been made available for the public at extrafile.org, so download it and start experimenting! Descriptions of the new formats are available on the project site.


Space Madness from the Beyond


JOIN VAUDEO SIGNAL, CRACKED RAY TUBE, AND SNAREODACTYL AT REVOLUTION CYCLES AND DFBRL8R FOR 2 NIGHTS OF SPACE MADNESS FROM THE BEYOND.

EXPERIENCE THE RAPTURE: AN EXPLOSIVE DECOMPRESSION OF INTERGALACTIC SOUND AND LIGHT.

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FRIDAY – JULY 29 – 9PM – REVOLUTION CYCLES – 2330 Atwood Ave – Madison, WI

SUNDAY – JULY 31 – 8PM – DFBRL8R – 1136 Milwaukee Ave – Chicago, IL

It’s gonna be a great show, hope to see you there!



Machined Love – Important Questions About Rain


Thanks to everyone who came out to the show Thursday night! For those that couldn’t make it, video of the live performance is below: