VertexList space and Blip Festival have the pleasure to present “B I T M A P: as good as new†a group exhibition celebrating the history of the digital image, the aesthetics of early computing and early video-game consoles. Expect pixels, old monitors and 8 bit sounds!
“B I T M A P: as good as new” is proud to feature: Chris Ashley, Mike Beradino, Mauro Ceolin, Petra Cortright, Paul Davis, DELAWARE, Notendo (Jeff Donaldson), Eteam, Dragan Espenschied, Christine Gedeon, Kimberly Hart, Daniel Iglesia, JODI,Olia Lialina, LoVid, Kristin Lucas, David Mauro, Jillian Mcdonald, Tom Moody, Aron Namenwirth, Mark Napier, Nullsleep, Marisa Olson, Will Papenheimer, Prize Budget for Boys, Jim Punk, Akiko Sakaizumi, Paul Slocum, Eddo Stern and CJ Yeh.
A reception will take place at vertexList on Saturday, November 24th 2007 from 7pm – 10pm.
The exhibition will be on display until Sunday, February 3rd, 2008.
Live 8 BIT music performance @ the opening reception, 8.30pm.
VertexList gallery hours are Friday, Saturday, Sunday 1pm -6 pm, or by appointment.We are located between Graham and Manhattan Avenues onBayard St. For more info please visit our website www.vertexlist.net or call 646 258 3792
About Blip:
The Blip Festival is a four-day international cultural event taking place in New York City this November into December, focusing on the 8-bit scene – musicians and artists who use low-bit videogame and computer hardware as their creative tools. The festival is the widest-reaching event in the history of the form, boasting a roster of over 40 international artists performing and exhibiting from places as diverse as Japan, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Argentina, and across the United States.
jimpunk and Abe Linkoln have returned to the blogosphere as collaborators with triptych.tv. Caution, browserbuster! I got about half the page loaded, roughly ten pixels at a time with the right vertical scroll. The page groans with the weight of embedded media set to autoplay. An abundance of skulls, which should thrill Paddy Johnson. These were the bloggers behind SCREENFULL and 544X378WebTV–they are joined by Mr. Tamale for this outing.
jimpunk has been posting manic video collages to YouTube, such as this one, Unicorn. They are part of a larger project, YTB.
Gogolchat (2002) is featured by Soeren Pold in the Electronic Book Review. “Literature from Page to Interface: The Treatments of Text in Christophe Bruno’s Iteratureâ€, 2007
Gogolchat (2002) is featured by Soeren Pold in the Electronic Book Review. “Literature from Page to Interface: The Treatments of Text in Christophe Bruno’s Iteratureâ€, 2007
Figure 4. Christophe Bruno’s Gogolchat (modified by jimpunk) (by courtesy of Christophe Bruno – OUTBOUNDoutbound linkhttp://www.iterature.com/gogolchatexternal link).
In another piece, “Gogolchat,” developed out of the same basic techniques, the web text is fed through a character by the name of Gogol. Besides being the Russian author of Diary of Madman, Gogol is a pseudo-anagram on the word Google, and Gogol/Google is the rambling resident of “Gogolchat”. As the polite but quite disturbing host of this chat, he communicates with whomever present about whatever they write – his speech is generated by algorithms similar to those in “Epiphanies” and “Fields.” Parts of the text one writes in the chat are used as input in a Google search which generates Gogol’s writings. This recylcing creates a communication situation where Gogol often responds to what is said by changing languages if one writes in another language or by chatting about the same subject and keywords – for example, by suddenly introducing one of the guests of the chat in the middle of what appears to be self-centered stream of consciousness. Such a situation is quoted below. In this sequence Gogol picks acquires my name from “unbehagen” (Christophe Bruno’s pseudonym) and finds a greeting from an old online posting of mine, which in this context reappears in Gogol’s discourse:
unbehagen : do you know soeren pold ?
Gogol : human beings … suspected that he was pleased being alone at YMCA … who likes The Who, Bukowski, Dostoyevsky, Gogol, Dickens and … …
Gogol : Turgenev : Virgin Soil : … Gogol’s Boulevard became such a place for me … to the unÂrighteous, And is also Gogol’s feeding pig … Or like me, working in a room, alone, Watching out … … The departure point of Romanowicz’s novels is her World War II concentration …
unbehagen : chatting alone with gogol
Gogol : … Dr … … Upgrade Bulletin Dear All, we are glad to inform … … Sincerely, Soeren Pold, Lecturer and researcher in literature and multimedia aesthetics … … … … …
impun< : Il etait une fois la revolu.mp3
yuban : prof. pold we know who you are
“jimpunk” is a net-artist that once ‘hacked’ “Gogolchat” by filling its interface with visual junk from the web: obscure images, animations, links, and even sounds. This hacking job was recorded and is now a permanent part of the “Gogolchat” experience. Sometimes jimpunk’s visual interference completely takes over the interface and renders the communication hardly readable. Still, Gogol rambles on – even if he does not get input. The searches that generate his output are supplemented by some default key words that make Gogol go on and on in a monomaniac way and give him a preference for slightly subversive issues (sex, terrorism, religion, pop groups and even literature…):
Since its first appearance in 2005, Gogol has had physical brothers and sisters in “The Human Browser” project, which is a series of performances with an actor, wireless internet, and a PDA. The actor talks to bypassers, but her speech is generated by a Google hack similar to “Gogolchat” and fed to the actor through wireless headphones and text-to-speech software. Until now the PDA has normally been handled by Bruno. “The Human Browser” is reminiscent of “Gogolchat” but has the added dimension of the user being able to talk to an actual human being in a public space, which is a very strange and funny experience. Bruno has also worked consciously with site- and situation-specific issues such as performing “The Human Browser” outside polling stations at the confused EU constitution vote in France in May 2005. From the perspective of this article, “The Human Browser” demonstrates how interface literature can function as performance through an incarnated interface.note6note
youtube VJ TUBEonScratch Y T B mix remix sound video
also link in 2 computers and scratch:
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http://www.youtube.com/cp/vjVQa1PpcFOk9TZ5Rbs9L1o_VCA7xQrWfGmxfzjNWqA=
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http://www.youtube.com/cp/vjVQa1PpcFOk9TZ5Rbs9LwAGcUrhrfbvM5QSUQ7Mjgk=
