Programmable Media II
Our friends at Turbulence, in collaboration with the Pace Digital Gallery, sponsored a one day symposium examining the current and future possibilities of network-enabled music.
Based on the rapidly expanding archive of music and sound experiments to be found on the Networked_Music_Review and the fifteen short works recently commissioned, the symposium aimed to stimulate critical discussion on emerging art and sound art practice.
I was only able to attend the first half of the program (which was also broadcast into Second Life) but sat in a fascinating round table discussion with artists: Peter Traub who presented his MySpace based work, ITSpace; Dan Trueman of PLOrk, the Princeton Laptop Orchestra; Sawako Kato, creator of 2.4GHz Space; Zach Layton, creator of the Network Sonification Project; and Jason Freeman, whose Graph Theory work is currently featured in our Turbulent Works exhibit.
It was a fascinating discussion, and I was sorry to miss the afternoon’s roundtable, which included LoVid, Tobias van Veen, and Adam Nash.
I definitely plan on spending time at all their sound works online.
-Marianne