VA3060 Final Exhibition Documentation Trailer

Lecture 8: The Exteneded Self & Sound

Al-jazari, Turkish Mechanical Engineer during 13th Century
Leonardo Da Vincci, humanoid automata during 15th Century
Futurist & Roboitcs
Karel Čapek & R.U.R
Eduardo Kac, Foundation and Development of Robotic Art (1997)
Lust & Greek Myth
Concept of Cyborg & Posthuman
Stelarc & His Third Ear (2003)
Steve Mann & Wearable Computing (80s-)
Benoît Maubrey & Electroacoustics Clothes (1989)
Adam Overton's Meditation Series (2003-)
Sympathetic Sentience, Simon Penny and Jamieson Schulte (1999)
Autopoiesis, Ken Rinaldo (2000)
Heart Chamber Orchestra, Erich Berger & Pure (2006)
Sky Ear, Usman Haque (2004)

Optional Reading on Telematics & Responsive System

Art and Telematics: towards a network consciousness, Roy Ascott (1984)
The Future of Responsive Systems in Art (From Beyond Modern Sculpture, Jack Burnham (1968)

Lecture 7: Telematics & Radio Art

Ray Johnson & Mail Art
Bertolt Brecht
Verfremdungseffekt, an alienation effect
Epic Theater
Lindberghflug, 1929
Max Neuhaus
Radio Net, 1977
Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan & Global Village
General Definition of Telematics
Tim_Berners-Lee, Father of WWW
Technical Development of the Internet
Sound Creatures, Kouichirou Eto (1998)
Telegarden, Ken Goldberg (1994-2004)
Mori, Ken Goldberg (1999-)
Radio
Radio Waves
RFID (Radio-frequency identification)
Electromagnetic Spectrum
Streaming Media
Podcasting
Tutorial on Podcasting & RSS Feed

Tre Marie, an interactive audio-visual dance improvised performance. The system in progress is an innovation of RF-ID (radio-frequency identification) technology for dance performance, which improvise live visuals on stage. The performance is a reconstructed architecture of spaces, encodes the spatial aesthetics of the interaction between human, theatrical space and cinematic space. By Annie Wan, Hiroki Nishino & Pamela Pietro (2005)
Performance Video

Blogs on New Media and Sound Art in Chinese
台灣數位藝術知識與創作流通平台
微型楽园

Lecture 6: AudioVisual Sculpture

Joseph Beuys & Social Sculpture
The Pack & Other Works, Joseph Beuys
Plus-Minus (1964) Nam Jun Paik, Karlheinz Stockhausen & Charlotte Moorman
Process Music & Karlheinz Stockhausen
Billy Klüver
Robert Rauschenberg
E.A.T. – Experiments in Art and Technology
Oracle (1965) & Pepsi Pavilion (1970), Billy Klüver & Robert Rauschenberg
If/ Then (2001), Ken Feingold
Objective Sound (2007), Bill Fontana
Bill Fontana's Sound Sculpture

Reading for Chung Yeung Festival

Synesthesia and Intersenses: Intermedia by Dick Higgins (1965)
Dick Higgins, one of the Founders of Fluxes Movement
Fluxes, a movement founded during 1960s-80s

Inspirations/ Entertainment:
Paul Granjon, Robotics/ Performance Artist
Paul Granjon on how to create interactive sound sauage

Lecture 5: AudioVisual Improvisation

Links:
Walter Benjamin
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, Walter Benjamin (1936)
Allvision by Stenia Vasulka
Displacements by Michael Naimark
Playtime by Jacques Tati
Frequency & Volume by Rafael Lozeno-Hemmer
Vox Populi by Don Ritter
MTV of Björk’s All is Full of Love by Chris Cunningham

Lab Exercise:
"Weightless" Video/ Audio

Video created by collaboration from all students

Lecture 4: Structure & Sound

Links:
Structuralism
Claude Lévi Strauss, the Cooked and the Raw
Jack Burnham, Structure of Art
Marcel Duchamp, Aire De Paris
Sol_LeWitt, open & modular structure
Le Corbusier
Edgard Varèse
Iannis Xenakis
Philips Pavilion
Video of Poeme Electronique
TimeSquare by Max Neuhaus
Video Documentation of TimeSquare

Lab Exercise:
DIY Piezo Microphone & discover the embedded sound in various structures
Tutorial

Inspirations - Sound Installation (mechanical):
Untitled Sound Objects (Switzerland)
Ed Osborn (USA)
Edwin Van De Heidi (Netherlands)

Inspirations - DIY electronnics/ instruments, Performances:
FM3 (China)
Sinewave Orchestra (Japan)
The Breadboard Band (Japan)

Listening & Reading for Mid Autumn Festival

Trevor Wishart "Red Bird"
Trevor Wishart "Red Bird" Audio

Lecture 3: Soundscape & Concrète

Links:
Pauline Oliveros
Pauline Oliveros & Deep Listening
Psychoacoustic
Basics of Psychoacoustic
Critical Bands & Perception
Pierre Schaeffer
Musique Concrète
World Soundscape Project
Mikrophonie I by Karlheinz Stockhausen
Soundbridge Köln/San Francisco by Bill Fontana

Labs:
Group I - Inter-computer sound recording
Gropu II - Mobile phone sound recording

Lecture 2: Intro to Digital Audio

Links:
Audacity Tutorials
Sampling frequency
Digital to analog converter
Analog to digital converter
MIDI
Cables & Connections

Lab Exercise:
Create a sound poetry in Tomasso Marinetti's Style

Lecture 1: History of Sound Art in Relation to other Art Media

Links:
Semiotics, study of symbols and meanings
Ferdinand de Saussure, theory of on sound & language
Luigi Russolo, Futurist Painter
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Futurist Poet
John Cage & Visual Arts
Arnold Schoenberg, atonal music
Earle_Brown, Mobility & open form music

Reading:
Alexandar Calder & Earle_Brown
Sound Art, Art, Music by Douglas Kahn