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C64 Acid For Baroque Floppy People
A little invitro (invite-intro = invitation to a scene party) was just released with my music in it. It's for Baroque Floppy People in Helltown in August. I made the music, and I think Frantic remixed it a little and there's fresh PETSCII graphics by the old master Jucke. I recommend you to go and visit, if you dare!
Dansa In Video
A story with pirates, sloths and sex told completely in text graphics and chipmusic. A blocky and brutal visual aesthetic synchronized with explosives, drunken funk and computer screams. All made in 44 kilobytes, to be executed by a Commodore 64 and its colourful ASCII-alternative called PETSCII.
Shown at UCLA Game Art Festival, competed at the Datastorm demoparty and is available as C64 executable here.
Visuals by Raquel Meyers, audio by Goto80 and coding by Johan Kotlinski.
Shown at Net Artist Music Videos in London (2013), UCLA Game Art, Los Angeles (2013).
Datagården Teletext Installation
Datagården is a teletext cemetary with obituaries of people's online lives. Some of the information is actually taken from the internet but some of it is fictional. As speculations about how auto-generated and unauthorized obituaries can look like in the future. (only without the ads!)
It was built (mostly) during Art Hack Day Stockholm at Bonniers Konsthall by me, Raquel Meyers and Possan. We used tools developed beforehand by Peter Kwan. Possan managed to stream video in real-time to teletext the so called DIYobituary. I did music, text and ideas.
We also added video feedback by filming the screen and sending the signal back to the TV, while showing teletext in transparent mode.
This connected to the theme Larger Than Life in several ways. Most obviously by the semi-fake use of the collective consciousness of the internet. But also by using an ambiguous medium like teletext. While often described as dead, it is in fact the largest single mass medium in Sweden with 2 million daily users (20% of the population).
And on a more philosophical note, teletext exists somewhere inbetween digital and analogue, text and graphics, video and data, screen and stream. You can't record teletext because it's inbetween everything. Just like death. Uh, or life?
More:
> Article in Computer Sweden (in Swedish)
> Photos/pictures by Raquel Meyers
> Photos by Possan
Live @ Art Hack Day, Bonniers Konsthall
Excerpts of 30-minute performance by me & Raquel Meyers. Made with two C64s, a videomixer and a delay pedal. The music was composed completely from scratch, live infront of the audience, and all the visuals are text graphics.
Filmed by Psilodump at Art Hack Day, Bonniers Konsthall, April 2013.
> Also see article in Fria Tidningen
2SLEEP1 Showing At DECENTER
http://vimeo.com/26565156
The 66-minute long ambient textmode piece 2SLEEP1 by me and Raquel Meyers is now showing at DECENTER in New York until 7 April. It's a group exhibition with new forms of cubism, including people like Rafael Rozendaal, Cory Archangel, Alexander Peverett, Douglas Coupland, Marius Watz, Jeremy Bailey, Andrew Benson, Anthony Antonellis, Nicolas Sassoon, James Bridle, Ulrike Mohr and many more.