In Front of Your Eyes and Ears
With a perceived disparity between the slow time taken to create animation and the instant time taken to perform music, how can animation be performed live? Can the audio and the visual be combined in improvised performance? How can live, hand scribing or music notation or coding or drawing be used to conjure spontaneous audio-visual performance? What is gained from real-time, instant creation in the present moment? What does it mean for ‘liveness’ to experience this at home through a screen rather than being fully present at the event?
18:00 – 18:05
Introduction: Juergen Hagler (AT)
18:05 – 18:25
Juan Manuel Escalante (US), Yin Yu (US)
Juan Manuel Escalante is a designer and an artist working with computer code, modular synthesizers, and analog drawings. His work has been shown in the United States, France, the United Kingdom, Spain, Peru, South Korea, Mexico and featured in major festivals and exhibitions, such as OFFF, Mutek, Currents New Media, Binario, Ceremonia, amongst others. He was a member of the National System of Art Creators (National Endowment for the Arts, MX) and received the Corwin Award (1st prize) for Electronic-Acoustic Composition) in 2016. He has taught creative programming at the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) and at various higher education institutions in Mexico, including the graduate program in Architecture (UNAM), where he founded and directed its Media Lab for eight years. He holds a Ph.D. in Media Arts & Technology (UCSB) and is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Visual Arts at the California State University, Fullerton.www.jmescalante.info
Yin Yu is interested in exploring the potential of interactive multimedia environments and the relationship between architecture and sound through the emerging technologies in art and architecture practice. Her works ranged from art installation, interactive multimedia, product design, furniture design, and interior architecture design. She also specialized in interdisciplinary pedagogy and curriculum design at the college level in interdisciplinary education. Yin has won several awards, including Oregon BEST Red List Design Challenge, Academic Excellence Design & Paper, and is the recipient of Lyman & Judith Johnson Interior Architecture Award, Nascence & UO Hong Kong Alumni Scholarship, and an Olivia Long Fellowship. Currently, she is a Ph.D. student in Media Arts and Technology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She has a Bachelor of Science in Electronic Engineering, a Master of Science in Information Technology, and a Master of Science in Interior Architecture.18:25 – 18:45
Sarah Groff Hennigh-Palermo (DE), Melody Loveless (US), Kate Sicchio (US)
When not live-coding, Sarah makes large-scale video art and computer programs in Berlin. She has shown work at Pioneer Works (US), Westbeth Gallery (US), and Nomas* Gallery (UK). She is a member of Codie, a live-code collective made up of Sarah Groff Hennigh-Palermo, Melody Loveless, and Kate Sicchio. It was formed in 2017, when the three were members of Live Code NYC. Since then, as members have dispersed through the US and EU, Codie has continued to perform together: virtually and IRL. Sarah creates visuals with La Habra, a self-made SVG framework, and Melody and Kate collaborate with Sonic Pi. Codie has performed at Eyebeam, Performance Space New York, and (Le) Poisson Rouge in New York, as well in Madrid, Sheffield, Limerick, and Berlin.
Melody Loveless is a musician and creative technology artist and educator based in Brooklyn. In addition to live coding, her work ranges from generative sound installation, sound sculpture, and multichannel performance. She has taught creative and musical technologies at various institutions across NYC and currently teaches at Harvestworks and Hunter College. She is a member of Codie, a live-code collective made up of Sarah Groff Hennigh-Palermo, Melody Loveless, and Kate Sicchio. It was formed in 2017, when the three were members of Live Code NYC. Since then, as members have dispersed through the US and EU, Codie has continued to perform together: virtually and IRL. Sarah creates visuals with La Habra, a self-made SVG framework, and Melody and Kate collaborate with Sonic Pi. Codie has performed at Eyebeam, Performance Space New York, and (Le) Poisson Rouge in New York, as well in Madrid, Sheffield, Limerick, and Berlin.
Kate Sicchio is a choreographer and media artist based in Richmond, Virginia, specializing in algorithmic choreography and wearable technology. She has shown work at many international venues including New York Hall of Science (US), Access Space (UK) and Inspace Gallery (UK). She is a member of Codie, a live-code collective made up of Sarah Groff Hennigh-Palermo, Melody Loveless, and Kate Sicchio. It was formed in 2017, when the three were members of Live Code NYC. Since then, as members have dispersed through the US and EU, Codie has continued to perform together: virtually and IRL. Sarah creates visuals with La Habra, a self-made SVG framework, and Melody and Kate collaborate with Sonic Pi. Codie has performed at Eyebeam, Performance Space New York, and (Le) Poisson Rouge in New York, as well in Madrid, Sheffield, Limerick, and Berlin.18:45 – 19:05
Michael Century (US), Shawn Lawson (US)
Michael Century, a musician and media arts historian, is Professor of Music and New Media at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He founded the Media Arts program at the Banff Centre for the Arts. His improvisational music compositions use interactive electronics to modulate and transform solo performances on piano and accordion. In 2022, the MIT Press will publish his monograph, Northern Sparks: Innovation, Technology Policy and the Arts in Canada from Expo 67 to the Internet Age.Shawn Lawson is a computational artist and researcher creating the computational sublime. He performs under the pseudonym Obi-Wan Codenobi where he live-codes real-time computer graphics with his open source software. He has performed at NIME, Australia; Radical dB, Spain; ICLI, Portugal and UK; ICLC, UK, Canada, Mexico, Spain; ISEA, Canada; GENERATE!, Germany; Live => Coding, Brazil; CultureHub, NYC, CCRMA, and more. Shawn’s artwork has exhibited or screened in museums, galleries, festivals, and public space in England, Denmark, Russia, Italy, Korea, Portugal, Spain, Brazil, Turkey, Malaysia, Iran, and Canada; locally in ACM SIGGRAPH, IEEE ProCams, ACM MM, The Art Institute of Chicago, Milwaukee Art Museum, Chelsea Art Museum, Eyebeam, Aperture Foundation Gallery, Nicholas Robinson Gallery, MIT, OSU, ASU, and LTU. Shawn is published in the proceedings of ICLC, ACM CC, ACM SIGGRAPH, ACM SIGCHI, ACM MM and the Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture. Lawson studied fine arts at Carnegie Mellon University and École Nationale Supèrieure des Beaux-Arts. He received his MFA in Art and Technology Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2003. He is an Associate Professor and Animation Area Coordinator at Arizona State University and selectively consults for independent artists and commercial R&D.https://shawnlawson.com
19:05 – 19:35
Panel Discussion ‘In Front of Your Eyes and Ears’
Juan Manuel Escalante (US), Yin Yu (US), Sarah Groff Hennigh-Palermo (DE), Melody Loveless (US), Kate Sicchio (US), Michael Century (US), Shawn Lawson (US)
