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“Towards a Soundly Ecstatic Electronica” by Joseph Nechvatal
Artist/art theoretician Joseph Nechvatal’s text deals with a phantasmagorical theorization of electronic-based sound art that places sound art in the context of the abstract unlimited-field of representation made possible by electronic communications.

“Of Ultrasound, Art and Science” by Michael Dotolo
Multimedia artist/musician Michael Dotolo discusses sound art in the context of art-science relating to ultrasound. “My intent in studying the invisible sonic spectrum is to understand the importance that these frequencies bare on the complex communicative fabric of the natural and technological aspects of our lives.”

“Acoustics, Not Theatre” by Adrian Knight
Composer Adrian Knight: “Sound, time and space are our way of dividing a multidimensional reality into manageable subunits. Sound in time and space constitute what we call music….[O]f these three subunits, space is the most complex, and also most dependent on social and architectural necessity and availability”

“Iannis Xenakis: Form and Transformation” by JD Pirtle
“Avant-garde composer, architect and music theorist Iannis Xenakis consistently pushed the boundaries of music, mathematics, architecture and science in his work.” Artist JD Pirtle examines Xenakis’ hybridised and interdisciplinary practice in which Xenakis was able to “augment, transform, invert or rotate” the many ways architecture and music are related.

“James Turrell’s Mendota Stoppages and Roden Crater: When the Studio and the Art Become One” by JD Pirtle
Artist JD Pirtle reviews the relation between the space and the art in the practice of James Turrell, whose early departure from the white cube tradition manifests break-down of the division “studio, non-studio, anti-studio.” Two of Turrell’s pieces, Mendota Stoppages and Roden Crater are revisited.

“Teorema Ritournelle” by Chritina McPhee
Chritina McPhee: “This text came into being as I struggled to explain to myself why the idea of a witness, or wit(h)nessing could apply to the status of an object like a drawing. Teorema Ritournelle turns on some observations and flights around Pasolini’s film TEOREMA, and applies them to the transposition of drawings into presences of an inordinate kind.”

Hz #14 December 2009:

Metal and Wind: Bertoia and the Space of Reverie by Michael Filimowicz

“Offering to the Wind, as the Bertoia sound sculpture is now known, offers one possible solution to the problem of soundscape design for the city’s places of leisure and reverie…It reverses a certain urban deafness, returning the possibility of silences between sounds, producing a quietude in the midst of the city roar.”

Embodiment and Technology: Towards a Utopian Dialectic by Belinda Haikes

“David Rokeby’s A Very Nervous System and Steve Mann’s Wearable Computer are discussed in this essay as examples of “Utopian quest for technological embodiment… … that seeks to move beyond the anxiety of new media and to position our culture to examine the space between the ultimate dialectics, that of man and the machine.”

Sensory Substitution by judsoN

“There is some debate whether cases of sensory substitution are the results of imaginativeness, psychological effects or neurological (mis-)wiring….We have evidence such substitutions do happen….Whether or not Wagner, Klee or Kandinsky actually had synesthesia, there is a rich history of people equating one type of sensory stimuli for another.”

Chong! A Parallel Environment by Joaquin Gasgonia Palencia

“Chong! endeavors to showcase an interfacial encounter between humans and robots, much like human peers meeting for the first time, without the robot having to fulfill a function…. The end purpose of this environmental installation is to give the human a small window into how a robot may perceive humans and how it processes that information.”

Artistic Textual and Performative Paths in New Media Correlations: An Interview with Annie Abrahams by Evelin Stermitz

“Evelin Stermitz’ interview with net artist Annie Abrahams, whose “works are structured on both digitized hyper and on site realities. She constructs forms of collective writings on the net and reconstructs them into offline perceptions, which leads to creations of net-operas and other web based interventions.”

Progressions: Toward a Poetic Improvisation of Listening by Brian Schorn

Brian Schorn’s poems here “…are an attempt to create a writing environment parallel to that of musical improvisation…by using the Surrealist technique of automatic writing while listening to a representative number of improvised recordings….Six classifications of improvisation and nine composer/performers were used to generate the writings…”

Hz Net Gallery presents 6 net art works:

Buffalo weekly videos by Alysse Stepanian,

The Natual “High-Times” Sound Shuttle by Rudi Punzo,

Baptize by Aaron Oldenburg,

In His Memory (Starman) by Aaron Higgins,

Keyword Intervention by Owen Mundy and

Radiant Copenhagen by Anders Bojen & Kristoffer Ørum