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Andre Breton was the pope of surrealism - who is the pope of GIFs?

lack of broader fame is no impediment to having stalkers

i may actually finish that Huysmans book I started in my 20s...

when you put your artwork out there and people talk about it, they are not trolling

the beauty, tragedy & hilarity of modular synth ownership http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hu-spR1M55o

sophistic reasoning, editorial elisions, and logical circumlocutions to avoid saying you misspoke

dreamed I poured out my life story to my dentist

the old, angry artist calls the critic names after the show; the young, angry artist does it beforehand

exhibition idea: the Poor Image ( http://bit.ly/5AwXpU ) vs the Weak Universal Gesture ( http://bit.ly/apxW6f ) - which is paltrier?

high correlation between artists who talk about the impossibility of sorting high and low and those looking upwards for validation

"Electrolychee"

"Electrolychee" [mp3 removed -- a revised version of this track is on Bandcamp]

The drums are all software (except for the kick that comes in at the halfway point) and the tunes are all hardware (with much editing of each). Control voltages, baby.

Am continuing to experiment with using MIDI pitchbend and mod wheel graphs to impose tunes on top of existing tunes. Near the end the "bridge" melody alternates between tonal and less tonal--that's me plugging and unplugging the pitchbend patch cord in real time. *dorky*

Update: reposted with minor changes.

How Low Can You Go? (2011)

Seven long years ago we were having an artist vs programmer discussion and my friend Dave (who is both) asked:

How low level can one go in this contest...

... did the artist develop the "language" they used to write the program to produce the art...

... did the artist write the compiler which compiles the program into machine code which runs the program which displays the art....

... did the artist build the computer which was used to write the program and run the program...

... did the artist build the components for the computer which was used to write the program to ....

... did the artist manufacture the materials used to fabricate the components used for the computer....blah, blah, blah.

[...]

Pre-developed software is a tool, so are programming development languages. They both are tools which can be used as a means to do interesting things.

We are still discussing this, even after the camps of "hacking vs defaults" were identified in '07. I say "we"--that's people interested in so-called new media art who still have blogs. The gallery art world is all on Facebook swapping jpegs around under Mark Zuckerberg's watchful eye--not much investigation of the inherent nature of the medium is possible there, is there?