Scoring the Tweets
> Warren Neidich 2018 – 2019 Courtesy of the artist. In this improvisational performative work Warren Neidich uses a cut and paste method first devised in Surrealism and later used in the works of William Burroughs, to alter and rearrange the one hundred and ninety-six tweets of Donald Trump that mention fake news to create […]
Prepared Desktop: Plugin Beachball Success
> Jon Satrom 2012 Courtesy of the artist. Plugin Beachball Success forms part of Jon Satrom’s ‘prepared desktop’ series of real-time performances, which refer to John Cage’s ‘prepared piano’ pieces where Cage inserted screws, nuts, bolts, and objects between the strings of a piano to create nonpiano sounds. Plugin Beachball Success is an ‘interrupt’ developed […]
Boston Tides
> Nathalie Miebach 2006 Reed, wood, data, 6’x 6’ x 2’. Courtesy of the artist. Using a base of twenty-four hours, this piece converts various layers of data collected between January and December 2005 related to the gravitational influence of both Sun and Moon on tides recorded at Boston Harbor. The inner structure converts sunrise/sunset […]