| society of algorithm [Guy van Belle/Akihiro Kubota] |
society of algorithm, 2006 net music
www.societyofalgorithm.org
piece of netmusic.
… during the festival society of algorithm creates
an internet piece based on an evolving online matrix that is read out at the
same time as sound and image. over 2 months' time participants from locations
outside berlin can connect to the abstract matrix to intervene in the generative
process using algorithms that affect the evolution ... the piece can be considered
an extended 'netzmusik' work using an online feedback mechanism creating slow
changes in the visualisation and sonification of the abstract data ... the
piece is documented at and accessable from http://www.societyofalgorithm.org,
and is copyright-free…
Guy Van Belle lives
in Bratislava / Brussels. He has been prominently involved in the use and
development of media for artistic purposes since 1990. He is also a freelance
curator. For more than 10 years he has been advising the Media Lab at the
Higher Institute of Fine Arts Antwerp for their projects and realisations.
He worked for 10 years at University of Ghent, teaching and managing (international)
research projects for education and arts at the electronic studio IPEM.
Since 2000 xgz has been working under the name of the collective digital
band mxHz.org (machine cent'red humanz), creating collaborative performances,
concerts, workshops, exhibitions and unexpected experimental/abstract art
projects. He performed recently in Amsterdam, Den Hague, Brussels, Prague,
Bratislava, Budapest, New York and Berlin. A special focus for mxHz.org
is on Balkan / Central / Eastern Europa to work towards a new sustainable
kind of collaborative projects. With Akihiro Kubota from Japan he started
the Society of Algorithm in 2001, working on netbased music performances.
www.mxhz.org
