Software for the Hyperactive will offer a discussion of software's
intersection with cultural activities at various points along the
hyperactivity scale --- from office work to clubbing --- making pit
stops at topics from the tyranny of furniture to the political activity
of algorithms. While covering general concerns of software-related
performance and politics, the session will also be an artist's talk,
covering various of Amy Alexander's software and performance projects.
Amy Alexander is a software and performance artist and VJ, who has
worked in film, video, music, and UNIX systems administration as well
as in digital media art. Her work has been presented on the Internet
and the street as well as in festivals and museums. She is currently
Assistant Professor of Visual Arts at the University of California, San
Diego. Amy has been working primarily in net art and software art since
1996. Her earlier projects include The Multi-Cultural
Recycler, theBot, Reamweaver, and CyberSpaceLand. Amy is also a
co-founder of the Runme.org software art repository. Her current
project is SVEN: Surveillance Video Entertainment Network (http://deprogramming.us/sven),
a live public space digital video performance using computer vision to
detect likely rock stars.
Venues:
Festival and museum venues include: Readme, Transmediale, Piksel, Ars
Electronica, ISEA, Sonar, Le Placard, Viper, Borderhack, Next 5
Minutes, EMAF, New Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Monica (US)
Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum's Artport.
Club venues include The Stone in Los Angeles, First Avenue and The
Dinkytowner in Minneapolis, and The Melkweg in Amsterdam.
Other activities while in London:
Participating in a panel on livecoding at Cybersonica on 20th of May: http://www.cybersonica.org/
Working hard on the SVEN project...
