Allen, Jamie

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Institut: Institut Experimentelles Design und Medienkulturen × Thema: performance ×

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    Of Minimal Materialities And Maximal Amplitudes: A Provisional Manual Of Stroboscopic Noise Performance
    (MIT Press, 2013) Allen, Jamie [in: Leonardo Electronic Almanac]
    The various techniques available to contemporary multimedia performers congeal, on occasion, into a set of related tools, techniques, and apparent motivations that one might characterize as a genre or scene. More often than not, in technologized audiovisual performance, these differentiable aesthetics and styles emerge with the introduction of a particular new media technology capability (see 'electronic music’ and 'computer music’ as examples of this). New tools beget new aesthetics and timbres, and software and hardware advances allow for more bits-per-second, more particles-per-frame, and more computing power-per-square-centimeter. Likewise and meanwhile, although more exceptionally, performance tools and styles also arise that are somewhat resistant to these vectors of technological progress.
    01A - Beitrag in wissenschaftlicher Zeitschrift
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    Signal Aesthetics
    (2013) Jordan, Ryan; Allen, Jamie
    A number of recent contemporary electronic art and performance practices erect signposts in “deeply” (e.g.: Athanasius Kircher) and 20th century (e.g.: Brion Gysin) histories of media and technology. Many such hardware-based techniques can be read as literal fieldwork; as the performance of a media-archeological ‘dig’ and materialised electrical phenomenon by and for both artist and audience. Providing the experience of media-as-signal, and hence media-as-material, performance practice can create a sensible laboratory which reverberates with the history of media studies, chronologies of and fascination with contemplative and perceptual (self-?) experiments with and through technology (e.g.: Beer, Walter, Weiner, Metzinger). What results is a signal-aesthetics that is a distillation of historical practices of media and consciousness studies and alternation, reflected through contemporary immediacies of media signals. The materialisation of the signal phenomenon outside of the more standard forms (I.e.: On screen, through a speaker, inside the laptop) is particularly relevant to these practices. The signal becomes manifest either in the environment (e.g.: ball lightening) or directly perceptible in the brain and mechanical functioning of the human body (e.g.: stroboscopic patterns or static/electric shocks). Thus signal aesthetics operates as an active agent (non-human entity) in the environment rather than a passive consumption as with other modes of media arts practice. The signal directly performs both media practices immediate environment altering EMF’s and the human structure by relying on its receptive signals (mirrors to the non-human signal) and unconscious responses. This in turn highlights the mechanical and material functioning of the environment and the body in direct relation to the functioning of technology.
    06 - Präsentation
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    Human Potential Movement
    (SIGGRAPH Art Gallery, 2009) Allen, Jamie; Oda, Yuko [in: SIGGRAPH ASIA '09]
    Human Potential Movement is a durational, performative mediation on the extractive nature of human life, and on the ridiculousness of 'sustainability' as a goal and concept. The project is constituted by a bicyclist, a bicycle, an electrical generator and a hydroponic plant system growing fast-growing greens and pueraria montana, the rapid and invasive 'kudzu' vine. The bicycle-generator powers a water pump and lighting system for hydroponic growth, which the bicyclist eats. The performance takes place during exhibition operating our, and — due to losses in the system — untimately fails in maintaining a closed system. Human Potential Movement was performed during SIGGRAPH ASIA '09 in Yokohama, Japan.
    14 - Ausstellungsbeitrag