Who this dude anyway?

Right then just some background to give us an idea of where he's coming from to hopefully give a little insight into his off the wall work.

Well basically here is the man himself...



Based in Brooklyn, US. Programmer, hacker, sound engineer, net artist. Performs exhibitions, lectures, presentations, seminars around the world. Plays guitar & likes acid house just outta interest.

Educated at Oberlin, majoring in Electronic Music Composition with a minor in Computer Science and Classical Guitar -"Selected Study in Classical Guitar" to be exact.

Turning out to be, of course, as random as his creations.

The search continues........

Data Diaries?

The piece I was given as a start point for this artist is titled 'Data Diaries'. Basically Arcangel has managed to perform a clever little hack of Quicktime in order to read a data file & represent this visually. He used a core dump (writes all the not yet deleted information on a hard drive to a single file) then uses the hack to output this to a video.

Here's a screenshot from the video....

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In context an interesting piece, clever coding. But take this out of context & what are you left with but visual noise. I will need to delve further to find something that grabs me or relates to my theme.

Let's Get Started

As part of our 'Virtual Enviroments' module we have been given a brief which goes a lil' something like this...

2 Artists/Collectives to research: Cory Arcangel & Angie Waller.
Research in detail, in relation to our theme, 'Flights Of Reality'.
Present findings in a 'Map' (ambiguous I know)

In pairs compare & contrast the sources we have been assigned & organise our findings into a contructed presentation to be at least 10 minutes in length.

Hugo (my partner for the assignment) has been given Soda & Soundtoys.com which I will be focusing on a little later in my research.

So let the research begin.........