<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi, checkin in.<div class="">I’ve been working on live networked performance - in high bandwidth scenarios </div><div class="">(research networks).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The work takes a few directions: one, software development (Artsmesh) which</div><div class="">manages complex audio/video/osc connections (polystreams) between multiple networked peers.</div><div class="">We need to negotiate timezones, multiple divergent time delays - pushing up against </div><div class="">the medium of relativity itself, synced world clocks/metronomes and network probing tools. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’ve been thinking of this in terms of Presence Engineering or Human Network </div><div class="">Interaction (HNI). HCI was a significant thing in early media arts, so why not HNI.</div><div class="">Is 'the cloud’ the best we can do as metaphor; rather nebulous and opaque if you ask me -</div><div class="">or even downright dishonest in convincing tenants to give up power, knowledge and agency.</div><div class="">P2P and federated blogging systems (<a href="http://artsmesh.io" class="">artsmesh.io</a>) are an important aspect of the environment I </div><div class="">want to work in, as well as IPV6 only environments - as I work in Beijing where IPV4 </div><div class="">is totally useless.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It strikes me that artists adapted to computers in the 80/90’s much more robustly, </div><div class="">differently from the way artists have taken to real-time networking - with little concern for the </div><div class="">blackbox of routing, terrain and protocols through and over which our presence signal proceeds. </div><div class="">The signal artist should be intentional about the integrity of the entire reach/processes (compression) </div><div class="">of their medium - video/audio/control stream . The medium - the signal itself - is the message.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">On the artistic side, I seem to be using real/tangible instrumentation again, rather than </div><div class="">controller type instruments, as immediacy/presence/embodiment/vibration is ironically foregrounded </div><div class="">in this medium of delayed signals. Every 0.ms counts. Time and presence is proximate/fore </div><div class="">again in the delayed/networked environment. Real time composition (improvisation) is</div><div class="">fascinating again, after a period of having offloaded the capacity of memory and thinking to </div><div class="">the asynchronicity and large buffer sizes of offline editing. Liveness.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The artist reads Bergson once again with new understanding and is reminded of the </div><div class="">critical moment of the Einstein/Bergson debate 100 years ago (Signal Science, Jimena Canales); </div><div class="">how physics finally claimed the authority of philosophy and how this has affected the</div><div class="">very current trajectory of art/humanities in the service of science and the academy.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Virtual reality stimulated a discourse in ontology and speculative reality (all object oriented);</div><div class="">while network performance will likely do the same with regard to presence and time </div><div class="">(non object oriented).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">I'm mostly commenting here because I’m truly at a loss as to why it is such a slowly </div><div class="">evolving platform. Since when have artists been so reluctant to tackle such a ripe medium - </div><div class="">in a world that is otherwise so totally saturated in the network paradigm. </div><div class="">Stockbrokers/accountants are more critically savvy to networks than is today’s media artist. </div><div class="">Is it because the Facebook Website is such a satisfying/hypnotic platform? The fact is that </div><div class="">a network performance artist needs other peers/nodes to play with, and I am lamenting that </div><div class="">there have been only a handful of network performance practitioners. If artists are</div><div class="">(non-conventionally) just waiting for it to be easy… that moment is already past. </div><div class="">You just have to dip into the UDP waters a bit.</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Ken</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">
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