FRI 2006.04.28 criticalartware - verbose mode @ BUSKER

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# NOW SHOWING @ CRITICALARTWARE: JOSH KIT CLAYTON ++ JOSHUA GOLDBERG
# http://criticalartware.net/evnt/2006.04.28.html

Josh Kit Clayton ++ Joshua Goldberg
interviewed by criticalartware
SCREENING @ BUSKER
on FRI 2006.04.28
DOORS @ 8 PM
SCREENINGS @ 9 PM

1087 N HERMITAGE AVE CHICAGO IL 60622

FREE + OPEN

join us as criticalartware screens our interview with Josh Kit  
Clayton ++ Joshua Goldberg! Josh Kit Clayton develops Jitter for Max/ 
MSP + performs with Jitter in his electronic music projects. Clayton  
thinks through his relation to programming, artware, expanded cinema  
+ critical theory in this interview conducted by criticalartware on  
2003.09.28 in San Francisco during the San Francisco Performance  
Cinema Symposium. Joshua Goldberg is an artist who was an early  
adopter + beta tester of Jitter during which time he developed  
Dervish, an application for realtime video performance authored with  
Jitter. Goldberg discusses Dervish, Jitter, NATO.0+55 + the beauty of  
abstraction in this interview conducted by criticalartware on  
2003.06.07 in Chicago during AVIT North America: International VJ  
Conference and Visuals Festival.

nfo ABOUT criticalartware's Josh Kit Clayton ++ Joshua Goldberg  
interviews, criticalartware + BUSKER follows below.

# ABOUT JOSH KIT CLAYTON

Josh Kit Clayton is a musician, developer and computer programmer who  
develops Jitter for Max/MSP. Jitter "extends the Max/MSP programming  
environment to support realtime manipulation of video, 3D graphics  
and other data sets... Jitter abstracts all data as multidimensional  
matrices, so objects that process images can also process audio,  
volumetric data, 3d vertices, or any numerical information you can  
get into the computer." (0) As a musician, Josh Kit Clayton moved  
towards including realtime video in performances of his musics,  
musics that can be variously categorized as electronic, laptop [+/or]  
glitch. recording under the name Kit Clayton, Clayton tours  
internationally + has released music through Orthlorng Musork (the  
label he owned + operated) as well as through Cycling '74 (the  
company for whom Clayton works developing Jitter). Jitter's  
introduction in 2003 contributed significantly to the expansion of  
cinematic approaches to realtime audio + video, especially appealing  
to developers already familiar with Cycling '74's software product  
Max/MSP.

0: data.src:
title: Jitter Overview
dvr: Cycling '74
uri: http://www.cycling74.com/products/jitter

http://criticalartware.net/int/jkC

# ABOUT JOSHUA GOLDBERG

"i am a dedicated abstractionist. i design and perform on frameworks  
for improvisatory animation using laptops in club and party situations.
* what does that mean? i guess you could call me a VJ, but i prefer  
‘live visualist’ as a term.
...
i think of myself as more of a light artist than a storyteller. i  
want people’s reaction to my work to be physiological in nature,  
instead of cognitive.
* what does that mean? it means i think stories have no place in  
nightclubs.
* but what does that MEAN? it means shut up and dance. see the  
flickery gorgeous shit every now and then.
...
feedback explorations, circular decisions, a domestic core.
custom software, too much equipment, accidental movement.
(about four years ago, I released an absolutely free version of my  
performance software, including code, with no restrictions, called  
dervish.)
...
i explore the mutability of time through computers, and investigate  
the shattering of temporal flow.
...
i create time-convolved video projects, as installations, screen- 
based video art, and live situations.

...
i make work which makes sport of frenzied deconstruction of owned media.
* but what does that MEAN? i use television like paint and air.
when does content stop being content?
when does ownership evaporate?
when does history fade?"

- joshua goldberg

data.src:
title: art samples and self-driven interjections
dvr: joshua goldberg
uri: http://goldbergs.com

http://criticalartware.net/int/jG

# ABOUT criticalartware:

criticalartware is an [application/platform/concern] compiled at the  
turn of the twenty first century to address hyperthreaded hystories  
of new media, [software-as-art/art-as-software] and [connections/ 
ruptures/dislocations] between early moments of artware and Video  
Art. criticalartware seeks to [map/portscan/realize] the as-yet- 
unfulfilled promises of technology first proposed by entities such as  
Vannevar Bush, Gene Youngblood, Ted Nelson, Buckminster Fuller, and  
the Radical Software publication. By drawing [parallels/paths]  
between the [concepts/discourses] of the early video art movement and  
the current [artware/newmedia] moment, criticalartware hopes to [re] 
connect the current context to its rightful past: a multitude of  
[personal/subjective] hyperthreaded [her/hi/hy]stories.

http://criticalartware.net

# ABOUT BUSKER:

Busker is an art space in East Village, Chicago hosting audio/visual  
projects and new media programming. Busker is well suited for  
screening video works, audio/visual performances and other media  
installations. Busker is a non-commercial, artist-run project and its  
flexibility with curatorial approaches gives artists a platform to  
facilitate critical discourse in contemporary mediums. We recognize  
the collaborative and distributive nature of new media practices and  
want to extend the role of Busker into contemporary modes of  
networking. Busker functions not only as a physical aggregation point  
of local new media practices in Chicago, but also as one of many  
nodes comprising a larger network of media art.

http://www.buskerchicago.com