Rob Davis http://robdavis.org Wed, 16 Sep 2009 09:21:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 Longplayer Live http://robdavis.org/2009/09/longplayer-live/ http://robdavis.org/2009/09/longplayer-live/#comments Sun, 13 Sep 2009 21:53:41 +0000 rob http://robdavis.org/?p=310 I attended Artangel’s Longplayer Live event at the Roundhouse today, where a 1000-minute section of the 1000-year piece of music was performed by live musicians. There was also a 12-hour series of one-to-one conversations between an inspiring combination of speakers from diverse fields, including writer Jeanette Winterson, psychotherapist Susie Orbach, cognitive neuroscientist Daniel Glaser, poet Ruth Padel and mathematician Marcus du Sautoy.

Longplayer Live
In 2003, shortly after the start of the Longplayer project, I met up with the artist Jem Finer and during conversations developed an experimental visualisation of his artwork, shown below. It is intended to demonstrate the mechanic of Longplayer by compressing its 1000 years into 30 seconds.

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 ]]> http://robdavis.org/2009/09/longplayer-live/feed/ 0 HAL 9000 http://robdavis.org/2009/09/hal-9000/ http://robdavis.org/2009/09/hal-9000/#comments Wed, 09 Sep 2009 23:38:37 +0000 rob http://robdavis.org/?p=301 Researching the portrayal of the iconic computer HAL 9000 in the Stanley Kubrick film and Arthur C. Clarke novel 2001: A Space Odyssey as part of ongoing exploration of power dynamics in human-computer interaction.

HAL 9000 still

HAL 9000 still

]]> http://robdavis.org/2009/09/hal-9000/feed/ 0 About http://robdavis.org/2009/07/about/ http://robdavis.org/2009/07/about/#comments Sat, 11 Jul 2009 01:55:53 +0000 rob http://rbd.chromacorporation.com/?p=65 Rob Davis is a UK-based artist who currently works with computers, digital media and electronics to create installations. He has worked on projects at the Big Chill Festival, 291 Gallery, ICA and BFI Southbank as well as E32 and Monkey Town in New York and the Stedelijk, Amsterdam.

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