[spectre] Turbulence Commission: "HRRAAGHP-TING!" by Olen Hsu, Dana Karwas and Steven Lam

[Turbulence]

April 28, 2006
Turbulence Commission: "HRRAAGHP-TING!" by Olen Hsu, Dana Karwas and Steven
Lam
http://turbulence.org/works/utter/index.html

"HRRAAGHP-TING!" is an Internet/video collaboration that connects image and
sound filenames available on the web to create an infinite chain of
associations. Extruded in real time, and in a linear format, they collapse
the Internet's spatial organization into a single screen to create a
cinematic experience. Each time "HRRAAGHP-TING!" is used, it generates an
entirely different set of visual, aural and linguistic relationships. This
Cagean play with chance destabilizes the intent and authorship implicit in
the communication of information; perverts intellectual property through
rampant decontextualization; and defies the expectations of the viewer
through live reorganization.

"HRRAAGHP-TING!" is a 2006 commission of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.
(aka Ether-Ore) for its Turbulence web site. It was made possible with
funding from The Greenwall Foundation.

BIOGRAPHIES

OLEN HSU constructs installations in porcelain, paper and algorithmically
composed sound, converging new media, tactile forms and works for acoustic
instruments. He received his BA in Art History and Music from Yale
University, a BFA in Ceramics from the Kansas City Art Institute, and an MFA
in Sculpture from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. A fellowship
from the Dedalus Foundation brought him to New York where he participated in
the Artist in the Marketplace Program at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, the
Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center Artist-in-Residence Program for New
Music, and the BCAT/Rotunda Gallery New Media Artist Residency. Hsu is the
recipient of grants from the New York State Council on the Arts, the
National Endowment for the Humanities, the Joan Mitchell Foundation and the
John Michael Kohler Arts Center. His recent work has been shown at The Bronx
Museum of the Arts, the InterSpace New Media Arts Center in Sofia, Bulgaria,
and James Nicholson Gallery in New York. The artist currently lives and
works in New York City.

DANA KARWAS received a baccalaureate degree in Architecture from the
University of Kansas and holds a Masters in Interactive Telecommunications
from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. She is the co-founder of Gorilla
Kingdom, a multimedia production company based in NYC. Her main interest
lies in transforming and redefining social spaces through the medium of
technology. Her work is rooted in architecture and extends to the edges of
social and cultural dimensions. She has taught workshops on interactive
mobile technology and the connections between architecture and the visual
and sonic arts at the Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center, NYC.

STEVEN LAM is interested in revealing how information becomes distributed,
internalized, and performed. His practice is of glitches and reversals,
re-enunciation, redubbing, recasting, and appropriation. He employs humor
and a DIY sensibility to investigate contemporary issues dealing with
institutional and media critique and the relationship of aesthetics with
politics. Lam has exhibited at the Bronx Museum of Art, NY; Eyebeam, NY; LEF
Embodied Technologies show at Art Interactive, Boston, MA; Silverlake Film
Festival, Los Angeles, CA; Diverseworks, TX; The Windtunnel at Art Center
College of Art and Design, CA.; Aljira: Center for Contemporary Art, NJ as
well premiering video/choreographic work for various performance venues. He
received his BA in Art History and Art from Trinity University, and a MFA
from the University of California, Irvine.

For more information about Turbulence, please visit http://turbulence.org

Jo-Anne Green, Co-Director
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