R E C E N T DATA SONIFICATIONW O R K  B Y  P A U L   H I G H A M

 

" Behold  Paul Higham  with his data glove performing inverse kinematic neural nets of cellular automata "                    Future Perfect  98  Curated by Steve Dietz, Craig Harris, Leonardo Electronic Almanac

Paul is a man of rich and eclectic interests, Intellectually he's really following his own path............I only know that it's brilliant."   

 Philip Blackburn  Author of  Enclosures The  life and work of  Harry Partch  (1901-1974).

            News Flash ... Paul Higham will be researching + making new work as artist-in-residence at the Zeppelin Factory, Friedrichshafen, Germany as part of the Salem2Salem Arts Initiative, Aug 2010.

 

PALAIS De La De`couverte. PARIS

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VENDREDI 12 FEVRIER 2010  /  15H00-17H30  / FRIDAY 12 FEB  2010
Rayonnements et flux: du Soleil à l'oeuvre d'art Intervenants
 
'BEETHOVEN'S LAST  : HIGH DEF MASK' BY PAUL HIGHAM : DRAWN BY CNC : AVAILABLE NOW IN HARDCOPY ON PAPER

 

  NEW PERFORMANCE  WORK   InterSculpt Paris 2009

  'SPECTRAL  AUTOTECTURE'  

A  REAL  TIME  SYNTHETIC  COMPUTATIONAL  GENERATIVE     SCULPTURE

FOR PLAYER PIANO &  DATA DRIVEN AUTOMATA

   

Data harvested from the works of Malthus & James Clerk Maxwell & Futures Markets

	       “My soul is an entangled knot, 
               "Upon a liquid vortex wrought 
               By Intellect in the Unseen residing. 
               And thine doth like a convict sit, 
  
               With marlinspike untwisting it, 
               Only to find its knottiness abiding; 
               Since all the tool for its untying 
               In four-dimensional space are lying.” 
James Clerk Maxwell

A precursor to this new work by Paul Higham was ‘Unhappy Dow Jones; A  Real Time Non Veridical Representation Of a Data Stream’ was shown at the Paris 1999 InterSculpt : 'Spectral Autotecture'  also harvests grains of data from digital streams mined from population in real time. From this data I generate a repertoire of matrices which I use to dimension all species of data as vectoral coordinates. ”Culled” meshes can be prototyped in the physical realm as sculptures or left in their evolving virtual state. In a performance work such as 'Spectral Autotecture' the Data driven model continually evolves, feeding back, mirroring as a Self-Organizing system thereby showing the flux & dynamics of data and societal transformations over time: fenestrating organicity, hysteresis, turbulence & noise within culture in Real Time. 

My works are synthetic computational works that deal with the commodification of information and dynamics of data itself.  'The Algorithms of Life : Form follows Function'   Paul Higham

Works are output in formats such as cnc /rapid prototype/projection/maps & Datasonification.

 

 

 

  "BLACK_MONDAY"low res

    'Harvesting grains of data in real time  from operational Satellites and WALL ST.  "Historical" datum from Black Monday, 19 October 1987

   The second largest one-day decline in recorded stock market history.

   ALSO data parsed from the economic collapse of  1929 mashed in Real time  with genetic algorithms, heuristics : HOG  FUTURES &  Wall St. now.

   Exploring discrete commonalities of function & form ,self organisation, entropy  found in artificial and “natural”  structures

   Speaking more to the rules behind the structures of viral organicity exploring, hysteresis, synthesis, turbulence & noise within culture in real time :  the Algorithms of life...'

     Paul Higham   ©  2000
 

 

MASS MoCA  Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art  PART OF THE "VISIONARY DRAWING" PROJECT  SPONSORED BY THE  JOAN MITCHELL FOUNDATION

  SPECTRAL BACILLUS “Spiral of Dissent”

                                Synthesized Hog Futures, GPS, Genetic  Code

AUTOTECTURE    ©        

'A Self–Organizing domain model of data matrices harvested from local population in real time. The generative model continually evolves, feeding back, mirroring & aligning under a “Social Skin” as a form of Social Architecture.'

RAPID PROTOTYPE : STL  / CNC / SCALE CONSTRUCTION /

performance/ WEB / SONIFICATION

 

 

2002 contemporary arts center New Orleans real time computational installation

 

 

     AUTOTECTURE   FUGUE    PERFORMANCE / INSTALLATION / DOW JONES /HOG FUTURES SYNTHESIZED WITH GENETIC ALGORITHMS /SALEM ARTWORKS/ New York august 2007

 

 

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ABOVE                  DESCARTES FLY   PERFORMANCE / INSTALLATION SANTA FE ART INSTITUTE, SANTA FE NEW MEXICO 2006

 

 

 

DVD AVAILABLE

 

" KNOWLEDGE   IS   POWER   -   La koro Sutro "    Autotecture   Fugue  /   Real - Time  Synthetic  Data sonification  +  Neural Gas Algorithm,

 

 

 

 Oct 2007, DIGITAL SCULPTURE & BIOMORPHISMArs Mathematica,ENSAM, Paris,

 

 

 

 

" L  E  S      A  M  B  A  S  S  A  D  E  U  R  S  "

NYIT  Gallery  Manhattan    2007

 

  Anechoic Synthetic  Data  Sonification

 

Real- time computational work

built from genetic algorithms,

Sidereal & weather satellite,

 pyhsis, gold leaf, wax cnc

 copyright paul higham 06
 
   

              

                                                       
 
 

 

  

 

      GOLDENGATE GEODESIC SUITE  INSTALLATION  at  RODEO GALLERY,HEADLANDS,SAN FRANCISCO,2006              

CATALOG 

 

 

 

 

Aeolian Symphony for Sony Playstations & Mined Data - PERFORMANCE Computational Real-Time Generative Self Organising Works

 BIG TOP GALLERY, NEW ORLEANS, 2005 :    thanks to SONY Mathengine, Cambridge UK

 

 

 
 

VPL  & "Flock of Birds" resident  in house  studio at the Human Factors VR Lab 1997-2000

 

 

 

1979 performances with Section 25

Selected Performances         Press

 

 

 

"NUMINOUS PLATFORM" 1998

 see below 

sAMPLED FROM THE  "DIFFERENCE ENGINE"  SCIENCE MUSEUM LONDON `97 thanks to Doran Swade for his KIND help

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Annie Besant and C.W. Leadbeater  Thought-Forms (1901)
 

VR MUSIC DATA SONIFICATION WORK OF PAUL HIGHAM     Mayo research studio at the Human Machine Design Lab Virtual Simulations Team        1997-1999 universim

 

photos SEAN SMUDA