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
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
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 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”
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
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ABOVE DESCARTES FLY PERFORMANCE / INSTALLATION SANTA FE ART INSTITUTE, SANTA FE NEW MEXICO 2006
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" 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 |
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GOLDENGATE
GEODESIC SUITE INSTALLATION at RODEO GALLERY,HEADLANDS,SAN
FRANCISCO,2006
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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
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VPL & "Flock of Birds" resident in house studio at the Human Factors VR Lab 1997-2000
1979 performances
with Section 25
"NUMINOUS
PLATFORM"
1998
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sAMPLED FROM THE "DIFFERENCE ENGINE" SCIENCE MUSEUM LONDON `97 thanks to Doran Swade for his KIND help
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VR MUSIC DATA SONIFICATION WORK OF PAUL
HIGHAM Mayo research studio at the Human
Machine Design Lab Virtual Simulations Team
1997-1999
universim
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SEAN SMUDA