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Andrea Polli - Retina Burn
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Year :: 2004
Label :: n/a
Cat No :: n/a
Genre :: Other
Tracks :: 01
Size :: 37,8 MB
Source :: CDDA
Bitrate :: 192KBps
Rel. Date :: 02/12/2004
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"a feast for the ears prepared by the eye"
Hunter College NYC professor of film and media Andrea
Polli presents a half hour composition of Intuitive
Ocusonics, a system for sound performance based on
eye movements that she has been using since 1996. In
Retina Burn, soundwaves generated by the sun are
manipulated by movements of the performer's eye,
thereby allowing the listener to audibly "view" the
sun without the usual risk of damaged vision. The
composition's low hums and fluttering sine waves
combine with percussive blinks and squints to
gradually move through a series of sonic dilations; a
feast for the ears prepared by the eye.
Artist Info:
Andrea Polli is a digital media artist living in New
York City. She received a Master of Fine Arts in
Time Arts from the School of the Art Institute of
Chicago and is currently an Associate Professor of
Film and Media at Hunter College. Polli's work
addresses issues related to science and technology in
contemporary society. Her projects often bring
together artists and scientists from various
disciplines. She has exhibited, performed, and
lectured nationally and internationally.
She has recently presented the installation and
digital print project The Fly's Eye, (2002) which
creates a live movement and light analysis and
deconstruction of the video image, at Le Centre de
production DA╧M╒N in Quebec, the Politecnico di
Milano University in Milan, Italy, at The
Kunstgewerbe Museum in Berlin, Germany, at The
Aronoff Center in Cincinnati, OH, at Apex Gallery in
New York City, at the V Sal≤n y Coloquio
Internacional de Arte Digital in Havana, Cuba, and at
SIGGRAPH '03 in San Diego among other venues.
Her other most recent project, Atmospherics/Weather
Works, (2003) is a collaboration with Meteorological
Scientist Dr. Glenn Van Knowe of the meteorological
modeling firm MESO and is a performance,
installation, and software project exploring the
sonification of storms and other atmospheric
phenomena. This work has been presented at Engine 27
in New York as a multi-channel sonic installation, at
Cybersonica at the ICA in London as a stereo sonic
work for headphones, at The Center for Art and
Technology at Northwestern University, at the College
Art Association, and as work in progress at The
Collaborative Process in Space Art Symposium
sponsored by Leonardo/Olats in Boulogne Billancourt,
France. Atmospherics/Weather Works was chosen as one
of seven winning best artwork projects in the
category of "Machine as the artist's co-author"
Machinista 2003, Permian Media Art Festival Perm
City, West Ural, Russia.
Polli's longest running performance project,
Intuitive Ocusonics, a system for performing sound
using eye movements, began in 1996 and has been shown
at V2 in Rotterdam, Holland; at the N-Space Art
Gallery of SIGGRAPH '01 in Los Angeles, CA; at the
Subtle Technologies Conference at the University of
Toronto, Canada; and at Immedia, at the University of
Michigan. Other performances and presentations
include: The Monaco Danses Dances Forum, Monaco;
ISEA, International Symposium on Electronic Art,
Paris France; Invencao, Sao Paolo; and Imagina 98,
Monaco. To support this work and the production of
an Audio CD, Active Vision, she was awarded a 1999
artist's residency at The iEAR Institute at
Rensellaer Polytechnic, a Harvestworks Recording
Production Grant in New York, an Artist's Residency
at The Center for Research in the Computing Arts at
The University of California at San Diego, and a
residency at Franklin Furnace in New York as part of
The Future of the Present. She has also shown this
work in venues throughout New York City, Chicago and
the Midwest; in San Francisco, and in Finland,
Iceland, Germany, Sweden, Greece, and the
Phillipines.
Her performance work and research is documented in
the article Active Vision in the October 1999 issue
of The Leonardo Journal. A retrospective article
about her work from 1991-1998, Virtual Space and the
Construction of Memory, is published in the Spring 98
issue of The Leonardo Journal.
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[01] Retina Burn [27:29]
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