ANEMICodeCINEMA by Andy Deck - Media Player Haters Unite :: ANEMICodeCINEMA is a free interpretation of privatized data streams, digital encryption and encoding mired in secrecy and exclusivity. It’s a premonition of future histories lost in translation. Already video and audio are often unusable and scrambled for people who do not use the dominant operating system. As time passes and data encryption secrets are forgotten, this fractured experience of today’s audio and video may become the norm rather than the exception. Continue reading

HARDcoded :: Digital Punk Magicians :: w/ Workshops, Screenings, and Performances by: Alex Ignlizian, Mark Beasley, Sandra Rosas Ridolfi, Jake Elliot, Marisa Plumb, Temporary Services, criticalartware, Paul Hertz, Valerie Brewer, Professor Pangaea, CHHO, Morgan Higby Flowers, I <3 Presets and more… :: December 8, 2007; 1 - 9 pm :: EN3MY, 1550 N. Milwaukee Ave 3rd Fl. Chicago, IL + simultaneously streaming @ CentroMultiMedia + BORDER, Mexico City DF, Mexico.

HARDcoded is an ongoing collaboration between newMedia artists in Chicago + Mexico City, that explore the cross-over between digital noise, punk, + magic. Continue reading

Facial Glitches

Neuromirror is an EEG enhanced interactive installation by Iman Moradi. It consists of a computer vision and processing augmented mirror that distorts participants’ faces based on their own realtime brainwave readings. Its primary visual effects use the medium of the fake Digital Glitch or Glitchalike.

Neuromirror reflects how we mask our internal anxieties and fears behind our perfectly framed public image. It is about mimicking a facet of imperfect technology to reflect those internal struggles and imperfections. You can download Moradi’s dissertation Glitch Aesthetics here.