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<title>soundtoys.net artist: michael takeo magruder</title>
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<title>world[s]</title>
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<content type="xhtml" xml:space="preserve"><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">world[s] is a series of dynamic audio-visual constructs that can only exist in a virtual space unbound by the laws of physical reality. These data-sculptures are created exclusively from the word &#039;world&#039; translated into the native script of society&#039;s most prevalent 25 languages. The work reflects upon the multifaceted aspects of human interpretation with respect to language and the information it conveys.

World[s] was commissioned by Stanza for soundtoys.net. Thanks to the Arts Council Of England, The Watershed Media Center. World[s] was supported by King&#039;s Visualisation Lab, Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King&#039;s College London. </div></content>
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<title>{Matrix}</title>
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<content type="xhtml" xml:space="preserve"><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">The {Matrix} series of artwork is concerned with the conversion of small data extracts from internet news media into audio-visual virtual sculptures which are abstract in an informational sense to human perception. The artworks have each been created entirely from a single news item parsed from the BBC International web-site (http://news.bbc.co.uk/). From each article, 1000 bits of text (a 150 character 8-bit ASCII text string), image (a 20x10 pixel bitmap with a 5-bit colour table), and audio (a .125 second, 1kHz, 8-bit, uncompressed sound clip) information were sampled and utilized as the exclusive material to generate a sculptural form. Although these audio-visual entities are unintelligible to the human mind, it is possible through the use of computer technology to reverse engineer the works and extract the three 1000 bit elements in a lossless manner.</div></content>
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<title>Event</title>
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<content type="xhtml" xml:space="preserve"><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Event is composed exclusively from news articles which have been parsed from the BBC News International website (http://news.bbc.co.uk/) between December 29 and February 1. Each day during January 2004 a random news item was selected. An equal and predefined amount of video, text, still-image, and audio information was sampled from each news item to create a database of source material. These data extracts were then reassembled via a predetermined and automated process thus reforming hybrid constructs based upon the original news articles. The final artistic &#039;product&#039; was then authored in Flash (the ubiquitous corporate advertisement mechanism) and redistributed via the Internet for public consumption.

Event is a 2003 commission of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. (aka Ether-Ore) for its Turbulence website. It was made possible with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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