Hail Mary Update [SPAMM, NO-MEDIA, 0p3nr3p0, etc...]

…ok, haven’t blogged in a while, it’s been a kind of intense semester… but the summer is finally here (windows open, cool breeze in כhitown) and so in the interest of posterity… here’s the last couple months re:cap >>> exactly two months ago, Jason Soliday + Jeff Kolar + myself hosted the first NO-MEDIA event [...]

Apple Computers: new video for @joncates REMIX-IT-RIGHT @filmcenter

As part of Conversations at the Edge (at the Gene Siskel Film Center) jonCates is organizing a screening of worx from the Phil Morton Memorial Archive along side remix’d worx from the archive by contemporary new media artists (including worx sourced from an open call on the screenings tumblr). This Thursday (March 7, 8 pm) [...]

Sharing my thoughts [&&vid] on @gltich karaoke @MC_IMR

This week In Media Res is hosting a week long chat on ‘Glitch Media’ lead by Evan Meaney + w/posts by Simon Tarr + Shawné Holloway + A. Bill Miller + myself. I’ll be posting on Friday: “there’s a huge noise in the middle of this: the ha[ng]ppenings of Glti.ch Karaoke” >>> video below:

Interactive Arts & Media Visiting Lecture: Jon Satrom & Nick Briz

jon.satrom and I will be sharing our wurrrk + chatting about our involvement in the glitch art community && co-organizing the GLI.TC/H conference/festival/gathering @Columbia College tomorrow!!! Free + open to all, come and chat WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7 AT 7:00PM WABASH CAMPUS, #150 916 S. WABASH, CHICAGO, IL, CHICAGO

Glitch Codec Tutorial [preliminaries]

this is long overdue, but here are some screen recordings from the preliminary steps of the Glitch Codec Tutorial: http://nickbriz.com/glitchcodectutorial/preliminaries/ (from March,2010) A couple years ago a colleague accused me of “killing my art” in a public presentation of the Glitch Codec Tutorial (GCT). Though my intention was to encourage others to engage with their computers at [...]

Coded Perception [the New Aesthetic @SETUPUtrecht]

Last week I shared my ‘perspective’ on the New Aesthetic with SETUP [a space in Utrecht which hosts events on digital culture] which held an opening for their Coded Perception expo. From their site [translated from Dutch via Google]: What images constructs the computer as he looks to our world? During the exhibition ‘Coded Perception‘ you can [...]

join the GLI.TC/H 2112 Working Groups!

GLI.TC/H 2112 is nearly a month away! But you can start participating now by signing up on the Working Groups and joining the conversation! Working Groups, similar to Internet Working Groups are formalized/structured spaces for open/participatory development of GLI.TC/H threads (+related projects). The Working Groups are an online space for conversation + collaboration + planning leading up [...]

featured artist @pivotartgallery

I’m xcited to be the featured artist this month at pivot art gallery, an independent online project curated by Peter Hayes, which features my new project theNewAesthetic.js as well as some of my glitch videos + some of my artware/artgames/remix projects. From the post: A ‘glitch’ is generally defined as an unexpected and/or temporary malfunction [...]

theNewAesthetic.js

Here’s a piece I recently finished on the subject of ‘the New Aesthetic’. It’s an executable-essay / open-source javascript artware-library for quick [re]production of ‘New Aesthetic’ compositions and related new-media art tropes. I initially came at this from a pretty critical (dare I say dismissive) point of view, with what was sopposed to be a kinda [...]

A New Ecology in UBC art history publication by @carlivierke

Was excited to get this in the mail the other day ^_^ a symposium-publication of selected writings by students in the undergraduate department of art history, visual art and theory at the University of British Colombia.  Carli Vierke (now an alumn of UBC on her way to NYU) wrote a really rad piece entitled “Negotiating Corporeality, Negotiating [...]