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The Alphabet Synthesis Machine
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Golan Levin (b.1972) is
an artist, composer, performer and engineer interested in developing
artifacts and events which explore supple new modes of reactive
expression. His work focuses on the design of systems for the creation,
manipulation and performance of simultaneous image and sound, as
part of a more general inquiry into the formal language of interactivity,
and of non-verbal communications protocols in cybernetic systems.
Levin's work spans a variety of online, installation and performance
media. He is known for the conception and creation of Dialtones
[2001], a concert whose sounds are wholly performed through the
carefully choreographed dialing and ringing of the audience's own
mobile phones. Previously, Levin was granted an Award of Distinction
in the Prix Ars Electronica for his Audiovisual Environment Suite
[2000] interactive software and its accompanying audiovisual performance,
Scribble [2000]. Most recently, Levin and collaborator Zachary Lieberman
premiered Re:mark [2002], an interactive installation and performance
which uses augmented-reality technologies to create a multi-person,
real-time visualization of its participants' speech and song. Levin
is now in the preliminary research phase of a new body of work,
which will lead to audiovisual performances conducted on highly
miniaturized, interactive robotic systems. Levin received undergraduate
and graduate degrees from the MIT Media Laboratory, where he studied
with John Maeda in the Aesthetics and Computation Group. Between
degrees, he worked for four years as an interaction designer and
research scientist at Interval Research Corporation. Levin resides
in New York City, where he teaches interactive art and data visualization
at the Parsons School of Design; he also holds an Artist-in-Residence
position at the Eyebeam Artist Studios. Levin's work is represented
by the Bitforms gallery, Chelsea.
Levin created an online project The
Alphabet Synthesis Machine for Art:21/PBS in 2001. Levin's Web
site flong.com
provides an overview of the artist's diverse and engaging projects. |
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