While sharing some works from the MIT media lab conference today, I started talking about lights and decoding with some folks in my Facebook group. So I thought it would be great to introduce this great artist whom many younger media artists might not know. Paul de Martinisis an electronic media artist, music composer who was one of the first to use the computer in a live performance. A lot of his works are informed by old technology, inventions , devices that one might find fitting of Erkki Huhtamo’s idea of media archaeology. Below are two great examples of works dealing with coding and decoding with light and sound.
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In my classes with Professor Erkki Huhtamo, I’ve come across many radical and experimental media artist and electronic musicians who were perhaps too far ahead in their time. (more…)