Cracktux - Noise Garden (part 2)

Using Pure Data and Processing, Cracktux, the French-Taiwanese artistic duo, takes the audience through a digital journey of experimental laptop performances, created with open source software.

Both are active members of Openlab, a collaboration of artists who engage themselves in the aesthetics and politics of Free and Open Source Software Culture.

The network ideology manifests itself in both the social and the technical aspect of cracktux. Inspired by the contrasting practices in free software art, it seeks new possibilities within a wealth of innovative programs. Piping bits and software hacking is cracktux's playground.

:: Network - 20/11/07 ::

A network is any system of interconnected points / locations, nodes, which become greater, augmented, than when in isolation. While emphasis is most often placed on the nodes, it is the connections / links / lines / flows, the spaces between, the hinterland of the network, and their resulting mesh / matrix, which provides the site, means and context for the networks ability to transfer and transform. Similarly art can be thought of as a space in-between:

"The work of art occupies a pivotal point between two sets of behaviour, the artist's and the spectator's. It is essentially a matrix, the substance between. It exists nether for itself nor by itself." (Ascott, R. 2003, Telematic Embrace)

On November 20th 2007 Open Ear (http://openear.wordpress.com/) hosted an event curated by Garrett Lynch (http://www.asquare.org/) entitled Network presenting performances on this theme.

Video by Sebastian Robinson.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• performance
• art
• experimental
• openear
• puredata
• processing
• network
• cracktux