SCHOOL OF VISUAL ARTS, THE NEW YORK DIGITAL SALON AND NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY PRESENT THE 2009 VISUAL MUSIC MARATHON
GENRE-BENDING WORK BY OVER 100 ARTISTS FROM 15 COUNTRIES
Saturday, April 11, 10am – 10pm
Visual Arts Theater, School of Visual Arts
333 West 23 Street, New York
Free and open to the public  
The MFA Computer Art Department at School of Visual Arts, the New York Digital Salon and the Department of Music and Multimedia Studies at Northeastern University present the New York premiere of the Visual Music Marathon, a 12-hour festival showcasing 120 works by contemporary digital artists and composers from around the world. The event offers an encyclopedic look into the burgeoning practice of visual music, which combines animation and musical composition. The roots of the genre date back more than two hundred years to the ocular harpsichords and color-music scales of the 18th century; the current art form came to fruition following the emergence of film and video in the 20th century ...   [ read more ] »
New York Digital Salon web site »
Visual Music Marathon web site »

online exhibition "Interact Drawings" on interact.drawings.free.fr
A series of spontaneous drawings, made in an interactive way by the artist LWO with a computer. In this performance, the computer is not a mere medium or instrument, but a partner game, it retains its freedom of choice on the composition. The roles are the following, the man creates the line, the machine takes care of filling (depending on the line, and on the movement which was used to draw the line). A strange relationship established with the computer that is co-creator. The machine proceeds with both panache and determination while remaining discreet on the way to proceed.  
The software allows you to customize (varying) the images after the fact. The color and the type of the line, the colors of the filling and of the background can be changed (customized). The size of the image can also be changed since it's a vectorial image. Beyond the initial creation (the line and the composition), everyone can customize the settings and create its own picture. This leads to reconsider the concept of "artistic work", supposed to be unique and unchangeable. Here, one might speak of "source work" (original) and "personalized work" .   [ read more ] »
LWO : Interact Drawings web site »