Upgrade! Paris est un ensemble de rendez-vous mensuels, publics et itinérants organisés par Julie Morel et Marika Dermineur; et une série d'événements bisannuels, initiée avec RYBN et les Éditions MF: « Économie zéro » (2008) et « Politique zéro » (2010).
Upgrade! Paris, fondé en 2006 par Marika Dermineur, s'insère dans le réseau Upgrade! International composé de plus de trente structures autonomes se réunissant autour des arts numériques depuis 1999.
Upgrade! Paris « sous influence » est la série d'ateliers et conférences organisée dans le cadre de Laboratoire Ouvert à la Gaîté Lyrique (avril 2012 - mars 2013).
Upgrade! Paris est hébergé sur Incident.net, et soutenu par le Ministère de la culture et de la communication.
// Valentina Vuksic (DE) is a computer artist and programmer based in Zürich. She approaches computers via acoustic transducers for magnetic fields -telephone adapters- and engages in a personal exploration of the possibilities offered by articulated hard- and software mediation.
RÃALISATIONS
Computer noise Harddisko, installation: Hard drives orchestra (disk noise), www.harddisko.ch Harddisko, vinyl: www.artkillart.free.fr Sei Personaggi part 2, installation: Experimental play in computers (RAM noise), www.sei-personaggi-part2.ch Permanent atelier and stage in Luzein (CH): computer concrète in the swiss mountains, www.museumpraettigau.ch
Harddisko (2004)
Hard drive orchestra (an installation and vinyl release): Rhythmical noises from sixteen hard drives evolve, orchestrated by the switching on and off of power circuits. By cutting the hard diskâs power in varying sequences and amplifying the particular audio characteristics of each drive, the Hard drive orchestra creates an acoustic and visual interplay. After the hard driveâs casing has been removed, a pickup for electromagnetic fields is mounted on the drive's reading head controller. Upon powering up, a harddrive conducts an initialization procedure involving the reading head. Each drive moves with its own speed and pattern, as determined by its firmware and mechanical constitution. Electromagnetic emissions, transduced as acoustic signals, reveal a hard driveâs unique tones, as each drive performs according to its past usage and current state.
Sei Personaggi Part 2 (2006)
Experimental play in computers (computer noise installation): The six characters imagined by the Italian playwright Luigi Pirandello are still in search of a play, a stage and an audience. The original play "Six characters in search of an author" dates back to 1921. In the computer installation â a continuation of Pirandello's play â the six characters occupy the time and space of six outdated computers. Time keeping processors and working memory define the time and space of their new stage, which extends throughout the electronic insides of the networked machines. Microphones follow the fleeting trails of the characters inside the systems' kernels. Visitors listen to live memory-noise produced by this family of six: a computer process running on separate, individual machines and Linux OS represents each character.
Tripping through runtime (2008)
Acoustic trips through the electromagnetic fields of motherboards (performance): A collection of desktop or laptop computers is examined live via magnetic pickup microphones. The microphones transform the electromagnetic waves occurring around the various electronic parts of the computers into acoustic ones. Software and user interaction with the laptops can be experienced sensually through a broad range of layered sounds. Just plugging in power and booting up an operating system reveals a unique small-scale universe of sounds and starts us on a journey into more complex levels emerging from hard- and software interaction. This space is explored and further modeled by triggering actions deliberately. System analysis tools, stress tests and custom programs bring the characteristics of each machine into the limelight. The audience follows the processing acoustically, via the captured electromagnetic fields, and visually, via the video monitor output. In the current version, state changes of the processes can only be heard when the frequency range lies within the range perceptible to humans. The microphones are also moved to seek out specific sounds of the electronic interior of the computer being explored.
3 jours autour des vieux media et de l'obsolescence future des "nouveaux" media⦠>> Programme complet du dimanche, avec Pip Chodorov, Marc Plas, Anne Laforet, Carole Thibaud et Meriadeg, Damien Bourniquel et des projections / installations avec des contributions de La Draille, Project Singe, Anthony Carcone, Benjamin Gaulon, Projet E_Rebus... http://obsolescence.wikidot.com/
