June 2009
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WatchNice particle-code driven sand writing widget I worked on for Corona with Big Spaceship. This launched in 2007 and I realized I had never actually made one for myself. L for Lori not Laverne.
April 2009
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listening to "ryoji_ikeda-1101111111 - " →
Morning tune up - headphones on for this one.
listening to "This Is How We Walk On The Moon -... →
Urgh… all these streams daisy chained. Blip to my twit to my tumble to the feed. Don’t know how I feel about the re re replication. sleep on it.
listening to "The Great Pretender - Brian Eno" →
I’ve got 1 listener! The pressure. Now it’s time to kick out the jams for real. Don’t go anywhere audience of 1.
listening to "Drives Me Crazy - Dolly Parton" →
I send this one out to Mark Jeffery. He may be the only person I know who can explain Dolly covering FYC. Now determined to find more oddball covers.
listening to "This Must Be The Place (Naive... →
Seems an appropriate starter blip.
Off to teach modular synthesis- got patch cords and Wendy Carlos’ Secrets of Synthesis in my bag. Maybe I should grab a helmet.
At the Nic Collins Lampo show. Must attend event for my students. I see 1 and he’s a part of the performance.
March 2009
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February 2009
4 posts
Measuring around 110 db at the John Duncan show at Lampo. Behind the speakers!
WatchWhen twitter hit the scene I was very intrigued. I heard a lot of skepticism on the street but the idea of a pure and simple text based application will always be near and dear to my heart. The economy of a 140 character post is genius and lends itself to poetics. We’re now in the age of micro - blogging, customer service, life observation, political reporting, activism, comedy, philosophy,...
January 2009
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19 hours into 35. Feels good. A little let down with astrological outlook: Be sure that your idealistic goals are also practical. Whatevah.
December 2008
5 posts
Just moved the space heater on top of the coffee table for maximum effect on the couch. As for the kitchen- warmer inside the refrigerator.
Chicago didn’t make the top 10 worst cities for air pollution. Trying to focus on the positive while the temp drops 3 and feels like -11.
Judd put up a twitter based poetry gen http://judisdaid.com/sincere.html Imagine it will evolve into one of his intricate code works
Tending the digital garden. I’ll be sitting on this couch all weekend long. Damn my OCD! Space heater is cranked. Just need my CK bath robe.
Lost the tech-savvy edge in the family. Grandmother got an i-phone?! Meanwhile I’m doing time on a shoe phone- under contract til February.
November 2008
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WatchI’ve been looking for new books on live art and sound this morning. An odd inclination considering the fairly intangible and the dynamic nature of these forms. Definitely challenging forms to find well documented in books. To get started I looked up a Paul McCarthy show I saw this past summer at the Whitney in NYC hoping to find a nice monograph of his work or possibly a DVD. Instead, I was...
September 2008
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Judd Morrissey, Mark Jeffery, and Fanny Holmin at the Electronic Literature in Europe conference in Bergen, September, 2008. Videography by Martin Arvebro.
Some of the most elegant and poetic content visualization I’ve seen is in this piece. I particularly like this performance in Bergen because it brings in the music that accompanies the dance from the Goat...
November 2007
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WatchOPENPORT Winter Weekend
OPENPORT was last seen this past February as a month-long international festival supported by Links Hall’s Artistic Associates program. It returns now as a weekend event with performances from the festival creators and OPENPORT artists currently based in Chicago.
Friday, November 30, 7:30PM
Fiona Wright (UK) - On Lying Judd Morrissey (US) - Books that Write Me,...
October 2007
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WatchHEAT SINK by Nathan Butler
Fellow OPENPORT festival curator and friend, Nathan Butler, created a fantastic installation and time-based performance at the MCA for the 12X12 Series. I had the opportunity to participate in the actual install of the heaters and video tracking system. It was a great experience and once again is a lesson in having the right tools makes all the difference.
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September 2007
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March 2007
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WatchOPENPORT: Realtime Performance Sound & Langauge Festival
12 Nights of Performance February 2007
www.openportchicago.com
OPENPORT 2007 brought together artists from a diverse set of contemporary practices for an international festival featuring live acts and real-time transmissions from practitioners within performance, sound, and the language arts. The 2007 festival presented thirty-three...
WatchIn a Cloak of Shame He will Carry Six Bodies Inside of Me
British Premiere [Excerpt] National Review of Live Art in Glasgow, Scotland The Arches, March 17-19, 2004 Performance Artist Mark Jeffery (UK/USA) in collaboration with filmmaker Lucy Cash (UK), sound artist Nathan Butler (USA), Writer and digital artist Judd Morrissey (USA) and sound artist Lori Talley (USA), create a highly...
February 2004
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