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Bit Signal Fabric is a multimodal installation presenting
a navigable universe of virtual worlds.
Between solid and liquid lies the interesting region of phase transition,
which is both discrete and continuous, stable yet evanescent,
organized yet
indeterminate. The atomic basis of digital operations permits
the
continuous navigation between states and modalities, appearing
fluid yet
maintaining structural coherence. The notion of Transvergence,
proposed by
Marcos Novak, concerns itself with the potential for the fluid
movements of
ideas across disciplines. Fluidity in the choice of perspective
enables the
creative movement between levels, systems and dimensions, and
the scope to
find ways to discover new territories from those that are currently
known.
The virtual universe consists of worlds constructed/devised by
multi-disciplinary collaborators as an embodiment of these ideas.
Each world
employs multi-tiered algorithmic networks as ground, enabling
fields of
expression to grow from modalities of 1D (sound) through 2D (image)
to 3D
(virtual space), allowing music to contruct the virtual, and
for sonic forms
to be arranged spatially. Inspired by this notion of transmodal
causality,
the worlds are connected not just through navigable portals of
transition
but also through inter-world contamination: objects or phenomena
in one
world having a related impact in another. The user's traversal of the worlds and the transitions stages an indeterminate
narrative, a navigable music.
Bit Signal Fabric is the collaborative effort between:
MarkDavid Hosale: MarkDavid Hosale is a Media Artist with a
background in electronic music composition. He is currently working on
an Individual Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Media Art and Technology at
the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Ben Ritter: Ben Ritter is currently a 2nd-year MFA candidate in
UC Santa Barbara's Department of Art. His work examines the structure
of space in art through the interrelations of digital media, sculpture,
sound, print, and drawing.
Wesley Smith: Wesley Smith is a MA candidate in Visual Arts at the Media Arts and Technology
program at UC Santa Barbara. He works mostly with digital video for
installation and performance and has had works shown in New York, Paris, and Baltimore.
John Thompson: John Thompson is a composer and media artist. He
is pursuing his PhD in Music at the University of California, Santa
Barbara where he conducts research in Interactive Digital Multimedia
under an IGERT fellowship from the National Science Foundation.
Graham Wakefield: Graham Wakefield is a composer, performer and
media artist with a research focus in graphical interfaces for
electronic music. He is currently a graduate student of Media Arts and
Technology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and holds a
Masters in Composition from Goldsmiths College, University of London.
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