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Levin is an artist, composer and designer interested in developing artifacts
and experiences which explore supple new modes of computational expression.
His work has focused on the design of systems for the creation, manipulation
and performance of simultaneous image and sound, as part of a more general
examination of communications protocols for individual engagement and
non-verbal dialogue.
Levin's work spans a variety of online, print, installation and performance media. Most recently, Levin and his colleagues presented the Dialtones Telesymphony (2001), a concert whose sounds are wholly performed through the choreographed ringing of the audience's own mobile phones. Levin was granted an Award of Distinction in the Prix Ars Electronica for his Audiovisual Environment Suite (2000) interactive software and its accompanying audiovisual performance, Scribble (2000). Levin received undergraduate and graduate degrees from the MIT Media Laboratory, where he studied with John Maeda in the Aesthetics and Computation Group. Prior to this, he worked as a research scientist and interaction designer at Interval Research Corporation for four years. He currently resides in New York City, where he teaches interaction design at The Cooper Union School of Art and the Parsons School of Design.NY
Contribution: Scribble (Performance : Solo version)
Scribble is a half-hour color-music performance performed on
the Audiovisual Environment Suite (AVES), a set of five interactive
systems which allow people to create and manipulate abstract animation
and sound, simultaneously, in real time. Reviving and updating a decades-old
tradition of kinetic light performance, Scribble features tightly-coupled
sounds and dynamic visuals which are at times carefully scored, and
at other times loosely improvised. Scribble was originally commissioned as a trio performance by
the 2000 Ars Electronica festival. Since that time I have substantially
reduced the concert's technical requirements, at the same time that
I have added ten entirely new software instruments to the concert's
repertoire. The newest version of Scribble is a solo concert
performed on fifteen different audiovisual systems.
