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| Golan 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: Audiovisual Performance and Computational Design This presentation will treat the history of systems for creating and performing simultaneities of abstract animation and sound — both before and after the introduction of the computer — and will include an analysis of some of the most prevalent interface metaphors used in such systems. The talk is richly illustrated with interactive examples, including systems made by the lecturer as well as a variety of other practitioners, as a means of demonstrating the various metaphors available to today’s computational designer. |
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