Royal Opera digital commissions, art and NFTs, and a real-time data responsive installation
A weekly digest charting developments across live performance, technology, and the emerging Metaverse
New Forms and Audiences
The Royal Opera House embraces the digital stage
8bit is a series of newly commissioned digital works featuring short films, audio performances, and a web browser experiment. View each of the works in the link above.
What NFTs Mean for Contemporary Art
Artist Seth Price talks with MoMA curator Michelle Kuo about the NFT craze and what implications it might have for the future of contemporary art.
Entangled Histories
This week we're looking back to Listening Post (2001), a sound installation by Mark Hansen and Ben Rubin that culled text fragments in real time from thousands of unrestricted Internet chat rooms, bulletin boards and other public forums. The texts were read (or sung) by a voice synthesizer, and simultaneously displayed across a suspended grid of more than two hundred small electronic screens. Listening Post was originally produced by Brooklyn Academy of Music together with Bell Labs and Lucent Technologies, under the leadership of Wayne Ashley, BAM’s first manager of New Media.
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