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Slocum PaulAn American musician and artist connected with new media, lives and works in Dallas; he is a graduate of IT studies at the University of Texas in Dallas, USA. Computers, digital culture and the net are often both the means and the subjects of his works. He created such projects as The Dot Matrix Synth: a dot matrix printer from 1980s. transformed into a musical instrument; The Time-Lapse Homepage: a video created in HTML language; or The Century Callback Project: a telephone number that calls back eight times a century. He uses the Pi House Generator which generates house music at random with the use of the character đ in his projects. He belongs to the Tree Waves duo, where he creates music and video with out-dated computers and games equipment from 1980s, using his own software. The videos used for the visualisations accompanying musical performances are modified versions of game graphics, played on an Atari 2600 computer. Slocum is also the director and co-founder of And/Or Gallery in Dallas, which specializes in the art of new media. His most important performances include Transitio MX in Mexico; Le Confort Moderne in Poitiers, France. He participated in the README Software Art Festival in Denmark and the Liverpool Biennial. Slocum’s video installations have been presented, among others, at New York's New Museum of Contemporary Art and Eyebeam Art & Technology Center. He co-operates with Dunn and Brown Contemporary Gallery in Dallas. |
Audio Video Performance During the start of the Festival on 12th June and on the next day, 13th June, at the stage on the Market Square (in the neighbourhood of the Townhall Tower) Paul Slocum presened an audio-video performance based on computer compositions with his own video visualizations. Duration of the performance is 40 minutes (between 9 p.m. and 10 p.m.).  Project curator: Małgorzata Gołębiewska Pictures: Weronika Szmuc |
12/06/2009
21:00 Audio Video Performance
13/06/2009
21:00 Audio Video Performance
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Main Market
a scene near the Town Hall Tower |
