artstream: archive

artstream is an experimental project exploring the potentials of artists' use of streaming media. artstream comprises occasional projects with live and prerecorded material. Here you can find archived material from past projects.

 

 

chris byrne - unsleeper


Unsleeper is a moving image/web montage work by Chris Byrne.

"There were others on the train, but they were all strangers, and mostly caught up in their own private reveries. I was trying to capture the atmosphere of the sleeper lounge car in the wee small hours, when most of the passengers are sleeping (or trying). The group having a conversation are the cabin attendants, taking a coffee break. A strange breed, the people who work on night trains.

The movie and the photos were shot on a cameraphone, hence the video frame rate and picture size: that's what the phone produces."

Chris Byrne is an artist, curator and educator based in Edinburgh. He is Co-director of ARC Projects.

Unsleeper was first shown as part of Egobürger, an arts webzine edited by Torsten Lauschmann, in December 2005. Supported by Glasgow International.

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artstream: ben woodeson - portable bug

Portable Bug is the next generation in self-sufficient solar powered bugging devices. Capable of piggy backing any unlocked wireless network, the device broadcasts sound and vision of it's surroundings over the internet.

A systemized yet playful variation on science, Ben Woodeson's practice uses quasi-scientific experimentation and investigation to draw links between disparate possibilities, connections and energies. Ben describes his workas "An artist's version of an laboratory cut-a-way model with art not science as the space between. The works are complex, active, tactile, convoluted, envelope-stretching, low-fi and sometimes primitive attempts to recreate solutions, rattle cages, and open windows."

Portable Bug showed as part of Free-fall, an exhibition at Peterborough Digital Arts during April & May 2003. Supported by Peterborough Digital Arts, Peterborough City Council, Scottish Arts Council, Arts Council England.

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cary peppermint - CN_ZER0 v6.4

CONDUCTOR NUMBER ZERO V6.4

TECHNO-LECTURES OF MEMORY, DISTANCE & FORGETTING

Internet video artstreams from a live performance by New York based artist Cary Peppermint at CCA, Glasgow in July 2002. Also audio mp3's from Cary's performance at Postmasters, NYC, April 2002.

Conductor Number Zero V6.4 ispart of an ongoing series of performances (in update) that began in 1997. Each performance incorporates surveillance technology, so the audience observes simultaneously the performance event and its real-time approximation through video.

Cary Peppermint's work involves a broad conceptualist approach to net.art that permeates a multitude of social networks within and beyond the Internet. His works comprise some of the first real-time performance art conducted over the Internet including the legendary Mashed Potato Supper between New York and Edinburgh in 1996.

Conductor Number Zero Version 6.4 performance was recently presented at Postmasters gallery, New York. Supported by the Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance Art.

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sounds from near and far

Curated by Chris Byrne and Colin Fallows

Internet audio artstreams connecting Sofia, Edinburgh and Liverpool. Sound works from artists from the UK, Bulgaria and across the globe on the theme of the translocal: travel, crossing borders, migration, sounds of different cultures and environments.

Presented as part of Digital Weekend, a festival of digital culture organised by Iliyana Nedkova in collaboration with the Red House Centre for Culture & Debate, Sofia, Bulgaria and Interspace Media Art Center. For more details on the Digital Weekend, visit the Red House web site:

http://www.redhouse-sofia.org

Internet audio streaming took place throughout Sofia Digital Weekend, 12 - 14 April 2002. Broadcasts were presented at venues including the British Council and extracts broadcast on Radio France International Sofia, 103.6FM.

sounds from near and far featured as part of Radio Remote Control, organised by Colin Fallows during the Liverpool Biennial, October 2002.

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Lead curator: Chris Byrne
artstream ident design/programming: Cavan Convery/James Hutchby
Streaming server support: Peterborough Digital Arts, Lewis Jackson/Backnet, Liverpool John Moores University
Web design: Chris Byrne.
Thanks to: Mike Stubbs, Maggie Warren, Ben Woodeson, Cary Peppermint, Lewis Jackson, Kevin Campbell, Iliyana Nedkova, Colin Fallows, Rebecca Shatwell, Vivienne Gaskin, Christine Nadir, Teresa Auciello, Brian Carlin, Iain Girdwood, Andrea Jespersen, Jim Lambert, Helge Mruck, Cavan Convery, James Hutchby, Dave Crummey, Ben Faulkner, Moray, Ronan, Hanna, Matthew, and Janek.