Multi Machine Performance
[2019]

The plotter knife replaced by pens and markers draws intricate designs and patterns with machine precision.

The loud mechanic sounds generated by the plotter were picked up by a microphone and fed into a complex audiovisual feedback loop where sound was converted into image using hacked VGA cables and a signal stabilizer.

The resulting signal was fed into the CRT monitor showing abstract RGB visuals that where a direct representation of the plotter sounds.

This is a collaborative experiment created with Ciao Vita at Testsite Meent.

Accordion Content

PixMax plotter, old cathode ray tube monitor,  microphone, audio mixer and multiple hacked VGA cables. 

“RGB.VGA.VOLT is an audio/video synthesizer that enables realtime exploration of the rich materiality concealed beneath the consumer interfaces of cathode ray tube computer monitors. By hacking and improperly rewiring the cables of these obsolete devices to short their video signals, their black-boxed analog infrastructure is liberated and driven by digitally synthesized high-frequency complex waveforms, audio playback, and feedback loops that fully exploit their latent visual spectrum. Inspired by early video tools such as the Sandin Image Processor and the Paik-Abe Synthesizer as well as contemporary programming and error-based approaches to sound and moving image, RGB.VGA.VOLT revives an analog aesthetic that has acquired a renewed power and potency in the present era of digital immateriality.”

Testsite is an artist run experimental exhibition space initiated by: 

Jeanine Verloop
Sanne Schilder
Caio Vita
Jeroen Rijnart
Jochem Walboomers
Armand Bakx

 

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