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Working on some HD analog video synthesis for upcoming shows (getting a little tired of dragging CRTs everywhere).

Preparing a single channel high definition RBG.VGA.VOLT set for #StrangeElectronicsMoHA (at The Museum of Human Achievement)

#strangeelectronicsmoha

at City of Chicago

Huge thanks to the folks at Signal Culture for running such a great space and to fellow resident @nofaceface for the good times and collaborations. I now have hundreds of gigabytes of footage to process/edit together and several new projects in the works. (at Signal Culture)

Processing Scalia on the Signal Culture Wobbulator, 6/26/2015.

#nam june paik #crt #analog #analog video #signal culture #video

Really excited to be the artist in residence at Signal Culture this week.

“Unless we design and implement alternate information structures which transcend and reconfigure the existing ones, other alternate systems and life styles will be no more than products of the existing process”.

#radical software #labor #capital #power

#apple #computers

Sarah Rooney’s Untitled (woven structure)

“The “intangible” entity of the Internet is in actuality quite solid. All across the world, physical servers are storing our data, while cables run across continents and pass beneath oceans to unite a worldwide network of computers. As industry attempts to shrink the size of technology through wireless connections and thin, sleek product design, the term “IRL” tends to facilitate further disconnect between people and the net. Untitled (woven structure) is a personal manifestation of the realness of the Internet and a reminder that when not engaged with our computers, we solely exist in a state of being AFK.”

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Kathy Acker and William S. Burroughs

Putting together a performance for the Coop gallery in Nashville.

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RGB.VGA.VOLT from James Connolly on Vimeo.

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.

The instrument, demonstrated on four VGA computer monitors in this video, combines custom built software, hardware modification, and DIY instrumentation.

jameshconnolly.com/rgb-vga-volt COPY-IT-RIGHT 2014