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Turbulence@PaceDigitalGallery2, April 5-29, 2011, New York City; <a href="http://csis.pace.edu/digitalgallery/">http://csis.pace.edu/digitalgallery/</a>):</font></div><!--StartFragment--><!--EndFragment-->
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<div class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">1. "Spectral Quartet" by Woody Sullender</font></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">2. "Channel TWo: NYC" by Adam Trowbridge and
Jessica Westbrook</font></div><div class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</font></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">1. "Spectral Quartet" by Woody Sullender </font></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><a href="http://turbulence.org/works/spectres/">http://turbulence.org/works/spectres/</a></font></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">The audio content of "Spectral Quartet" consists
of filtered radio signals, culled from various web streams from the Internet.
These signals are being passed through many "band pass filters", a
type of equalizer that allows a small range of frequencies through while
attenuating frequencies outside of this range. In effect, most of the audio
signal is "erased" except for a narrow stratum of frequency material.
This work highlights small, hidden musical moments that are occurring on radio,
but are usually rendered inaudible by other elements in the sound.</font></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Although the Internet can bridge disparate communities, our
experience on the web is of a customized landscape, with content tailored to
our ideological views, our shopping behaviors, our socio-economic demographics,
etc. "Spectral Quartet" literally re-unites these voices into a
singularized, aestheticized, quiet moment.</font></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">"Spectral Quartet" is a 2010 commission of New
Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. for its Turbulence web site. It was supported
in part by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs,
in partnership with the City Council.</font></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">BIOGRAPHY</font></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Woody Sullender is an artist currently based in Brooklyn,
NY, working primarily in music and audio media. Over the past few years, he has
emerged as a pre-eminent experimental banjo performer, playing with and against
the cultural baggage of the instrument.
More recent work focuses on "erasing" existing audio by
removing most of the frequencies from a recording via band-pass filters. This
has manifested in a range of media from a lathe-cut record of a diminished
"Smells Like Teen Spirit" to an FM broadcast of erased radio
stations. Among other activities, he teaches new media in the New York area and
hosts a weekly radio show on WFMU.</font></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">2. "Channel TWo: NYC" by Adam Trowbridge and
Jessica Westbrook</font></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><a href="http://www.turbulence.org/works/ChannelTWo">http://www.turbulence.org/works/ChannelTWo</a></font></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Eleven years into the new century, it is time to discuss the
terms of surrender. Not a surrender to any civilization but the surrender of
civilization to those in control who would use any political participation as a
crutch for their failure. The question is not if but when giving up on
civilization will be seen as the only rational political stance. Channel TWo is
a post-network media channel that begins with entertainment-based narrative as
a common language. Structurally, it employs internet algorithms, viewer research
and custom software to generate localized content. The outcome is a nonlinear,
local media sequence that is directly connected to the community in which it is
situated. Channel TWo begins after the inevitable surrender of civilization, a
never-ending, visually-stimulating, product-placement-based culture stream.</font></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">"Channel TWo: NYC" is a 2010 commission of New
Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. for Turbulence web site. It was supported in
part by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in
partnership with the City Council. </font></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">BIOGRAPHIES</font></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Adam Trowbridge explores the aesthetic possibilities that
arise as communication breaks down. His work has been featured nationally and
internationally including The Grey Market and Anthology Film Archives, NYC;
Pleasure Dome, Toronto; The Hyde Park Center, Chicago, IL; and festivals in
France, The Netherlands, Switzerland, Korea, and Russia. </font></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Jessica Westbrook’s projects explore desire, visual cues,
cultural artifacts, systems, language, and contradictory sensations that
vacillate between great fortune and impending catastrophe. She has exhibited
work nationally and internationally including recent and upcoming projects for:
gli.tc/h/ Chicago, Nature/Nurture Kinsey Institute, Carnegie Museum, and
Experimental Media Series Hirshhorn Museum of American Art Smithsonian
Institute. </font></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Trowbridge and Westbrook work with the group Basekamp on
Plausible Artworlds, a project to collect and share knowledge about alternative
models of creative practice.</font></div><div class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><br></font></div><div class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><br></font></div>
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