Artist
August 06, 2010
July 25, 2010
December 20, 2009
October 06, 2009
Kurt Hentschlager
ZEE is a rigorous mindscape; a hallucinatory architecture of pure light; a dream machine.
An enclosed space is filled with a dense, odorless fog that completely
obscures the walls, floor and ceiling. Individuals freely roam this
environment, safely guided by ropes, while flickering light filters
through the haze, inducing hallucinations and sensory distortions
within each viewer. A droning soundscape intensifies this
full-immersion experience, shifting dynamically according to changes in
color, frequency, intensity and mood.
Exhilarating and meditative, Hentschläger's pulsing, stroboscopic and
mind-altering ZEE pushes the boundaries of human perception and creates
an intensely riveting audiovisual journey.
Kurt Hentschläger, a Chicago-based Austrian artist, was last in NYC as
one half of the Austrian duo Granular Synthesis with the spectacular
video and sound environment "NoiseGate" in 2000, part of Creative
Time's "Art in the Anchorage."
September 06, 2009
Matthew Galvin
Matthew Galvin is a multifaceted technologist who specializes in immersive digital environments.
His creative specialty involves digital synaesthesia - the blending of neurological information such as sight and sound. He has worked in every aspect of technology, web, and audio and video production, including building and maintaining datacenters, reporting, budgeting, marketing, business development, graphic design, studio and field production, engineering, and composition.
He attended U.C. Santa Cruz where he studied cultural theory, art history, digital media arts, electronic music synthesis, history of consciousness, and psychoacoustics.
Recently, Matthew is actively engaged in maintaining an emerging consulting practice in network and datacenter design and maintenance, systems support, web development, and modelling and sustaining enterprise computing practices for small and emerging businesses.
Matthew has concentrated his creative energies primarily on designing, engineering, and developing digital media production and distribution environments which emphasize purely digital production; developing studio environments which transcend tape-based production and distribution methodologies and extend production and distribution capabilities over IP and satellite networks.
City: Santa Cruz, CA
Hometown: Santa Cruz, CA
Country: United States
Schools: U.C. Santa Cruz
Interests and Hobbies: videography, film, web development, business development
Movies and Shows: Airplane!, Monty Python, Futurama
Music: the Minutemen
Books: Infinite Jest
Website: http://www.activematrix.org
