Kyle Evans and I have been working on a collaborative performative piece with our separately-created but very compatible audio and video feedback hardware hacks. We recently crossed inputs and outputs with some interesting and unexpected results:
Both of our systems explore the communication networks of obsolete technologies⎯in Kyle’s case analog televisions and video transmitters and mine CRT computer monitors and their VGA cords⎯not for their functional processes but as aesthetic materialities.The synced audio and video content is derived from the objects themselves, signals sent through our hacked outputs, manipulated+processed, and sent back into the same device’s inputs and as well as external speakers. Our collaborative performance is partially done while crossing our systems, sending VGA outputs to television inputs and vice versa (as well as physically switching instruments mid-way through), which increases the plurality of audio/video material and unpredictability of controls. The multifarious components in our systems render a composed or pre-planned execution in realtime impossible; mistakes, errors, and the loss of control are integral elements of the piece.
jameshconnolly 