Abstract
‘Rogues’ are intermedia entities that oscillate between autonomous art works and artistic research vehicles. To this day, five of them have been built and exhibited, using a variety of physical materialities, sensors and digital processes, with sound being a prominent modality by which they perceive and activate their environment. Rogues exist to probe collaborative processes (among their creators and among themselves), spatial conditions and non-human agency. This talk will use the Rogues not just as a case study into these questions, but also as an entry point into some of the algorithms employed in their composition, as well as the custom software framework ‘Sound Processes’ in which they are implemented. A special interest lies in the decoupling of the inner temporality of the entity and its computational implementation, and the temporality of the audients interacting with them.
Bio
Hanns Holger Rutz is an artist and researcher in the field of sound and digital art, based in Austria. His works in installation, improvisation and music composition span more than two decades, having extended to other digital (image, video) and non-digital media in the past decade.
His primary interests are the materiality of writing processes and the trajectories of aesthetic objects as they move and change across boundaries of individual works and artists. Rutz holds a PhD in Computer Music from Plymouth University, UK. He has worked on various research projects, including the FWF-funded artistic research project “Algorithms that Matter” (2017–2021). Since 2022, he heads the FWF-funded artistic research project “Simultaneous Arrivals“ (with Nayarí Castillo and Franziska Hederer) on novel forms of collaborative artistic processes.
Rutz is Professor for Artistic Research at the Gustav Mahler Private University for Music (GMPU) Klagenfurt, AT.
Website: https://www.sciss.de