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>For Immediate Release May 29, 2002
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>
>SeaPoint
>by Cliona Harmey and Dennis McNulty
>
>Variablemedia is pleased to announce SeaPoint, the first project to be
>hosted at their www.variablemedia.org site. SeaPoint is a collaborative
>Internet project by artist Cliona Harmey and electronic musician Dennis
>McNulty. Starting on June 9, 2002 with updates occurring daily, SeaPoint
>will run for a period of 28 days.
>
>During each day of the project Harmey will record a 10 second digital
>video sample of the Irish Sea from a fixed location on shore at Seapoint
>on the south Dublin coast. She will process the day's recorded images
>into a video animation file and allocate this file a number and
>description from the Beaufort Scale. The Beaufort Scale (for use at sea)
>measures wind speed by observing the visual effects of wind on water and
>allocates a number ranging from 0 for calm conditions to 12 for a
>hurricane. This measurement for the day's images, combined with various
>chance procedures, will be applied to the concurrent audio recording in
>a resampling process devised by McNulty. These audio files will then be
>recombined with the video animation as a short Flash film.
>
>The Beaufort Scale (for use at sea) is an adaptation of an original
>scale devised in 1806 by Irish born Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort. The
>visual descriptions of the water, used by this adaptation, are highly
>poetic e.g. #1 Scale-like ripples, #2 Small, short wavelets with glassy
>crests. The existence of this process reflects an attempt to understand
>natural phenomena through classification. Through the interplay of
>recordings, written classifications and digital processes, SeaPoint will
>evolve as an open-ended document, which blurs any strict categorization
>of nature or technology.
>
>Cliona Harmey is an Irish artist who works with a variety of media such
>as video installation, photography and the Internet. Her current
>practice is primarily concerned with the recording and resampling of the
>minutiae of mutable natural phenomena. She has participated in numerous
>exhibitions and projects Internationally, including; 'Tis, State of the
>Art Gallery, Ithaca, New York; Thaw 01, The Institute of Communication
>and Culture, Iowa; Vdor Break 21, Llubijana, Slovenia; The Reading Room,
>Catalyst Arts, Belfast. Cliona recently completed a residency at the
>Inkshop Printmaking Center Ithaca, New York. She lives in Dublin and
>works as a lecturer in Digital Media at Dunlaoghaire Institute of Art,
>Design and Technology.
>
>Dennis McNulty works with sound in a variety of contexts. He has been
>making electronic music as half of 'Decal' for almost a decade and has
>developed numerous sound and music software and hardware systems.
>Previous projects include, Decompression 2 for The Captain's Road
>exhibition, Dublin; the development of an algorithm for generating
>non-repetitive rhythmic streams based on Markov chain analysis, for an
>installation by Ralf Nuhn and an audio performance using a Nanoloop
>Gameboy Sequencer at one of the Dublin Art and Technology Association's
>monthly DATA events. Decal have just released their third album '404 not
>found' on Planet-Mu records.
>
>Michelle Deignan and Simon Goodwin created Variablemedia in 2001 to
>explore notions of place, process, temporality and artistic practice.
>This London (UK) based organisation is now initiating a series of web
>projects involving internationally based artists. Artists will occupy
>the www.variablemedia.org site for a period of between one and three
>months. This empty space is available for them to change, update and add
>to during their project's run; a criterion of these projects is that the
>artist's present work over time. Variablemedia.org aims to present the
>artists work in an unmediated form; all explanatory material and
>archives will be held at the sister www.variablemedia.info site.
>Following SeaPoint is a project by Edward Dorrian and Sally Morfill,
>which will commence on July 7th 2002.
>
>For further information please contact us at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>[A Word version of this press release is available on request.]
>
>Links for Cliona Harmey:
>For a catalogue essay on Sequent Harmey's solo exhibition at Arthouse,
>Dublin - http://www.arthouse.ie/exhibitions/sequent/bkgrnd.htm
>For a review of Harmey's solo exhibition Sequent at Arthouse, Dublin -
>http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/features/2000/0823/fea2.htm
>For comments on Harmey's residency in New York -
>http://www.ink-shop.org/ithjournal.htm
>
>Links for Dennis McNulty:
>For a review of The Captain's Road -
>http://www.Ireland.com/newspaper/features/2002/0417/2228154592ATVISART.html
>
>For a review of DATA3 - http://www.recirca.com/artnews/123.shtml
>For a review of '404 not found' -
>http://www.rte.ie/arts/2002/0319/decal.html
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