Lunch Bites: Ryan Jordan - Sensory Response Systems

Location: Culture Lab, Space 7
Time/Date: 1st July 2010, 12:30 - 14:00

Lunch Bites is a series of hour-long lunchtime conversations hosted in Space 7, Culture Lab featuring local and visiting thinkers and creators.

The topics are varied and various - anything our guest is currently thinking, creating or thinking of creating. Lunch Bites are part dialog, part skill-share, part knowledge - exchange and all for fun. No preparation, stress or pressure of any kind is implied or involved - we strive simply for an opportunity to facilitate casual meet-ups between the interesting and the interested.

Sensory Response Systems is a practice based research exploration into real­time DIY FLOSS­ based interactive performance systems. Over the course of two years I have developed two systems for live performance utilising the programming language Pure Data (Pd), the micro controller platform Arduino, CMOS technology, strobe lights, smoke, and various sensors, in order to create immersing, hypnotic, and sometimes hallucinatory performance experiences. For this Lunch Bites session I will explain and demonstrate my process and performance practice, as well as detailing the current and future activities taking place at the Area 10 MediaLab in Peckham, London.

Bio:Ryan Jordan is a UK based sound artist and electronic musician working with DIY electronics, physical performance, Pure Data, and noise. He creates live electronic music/noise performances which incorporate human physical movements as their essential foundation. He is interested in new understandings of music, the creation of new instruments and interfaces, free/libre and open source software (FLOSS), DIY electronic arts and their impact and implications on contemporary society and culture. Ryan curates several noise, experimental and computer arts events and concerts in the UK, such as hac... and noise=noise which promote a wide range of artists, from internationally acclaimed artists to the underground lurker. He is an active member of London based open source collective, OpenLab; and has released music on labels such as Bad Sekta, Anithematica/CovenH, AntiGen, and Noiz Mutations. Ryan's work has been performed and presented internationally at places such as Piksel Festival, Norway; 3rd International Pure Data Convention, Brazil; xxxxx, Germany; ODL and Circuit#1 Festivals, France; and Sound and Music Computing, Italy; as well as numerous squats, pub cellars, dingy nightclubs, and academic institutions. Currently he is director of A10MediaLab, London, which is part of LabtoLab, a European network of media labs working on media based arts projects and social engagement.  Ryan has also studied BA Sonic Arts (2007) at Middlesex University, London, and received a distinction in MFA Computational Studio Arts (2009) at Goldsmiths University, London.

http://ryanjordan.org/
http://a10lab.info/

Published: 15th June 2010