Editors: Frans Evers, Lucas van der Velden, Jan Peter van der Wenden
Design: Isabelle Vigier
177 pp., 700 g, 17 x 24 cm, English, December 2002
ISBN: 9789066172791

This is the first comprehensive monograph of the Sonic Acts Festival. The richly illustrated volume captures the ninth edition of the festival, in which a special focus was placed on artists working with computer-generated images and software tools. The book not only surveys ‘the world behind the laptop’ but traces through-lines from earlier editions of the festival to contemporary developments in the fields of media arts, electronic music, and multimedia presentations.

Contents

Introduction – Rick van der Ploeg

Moist Ontology – Roy Ascott

The Jelly Baby On My Knee – Mike Punt

Body, Interface, Navigating Sense and State Space – Thecla Schiphorst

Dismantling Teleological Navigation – Chris Speed

Stupid and Pointless – Adrian Ward aka Slub

Computational Kinetic Sculpture – Casey Reas

Music and The Art Of Programming – Paul Berg

Electro-Acoustical Improvisation – Joel Ryan

An Improvised Talk On My Work – Robin Rimbaud aka Scanner

Computer Music – Robert Hencke aka Monolake

Structured Thinking – Kent Clelland

Computer Linguistics and Music Education – Remko Scha

Instruments of The Balkans: Musicology and Computer Science in Amsterdam – Wouter Hager

The Programming of Art – Arthur Elsenaar

Postgraduate Professional Education in the Visual Arts at The Frank Mohr Institute in Groningen – Adger Stokvisch

From Art to Programming – Lucas van der Velden

The Master’s Degree Course In Media Technology At Leiden University – Bas Haring

Sequential Imaging – Bob Karhof

Sound Sculptures – Frans de Ruiter

The Royal Academy of Fine Arts: New Media and Art Education – Jack Verduyn Lunel

Sonic Acts: What We Learned, What We Enjoyed and Where We Are Going – Frans Evers

Sonic Light: Composing Light, Articulating Space – Joost Rekveld