Joshua Pablo Rosenstock » shows

Maker Faire

Josh — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 23:16:28 +0000

I was an exhibitor at the Cambridge Mini Maker Faire, the 1st in the Boston area.

I did a little interview with the organizer, and the video was featured on the Make Blog!

Here’s the video:

NMF’2010

Josh — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 19:20:11 +0000

I was a featured artist for 30 January 2010 in the online New Media Fest 2010, who presented my video Dance of the Computer Lab.

Found Footage @ VideoChannel

Josh — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 05:49:35 +0000

My video Dance of the Computer Lab, a time-lapse, musical video composition fashioned out of harvested surveillance camera images, is being exhibited on VideoChannel, an online venue for new media based in Cologne, Germany. My work is part of a programme entitled Found Footage!

Surveillance Suite In Berkeley

Josh — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 04:29:10 +0000

*Telematic Timelapse video*

There are countless anonymous networked cameras that broadcast publicly over the Internet. In the Telematic Timelapse project, I harvest selected ambient video streams and transform them into time-lapse musical video compositions. The minutiae of these tiny vignettes become rhythmic micro-narratives, dramatizing temporary and ﬂeeting moments that are ordinarily invisible in our experience of everyday life. The resulting rhythms of change, textures of image, patterns of human movement, and qualities of light are mirrored by musical motifs that form an expressive, subtle portrait of the original spaces, of which the exact actual location remains unknown.
In addition to manifesting the specific, quotidian character of these spaces, both pastoral and urban, the works incorporate an implicit theme of surveillance. However, rather than being presented in a typically dystopian light, the depictions of the subjects are dreamlike, comical, sentimental, or maddeningly languorous. Further, the methodology of the pieces speaks to the ubiquitous culture of networked communication that characterizes so much of our present zeitgeist. They seek to restore a sense of wonder at the unbounded, global flow of information that is itself part of the daily experience of contemporary life.

Installation:
This piece was presented as an interactive installation which took place as part of the Association for Computing Machines’ Creativity and Cognition 09 conference at the UC Berkeley Art Museum. The video/music compositions were presented as a very large-scale projection onto the exterior of the museum. Opposite the projections I set up a video matrix with live surveillance feeds, incorporating feeds from the internet as well as live cameras surveying the exhibition areas. An ‘observation log’ was provided, inviting viewers to participate in the surveillance and note any ’suspicious behaviors’ they observed.

Technical Information:
I created a Unix shell script to automatically harvest images from the internet at periodic intervals. I rendered the collected images into time-lapse videos in Quicktime, then edited together the sequences in iterations between Final Cut Pro, Ableton Live, and custom software written in Max/Jitter. I composed the soundtrack, then performed it on a variety of acoustic, digital, and analog instruments, recorded, and mixed. All aspects of this process were performed by the artist alone.

Everyday Creativity

Josh — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:26:50 +0000

I’m presenting a new video installation at the Creativity & Cognition 09 conference at the Berkeley Art Museum. The theme is ‘Everyday Creativity’ which happens to fit my piece perfectly! I’ve always wanted to do something here, so it’s a homecoming of sorts.

Spotlight On the Candidates

Josh — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 19:49:07 +0000

Band temporarily recast as The Hanging Chads. We’re backing up Mayor Menino and other aspiring political wannabees.

Traffic Jam ‘09

Josh — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 19:40:56 +0000

The funky 11-piece juggernaut is back this summer!

Berwick Artist In Research

Josh — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:40:23 +0000

I’ve been chosen as an Artist In Research at the Berwick Research Institute for this spring.

Here’s what the press release says:

Joshua Pablo Rosenstock is a multimedia artist, musician, and educator based in Boston. His work explores the process of remixing via the creation of new instruments, interactive interfaces, and multimedia installations. With the Berwick, Rosenstock will be working on ‘Shrine to the Funky Drummer’, a multimedia installation that will seek to portray a specific instance of media sampling as an archetypal cultural moment and a lens through which to examine a multifaceted story of creative appropriation. The ‘Funky Drummer’ is a five-second excerpt from a James Brown song that has been used as the foundation of hundreds of other musical compositions and is one of popular music’s most famous samples.

During his project, he’ll be gathering, creating, and presenting artifacts and ‘holy relics’ that explore the early history of Hip Hop and the creative acts of sampling and remixing. Rosenstock will be investigating debates about copyright and fair use in relation to Afro-Diasporic musical notions of ‘versioning,’ the fetishistic culture of record-digging, and postmodern theoretical questions about authorship in the age of digital (re)production.

Update: My Berwick project blog can be found here if you’d like to follow along.

Film Fests Winter ‘09

Josh — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 23:14:34 +0000

My video 213.189.138.114, which is included in the LE:60 film festival, is being shown as part of MGFest 09 at the Chicago Cultural Center on 1/23/09. It is also screening at Axiom Center For New and Experimental Media in Jamaica Plain on 2/19/09.

Japan Eclipse

Josh — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:10:22 +0000

LE:60 Film Festival

I just got back from my trip to the Dislocate 08 Festival in Japan! Not enough time to fully explore, but an intriguing introduction to a fascinating place. From hot springs under tall trees to shrimp tempura usb drives, lots to enjoy.

Also, I had a video in the Lumen Eclipse LE:60 one minute film festival, outdoors in Harvard Square on October 4th.