Jess Cobble
Specializing in experimental/avant guard/cathartic expression; their project, The Zero Collective, is an ever evolving/expanding roster of artists that have collectively been releasing an original composition everyday since November 22nd, 2011.
The Daily Drops are a series rooted in the conceptualization that “you are what you do, so do what you love”; shifting the focus of the artistic process to that of making it, as opposed to an end product.
Now nearing the end of the fourteenth year of this artistic cycle: The Zero Collective yearns to expand further into & beyond the current limitations of its grasp toward an ever evolving palette of experience & expression.
Álvaro Cáceres is a composer and developer from Madrid, specialized in live coding. He studied composition at CSULB, and taught interactive media at the University of York, UK. His work has been showcased at KChung, SoundPedro, Coaxial, Aquarium of the Pacific, Wales One World Film Festival, Andy Vargas, and LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER.
Artist Location: Riverside and Long Beach, CA
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Foco is a live deconstruction of an overwhelming mass of sound, video and image (“wall of media”) through movement and audience interaction. A live coder programs sound and visuals in real time, while a dancer modifies them using motion sensors. The audience can open seams in the wall of media using provided diy game-like controllers. The live coder wears a flexible OLED screen, showing the code they are typing with the audience. The effect of the audience’s controllers increases until the wall of media is reduced to a wave, a point, a static pose.
Foco challenges traditional ideas of technological ownership, and highlights a current need for citizens to have better control over the media we are exposed to. Glitch, instability, and shared raw creative process are embraced, inspired by Free and Open Source Software values.