HRRAAGHP-TING!

"Olen Hsu constructs installations in porcelain, paper and algorithmically composed sound, converging new media, tactile forms and works for acoustic instruments. Dana Karwas received a baccalaureate degree in Architecture from the University of Kansas and holds a Masters in Interactive Telecommunications from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. Steven Lam is interested in revealing how information becomes distributed, internalized, and performed. HRRAAGHP-TING! connects image and sound filenames on the web to create an infinite chain of associations. Extruded in real time, and in a linear format, it collapses the Internet's spatial organization into a single screen to create a cinematic experience. Each time HRRAAGHP-TING! is used, it generates an entirely different set of visual, aural and linguistic relationships. This Cagean play with chance destabilizes the intent and authorship implicit in the communication of information; perverts intellectual property through rampant decontextualization; and defies the expectations of the viewer through live reorganization." -- From Turbulence