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Golan Levin: Software (as) art
Golan Levin nos habla del software como forma de arte.
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El ingeniero y artista Golan Levin fuerza las fronteras de lo posible en el campo audiovisual y tecnológico. En una magnífica presentación, muestra dos programas que escribió para tocar sus composiciones originales.
Golan Levin - Experimental audio-visual artist
Half performance artist, half software engineer, Golan Levin manipulates the computer to create improvised soundscapes with dazzling corresponding visuals. He is at the forefront of defining new parameters for art. Full bio
Half performance artist, half software engineer, Golan Levin manipulates the computer to create improvised soundscapes with dazzling corresponding visuals. He is at the forefront of defining new parameters for art. Full bio
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Imagine spending seven years at MIT and research laboratories,
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Imagina pasar siete años en MIT y sus laboratorios de investigación
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only to find out that you're a performance artist.
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sólo para descubrir que eres un un intérprete de performances.
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(Laughter)
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(Risas)
00:39
I'm also a software engineer,
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También soy ingeniero de sistemas,
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and I make lots of different kinds of art with the computer.
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y puedo elaborar varias clases de arte con la computadora.
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And I think the main thing that I'm interested in
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Y pienso que lo que más me interesa
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is trying to find a way of
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es tratar de encontrar la forma
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making the computer into a personal mode of expression.
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de hacer de las computadores una forma personal de expresión.
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And many of you out there are the heads of Macromedia and Microsoft,
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Y muchos de ustedes, dirigentes de Macromedia y Microsoft,
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and in a way those are my bane:
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de alguna forma son mi pesadilla:
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I think there's a great homogenizing force
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Creo que hay un gran fuerza homogenizante
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that software imposes on people and limits the way they think
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que el software impone sobre la gente y limita su forma de pensar
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about what's possible on the computer.
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sobre lo que es posible en una computadora.
01:09
Of course, it's also a great liberating force that makes possible,
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Por supuesto, también es una gran fuerza liberadora que hace posible
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you know, publishing and so forth, and standards, and so on.
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publicaciones y todo eso, estándares y demás.
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But, in a way, the computer makes possible much more
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Pero, de alguna manera, las computadoras posibilitan más
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than what most people think, and my art has just been about
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de lo que la mayoría de la gente piensa, y mi arte se ha centrado
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trying to find a personal way of using the computer,
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en intentar encontrar una forma personal de usar la computadora,
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and so I end up writing software to do that.
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así que termino escribiendo programas para lograr eso.
01:28
Chris has asked me to do a short performance,
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Chris me pidió que hiciera una performance corta
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and so I'm going to take just this time -- maybe 10 minutes --
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así que sólo tomare este tiempo -- tal vez 10 minutos --
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to do that, and hopefully at the end have just a moment
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para hacerlo, y al final espero tener un momento, quizás,
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to show you a couple of my other projects in video form.
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para mostrarles un par de mis otros proyectos en video.
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Thank you.
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Gracias.
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(Applause)
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(Aplausos)
13:24
We've got about a minute left.
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Tenemos aún como un minuto
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I'd just like to show a clip from a most recent project.
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Me gustaria mostrarles in clip de mi más reciente proyecto.
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I did a performance with two singers
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Hice una performance con dos cantantes
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who specialize in making strange noises with their mouths.
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que se especializan en hacer ruidos extraños con la boca.
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And this just came off last September at ARS Electronica;
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Y esto recién salio el pasado mes de septiembre en ARS Electronica;
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we repeated it in England.
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lo repetimos en Inglaterra.
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And the idea is to visualize their speech and song behind them
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Y la idea es visualizar detrás de ellos su discurso y canción
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with a large screen.
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con una pantalla grande.
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We used a computer vision tracking system
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Usamos un sistema de rastreo visual por computadora
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in order to know where they were.
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para saber dónde estaban.
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And since we know where their heads are,
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Y porque sabemos dónde están sus cabezas,
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and we have a wireless mic on them
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y tenemos un micrófono inalámbrico en ellos
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that we're processing the sound from,
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desde donde procesamos el sonido,
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we're able to create visualizations
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podemos crear visualizaciones
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which are linked very tightly to what they're doing with their speech.
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que están conectadas muy estrechamente a lo que están haciendo con su discurso.
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This will take about 30 seconds or so.
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Este tomará unos 30 segundos.
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He's making a, kind of, cheek-flapping sound.
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Él está haciendo una especie de sonido moviendo las mejillas.
14:43
Well, suffice it to say it's not all like that, but that's part of it.
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Bueno, baste decir que no todo es así, pero es parte de ello.
14:46
Thanks very much. There's always lots more.
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Muchas gracias. Hay mucho más.
14:48
I'm overtime, so I just wanted to say you can, if you're in New York,
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Ya me pasé de tiempo, solo quería decir que si estás en Nueva York,
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you can check out my work at the Whitney Biennial next week,
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puedes ver mi trabajo en la Whitney Biennal la semana entrante,
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and also at Bitforms Gallery in Chelsea.
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y también en Chelsea en la Bitforms Gallery.
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And with that, I think I should give up the stage,
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Y con esto, creo que debería ya ceder el podio,
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so, thank you so much.
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así que gracias de nuevo.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Golan Levin - Experimental audio-visual artistHalf performance artist, half software engineer, Golan Levin manipulates the computer to create improvised soundscapes with dazzling corresponding visuals. He is at the forefront of defining new parameters for art.
Why you should listen
Having worked as an academic at MIT and a researcher specializing in computer technology and software engineering, Golan Levin now spends most of his time working as a performance artist. Rest assured his education hasn't gone to waste, however, as Levin blends high tech and customized software programs to create his own extraordinary audio and visual compositions. The results are inordinately experimental sonic and visual extravaganzas from the furthest left of the field.
Many of his pieces force audience participation, such as Dialtones: A Telesymphony, a concert from 2001 entirely composed of the choreographed ringtones of his audience. Regularly exhibiting pieces in galleries around the world, and also working as an Assistant Professor of Electronic Time-Based Art at Carnegie Mellon University, Levin is unapologetically pushing boundaries to define a brave new world of what is possible.
His latest piece, Double-Taker (Snout), is installed at the Pittsburg Museum of Art.
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