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Entry #1 - 01/14/2025


    Hello chat, welcome to my blog. I made this website for Studio Art 480, and so that is what the blog will be about at the moment. This class is an advanced electronic arts and intermedia course, and the material will mostly be taught horizontally, meaning my peers and I will have the opportunity to teach each other about topics we are personally passionate about.
    One topic I would like to give a workshop on in class this semester is VCV Rack. The program is a free, open-source modular synth software that has limitless customization options, and allows users to create their own synth setup, design sounds, and even code their own synth module to alter the final output. I have used VCV Rack before in my sound art class during Fall 2023, but since then I have not gotten the chance to use it again. I am excited to engage in this relearning experience before I give my workshop in the coming weeks. 
    
    Here are three things I am interested in exploring this semester: 

Sound - Music production is a part of my personal art practice, and I like to experiment with including new techniques in my work. I am prepared to share my knowledge with my peers and I’m more than eager to collaborate with anyone on projects and performances involving sound.

Video - I want to experiment more with touchdesigner and video synthesis live performance. I recently bought a midi controller with many fx dials and think the two would be fun to use together. I’ve been to a lot of DJ sets in the past few months for a photography project and already have ideas on how to incorporate video synthesis into a DJ set, if I were to do one. 

Pranks as performance art - This is a topic my professor has brought up in other classes I have taken with her. I am interested in seeing how this can be executed and what ways my peers and I can come up with in order to do so. 
    
    To end this entry, I have been asked to provide a definition of what Electronic Art and Intermedia (EAI) is. From my experience, having taken several EAI courses through Michigan State’s art program, EAI is a diverse practice that envelops many mediums of art. It is about embracing and experimenting with technology while empowering artists to find the art in everyday life through EAI’s ideological history in performance art and the Fluxus movement that many of the pioneers of the practice participated in.