Luc DuBois: How to Type Fast and Influence People November 3, 2008

New York-based artist, composer, and performer R. Luke DuBois presents recent work that comments on cultural capital in a world in which we are bombarded by information. "To look at modern life is to gaze upon the interaction of subjectively charged messages; finding the metaphors linking data and art, sight and sound, music and architecture, urban fabrics and mediatized romance, intimacy and improvisation, is all about filtering, mapping, transcoding, and interpreting what goes on around us everyday... in other words, the kinds of things artists have always done."

R. Luke DuBois explores the temporal, verbal, and visual structures of cultural and personal ephemera. He holds a doctorate in music composition from Columbia University, and has lectured and taught worldwide on interactive sound and video performance. He has collaborated on interactive performance, installation, and music production work with many artists and organizations including Toni Dove, Matthew Ritchie, Todd Reynolds, Michael Joaquin Grey, Elliott Sharp, Michael Gordon, Bang on a Can, Engine27, Harvestworks, and LEMUR. Stemming from his investigations of "time-lapse phonography," his recent work is a sonic and encyclopedic relative to time-lapse photography. Just as a long camera exposure fuses motion into a single image, his work reveals the average sonority, visual language, and vocabulary in music, film, text, or cultural information. Recent exhibitions of his work include the Insitut Valenci￠ d'Art Modern, Spain and the 2008 Democratic National Convention.

DuBois is also the co-author of Jitter, the software suite for the real-time manipulation of matrix data. He appears on nearly twenty-five albums both individually and as part of the avant-garde electronic group The Freight Elevator Quartet. He currently performs as part of Bioluminescence, a duo with vocalist Lesley Flanigan and in Fair Use, a trio with Zach Layton and Matthew Ostrowski.

http://lukedubois.com

Free.

Official Website: http://atc.berkeley.edu