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For Immediate Release May 29, 2002 SeaPoint During each day of the project Harmey will record
a 10 second digital video sample of the Irish Sea from a fixed location
on shore at Seapoint on the south Dublin coast. She will process
the day's recorded images into a video animation file and allocate
this file a number and description from the Beaufort Scale. The
Beaufort Scale (for use at sea) measures wind speed by observing
the visual effects of wind on water and allocates a number ranging
from 0 for calm conditions to 12 for a hurricane. This measurement
for the day's images, combined with various chance procedures, will
be applied to the concurrent audio recording in a resampling process
devised by McNulty. These audio files will then be recombined with
the video animation as a short Flash film. Cliona Harmey is an Irish artist who works with a variety of media such as video installation, photography and the Internet. Her current practice is primarily concerned with the recording and resampling of the minutiae of mutable natural phenomena. She has participated in numerous exhibitions and projects Internationally, including; 'Tis, State of the Art Gallery, Ithaca, New York; Thaw 01, The Institute of Communication and Culture, Iowa; Vdor Break 21, Llubijana, Slovenia; The Reading Room, Catalyst Arts, Belfast. Cliona recently completed a residency at the Inkshop Printmaking Center Ithaca, New York. She lives in Dublin and works as a lecturer in Digital Media at Dunlaoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology. Dennis McNulty works with sound in a variety of contexts. He has been making electronic music as half of 'Decal' for almost a decade and has developed numerous sound and music software and hardware systems. Previous projects include, Decompression 2 for The Captain's Road exhibition, Dublin; the development of an algorithm for generating non-repetitive rhythmic streams based on Markov chain analysis, for an installation by Ralf Nuhn and an audio performance using a Nanoloop Gameboy Sequencer at one of the Dublin Art and Technology Association's monthly DATA events. Decal have just released their third album '404 not found' on Planet-Mu records. Artists Michelle Deignan and Simon Goodwin created Variablemedia in 2001 to explore notions of place, process, temporality and artistic practice. This London (UK) based organisation is now initiating a series of web projects involving internationally based artists. Artists will occupy the www.variablemedia.org site for a period of between one and three months. This empty space is available for them to add to during their project's run. A criterion of these projects is that the artist's present work over time. Variablemedia.org aims to present the artists work in an unmediated form; all explanatory material and archives will be held at the sister www.variablemedia.info site. Following SeaPoint is "My Voice in Your Head" by Edward Dorrian and Sally Morfill, which will commence on July 7th 2002. ---ends---
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