DJ Spooky - Paul Miller - Videos
Paul D. Miller, aka DJ Spooky, environmental scientists Gavin Schmidt (NASA) and Irene Boland Nielson (EPA) and Andrew Revkin of The New York Times present an artist's view of the scientific story behind climate change and Antarctica, a new string quartet, an acoustic portrait composed by DJ Spooky that is based on scientific data and imagery generated through the study of ice in Antarctica. Climate Week NYC 2011, Science & the City. September 19, 2011
07/13/2011
DJ Spooky - Paul D. Miller, Bill McKibben, acclaimed writer and founder of 350.org, Green Patriot Poster project curator Edward Morris, Anna Lappé Small Planet Institute presenting music interpretations of sonic data and explorations in Antarctica with a live string quartet, The Telos Ensemble. July 13, 2011
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Paul Miller aka DJ Spooky Artist, Musician and Mitchell Joachim, architect, talking about the economics of happiness and the transformation of listening patterns. In the lecture Paul Miller and Mitchell Joachim discuss the concepts of de-materialization, Schrödinger's cat, collective memory, tangible interface, appropriation culture, the uncanny and perception in relationship to Glenn Gould, Gödel Escher Bach, Doug Engelbart, Bassnectar, DJ Screw and King Tubby focusing on dubstep aesthetics, wave forms, modality, polyrhythm, re-mixes, mash-ups and versioning. European Graduate School EGS
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Paul Miller aka DJ Spooky Artist, Musician and Mitchell Joachim, architect, talking about the dialectical tension between landscape and musical composition. In the lecture Paul Miller and Mitchell Joachim discuss the concepts of collage aesthetics, dialectical montage, Gestell, storytelling and perception as architecture in relationship to Casper David Friedrich, DW Griffith, Martin Heidegger, Richard Wagner and Sergei Eisenstein focusing on film, The Birth of a Nation, sampling, acoustic portraits, non-linear editing, graphic design and compositional strategy. European Graduate School EGS
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Paul Miller aka DJ Spooky Artist, Musician and Mitchell Joachim, architect talking about acoustics, patterns, rupture, and mathematics. In the lecture Paul Miller and Mitchell Joachim discuss the concepts of globality, enframing, the anthropocene and media aesthetics in relationship to Claude Shannon, Norbert Weiner, Marshall McLuhan, Brian Greene, and Orson Welles focusing on acoustic space, Wolfram tones, simatics, information theory, complexity theory and network systems.Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS
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Paul D. Miller, Professor of Music Mediated Art at the European Graduate School, speaking about Perceptions, how race shapes everyday experiences, public policies, opportunities for individual achievement, and relations across racial and ethnic lines. Rhode Island University.
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Paul Miller aka DJ Spooky, American Artist and Media Theorist, talking about the potentials of digital media, patterns, structures, and repetition. In the lecture Paul Miller discusses the concepts of physicality, music history, networks, creativity, in relationship to relationality, John Cage, Nietzsche, iPhone apps, distribution, knowledge, focusing on identity, social structures, and technology.
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Paul Miller aka DJ Spooky Artist, Musician and Mitchell Joachim, Architect talking about nature, patterns, mixing, and literature. In the lecture Paul Miller discusses the concepts of music mirroring society, art, interface, James Joyce, beats, four four rhythm, rock, techno. Joachim Mitchell and DJ Spooky discuss theories in non-linearity, science, synchronized, Socratic dialogue, chaos, nettime and poetry focusing on imagination, hip hop, social spaces and language. European Graduate School
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Paul Miller aka DJ Spooky, American artist, philosopher, and author, talking about the ethics, displacement, futurist, and rock music. In the lecture Paul Miller discusses the concepts of musical aesthetics, transparent materials, amplification, Nietzsche, in relationship to Wagner, Dionysus, freedom, mixing, focusing on plurality, globalization, and language. European Graduate School
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Paul Miller aka DJ spooky, American philosopher and author, talking about the art, borders, audience, and film. In the lecture Paul Miller discusses the concepts of non-linear, storytelling, narrative, Russian revolution, in relationship to fonts, Orson Welles, F for Fake, pattern recognition, realism, phenomenology, focusing on consistency, media files, and Citizen Kane. European Graduate School EGS
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Mitchell Joachim and Paul Miller aka DJ Spooky, talking about standardized, mathematics, fractals, and music. In the lecture Paul Miller and Mitchell Joachim discusses the concepts of particles, water, iPad, socio-ecological principles, in relationship to DJ culture, acoustic, recycling, ecological thought, America, ethics, propaganda, focusing on community, anthropocentric, and globalization. European Graduate School
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Paul Miller aka DJ Spooky, activist, scholar and performer with Mitchell Joachim, Architect talking about itunes, mixing, media, and the organization of patterns in information. In the lecture Paul Miller discusses the concepts of collage, intuition, pattern recognition, ecosystem, DJ Mixer App, dematerialized, search terms, social network. Joachim Mitchell discusses his work in urban design, smart cars, soft cars, wheels, ecoengineering, design, and environment, algorithms, and coding. European Graduate School EGS
At a screening of DJ Spookys Rebirth of a Nation (2002), speakers analyze recent scholarship on racism in the period of Griffith's original film and examine the films legacy and continuing impact. How do we think critically about the contested notion of a post-racial America as we look back at history? How has the social, political, and cultural context that created The Birth of a Nation transformed over time? Followed by Q & A with filmmaker Paul D. Miller
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Spooky introduces John Cage's work Imaginary Landscape for turntables in the context of his new work TERRA NOVA: SINFONIA ANTARCTICA which features the sounds of ice he recorded in Antarctica
Miller introduces his project Rebirth of a nation and describes how and why he applied hip hop remixing techniques to DW Griffiths racist cinema classic.
08/19/2008
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Sound Unbound is about the remix--how music, art, and literature have blurred the lines between what an artist can do and what a composer can create. In Sound Unbound, Miller asks artists to describe their work and compositional strategies in their own words. These are reports from the front lines on the role of sound and digital media in an information-based society.
Miller presents an audio visual lecture on the philosophical and aesthetic issues of remix culture, something which emerges, he says from the "archival impulse" In the question session later, Miller describes his approach as a challenge to rationalism : software as pragmatic imagination.
Dj Spooky interview discussing various ideas on music, media , and his current tour "REBIRTH OF A NATION". Miller describes himself here as 'director as dj' working with various forms of montage and collage remixed live into narratives.
11/12/2007
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DJ Spooky (Paul Miller) talks about the history of media and thoughts about media in culture. He discusses and demonstrates the unexpected side effects of free speech, law, and copyright while showing the power of remixed art. The future and meaning of remix culture is discussed.
Miller presents an audio-visual lecture oriented around his remix of Griffith's Birth of a Nation, as he searches for a form of plasticity and density in cinema akin to that of the dj with recorded music. Miller begins with some notions from Bourriaud's "postproduction - Culture as Screenplay" : The artist as shareware.
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Miller discusses some of the arguments in in his book "Rhythm Science" searching for multicultural and multiple perspectives on contemporary art and exploring the conflict of underground vs overground aesthetics in the the politics of culture.
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What is the new street? Miller starts from the use of the NYC Subway system as the 'vernacular' graffiti CNN for underground culture. Miller shows some of his new 'tags' as vernacular hip hop media logos/codes for the networked age. The logos are all trans-media design remixes, creating artwork out of an archive full of cultural references.