Drury, Sarah

Who's in Control? Issues in Interactive Media Art Bibliography

A discussion of control in interactive digital art centered on the authors sound-and-video installation The Listening Microphone; users vocalize into a microphone, Max (Opcodes Max) converts voice to MIDI via analog-to-MIDI converters to trigger SampleCell playback (32 MB of voice samples recorded live) and QuickTime video jump-cuts, with spatialized output through small amplified speakers. The text situates the project with reference to John Cage (indeterminacy), Walter Ong (sound vs visual sensorium), Sherry Turkle (simulated presence), Donna Haraway (the cyborg) and Thomas Edison (recorded voices).