Uploaded April 2021 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Our collaboration with Experimental Intermedia continues with our seventh ZOOM IN: OLAP (Online Live Art Performance) community discussion forum. For this event we have invited Experimental Sound Studio (ESS) to talk about their Quarantine Concerts (TQC), an online streaming hub created in March 2020 with the goal of providing a centralized, generative space for sharing work, connecting with community, and maintaining a culture of supporting the arts. Originally conceived as a temporary fix until in-person performances could resume, TQC has since proven to fill a larger need in the music and performance community. In 2020 the series hosted over 1,000 artists in 182 shows curated by 109 partners, and enjoyed by 55,000+ unique viewers who donated over $90,000 in crowdsourced donations, 100% of which went directly to the artists performing each night. ESS has 148 virtual shows scheduled for 2021 to date.
Date: April 11, 2021
Following the presentation and a Q & A, the forum will be open to anyone attending who would like to discuss any online live art performance ideas or projects as well as any technical or conceptual concerns.
The discussion forum will be led by media artist and curator Katherine Liberovskaya of Experimental Intermedia and Harvestworks Director Carol Parkinson.
About The Quarantine Concerts
In March 2020 Experimental Sound Studio collaborated with organizers Ben Billington, Daniel Wyche, and Carrie Cooper to create The Quarantine Concerts (TQC), an online streaming hub with the goal of providing a centralized, generative space for sharing work, connecting with community, and maintaining a culture of supporting the arts. Originally conceived as a temporary fix until in-person performances could resume, TQC has since proven to fill a larger need in the music and performance community. In 2020 the series hosted over 1,000 artists in 182 shows curated by 109 partners, and enjoyed by 55,000+ unique viewers who donated over $90,000 in crowdsourced donations, 100% of which went directly to the artists performing each night. ESS has 148 virtual shows scheduled for 2021 to date.
Founded in 1986, Experimental Sound Studio is a Chicago-based nonprofit organization dedicated to artistic evolution and the creative exploration of sound. As an international hub for sonic experimentation, ESS nurtures artists, heralds new works, and builds a broad, supportive community of makers, enthusiasts, and creative partners through production, presentation, education, and preservation.
YouTube video documenting The Quarantine Concerts, by Brian Ashby: youtu.be/7k69N1tichw
Website: ess.org
Instagram: instagram.com/esschicago
Facebook: facebook.com/experimentalsoundstudio
Twitter: twitter.com/ExSoSt
YouTube: youtube.com/channel/UCChJYTwUOqk1LNgUb_pIiqA
ZOOM IN: Online Live Art Performance
A collaborative initiative by Harvestworks and Experimental Intermedia ZOOM IN: OLAP is an online community forum conceived by Katherine Liberovskaya and Carol Parkinson to reflect on the aesthetic and technical dimensions of live streaming and to share knowledge among the participants. The meetings feature guest practitioners from different artistic fields (music, live visuals, performance, dance, theater) who speak about their approaches and experiments with online performance (sound, video, conferencing, streaming software, aesthetic and organizational approaches), followed by Q&A. The forum is also open to hearing about new ideas and projects that are in development as well as technical and/or conceptual concerns from the participants.
This initiative is a response to the unexpected arrival of the Covid pandemic that forced many live performance artists into live streaming as a make-shift temporary presentation alternative. Figuring it out on the fly, they were able to continue to produce some form of creative activity on the new platform… While this was so exciting, even keeping us sane in the early days of the coronavirus, the ever-increasing online live streaming events are starting to seem more and more all the same and are holding our attention less and less. We quickly found out that commercial web conferencing software was not designed for artistic performance. Worldwide, the virus seems here to stay, and the reality of in-person audiences being able to convene safely is moving further and further into the future. It is time to re-think the online presentation of live art practices and to imagine new approaches that are far better suited for the new performance stage.
Our collaboration with Experimental Intermedia continues with our seventh ZOOM IN: OLAP (Online Live Art Performance) community discussion forum. For this event we have invited Experimental Sound Studio (ESS) to talk about their Quarantine Concerts (TQC), an online streaming hub created in March 2020 with the goal of providing a centralized, generative space for sharing work, connecting with community, and maintaining a culture of supporting the arts. Originally conceived as a temporary fix until in-person performances could resume, TQC has since proven to fill a larger need in the music and performance community. In 2020 the series hosted over 1,000 artists in 182 shows curated by 109 partners, and enjoyed by 55,000+ unique viewers who donated over $90,000 in crowdsourced donations, 100% of which went directly to the artists performing each night. ESS has 148 virtual shows scheduled for 2021 to date.
Date: April 11, 2021
Following the presentation and a Q & A, the forum will be open to anyone attending who would like to discuss any online live art performance ideas or projects as well as any technical or conceptual concerns.
The discussion forum will be led by media artist and curator Katherine Liberovskaya of Experimental Intermedia and Harvestworks Director Carol Parkinson.
About The Quarantine Concerts
In March 2020 Experimental Sound Studio collaborated with organizers Ben Billington, Daniel Wyche, and Carrie Cooper to create The Quarantine Concerts (TQC), an online streaming hub with the goal of providing a centralized, generative space for sharing work, connecting with community, and maintaining a culture of supporting the arts. Originally conceived as a temporary fix until in-person performances could resume, TQC has since proven to fill a larger need in the music and performance community. In 2020 the series hosted over 1,000 artists in 182 shows curated by 109 partners, and enjoyed by 55,000+ unique viewers who donated over $90,000 in crowdsourced donations, 100% of which went directly to the artists performing each night. ESS has 148 virtual shows scheduled for 2021 to date.
Founded in 1986, Experimental Sound Studio is a Chicago-based nonprofit organization dedicated to artistic evolution and the creative exploration of sound. As an international hub for sonic experimentation, ESS nurtures artists, heralds new works, and builds a broad, supportive community of makers, enthusiasts, and creative partners through production, presentation, education, and preservation.
YouTube video documenting The Quarantine Concerts, by Brian Ashby: youtu.be/7k69N1tichw
Website: ess.org
Instagram: instagram.com/esschicago
Facebook: facebook.com/experimentalsoundstudio
Twitter: twitter.com/ExSoSt
YouTube: youtube.com/channel/UCChJYTwUOqk1LNgUb_pIiqA
ZOOM IN: Online Live Art Performance
A collaborative initiative by Harvestworks and Experimental Intermedia ZOOM IN: OLAP is an online community forum conceived by Katherine Liberovskaya and Carol Parkinson to reflect on the aesthetic and technical dimensions of live streaming and to share knowledge among the participants. The meetings feature guest practitioners from different artistic fields (music, live visuals, performance, dance, theater) who speak about their approaches and experiments with online performance (sound, video, conferencing, streaming software, aesthetic and organizational approaches), followed by Q&A. The forum is also open to hearing about new ideas and projects that are in development as well as technical and/or conceptual concerns from the participants.
This initiative is a response to the unexpected arrival of the Covid pandemic that forced many live performance artists into live streaming as a make-shift temporary presentation alternative. Figuring it out on the fly, they were able to continue to produce some form of creative activity on the new platform… While this was so exciting, even keeping us sane in the early days of the coronavirus, the ever-increasing online live streaming events are starting to seem more and more all the same and are holding our attention less and less. We quickly found out that commercial web conferencing software was not designed for artistic performance. Worldwide, the virus seems here to stay, and the reality of in-person audiences being able to convene safely is moving further and further into the future. It is time to re-think the online presentation of live art practices and to imagine new approaches that are far better suited for the new performance stage.
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NEW PERFORMANCE URL: https://youtu.be/XvarXOXzGJc
Inherent Uncertainty is led by sound artist Clinton Van Arnam, currently a student in the Design Media Arts program and part of the UCLA Art Sci collective.
This project was conceptualized with the intent of composing and amplifying the live data analysis of Johns Hopkins Covid-19 worldwide data including recovered, deaths, and total cases. Data is sent through custom software into analog and digital synthesizers which trigger visuals formed by news clips recorded on June 1st, 2020 during the protests that followed the death of George Floyd.
The title Inherent Uncertainty represents our current state of affairs and the systems we are seeing crumble before our own eyes. As the viewer listens to the sound shift and change, these shifts are simply the analysis and the parallelity of the destruction of the virus. This project explores the unpredictability of our future and the thin veneer that we define as a ‘civil’ society.
Software engineering by John Brumley. Music by Paul Geluso and Clinton Van Arnam. Visuals by Ivana Dama in collaboration with Clinton Van Arnam. Creative collaboration with Harvestworks, New York including Carol Parkinson, and Paul Geluso. Mentorship and creative vision in partnership with Victoria Vesna, UCLA.")
