The artist and curator Art Clay was born in New York and lives in Basel. He is a specialist in the performance of self created works with the use of intermedia and has appeared at international festivals, on radio and television television in Europe, Asia & north America. His recent work focuses on media based works and large performative works and spectacles using mobile device. He has won prizes for performance, theatre, new media art and curation. He has taught media and interactive arts at various Art Schools and Universities in Europe and North America including the University of the Arts in Zürich. He is the initiator and Artistic Director of the ‘Digital Art Weeks’ in Zürich.

Digital Art Weeks / Züricher University of the Arts, Switzerland

CONFERENCE – BRIEF ABSTRACT:

Malleable Scores: Applications and Implications

The contents of this talk approaches the idea of artistic license of the interpreting artist as a positive aspect of creative composition. The possibilities of participating in the creative act beyond the role of the traditional interpreter are illustrated through out the talk by tracing the development of “malleability” or non-linearity in music score writing in selected works of the author. Starting with the linear standard score, many visual and audio examples are given for the various forms and types of malleable scores. The talk concludes with a discussion of how this has all that lead up to the application of real-time electronic scores in which a concept of self-conduction is feasibly implemented for use in distributed ensemble operating mobile computers.