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The Last Cloud
The Last Cloud
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Taylor, Benjamin
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Abstract
The Last Cloud is a live net art performance which reflects on the web browser as a source of form and content. The performance uses live
coding to control several browser windows with HTML media, including HTML5 audio and video players, Google Maps, GIFs, and
images. This media is mashed up and glitched in a narrative media collage. The work is accompanied by a web audio composition which
uses samples, synthesis, text-to-speech, and processed media element streams to put the sound of web browsing in a musical context.
The Last Cloud is inspired by the history of media artists who have turned media for reproducing content into instruments for generating
content. In this case, the web browser, which was first used as an avenue for viewing reproductions of 20th century media (such as
newspapers, photographs, and recorded songs), is used as an instrument for glitching, splicing, and collaging those media, creating a new
form of art which could not exist in any other medium.
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2016-04
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Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).