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Joshua Goldberg is an artist who was an early adopter + beta tester of Jitter during which time he developed Dervish, an application for realtime video performance authored with Jitter. Goldberg discusses Dervish, Jitter, nato.0+55 + the beauty of abstraction in this interview conducted by criticalartware on 2003.06.07 in Chicago during AVIT North America: International VJ Conference and Visuals Festival.

"i am a dedicated abstractionist. i design and perform on frameworks for improvisatory animation using laptops in club and party situations.
* what does that mean? i guess you could call me a VJ, but i prefer ‘live visualist’ as a term.
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i think of myself as more of a light artist than a storyteller. i want people’s reaction to my work to be physiological in nature, instead of cognitive.
* what does that mean? it means i think stories have no place in nightclubs.
* but what does that MEAN? it means shut up and dance. see the flickery gorgeous shit every now and then.
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feedback explorations, circular decisions, a domestic core.
custom software, too much equipment, accidental movement.
(about four years ago, I released an absolutely free version of my performance software, including code, with no restrictions, called dervish.)
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i explore the mutability of time through computers, and investigate the shattering of temporal flow.
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i create time-convolved video projects, as installations, screen-based video art, and live situations.

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i make work which makes sport of frenzied deconstruction of owned media.
* but what does that MEAN? i use television like paint and air.
when does content stop being content?
when does ownership evaporate?
when does history fade?"

- joshua goldberg

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Joshua Goldberg
interviewed by criticalartware coreDevelopers:
jonCates
jon.satrom +
Joey Lindsey

CHI IL .US
2003.06.07

@ buddY Gallery during AVIT North America: International VJ Conference and Visuals Festival

http://www.avit.us

interview transcript by: jake elliott

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