Art & Technology
Host Daniel Durning & Lefferts Brown interviews sound and visual artists

Edition #1: John F. Simon, Jr. and Lauri Spiegel

First broadcast July 20, 2004

In this, the first of an introductory two-part special, Artist, Animator and Fine arts College Professor Daniel Durning talks to artist John F. Simon, Jr. about new developments in his computer-based paintings, recently exhibited in the Guggenheim Museum's "Seeing Double" exhibition. Simon also gets into the subject of writing creative computer code and the development of "Emergence" and other systems involved in his work. He is represented by the Sandra Gering Gallery in New York. Durning's co-host, the composer and digital audio expert Lefferts Brown, draws out Laurie Spiegel, on the subject of her early experiments with electronics and music, as well as her work with the video artist Nam Jun Paik. A pioneer in computer-generated music, she is also the person who designed Music Mouse, a program that allows music listeners to become music-makers with their computers at home.