Golan Levin


Golan Levin develops artifacts and events which explore supple new modes of reactive expression. His work focuses on the design of systems for the creation, manipulation and performance of simultaneous image and sound, as part of a more general inquiry into the formal language of interactivity, and of nonverbal communications protocols in cybernetic systems.

Golan Levin est un artiste, un compositeur, un interprète et un ingénieur intéressé par le développement d'artefacts et d'événements qui explorent de nouveaux modes souples d'expression réactive. Son travail est centré sur la conception de systèmes pour la création, la manipulation et l'exécution de l'image et du son en simultané.

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I teach at Carnegie Mellon University, where I also direct the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, an interdisciplinary arts-research center. I create interactive artifacts and experiences with a variety of collaborators.


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Golan Levin: Interactive sounds and graphics

Artist, teacher, engineer and composer, Golan Levin has been combining all of his skills to create interactive works. His creations involve the eye (“Double-Taker (snout), Opto-Isolator, Eyecode, Reface (portrait sequencer)”…), the gesture (“Interstitial Fragment Processor, Scrapple, The Manuel Input Workstation, Interactive Bar Tables”…), the voice and the ear (“Ursonography, Messa di Voce, Dialtones a telesymphony)”…) or graphic software (“Self-adherence (for writt...

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Self-Adherence (for Written Images)

2010 | by Golan Levin for the Written Images project Self-Adherence was my contribution to Martin Fuchs' unique Written Images project — a book presenting contemporary generative art in which each copy of the book is computed individually from software written by leading computational artists. The images produced by Self-Adherence are developed from a feedback process in which thousands of small elements are mutually attracted to their nearest neighbors. The elements are initi...

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Eyecode

2007 | Golan Levin Eyecode (Golan Levin, 2007) is an interactive installation whose display is wholly constructed from its own history of being viewed. By means of a hidden camera, the system records and replays brief video clips of its viewers' eyes. Each clip is articulated by the duration between two of the viewer's blinks. The unnerving result is a typographic tapestry of recursive observation. Additional Resources High-resolution photographs and screenshots of Eyecode ...

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Rectified Flowers

2010 | Golan Levin and Kyle McDonaldKyle McDonald and I were reading about domain shifting between polar and Cartesian geometries, and noticed that flowers make particularly interesting subjects for this transformation. Abusing my open-source BloggieUnwarper panoramic-imaging software with some flower photographs from Flickr, we produced the "flower panoramas" below. This is what one would see if one were doing panoramic imaging from inside a flower...A complete set of about two dozen ...

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GML Experiments

2010 | Golan Levin with F.A.T. Lab and other collaborators Graffiti Markup Language (.gml) is a universal, XML based, open file  format designed to store graffiti motion data (x and y coordinates over  time). The format is designed to maximize readability and ease of  implementation, even for hobbyist programmers, artists and graffiti  writers.  Beyond storing data, a main goal of GML is to spark interest  surrounding the importance (and fun) of open data and int...

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Re:FACE, Anchorage Version

2010 | Tmema (Golan Levin & Zachary Lieberman)Re:FACE [Portrait Sequencer], Anchorage Version (2007-2010: Golan Levin and Zachary Lieberman) is a playful interactive video installation commissioned by the Municipality of Anchorage 1% for Art Program, for permanent display over the entryways of Anchorage East High School, Alaska.Based on the Victorian "Exquisite Corpse" parlor game, and our previous small-scale gallery project, the Re:FACE installation records and dynamically recom...

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Messa di Voce

2003 | Tmema (Golan Levin and Zachary Lieberman) with Jaap Blonk and Joan La Barbara Messa di Voce (2003: Golan Levin, Zachary Lieberman, Jaap Blonk, and Joan La Barbara) augments the speech, shouts and songs produced by two virtuoso vocalists with real-time interactive visualizations. The project touches on themes of abstract communication, synaesthetic relationships, cartoon language, and writing and scoring systems, within the context of a sophisticated, playful, and virtuosic au...

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Golan Levin exhibitions

 2010SFR Player, DigitalArti Gallery, Paris: Messa di Voce Installation. 11/16/2010 - 12/2/2010.Cinekid Festival. Amsterdam: LiveWriter. 10/21/2010 - 10/30/2010.Data Mining. A+D Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago: Dumpster. 9/30/2010 - 11/6/2010.Macht Musik, Technisches Museum Wien: Scrapple. 9/29/2010 - 6/26/2011.Bouillants #2, Brest, France: Reface. 6/29/2010 - 8/31/2010.Ocus Pocus, Visualiseringscenter C, Norrköping, Sweden. 5/27/2010 - 10/15/2010: Eyecode.Bouillants  #2, Maison de la Bret...

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Golan Levin Upcoming events

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Golan gives an artist's presentation in the CMU School of Art Lecture Series, 5pm in McConomy Auditorium, Carnegie Mellon University campus. 18 Jan 2011 The Manual Input Station appears in the Pulse Art + Technology Festival, Jepson Center for the Arts, Savannah, GA. 20 Jan 2011 - 29 Jan 2011 A solo exhibition by Golan Levin opens at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA. 11 Feb 2011 Golan presents an artist's lecture, an interactive artwork, and two arts-e...

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Golan Levin bio

Golan Levin develops artifacts and events which explore supple new modes of reactive expression. His work focuses on the design of systems for the creation, manipulation and performance of simultaneous image and sound, as part of a more general inquiry into the formal language of interactivity, and of nonverbal communications protocols in cybernetic systems. Through performances, digital artifacts, and virtual environments, often created with a variety of collaborators, Levin applies cr...

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