R. Luke DuBoisARTIST PRESENTATION

Background Born 1975 Morristown, New jersey

Lived in London for 7 years then returned to the U.S. to attend Columbia University in 1993.

Holds a Master’s and Doctorate in music composition from Columbia.

Has taught at Columbia, Princeton and NYU to name a few.

Known as a “Conceptual Artist”.

Hard Data

http://turbulence.org/Works/harddata/

Data-mining, sonification, and visualization project that uses statistics from the American military actions in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Timed with Iraq’s national anthem at the time.

Displays casualties on both sides at a certain points in the accompanying music.

Billboard

Took a “spectral average” of each song.

Played each average note for 1 second for each week song was at #1 on chart.

857 songs on the list at that time.

A More Perfect Union…

Changed all towns and cities in every state to the most common used word in online dating profiles originating from each particular town or city.

Here’s our area: Most common used words for our area are “Chimneys” and “Monkeys” for whatever reason.

Of course Richmond would be Tobacco.

The Quantico area: “Spies” and “Brethren”

Fashionably Late For The Relationship Public performance of

woman who takes her own sweet time getting ready for a date as the rest of the world advances 3 days.

Used extremely slow movements.

Act compressed in a video at 60 times normal speed.

Filmed on a traffic island near Union Square, NYC.

Questions?

Do the technical components of DuBois’ work detract from or add to the artistic aspect of his work?

Do works need to be understood to be appreciated?