JAMES H. CONNOLLY


ANALOG VIDEOS

LIGHT/TRANSMISSION/PROTOCOL DEMO

Demonstration of Light/Transmission/Protocol, an interactice audio/video installation that allows audience members to control analog video and audio collaboratively and improvisationally using their smart phones.



BALL SKILLS/WAVEFORMS/WHITE BRO RIOTS, JULY 2015

This video was made for PHYSICAL EDUCATION, an experimental new media/video/performance show curated by Christine Janokowicz and Paula Nacif at Futbol Chicago. It combines my instrument RGB.VGA.VOLT with other analog video tools and found footage.
Portions of this video were made at Signal Culture in Owego, NY signalculture.org



SANDIN IMAGE PROCESSOR EXPERIMENTS, AUGUST 2014

I spet the some time in the summer of 2014 learning and documenting the Sandin Image Processor to inform RGB.VGA.VOLT–a VGA-based audio video synthesizer–and to prepare to teach the realtime class in the School of the Art Institute's Film, Video, New Media, and Animation department. This video is a short excerpt of a long session of exploring the IP's oscillator modules while sonifying its outputted video signal.



RGB.VGA.VOLT DEMO

RGB.VGA.VOLT is an audio/video synthesizer that enables realtime exploration of the rich materiality concealed beneath the consumer interfaces of cathode ray tube computer monitors. By hacking and improperly rewiring the cables of these obsolete devices to short their video signals, their black-boxed analog infrastructure is liberated and driven by digitally synthesized high-frequency complex waveforms, audio playback, and feedback loops that fully exploit their latent visual spectrum. Inspired by early video tools such as the Sandin Image Processor and the Paik-Abe Synthesizer as well as contemporary programming and error-based approaches to sound and moving image, RGB.VGA.VOLT revives an analog aesthetic that has acquired a renewed power and potency in the present era of digital immateriality. The instrument, demonstrated on four VGA computer monitors in this video, combines custom built software, hardware modification, and DIY instrumentation.



CRACKED RAY TUBE INSTALLATION DETAIL: VGA VIDEO DRIVEN BY HIGH-FREQUENCY AUDIO, JANUARY 2014

An installation of 17 modified cathode ray tube televisions and computer monitors, interfaced with a custom programmed network computer system algorithmically generating audio and video.
The excerpt contains multiple moments in the system in which high-frequency sine waves are synthesized in Max/MSP and sent into the red, green, and blue pins of a VGA cable, generating highly controllable visualizations of audio being bent into video.



CRACKED RAY TUBE STUDIO DOCUMENTATION, OCTOBER 2012

Studio documentation of Cracked Ray Tube ahead of a performance at the Vancouver New Music Festival.



CRACKED RAY TUBE STUDIO RECORDING, OCTOBER 2011

Cracked Ray Tube is a collaborative realtime project by James Connolly and Kyle Evans that breaks and disrupts the interfaces of analog televisions and computer monitors to produce flashing, screeching, wobbulating, self-generated electronic noise and video.



C(racked)RT VGA/TRS-80 GLI.TC/H 20111 BUMPER

Bumber for the 2011 GLI.TC/H Festival.



DEGAUSSING AND PULSE VIDEO ERASER-ING A VGA CRT AND SOUND MIXER, 2011

Exploring the electromagnetic sonic and visual spectrum with a degausser.



CRT VIDEO SYNTHESIZER EXPERIMENT 03, 2010

The third examply of my earliest experiment sending no-input audio mixing into the red, green, and blue pins of a hacked VGA cable.



I am a Chicago-based artist, educator, museum worker, and archivist. My videos, open-source tools, and real-time audio/video performances undermine the interfaces and break through the algorithms of digital and analog systems, examining hidden power structures and liberating latent aesthetic materialities in cathartic and captivating compositions.

I am an Adjunct Associate Professor in the department of Film, Video, New Media, and Animation at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Collection Manager of the Roger Brown Study Collection.


NEWS/EVENTS

2022

September 10, 2022, 8:30 pm CRT Flux Phaser/RGB.VGA.VOLT performance at The Latent Space for the "Control Signals" exhibition performance series, Chicago, IL

August 13, 2022, 8:30 pm CRT Flux Phaser/RGB.VGA.VOLT and Cracked Ray Tube performance at The Latent Space for the "Control Signals" exhibition performance series, Chicago, IL

August 6, 2022, 7:00 pm opening for "Control Signals" solo exhibition at The Latent Space, Chicago, IL

August 6 - September 10, 2022 "Control Signals" solo exhibition at The Latent Space, Chicago, IL

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