nick hasty

Nick Hasty is an artist, programmer, writer, consultant & musician. He currently serves as Director of Technology for Rhizome at the New Museum. He has presented on digital preservation and internet art at SXSW interactive, Internet Week NYC, and ISEA, and has served as a judge for Siggraph and the Muse Awards. As an artist, he uses sound and networked technologies to reflect on contemporary culture, and plays drums and electronics in the avant rock band Source of Yellow. Nick received a B.A. in English Literature from the University of Georgia and a Master's degree from NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program in the Tisch School of the Arts.

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News

I'm excited to presenting a session on archiving digital art at the Reasons to be Creative Festival this Summer at SVA in NYC!

I'll be moderating and presenting the panel "Preserving the Creative Culture of the Web" at the South by Southwest Interactive festival on March 11th, 2012 in Austin, TX. Joining me will be Jason Scott and Kari Krauss.

UPDATE: Here's the slides

UPDATE: Huffington Post Coverage

I'll be participating on the panel New Media Archives, New Intelligent Ambiances at ISEA 2011 in Istanbul Turkey on Thursday September 15th, 2011.

I'll be speaking on my work overhauling the Rhizome ArtBase and Rhizome's archival practices. I'll also be presenting Ben Fino-Radin's wonderful paper Digital Preservation Practices and the Rhizome ArtBase.

UPDATE: Here's the presentation

Selected Projects

Rhizome.org

Founded in 1996, Rhizome is a non-profit organization dedicated to the creation, presentation, preservation, and critique of emerging artistic practices that engage technology. We're based in the New Museum of Contemporary Art in NYC.

riverthenet

A collaboration with Ryan Trecartin and based on an idea by Ryan and David Karp, riverthenet is a continuous stream of 10 second, user submitted videos.

stealyourface.tv

A project with Aida Ruilova, stealyourface.tv was a live streaming performance presented at Salon 94 Bowery during the Festival of Ideas 2011 in NYC.

Source of Yellow

"Source of Yellow; a Brooklyn trio consisting of bass, drums, sax, and a plethora of electronics and assorted sound generators are a true beacon of light in the seemingly eternal talentless night that has fallen on the NYC music scene. Combining metronomically precise krautboogie ur-rhythms with walls of textured electronics and sparse inventive sax playing Source of Yellow play music that would have been right at home on both the Brain and ESP-Disk record labels. They are indebted to the great innovators of free music's past without cannibalizing them, blazing a new direction away from the necrophillic tendencies of modern music." -- Avant Ghetto

the EMBrace

My ITP Thesis, the EM Brace is a wearable device for physically engaging with the ambient electromagnetic radiation emitted by computers and other consumer electronics and electrical systems in general. The goal of this project is to make palpable and audible the hidden the invisible electromagnetic frequencies permeating everyday being, the same frequencies which provide the main transmission medium for radio, SMS text messaging, visible light, wireless internet connections and that radiate outwardly from any object with an active electrical current.

the sola-system

A project with Justin Downs and Florica Vlad, the sola-system is a solar powered boombox inspired by dub sounds systems from 1960's Jamaica.

InterText

Encased within a hollowed version of James Joyce's Ulysses (chosen for its physical and metaphorical depth, its continual susceptibility to new modes of interpretation, and the novel's play with how meaning is extracted by the reader) is an LCD screen displaying Joyce's image as rendered by a mosaic of the novel's text. While the reader peers into the book, the words shift from showing the representation of Joyce to an image of the viewer captured by a nearby camera.