What is it that the artist pursues when involved in art work? For thirty years Robert has invented methodologies that focus both sensory perception and apperception. Robert has designed, programmed and integrated a variety of systems designed to allow real-time personal exploration using multi-channel temporal media.
Since 2008, he has been programming in MAX/MSP/Jitter on a constantly developing and changing system called “The Simultaneous Opposites Engine”. Robert loads high-definition video files into the engine, then traverses and modulates the files in real time using a variety of navigation tools, including MIDI instruments (guitar and/or percussion pads), keyboard, mouse, and custom navigation programs.
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In 2006, Robert integrated a system he used for “The Duchamp Examinations”, a series of real-time traversals and rewritings of his song “If Duchamp Drew Beautifully”, using MIDI guitar, microphone, Boomerang loop pedal and audio processing software.
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In 1994, Robert’s “Sand, or How Computers Dream of Truth in Cinema” was his first system driven by a MIDI Guitar. Robert loaded a three-dimensional matrix of files into an augmented Amiga 3000 computer, and used the MIDI system and other interface tools to move among the matrices, triggering independent playback of separate media channels during the transversal.
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In 1988, Robert completed programming “Living Cinema”, a “C” program with which he integrated video disc, IBM PC, TARGA board, voice synthesis, digitized stills, video and audio, in his first real-time multichannel traversal system.
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