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November 14, 2010November 14, 2010

papalCorruption v1.0 beta

papalCorruption v1.0 is a recent experiment for a larger body of new video based works exploring the glitch and corrupt data in media culture. The original clip was a short Italian television story about Pope Benedict XVI. I downloaded the video from the Vatican website and then corrupted it on a data level.

June 12, 2009June 15, 2009

death [of analog]

Death [of Analog]
October 2, 1925 – June 12, 2009
84min [18min excerpt]

A dead analog television signal was broadcast live online at jasonsloan.com the morning of Thursday June 12, 2009 from 12:00am – 1:24am [EST].

Jason Sloan is an electronic musician, composer, video and sound artist practicing in Baltimore, Md. He has released over twenty solo studio albums, and has been included on multiple various artist collections.

In 2011 Jason began working under the moniker L’Avenir. This project explores Sloan’s long time love of dark synth, cold wave and electronic music created purely from analog, digital, modular and vintage synthesizer hardware. He has released albums on Barcelona’s Cold Beats Records, Germany’s EINS:ZWEI:ACHT, Minimalkombinat, Single Speed Tapes and Beläten in Sweden. L’Avenir continues to release music, perform live around the world and has now become Sloan’s main creative project.

Sloan is Chair of the Interactive Arts and Sound Art program and a professor teaching sound, electronic music, video and interactive media at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, MD.