ARTS IN MULTIMEDIA, a project of The Multimedia Communications Research Laboratory at Bell Labs During my tenure at Bell Labs
(1996 - 2000) I started an official Artist-in-Residence Program, The
Arts in Multimedia (AIM) project. It was a joint effort (1998 -2000) between Lucent and the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), and provided artists access to the latest multimedia and networking technology and to scientists at Bell Labs, Lucent's research and development arm. AIM teamed artists with researchers and research technology developed by Bell Laboratories. The intent was for this collaboration to create a new model for non-traditional partnerships within the flexible framework typical of Bell Labs research projects. These collaborations represented a unique opportunity for both artists and researchers to explore and to jointly pursue aspects of new media technology that advance their ideas. Researchers and artists gained a fresh perspective as they worked together. Both bring to the table an understanding of technology; together they explored how it can be used to further their efforts in art and in science. Projects Funded:
Bell
Labs statistician Mark Hansen of the Statistics and Data Mining
Research Department and audio artist Ben Rubin of EAR Studio plan to
make audible the complex, dynamic stream of information that records
our movements on the Internet. The project will create new technologies
for the transformation of information into sound. They hope to create
"listening posts" - places or Web sites where people can listen to the
pulse of global information systems.
A History of Bell Labs Innovations... Bell Labs
has a rich heritage
and involvement in and
affecting the arts. Here is a very short list that
demonstrates the
Bell Labs innovations of the twentieth century.
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