Art Metropole

#08118

H5N1: there is no privacy at the speed of light

Artist

Nerve Theory

Price

$20.00

Date

2007

Publisher

Voicepondence

Format

Audio

Details

CD

Size

15 × 12.5 × 1 cm

Genre

CD

Commissioned by the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation to make weekly radio “miniatures” for a year, Nerve Theory (Tom Sherman and Bernhard Loibner) created dozens of wonderfully paranoid word-based electronic tracks, the best of which are collected on this disc. Epidemiological disaster, conspiricy theories, surveillance, alienation, perverse technology and other perenially pertinent issues are addressed in these 16 tracks.

Tom Sherman and Bernhard Loibner have been working together since 1993, and as Nerve Theory since 1998 when they premiered their performance “Shades of Catatonia” at Ars Electronica’s INFOWAR festival in Linz, Austria. Since then Sherman and Loibner have created numerous performances and recordings as Nerve Theory, broadcasting extensively in Austria and Germany and performing in New York, Berlin, Vienna and Montreal. Bernhard Loibner lives in Vienna, Austria. Tom Sherman splits his time between Syracuse, NY and Liverpool, Nova Scotia.

H5N1 0:16
The common flu (Type A) 1:06
If you hate your day job 1:10
Spread the virus 0:51
Mozart lived a very long time ago 1:57
Austrian ex-patriot Arnold Schwarzenegger 1:41
Virus is Latin for poison 1:12
Pandemic podcast 1:12
New the kitty cats are carrying the bird flu 2:09
H5N1 0:16
I’ve started washing my eggs 1:41
Someone to watch over me 1:19
Surveillance imposes discipline 1:59
We live in a world of strangers 2:25
Have you ever had your brain fingerprinted? 2:20
H5N1 0:16
The imagination can’t survive outside the mind 1:12
Skulls and cross-bones are everywhere these days 1:30
In our cultures of fear and loathing 1:24