Nick Hasty is an artist, programmer, writer & musician. He currently serves as Director of Technology for Rhizome at the New Museum. He has collaborated on projects with artists such as Ryan Trecartin, Aida Ruilova, and Nancy Garcia. He plays drums and electronics in the Brooklyn-based band Source of Yellow. He has presented at conferences such as SXSW interactive, Internet Week NYC, and ISEA.
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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I'll be participating and moderating 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.
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.
You can view my presentation here: http://jnhasty.com/isea2011
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.