Artificial intelligence image engines now allow artists to imagine renderings that proceed from simple text prompts. For instance: "/image small red fox leaps over a wooden fence, in the style of a Gainsborough painting." This still somewhat "alien" artmaking technology has been applied to produce the images presented here. These alien sojourners from the fictive past are visiting from an unpredictable future where neural networks will reshape our world and experiences as humans. 

A datamosh video employing materials sourced from historic footage at archive.org. This piece features a performance of Variations V by John Cage, with the Merce Cunningham Company and Apollo footage from NASA. Sound created on a modular synthesizer, using recordings of John Cage as foundational elements. This work is linked to Bell labs Mosh through the common thread of Stan Vanderbeek, who created imagery for the original Variations V performance, which was broadcast in West Germany. Video and sound synthesis by Timothy Nohe.

Bell Labs Mosh (2018), total running time 05:12. Part of a video series that examines the early information age, this industrial film was produced at Bell Labs and represents early experiments in rendering human speech and the "Poem Fields" computer animation work of Stan Vanderbeek and Kenneth Knowlton. Many of the inventions predicted within this video area a reality and commonplace, as accessible as our mobile phone. The original industrial film was made available under Creative Commons license, at archive.org. This data-moshing work was created while in residence at Signal Culture, Owego, NY. 

Installed in the Electronic Gallery, Salisbury University, July 16 - October 25, 2018.

Light Works (2018) – 34:07 loop, silent
 
Analog video and sound synthesis both use voltage interactions to evolve dynamic patterns, whether finally reproduced as video or sound. In the Light Works vivid hues and patterns emerged as oscillations interacted in an LZX Visual Cortex video synthesis module. The artist was there to coax and capture these serendipitous interactions of form and chroma.

Installed in the Electronic Gallery, Salisbury University, July 16 - October 25, 2018.

36 television remote controls dipping in chocolate, included in Voltage is Signal: Analog Video Works by Timothy Nohe,  Kohl Gallery, Washington College, November 9 - December 15, 2017, and, the Electronic Gallery at SalisburyUniversity, July 16 - October 25, 2018.

Light Well for James Turrell (2017), employed analog video and sound synthesis to evolve in real-time dynamic and shifting sound and light patterns that immersed a room in vivid hues. Four analog CRT tv monitors screened opening and closing concentric circles of deeply saturated color. Installed at the Kohl Gallery at Washington College with four matched CRTs, November 9 - December 15, 2017.

Entr’acte-Interact (2017), interactive HD video synthesis system triggered by audience members improvising with a microphone and two infrared sensors that triggered a drum machine.  The installation featured a drum machine, animation system and stereo speakers. Installed at the Kohl Gallery, Washington College, November 9 - December 15, 2017.

Electron Drawing – Visual Music was installed at Light City as a public art commission on the Art Walk. The piece employed analog modular synthesis sound which simultaneously produced live vector graphic video that was captured by a HD camera fed directly to a 12’ by 9’ LED jumbotron wall. Audience members shaped the sound and the drawings through two motion infrared motion sensors, and these were inset into two custom lasercut boxes produced by the artist.

Matter, Energy, Human (repertory version), Deep Vision Dance Company, Nicole A. Martinell, director and choreographer. Commissioned original 40 and 20 minute dance score composed by Timothy Nohe, scored for friction percussion, boy soprano, analog and wavetable synthesizers, e-bow guitar, and samples. Performers - Timothy Nohe: analog and digital synthesizers, sample sequencing, shortwave, ebow guitar; Shelly Purdy: friction percussion; Ruskin Nohe-Moren, boy soprano.

Analog video synthesis and found footage digitally composited with Rutt/Etra Video Synthesizer analog raster manipulation, and Paik/Abe Wobbulator transformations. Video produced while in residence at Signal Culture, Owego, NY. 

Installed:
Architectural Video Screen at Wall Academic Center, Van Every Smith Galleries at Davidson College, Davidson, NC, November 15, 2018 - February 6, 2019.

Screened at:
Livewire 9, UMBC, October 27 - 28, 2018, concert interstitial video, Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall.  The Agency of Art: Visual Arts @ 50, University Art Gallery, Mandeville Center, Univerity of California San Diego, April 12 – May 17, 2018. Vigil, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, April 30 and Worlds in Collusion at Artscape 2016.

Exhibited:
Electronic Gallery, Salisbury University, July 16 - October 25, 2018.  Kohl Gallery, Washington College, November 9 - December 15, 2017.