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Lucidbeaming is a pseudonymous art, music, and technology project by Joshua Curry. Artwork produced under this name has included experimental music, interactive art, video art, and photography.

History
Lucidbeaming was first used to indicate authorship of a creative work with the release of the full-length music album Spanner in 2017. A second album, Critters, was released later that year. It received a moderate amount of airplay at college radio stations across North America. In reviewing the album, Kevin Press of Badd Press said "Critters is its own language. It is unlike anything we’ve heard."

Both of the albums made use of custom synthesizers built from Raspberry Pi computers. After the albums' release, the custom synthesizers were expanded into autonomous sound sculptures. That work was then led to the creation of Embers, an interactive light sculpture that made use of wind sensors. From there, a wide variety of sculptural and interactive art was produced.

After a debut exhibition of Embers at the 2017 SubZERO Festival in San Jose, CA, the Lucidbeaming project made appearances throughout northern California. The subsequent artwork expanded to include video art, photography, performance art , noise performance , and generative art.

Recent activity has included exhibition of drawings and photography at San Jose International Airport and a public performance of Wolves funded by the Palo Alto Public Art Program.

Embers
This interactive sculpture used air movement to trigger animations of LEDs wrapped in rice paper. The visual effect was similar to the embers of a campfire. It used 1400 LEDs and an equal number of paper balloons that were hand folded by volunteers. The finished piece was displayed at art galleries and festivals around the San Francisco Bay Area.

Th interactivity was designed for collaboration, rather than passive viewing. "A person alone may not be able to generate enough movement. A collective effort is needed to keep the fire alive, especially if a sustained force is in opposition. This piece encourages collaboration and engagement with other viewers."

Wolves
This public art work projects animation of wolves running onto buildings in urban and suburban environments. According to the San Jose Mercury News, it was "inspired by a National Geographic article about wolves returning to hunt in the Chernobyl exclusion zone, site of the 1986 nuclear reactor disaster in Ukraine."

The piece uses battery powered video projectors in a cart that is pulled by a bicycle rider. A recent performance funded by the Palo Alto Public Art Program also included a mobile web app to track the location of the rider.

Danse des Aliénés
In mid-2020, the Internet Archive sponsored a film contest to mark the release of film and music from 1925 that was entering the public domain. A video produced under the name Lucidbeaming was awarded 1st place by the Internet Archive. It made use of glitch aesthetics, cross processing, and video collage to blend film and music released in 1925.

The source material for the video came from Lotte Lendesdorff, Walter Ruttmann, Henri Chomette, Dave Fleischer, Hans Richter, Walther Ruttmann, George Wilhelm Pabst, and Camille Saint-Saëns.

Art Review Generator
Art Review Generator is a Python based natural language processing web application that generates novel art reviews based on a Tensorflow model trained on 20000+ art reviews from ArtForum magazine. It makes use of modern machine learning and artificial intelligence technologies to analyze language used to describe art and culture.