0UR080R05 (Ouroboros) by jonCates + jake elliott is a realtime audio video project. Chicago based artists jonCates + jake elliott use hacked typewriters, a hand built computerized 16mm film projector + footage of William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin to create a cybernetic third mind. Live coding of self-modifying programs and processing of these audio and video signals creates an expansive and contractive recursive system that eats and excretes itself like a data bent digital version of Ouroboros, the dragon who swallows his own tail and symbolizes infinity.
0UR080R05 (translated from LEET into English as “Ouroboros”) finds jonCates + jake elliott live coding artware intertwined in deep time recursivity + self-modifying psychedelic cyberware. this realtime audio video performance coils digital systems into themselves creating a speculative screenplay virtually typewritten on raw 16mm film footage of william s. burroughs + brion gysin (composing the screenplay itself by methods such as cut-up + fold in (while this infinite regress is being threaded into the projector that is currently being used to project the self-same code-based film (recursive code snippets getting stuck + sucked back (feed back + feed forward loops expanding + contracting)))) into 0UR080R05' own owlish entrails.” + this is a link to video documentation of the project/performance:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5178936506770495355