About
Chris De Giere is a San Francisco Bay Area–based interdisciplinary artist creating generative systems that produce sound and images. His work explores sensation and perception, stochasticity, and collaboration with technology.
He has been making with machines since the late 1990s, an experimental practice spanning avant-garde electronic audio, digital imagery, and printmaking. Chris studied physics, philosophy, and electronic arts at UC Santa Barbara. He runs Xsec Developments, an online audio-visual imprint.
Education
- 1994–1998 B.A. Philosophy, University of California, Santa Barbara. Additional studies in physics, computer music (with Curtis Roads), and digital media (with Victoria Vesna). Teaching assistant, CREATE (Center for Research in Electronic Art Technology)
Exhibitions
- 2026 Fracture, plotter drawing, ink on paper, hand-marbled washi, collage, Memory Lane (juried), Forest Gallery, Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, CA
- 2026 Flying White, plotter drawing, acrylic on paper, Red Pistache, City of Los Altos, CA
- 2026 Strata #2, monotype, Members Exhibition (juried), Ramona Gallery, Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, CA
- 2003 Fired, altered magazine, giclée print, Gloves Off! The ABCO Book Arts Show, ABCO, Oakland, CA
- 1998 Dark Dreams, sound installation, kNocktUrnaLL Electronic Arts, UC Santa Barbara, CA, with Greg Hagen
- 1998 The Mad Noise Automaton, sound installation, E.A.T. Multiuser Noise Projection Show, UC Santa Barbara, CA
- 1997 Mind Garden, interactive digital media, Emerging Technologies, SIGGRAPH 97: Electric Garden, Los Angeles, CA, contributor with Paras Kaul
Live Performances
- 2023 Modular World Patch-On: Reverb, generative modular and video set, webcast, as MOS-Man
- 2021 Modular World Patch-On: Field Recordings, generative modular and video set, webcast, as MOS-Man
- 2021 ResFreq031, live 8-bit hardware set, webcast, as MOS-Man with Kit Young on live video
- 2018 Chillits, live performance, ambient music festival, Laytonville, CA, as 16stringed with AndyW
- 2005 The Independent, live performance, San Francisco, CA, supporting Daniel Lanois and Tortoise, as Audioelectronic with Gustavo Lanzas
- 2004 Concept One, live performance, Studio Z, San Francisco, CA, with Dietrich Schoenemann, Tony Rohr, Forest Green, Philip Sherburne, Jj-bot, Clairity, and Earnie Deaks
- 2004 Robotspeak Sessions First Anniversary, live webcast, Betalounge, San Francisco, CA, with Broker/Dealer, Mork Choklad, Mochipet, and Cybrid
- 2004 Archipelago record release, live performance, Musician's Union Hall, San Francisco, CA, with Thermal, Earwicker, Dean Santomieri, and M. Bentley/eM
- 2003 Chillits, live performance, ambient music festival, Willits, CA, as 16stringed with AndyW
- 2003 Neue Berliner Initiative, live performance, Berlin, Germany
- 2003 Subtonic, live performance, New York, NY, with The FreshBlend
- 2003 OODE7, live performance, campout festival, Umpqua National Forest, OR
- 2003 echolocation.fm, radio webcast, PirateTV, with Twerk
- 2003 Two-iPod set, live performance, iTunes Music Store launch, Apple Store, Palo Alto, CA
- 2003 Minimal Mondays, live performance, Hush Hush, San Francisco, CA, with Cybrid and Kraddy
- 2002 Northwood Microfestival, live performance, Eureka Theater, Eureka, CA, with Christopher Willits and K Allado-McDowell
- 2002 Saint Patrick's Day with Emanate Records, live performance, POP, San Francisco, CA, with if.then.else and Broker/Dealer
- 2002 No Type night, live performance, ABCO, Oakland, CA, with Ven Voisey, Elastic Lego, and Books on Tape
- 2002 Trash America, live performance, 7hz, San Francisco, CA, with Aneurysm, Cryptochampion, Thomas Dimuzio, Radiosonde, and Zipperspy
- 2002 Compression / Trash America, live performance, The Cellar, San Francisco, CA, with Disco D, Spair, Havoc, Mason, Aneurysm, and DJ Deuce
- 2001 Work performed: Dhomontèlements, a Francis Dhomont tribute, concert, Casa del Popolo, Montréal, QC
- 2001 6-String Object: Digital Guitar Microfestival, live performance, San Francisco, CA, curated by K Allado-McDowell, with Christopher Willits, Hot Licker, and Philip Sherburne
- 2001 Laszlo, live performance, San Francisco, CA, with Safety Scissors and Shakey the Seven Three
- 2001 Chillits, live performance, ambient music festival, Willits, CA, as 16stringed with AndyW, Cat5, and Cloud Factory DJs
- 2001 OODE V, live performance, campout festival, Umpqua National Forest, OR, with Cloud Factory DJs
- 2000 Kimo's, live performance, San Francisco, CA, with Deerhoof, Putank, and Taped Beating
- 2000 C:H:E:W:, live performance, Portlite, Oakland, CA, with Svstriate, Ven Voisey, and Drizdial
- 1999 ErrorCycle release, live performance, The Compound, Oakland, CA, with Ven Voisey
- 1998 Fragments, electroacoustic work, live diffusion on the Creatophone multichannel system, UC Santa Barbara, CA, with Curtis Roads
- 1998 Animal Brink Fuel, live radio broadcast, Santa Barbara Noise Festival, KCSB, UC Santa Barbara, CA, with Greg Hagen
- 1998 Nym, live performance, Santa Barbara, CA, with Ven Voisey
- 1997 Dark Dreams, live radio broadcast, KCSB, UC Santa Barbara, CA, with Greg Hagen
Discography
- 2024 Halcyon Days, 2440, Xsec Developments, digital
- 2024 Genesis Sessions (Live), as MOS-Man, Xsec Developments, digital and video
- 2023 Battles & Realms, Xsec Developments, digital
- 2023 Hydras, as MOS-Man, Xsec Developments, thirteen generative audio-visual pieces and booklet
- 2022 Singularities & other posthumanist thought experiments, Xsec Developments, digital
- 2021 Datasette 1530, as MOS-Man, Xsec Developments, digital and limited cassette, hand-stamped covers
- 2002 Diffusion Chamber, Emanate Records (EMAN 010EP), 10" blue vinyl, silkscreened covers, hand-numbered edition of 500
- 2002 Automatos, No Type (NT_064), digital
- 1999 Transient Carbon Pathways, Throat (T0005), CD, original drypoint covers
Compilations & Remixes
- 2006 Reconstruction de plusieurs cycles, remix of Francis Dhomont, on Dhomontèlements, No Type (NT_082), digital
- 2004 Momentous Achievements, on The Freest of Radicals Remixed, No Type (NT_050), digital
- 2004 Kimchi Tastes of Summer, on Bibimbap: An Archipelago Compilation, The Foundry, CD
- 2003 One Dimensional Random Walk, on Orange Zero Six, Struktur Music Company, CD
- 2003 Remix, on Emaculate D'ception: Creepy Remixs, Volta Vinyl (VV001), 12", with UFO/Westside Chemical and Drunkin Unkelz
- 2002 7 BeV Joggler (DC Offset), on The Freest of Radicals, No Type (IMNT_0201), 2×CD
- 2002 Untitled tracks, on 60" Somewhere / 60" Somewhere Else, Throat (hz3 / hz4), 2× 3" CD
- 2000 Hydrashead, on ErrorCycle, Throat (T0000), CD
Press
- 2023 Featured in Elektron's e25 SidStation spotlight, 25th anniversary campaign
- 2021 Justin Spicer, Cerberus Vol.3(16), Datasette 1530
- 2006 Marc Weidenbaum, Disquiet, Dhomontèlements
- 2003 Igloo Magazine, Orange Zero Six
- 2002 Philip Sherburne, The Wire #215 and Needle Drops (neumu.net), 6-String Object: Digital Guitar Microfestival
- 2002 Diffusion Chamber reviewed in Vital Weekly #343, Debug, UrbanMag, and Aquarius Records (archived)
- 2002 Mark Teppo, Earpollution, The Freest of Radicals