See this Sound
Copyright: Linz09/Kurt Groh
Audiovisual products and structures are omnipresent; they’re essential aspects of our world of everyday experience. Sounds and noise reverberate through museums as well, since it’s taken completely for granted today that artists work with the sound of the world. The SEE THIS SOUND project reacted to this phenomenon by presenting and discussing an illustrative array of contemporary artworks and scholarship focused on them. The areas of inquiry included pop culture, perception theory and media technology.
In chapters dedicated to specific themes, the exhibition showcased exemplary works of art created from the 1920s to the present day and assessed the visionary promises of the interplay of sound and image. A web archive, a comprehensive multimedia lexicon of audiovisual artforms containing a wealth of examples, brought in background information from historical scholarship on culture and media. Symposium participants discussed the relationship between the acoustic and the visual in art and media.
Attendance at this extraordinary presentation of art that works with sounds and images presented in a 2,500-m2 space in the Lentos topped 37,500.
WHAT // Exhibition / Web Archive / Symposium
WHEN // August 28, 2009-January 10, 2010
WHERE // Lentos Art Museum Linz
www.see-this-sound.at
PROJECT STAFF // Stella Rollig and Dieter Daniels (artistic & scholarly directors), Cosima Rainer (curator), Sandra Naumann (scholarly staff), Johanna Grützbauch (project coordinator)
SYMPOSIUM: Sound-Image Relations in Art, Media and Perception
The project SEE THIS SOUND explores the past and present of the link between image and sound in art, media and perception. The starting point is the fact that our world of experience today is marked by an omnipresence of audiovisual products and structures, in which the cultural production of image and sound is closely intertwined artistically, and in terms of media technology and market strategy. SEE THIS SOUND reacts to this by presenting and discussing different realizations of contemporary art and art studies. The current fields of reference range here from pop culture to the theory of perception and media technology.
The goal of the international symposium is an interdisciplinary exchange among the theoretical and aesthetic thematic fields of the project. At the intersection of different academic disciplines the conference touches, among others, on art and music studies, media and art theory, media archeology, and the history of media technology. Artistic presentations are integrated in the course of the conference to stimulate the dialogue between art and science.
WHAT // SYMPOSIUM: Sound-Image Relations in Art, Media and Perception
WHEN // 2-3 September 2009
WHERE // Lentos Art Museum Linz, Ernst-Koref-Promenade 1, 4020 Linz
Program
Wednesday, 2 September, 2009, 7:30 pm
Starting Performance
Branden W. Joseph in conversation with Tony Conrad
followed by a performance by Tony Conrad
Thursday, 3 September, 2009, 10 am - 7:30 pm
10:00 – 10:30 Introduction
Dieter Daniels, Leiter Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Media.Art.Research, Linz
Sandra Naumann, Academic Staff Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Media.Art.Research, Linz
10:30 am – 12:30 pm Panel 1
Media Art – Visual Art: Divergence or Dialogue?
Christian Höller, author, curator, editor and co-publisher springerin, Vienna
„Deaf Dumb Mute Blind. Zum künstlerischen Umgang mit (popkulturellen) Bild-Ton-Beziehungen“ (Deaf Dumb Mute Blind. On artistic ways of dealing with [pop cultural] Image -Sound Relations)
Chris Salter, Assistant Professor of Digital Media Concordia University, Montreal
“Saturation versus Silence: Audio-Visual Perception in the Visual and Media Arts”
David Rokeby, Artist, Toronto
“Life in the Feedback Loop”
2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Panel 2
Art, Science and Technology: Instruments or Artworks?
Birgit Schneider, Dilthey Scholarship of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, University of Potsdam, Institute of Arts and Media
"Von hörenden Augen und sehenden Ohren. Elemente einer Geschichte der Medienästhetik unterschiedlicher Verhältnisse von Ton und Bild" (Of hearing eyes and seeing ears. Elements of a history of the media aesthetics of different relations of sound and image)
Yvonne Spielmann, Chair of New Media, University of the West of Scotland, School of Creative Industries, Glasgow
“Early Video Tools - Some Reflections on Co-Creativity”
Golan Levin, Artist / Associate Professor of Electronic Art and Director of the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh
"On the creation, experience and research of audiovisual interactive art"
a conversation with
Katja Kwastek, Vice-Director Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Media.Art.Research., Linz,
5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Panel 3:
Art and Music: Intermediality – Intermodality – Interdisciplinarity?
Branden W. Joseph, Frank Gallipoli Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art, Columbia University, New York, Department of Art History and Archaeology
“Biomusic and the End of Representation”
Helga de la Motte-Haber, Technical University Berlin, Institute of Language and Communication, Department Musicology
“Augenmusik – Hörbilder. Laudatio für den Preisträger des Media.Art.Research Award” (Eye Music - Audio Images. Laudatio for the prize-winner of the Media.Art.Research Award)
Winner Media.Art.Research. Award 2009 for “Eye hEar: Music, Art, Film & the Culture of Synesthesia”:
Simon Shaw-Miller, Senior Lecturer and Head of School, School of History of Art, Film & Visual Media Birkbeck College, University of London
“Syncretism: Art and Music in the Modern Period”
7.00 pm Closing Performance
Mikomikona (Birgit Schneider & Andreas Eberlein, Berlin)
„Fouriertransformation I + II“ (Fourier Transformation I + II)
Sound-Vision performance with two overhead projectors
Overall Director of the Conference: Dieter Daniels and Sandra Naumann
An event in conjunction with SEE THIS SOUND
A cooperation between the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Media.Art.Research. and the Lentos Art Museum Linz with Linz 2009 European Capital of Culture
Organizer:
Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Media.Art.Research.
Kollegiumgasse 2, 4010 Linz
Location: Lentos Art Museum Linz
Ernst-Koref-Promenade 1, 4020 Linz
Category: Symposium
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