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Author Archives: Jenn Karson
Explore the Possibilities of Exhibiting and Reading Radio and Sound art
This is really interesting and much needed exploration of sound art and sound art exhibition. The exhibition description says it explores “all” the possible ways of exhibiting and reading sound art – quite the overstatement! I think there will always … Continue reading
Name that Ringtone!
Our “Name that Ringtone” contest is on its way. We did a test over at our facebook page and the response was exciting – Lots of creative people joined in and gave a handful of ringtones some really creative names. … Continue reading
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Tagged cell phone art, name that ringtone, new media arts, ringtone, ringtones, sound art, sound arts, Studio Ju Ju
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Chance in Art – A Fresh Context Thanks to the Series “Documents of Contemporary Art” by The MIT Press
My work in sound arts is interested in the ephemeral and transitional, the rapidly changing and complex layers of daily life and the mashing together of natures and cultures. Chance, of the series Documents in Contemporary Art provides me with a fresh context to consider my work in sound arts and sound installation. I’m ready to go out and buy the series. Continue reading
Sound Arts for Hunting Season
This sound piece is inspired by Saturday, October 29, 2011. On this morning there were two distinct sound events, the early morning gunfire of hunters in the woods and sound of the leaves rapidly falling from this tree. The sound … Continue reading
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Tagged autumn in art, guns in art, hunting in art, sound art, sound arts, trees in art
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“Sink” by William Anastasi, a Quiet Premonition in 1963
I recently was introduced to the work of William Anastasi. There are a few essays about him in the book CHANCE that is of the Documents of Contemporary Art series (2010). This book is a fascinating read for anyone interested … Continue reading
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Sound Art Event Commemorates 9/11
This may be one of the more elegant 9/11 commemorative events for this year’s 10th anniversary. It will be broadcast online all day on 9/11/2011. We’ll update this post as more information comes out. Bell ringers at the Exeter Cathedral … Continue reading
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Sound Art in 2011
“Sounding the Depths” is an informative survey of sound art in 2011 and the 50 years that led up to it. It’s important to note that Futurists were experimenting with sound art in the early 1900s, so sound art has … Continue reading
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Tagged futurist art, futurist artists, futurist movement, futurists, sound art, sound artists, sound arts, wave organ
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A significant step toward the development of full spatio-temporal cloaking
Scientists from Cornell present an experimental demonstration of temporal cloaking by applying concepts from the time-space duality between diffraction and dispersive broadening. Click here for the research paper Click here for an article about the invisibility cloak in PopSci
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Sound and Your Body
The exhibit “Biorhythm: Music and the Body” Explores some interesting questions like: What makes a pop song so catchy? How does sound give us awareness of space and dimension? Why do minor chords sound so sad? http://bit.ly/oE9AsB
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Tagged exhibition, sound and dimension, sound and space, sound art
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The History of the Universe through Listening
Ever heard the sound of a radio storm between Jupiter and its moon Io? Follow this link to listen for yourself. In this 12 minute TED Talk by the Artist-technologist Honor Harger she describes how listening to the noises … Continue reading
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Tagged Honor hager, radio astronomy, sound art, TED
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