[x] Sound Thinking at Surrey Art Gallery Oct 21, noon-5pm

[Peter Courtemanche]

Hi Folks,

There's a sound symposium happening at the SAG on Sunday, Oct 21st
With Douglas Kahn delivering the keynote speech.
(And I'll be doing a quick "magnetism" performance too!)

bests
peter

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Snap, Crackle, Hum: Electromagnetism, Sound and Audio Art
Sound Thinking Symposium
Surrey Art Gallery
October 21, 12-5pm

Quietly encircling our planet and indispensible to our various
electronic devices, electromagnetic waves are everywhere around us.
Unperceivable to the human ear, they carry a big bang – sound!
Electromagnetism, its power, potential and problems, intrigue artists
working with the medium of sound. This subject is the focus of Snap,
Crackle, Hum: Electromagnetism, Sound and Audio Art, Surrey Art
Gallery’s 4th Annual Sound Thinking symposium on Sunday, October 21,
12–5pm. This one-day event will bring together leading practitioners
and professionals in the field of sound art and the study of sound to
present art and research on sound and contemporary culture. Admission
is free – donations are gratefully received. Seating is limited.

Artists working in sound offer a critical and creative perspective on
the history of man-made electricity. They also explore and contribute
to the development of new technologies of communication, the study of
geophysical electromagnetism, and reconsider the nature and structure
of sound. Snap, Crackle, Hum: Electromagnetism, Sound and Audio Art
features presentations by scholars and artists. An artist will also
present a performance designed to address the complex relationships
between electromagnetism, technology, science, the paranormal, and
contemporary art. The aesthetics, poetics and history of
electromagnetic sound will be examined, as well as how electromagnetic
technologies are reshaping human subjectivity and the social world.

Keynote speaker: Douglas Kahn, author of the forthcoming book Arts of
the Spectrum: In the Nature of Electromagnetism, and Professor of
Media and Innovation at the National Institute for Experimental Arts
at the University of New South Wales, Australia
Presentations: Carrie Bodle, Alejandra Bronfman, Peter Courtemanche,
Gordan Djurdjevic, Jay Bundy Johnson, Elemental Harmonics (Celia King
and Joel Snowden)
Performance: Kristen Roos
Conveners: Ross Birdwise and Jordan Strom

Sound Thinking is part of the Surrey Art Gallery’s Open Sound program.
Open Sound 2012: On Air, Underground: Making The Inaudible Audible is
a series of sound art installations situated in the Surrey Art
Centre’s public spaces. The artists in this year’s Open Sound
exhibition are Kristen Roos, Alex Grünenfelder, and Debashis Sinha.
Open Sound 2012 is curated by Ross Birdwise.

Founded in 2008, the Surrey Art Gallery’s Sound Thinking symposium is
an annual one day event which brings together practitioners and
professionals in the field of sound art. The symposium features
leading sound artists, scholars and researchers in the field sound
studies, along with visual artists who use sound as key components of
their practice, and musicians who experiment with the limits of music
and sound. Past symposia have addressed subjects as diverse as
radiophonic space, voice in contemporary installation art, new
approaches to ethnographic sound, and acoustic ecology.


The Surrey Art Gallery would like to gratefully acknowledge the Canada
Council for the Arts and the BC Arts Council for their continued
support of our programs.
Surrey Art Gallery
604-501-5566 | www.surrey.ca/arts
13750 - 88 Avenue, 1 block east of King George Blvd, in Bear Creek Park


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