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

[judy jheung]

Oi Peter,
Nat and i will be there for sure!  can we Skype now?  or let me know when
is best tonite!  thanzzzzz,
judy

On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 3:00 PM, Peter Courtemanche <noiseart at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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