One day symposium organised by the Sonic
Arts Programme at Middlesex University, Saturday 1st
November 2003, 10:00 - 17:00
Cat Hill Campus, Chase Side, Barnet,
EN4 8HT, Oakwood Tube Station, Piccadilly Line
This symposium aims to engage artists
and theorists working within the sonic and visual arts,
and those moving in-between, to discuss the state of
the relationship between visual and sonic practices.
In particular this symposium calls to engage in a critical
re-thinking of this relationship in terms of conventions
of presentation and distribution, concurrent technological
developments, issues of teaching and, crucially, issues
of theorisation and aesthetics.
The invited speakers introduce and debate
their own art practices and research in reference to
the relationship between sonic and visual arts. The
practice and theorisation of these two 'modalities'
or 'materialities' are scrutinised to consider the sources
and consequences of their distinction. Issues of context
and disciplinarity are central to these discussions,
as are notions of space, time, conceptualisation and
valuation.
The programme includes presentations
of papers, performances and documentation of artists'
own practices. There is no one particular aim to these
proceedings. Rather, the intention is to bring together
and survey concurrent opinions and ideas rather than
problematise one particular issue. The assumption of
the organisers is that there is an ever greater proximity
between sonic and visual works, and that this proximity
generates questions regarding the status and identity
of either practice.
The symposium is divided into a morning
and an afternoon session. Both these sessions are followed
by a panel discussion which aims to encourage the audience
to participate with their own questions and opinions.
Invited Speakers
Hayley Newman is a London based artist
who works predominantly in the modality of performance
art. She is the author of Performancemania' published
in conjunction with the Matts Gallery London. She has
also worked extensively with sound, most recently, founding
the 200-Yard Scratch Gallery with musician Matt Wand.
In 2001 she completed a practice-based PhD at the University
of Leeds. She is a part-time lecturer in the Fine Art
New Media Department at the Chelsea College of Art and
Design.
Dr. Rob Stone is interested in relationships
between audition, visual art and urbanism in different
historical and poetic contexts. He teaches in the newly
formed Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths College,
and is currently working to complete a book ''Audition:
Architecture and Aurality''.
Prof. Peter Rea is based in London and
Bremen, Germany, and is a long time consultant in Lebanon.
Throughout his career he has explored the relationship
between sound and image, hearing and seeing, performance
and graphics. His main disciplines are graphic design,
typographic design and communication design. He also
holds a silver medal from the Royal College of Art London
for creating and directing multimedia theatre productions.
His early media works began with 1960s psychedelic happenings.
Creating 1970s audio visual productions and moving-image
courses have led to his present projects as professor
for new intermedia studies at the Hochschule für
Künste, university for the arts, Bremen, Germany
and as director of the annual international conference
'profile intermedia' and workshops, Bremen Germany.
[ www.profile-intermedia.de
]
Brandon LaBelle is an artist and writer
based in London and New York. Working in the field of
sound- performance- and installation-art since 1993,
LaBelle's work aims to draw attention to sound as a
social and spatial dynamic. Through performative usage
of objects, found-sound, and electronics, the work underscores
the ''contextual'' through an emphasis on and displacement
of architecture and the aural. He is currently completing
a PhD on ''sound art as spatial practice'' at the London
Consortium.
Cathy Lane is a composer, sound artist
and Programme Director for courses in Sound Arts and
Design at the London Institute. Much of her work is
collaborative and includes a recent project investigating
innovative approaches to cross art collaboration. She
has participated at Facets International Choreography
Laboratory presented by the Attakkalari Centre of Movement
Arts in Bangalore India and is currently working on
a fourth collaboration with Choreographer Rosemary Butcher,
'White' premiered in Munich in 2003. Also this year,
'the Memory Machine', an interactive sound installation,
in collaboration with composer Nye Parry, has been exhibited
at the British Museum in London.
Karl-Heinz Mauermann is a German based
artist who works in the field of conceptual art. He
describes classification systems for a chaotic world,
utilising not only the visual arts, but also crossing
the borderline towards literature and music. His work
ranges from drawing to collage, computer graphics, installations
to video. Since the mid 1980's he has participated in
a number of exhibitions both in Germany and internationally.
1987 he received the Max Ernst Stipend special award
for his video tape ''Aren't we drawing such lines whenever
we move?''
[ www.semantic-error.de
]
Frank Niehusmann is a German based artist
and composer. His compositions in electronic music are
situated in the contexts of live performances, mixed
media events, experimental videos, tv-films, radio broadcasts,
theatre- and CD-productions. Between 1997 and 2000 he
received several awards for his works in the field of
music-video-experiments and theatre. In 2002 his composition
''Untertagemusik Nr.1'' was honoured at the International
Competition of Electroacoustic Music and Sound Art in
Bourges (France). www.niehusmann.org
Salomé Voegelin is a Swiss artist
based in London. Her practice encompasses single screen
and installation video work, sound pieces, radio productions
as well as text based work. Most recently her sound
work has been played as part of Last Dance at the Annely
Juda Gallery in London. Currently her piece 'Moving
Stones' is shown in Perspective 2003 at the Ormeau Baths
Gallery in Belfast. Salomé is completing a practice-based
PhD in Visual Arts at Goldsmiths College. She works
as a part-time lecturer on the Sonic Arts Programme
at Middlesex University.
£12 / conc. £6
For information please call 044 (0)208 411 6689
[ http://www.sonic.mdx.ac.uk
]