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Performing from the Edge of the Body (Paper Presentation)
Anglia Ruskin University
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Sound Art Workshops at the AGO
This winter, I will be teaching two workshops in Sound Art at the Art Gallery of Ontario’s Weston Family Learning Centre. These courses are part of the Adult program, and are based on Introduction to Sound, an undergraduate-level course that I developed for the Department of Media Study, University at Buffalo. Details are below:
The Sonic City, Part 1: An Introduction to Sound Art
Thursdays, February 9 – March 1, 7 – 10 pm (4 weeks)
The Sonic City, Part 2: Experimenting with Sound Art
Thursdays, March 29 – April 19, 7 – 10 pm (4 weeks)
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Collect Call
Presented as part of Art Toronto 2011
Toronto International Art Fair
Saturday, October 29, 6 pm
Metro Toronto Convention Centre
North Building, Exhibit Hall A & B
255 Front Street West, Toronto
Powered by the PechaKucha 20×20 format, speakers will explore attitudes in contemporary art and contemporary collecting practices. With the aim to ignite excitement about collecting in young professionals and new collectors, this one-time event will bring together a dynamic group of industry professional to engage in their love of contemporary art.
Speakers include: Simon Cole and Randy Gladman, Hugh Scott-Douglas, Michelle Jacques, Alex McLeod, Heather Nicol, Pierre-Francois Ouellette, Shari Orenstein, Isa Spalding, and Jessica Thompson. Moderated by Andrea Carson.
Also, check out the Swinging Suitcase at p|m Gallery, Booth #626
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Toronto Wearables Meetup
Wednesday, October 12, 7 pm
Social Body Lab at OCAD University
205 Richmond St W
6th Floor, Room 7602
Toronto, Ontario M5T 1W1
The Toronto Wearables Meetup is a gathering of people interested in wearable technology, fashion, wearable electronics, soft circuits, electronic textiles, emerging materials, and other creative and innovative approaches to things that live on the body. This Meetup is intended for artists, fashion designers, industrial designers, textile enthusiasts, engineers, researchers, students, and anyone interested in these emerging and intersecting fields.
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R.I.P. – Recycling Pervasive Media, Intervening in Planned Obsolescence
Project Documentation Video by Jonah Brucker-Cohen
Below is a compilation of (almost) everything that happened in our residency. I had the opportunity to collaborate with Harold Schellinx — watch for us playing a 16mm film projector and ‘Freestyle Unplugged’, an abandoned bicycle that we turned into a self-powered tape player. I also made a very loud set of sound shoes using telephone bells and abandoned flip flops.
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Artist Talk, Sound Travels Intensive
Presented by New Adventures in Sound Art
Thursday, August 18, 1 pm
Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie #252, Toronto
The Sound Travels Intensive is an opportunity for artists, composers and musicians from across Canada and around the world to create and present new work in Toronto, exchange ideas with others, and hone their skills in diverse aspects of sound and electroacoustic practice. Five intense days of workshop sessions, private instruction and creative activity culminate in a public concert presentation at Toronto’s Artscape Wychwood Barns. This year’s Intensive features masterclasses by renowned acousmatic composer Jonty Harrison, alongside core workshops in audio production (Darren Copeland), DIY electronics (Rob Cruickshank) and interactive audio & MaxMSP (David Ogborn) with guest lectures by Marla Hlady and Jessica Thompson.
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SID Exhibition
Presented in collaboration with
New Interfaces for Musical Expression(NIME) 2011
May 30 – June 1, 2011
Norsk Teknisk Museum
Kjelsåsveien 143 / 0491 Oslo
Curated by Trond Lossius and Frauke Behrendt
The International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) is an annual interdisciplinary conference gathering participants from all over the world to share their knowledge and late-breaking work on new musical interface design. The exhibition on Sonic Interaction Design is curated in collaboration with the EU COST IC0601 Action on Sonic Interaction Design (SID) and features works using sonic interaction within arts, music and design as well as examples of sonification for research and artistic purposes. The exhibition is supported by The Norwegian Arts Council and the The COST IC0601 Action on Sonic Interaction Design. Download the catalogue here.
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R.I.P. – Recycling Pervasive Media, Intervening in Planned Obsolescence
International workshop on art, technology, and recycling at the Banff Centre – July 8-15, 2011
Organized by Jonah Brucker-Cohen and Katherine Moriwaki
R.I.P. — Recycling Pervasive Media, Intervening in Planned Obsolescence, and Practicing Technological Sustainability will tackle the issues of recycling, art making, and sustainability practices. Artists, researchers, practitioners, academics, municipal workers, community leaders, and professionals are invited to come explore new ways of working with municipal waste management facilities to reclaim “good garbage”.
Over the course of this three-part, seven-day program, participants will discuss ideas, create new work, and present projects related to sustainable practice. They will collaboratively introduce each other to methods of recycling digital materials for creative exploration and produce art projects made from found or rescued waste. R.I.P. provides an exciting opportunity to learn and develop frameworks for communities and individuals working with issues of sustainability and waste reduction.
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Performing from the Edge of the Body
p|m Gallery, Toronto
Opening Reception: Saturday, April 23, 2 – 5 pm
Performance: Saturday, May 7, 2011
Broadview and Queen
meet at 682 Queen Street East, (Dark Horse Coffee) 1 pm
Performing from the Edge of the Body brings together two recent artworks, Swinging Suitcase and Drawing a Line (Toronto). While edges normally delineate differences in territory, form or function, they can also refer to the dialogical situations that arise through their convergence.
Swinging Suitcase is a portable sound piece that generates and broadcasts the sound of a flock of house sparrows in response to the act of swinging. Each piece consists of a hard-shelled suitcase containing accelerometers, microprocessors and flash memory cards containing short sparrow vocalizations.
Drawing a Line (Toronto) is a new version of performance from 2010 where the artist traced the pathway of a buried section of the Scajacquada Creek using a push broom and water from the creek itself. On May 7, Thompson will create a second version of this performance at Broadview and Queen, the neighbourhood where her father grew up. In the performance, the artist will create a series of interventions around the original location of Napier Street, a small street originally extending west from Munro Street between Thompson and Matilda.
Here is a link to an interview from the opening by Lori Starr of ArtSync TV: http://vimeo.com/22997660
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walking machine in Acoustic Territories by Brandon LaBelle
Acoustic Territories: Sound Culture and Everyday Life offers an expansive reading of auditory life. It provides a careful consideration of the performative dynamics inherent to sound culture and acts of listening, and discusses how auditory studies may illuminate understandings of contemporary society. Combining research on urbanism, popular culture and auditory issues, Acoustic Territories opens up multiple perspectives – it challenges debates surrounding noise pollution and charts an “acoustic politics of space” by unfolding auditory experience as located within larger cultural histories and related ideologies.
Brandon LaBelle traces auditory life through a topographic structure: beginning with underground territories, through to the home as a site, and then further, to streets and neighborhoods, and finally to the sky itself. This structure follows sound as it appears in specific auditory designs, as it is mobilized within various cultural projects, and queries how it comes to circulate through everyday life as a medium for social transformation. Acoustic Territories uncovers the embedded tensions and potentiality inherent to sound as it exists in the everyday spaces around us.