Sound art is often presented as an installation — that is, as a site-specific event in which the resonances of the space are an inherent part of the work. Still, we can’t all make it to Santa Fe, Chicago and Albuquerque every time an artist such as Steve Peters presents something new. Though video records [...]
Recent Items from the World of Sound Art: (1) Open call for entries for the Zeppelin Sound Festival, sponsored by the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona. The premise for the festival: “There are many kinds of deafness. This year’s Zeppelin Sound Art Festival will focus on those that are barely noticeable, slowly and steadily [...]
The title to Douglas Gordon’s exhibit currently at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art — Pretty Much Every Film and Video Work from about 1992 until Now — could mistakenly give the impression that it’s a single compression, a montage, of elements of various moving-image works by various creators from the past five years.
In [...]
Heading across Manhattan via Times Square on Tuesday earlier this week, I took a shortcut through the brand new building that houses the New York Times, designed by Italian architect Renzo Piano. According to the building’s website (yes, the building has a website: newyorktimesbuilding.com), it had officially opened for business just the day before.
In one [...]
The artist Ray Lee uses the Theremin as a starting-off point for his sound-rich sculptural installations and performances. His “Choir” places 16 spinning devices in a single space. The setup looks like a compact windfarm, and the resulting sound is a rapturous, churning cloud of tones (MP3).
A more recent iteration of that practice, “Siren” nearly [...]
The Perry Rubenstein Gallery in Manhattan currently houses a sculpture by Diana Al-Hadid titled “Record of a Mortal Universe” (2007). The work is characteristic of Syrian-born, Ohio-based Al-Hadid: a freestanding set piece that serves as a fantastic vision of an impossible instrument. True to form, it is just shy of nightmarish.
The sculpture, pictured here, [...]
Not every work of video art is a work of sound art — not even every video work that takes music as its subject, such as a piece in medium-agnostic artist Bozidar Brazda’s current exhibit, titled Beat Meat Table Eat, at the gallery Bortolami in Manhattan.
What suggests this Brazda video, titled “Line Jerk-Off” (2007), is [...]
Outside the gallery White Box (whiteboxny.org) on 26th Street off 10th Avenue in Manhattan is a little installation that brings new meaning to the phrase “street art.” It’s called “Video Box” and from a distance it looks vaguely like an ATM machine.
In fact it’s a monitor with speakers and it’s currently playing “Tunnel Vision” (2006), [...]
P.S.1 MoMA is to museums what The Shining is to winter getaways. The Queens, New York, structure is a massive, three-story building of exhibit spaces, not counting a spooky basement area and a sizable rooftop. The grounds are encompassed by a concrete divide that brings to mind Berlin at the height of the Cold War. [...]
I visited the “Listening Post” installation one last time before it closed on November 1 at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. This was the eighth or thereabouts occasion I’d sat in a darkened room and watched the massive grid of tiny screens swirl a slurry of data pulled from the [...]