Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 17, No. 226.
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Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2003 06:04:31 +0100
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Subject: Sound Cultures 11-13 September
PRESS RELEASE
Contact: Timothy Murray, <mailto:tcm1@cornell.edu>tcm1@cornell.edu, The
Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art, 607-255-2530
SOUND CULTURES: An International Workshop of Art and Theory
September 11-13, 2003
Cornell University
Sound Cultures: An International Workshop of Art and Theory will be held at
Cornell University, September 11-13, 2003 as a joint inaugural project of
The Comparative Literature Theory Project and The Rose Goldsen Archive of
New Media Art, Cornell Library. Organized by the Archive's Curator,
Professor Timothy Murray of Comparative Literature and English, the
workshop will introduce its Cornell audience to influential international
artists and theorists who dwell on the cultural impact of sound in an
electronic and digital age. In addition to demonstrations of artistic
projects in electronic music and digitally generated sound, participants
will consider sound's importance in the era of visual studies, the cultural
and ethnic specificity of sound fields and rhythms, the gender import of
voice and spoken narrative, and the history and politics of electronic
experimentations in sound.
The Workshop opens on Thursday evening with the first Goldsen Archive
Virtual Seminar, an on-line seminar between speakers at the Cornell
Workshop and sound artists in Sydney Australia brought together by Norie
Neumark, a former Fellow of The Society for the Humanities who is Professor
of New Media at the University of Technology, Sydney. In a session closed
to the public due to technical limitations, the Sydney artists will present
and discuss their work via videostreaming with participants in
Ithaca. This seminar is supported by an Innovation in Teaching with New
Technology Grant awarded to Buzz Spector of the Art Department, Murray, and
Thomas Hickerson of Cornell Library. This seminar will be videotaped and
archived for access by Cornell users of the Goldsen Archive of New Media
Art, recently established in the Kroch Library to become North America's
premier collection of artwork on CD-Rom, DVD, and the internet.
The Workshop opens on Friday, 1:30pm, at the A. D. White House with public
presentations by Cornell Professors Timothy Murray and Timothy Campbell to
be followed by a lecture presentation by Ritsu Katsumata of her work on
electronic violin. Moving to Goldwin Smith D at 4:30pm, the workshop
features a lecture on "The Fine Art of DJ/VJ-ing" by Art Jones, a pioneer
in African-American new media and DJ culture who will be joined later that
evening by Christine Hart for a free VJ/DJ performance on Friday night,
9pm, in 157 E. Sibley. The workshop reconvenes at 9:30am, Saturday, in
Goldwin Smith D for presentations on digital sound installation by Daniel
Warner of Hampshire College, on contemporary electronic music and sound in
Japan by Andrew Deutsch of Alfred University, and on feminist installation
and sound performance by artist Sarah Drury of Temple
University. Afternoon sessions, from 2pm on, highlight the innovative work
in electronic music and digital sound at the Paris studios of IRCAM to be
presented by Gerard Assayag, the Director of its Music Representation
Group. He will be followed by the innovative installation artist from the
University of Buffalo, Millie Chen. The Workshop concludes with a dialogue
with Ithaca College Professor Patricia Zimmermann and members of the newly
formed Comparative Literature Theory Project. Participants are also
invited to attend the 8:00pm performance in Barnes Hall of Mother Mallard's
Portable Masterpiece Co., which will feature the premier of a composition
by David Borden.
The workshop is hosted by The Comparative Literature Theory Project and The
Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art, Cornell Library as a means of
highlighting the conceptual interplay between comparative theory and
digital arts which are important to these novel Cornell projects. Events
are free and open to the public thanks to the generous support of the
Workshop's interdisciplinary sponsors: The Rose Goldsen Lecture Series, The
Society for the Humanities, Cornell Library, French Studies; and its
cosponsors: Africana Studies, Department of Art, Department of Comparative
Literature, Department of Music, Asian American Studies, Visual Studies
For further information, contact Timothy Murray, Curator, The Rose Goldsen
Archive of New Media Art, <mailto:tcm1@cornell.edu>tcm1@cornell.edu, 255-3530.
PROGRAM: PLEASE CIRCULATE
SOUND CULTURES: An International Workshop of Art and Theory
September 11-13, 2003
Cornell University
Hosted by The Comparative Literature Theory Project and The Rose Goldsen
Archive of New Media Art, Cornell Library,
Thursday, September 11, 7-9 pm (Invitational Seminar, Kroch Library)
Inaugural Rose Goldsen Virtual Seminar with Sound Artists in Sydney, Australia
Directed by Norie Neumark, University of Technology, Sydney, with
Australian sound artists and theorists Jim Denley, Gail Priest, Robyn
Ravlich, Ian Andrews, and Shannon O'Neill.
Events on Friday, September 12 and Saturday, 13, Free and Open to the Public
Friday, September 12, 1:30
Brett de Bary
Director, The Society for the Humanities
H. Thomas Hickerson
Associate University Librarian for Information Technology and Special
Collections, Cornell Library
Welcoming Remarks
1:45
Timothy Murray
"Presenting Net Noise, CTHEORY Multimedia, Issue 4"
2:30 Moderator: Mitchell Greenberg, Department of Romance Studies
Timothy Campbell, Department of Romance Studies
"Wireless Bodies: The Birth of Early Radiotelegraphy."
3:15 Moderator: Grace An, Department of Romance Studies
Ritsu Katsumata, Digital Musician
"Dies Irae"
4:30 Moderator: Maria Fernandez, Department of History of Art
Art Jones, Media and Installation artist, ITEL Media
"The Fine Art of DJ/VJ-ing"
9:00 157 E. Sibley Hall
Live VJ/DJ Performance with Art Jones and Christine Hart
"World Domination"
Saturday, September 13, Goldwin Smith D
9:30 Moderator: Byron Suber, Department of Theatre, Film, and Dance
Daniel Warner, School of Humanities, Arts, and Cultural Studies, Hampshire
College
"On the Conduct of Water"
10:30 Moderator: Xiaowen Chen, Department of Art
Andrew Deutsch, Division of Expanded Media, Alfred University
"Pre-musical and Proto-language Structures in Japanese Art 1975 -2003"
11:30 Moderator: Renate Ferro, Department of Art
Sarah Drury, Department of Film & Media Arts, Temple University
"Voice Interaction and Unspoken Narrative: Voicebox, Vocalalia and eVokability"
2:00 Moderator: Carol Krumhansl, Department of Psychology
Gerard Assayag, Music Representation Group, Ircam-CNRS, Paris, France.
"Musical Poiesis: a Sign/Signal duality"
3:00 Moderator: Buzz Spector, Department of Art
Millie Chen, Department of Art, University at Buffalo, SUNY
"Meat Speech"
4:30 Concluding Dialogue with the Comparative Literature Theory Project
Moderator: Brett de Bary, The Society for the Humanities, Asian Studies,
Comparative Literature
Patricia Zimmermann, Department of Cinema and Photography and Division of
Interdisciplinary Studies, Ithaca College
Mickey Casad, Department of Comparative Literature
Tsitsi Jaji, Department of Comparative Literature
Barry Maxwell, Departments of Comparative Literature and American Studies
8:00 Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Co., Barnes Hall
Sponsors: Rose Goldsen Lecture Series, The Society for the Humanities,
Cornell Library, French Studies; Cosponsors: Africana Studies, Department
of Art, Department of Comparative Literature, Department of Music, Asian
American Studies, Visual Studies
For further information, contact Timothy Murray, Curator, The Rose
Goldsen Archive of New Media Art, tcm1@cornell.edu
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