Pulse Field Website: cara.gsu.edu/pulsefield GSU Gallery I: A multi-dimensional archive documents the advent and evolution of sound art and its rapport with the visual. Programmed presentations examine sound art history and contemporary experiments. Select video/sound art works are screened via flat screen monitor and wall projections while an Internet hookup allows infinite explorations of the artists and works presented. The archive references the work of artists Kurt Schwitters, Jean Dubuffet, John Cage and Yoko Ono, Morphogenesis, Allison Knowles, Joe Jones, Tim Hawkinson, Z'ev, Harry Partch, Allan Lamb and Steve Stapleton, among others. Historical connections are made between the chance processes and applied visual randomness beginning with French Musique Concrète, the Futurists and Dada, continuing in the work of artists such as Cage and Ono, and currently playing out in contemporary creations like those presented in Gallery II. GSU Gallery II: Inside this surround soundscape, visitors encounter a sequence of pre-recorded sound art projects. Invited international artists: Francis Dhomont (Canada), Paul Lansky (U.S.), Roger Reynolds (U.S.), Daniel Teruggi (France), Jean-Claude Risset (France), Nicolas Vérin (France), Joji Yuasa (Japan), Mamoru Fujieda (Japan), Michele Biasutti (Italy), Riccardo Santoboni (Italy), Kaija Saariaho (Finland), Natasha Barrett (Norway) and Elzbieta Sikora (Poland, France) and Michael Alcorn (Northern Ireland). Ouïe Dire: Founded in 1993, Ouïe Dire is an association of musicians and sound artists who explore artistic developments through new techniques of audio recording and production, conceiving projects and original phonographic objects. Their process takes into consideration a relationship with the setting, the landscape, people. The act of recording, composing in the studio and the way of presenting the object itself are integral and essential to their projects. For this project, they will produce a sound art postcard of Atlanta. L'Objet Sonore: At Eyedrum Gallery, an exhibition of specially designed sound objects that react to the environment, the audience and the occasional performer, are the dynamic backdrop for two evenings of interactive sound and structure. Events will include exhibiting artists' talks and performances. GSU graduate Adam Overton of the Electric Arts Alliance of Atlanta (EAAA) curates this project. Georgia State University curatorial collaborators are Cathy Byrd, School of Art & Design Gallery curator/director, Craig Dongoski, artist/art professor and Robert Thompson, composer/music professor and. Jude LeBlanc, with Tahar Messadi, professors of architecture at Georgia Technological Institute, are site design consultants. |