Cornell University Workshop on Sound
Cultures
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 Timothy Murray, the
workshop will bring together 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 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.
The Workshop opens
on Thursday evening with the first Goldsen Virtual Seminar of New
Media Art, an on-line seminar between speakers at the Cornell Workshop
and sound artists in Sydney Australia brought together by Norie
Neumark of the University of Technology, Sydney. The Sydney
artists will present and discuss their work via videostreaming with
participants in Ithaca. 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 a premier
collection of artwork on CD-Rom, DVD, and the internet.
For further
information or suggestions about cohosting future Virtual Seminars,
contact Timothy Murray, Curator, The Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media
Art, [log in to unmask], 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 Ian Andrews, Jim Denley, Julian
Knowles, 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
Cornell 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
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Timothy Murray
Professor of Comparative Literature and English
Director of Graduate Studies in Film and Video
Curator, The Rose
Goldsen Archive of New Media Art, Cornell Library
Co-Curator, CTHEORY
Multimedia: http://ctheorymultimedia.cornell.edu
285 Goldwin Smith
Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, New York
14853
