Supersonix: Celebrate the art & science of sound at
Conference: Wednesday 20 June-Saturday 23 June 2012
Exhibition Road
www.exhibitionroad.com/supersonix
Confirmed artists and speakers:
Sarah Angliss / Sam Auinger / Barry Blesser and Linda-Ruth
Salter / Mira Calix/ Jacob Kirkegaard / Aleksander Kolkowski / Bernhard Leitner
/ Kaffe Matthews / David McAlpine / Louis Niebur Andreas Oldörp/ Aura Satz /
Sophie Scott / Carsten Seiffarth / Jason Singh / Jonathan Sterne / Salomé
Voegelin and CRiSAP panel / Sha Xin Wei / Jana Winderen/
The Wire Panel including David Toop
Venues: Science Museum; Christie’s South Kensington;
Goethe-Institut London; Imperial College London; Institut francais;
Natural History Museum; Royal College of Art; Royal College of Music; Royal Geographical
Society; V&A Museum
Supersonix is an interdisciplinary exploration of sound
through critical theory, experiment and performance.
A partnership between the Exhibition Road Cultural Group and
the Society for Literature, Science and the
Arts Europe (SLSA EU), the three-day conference is aimed at anyone from the
arts, curatorial studies, the sciences, humanities and social sciences who is
interested in an interdisciplinary approach to the study of sound and
sonification.
The conference is underpinned by a range of artists’
performances and panels on collaborations between the arts, sciences,
technology and design. With an international line-up of keynote speakers
and delegates from
Conference Programme – key strands include: Sound, Noise &
History; Listening; Sound & Voice; Sound & Body; Sound & Space
Film Programme –
Artist Aura Satz curates a selection of films which share an attention and
sensitivity to the materiality of sound and sound-making technologies, devices
and instruments. Alongside her own films she will screen films by Manon de
Boer, Jayne Parker and Luke Fowler. Films will be shown throughout the
conference at a specially created pop-up cinema at auction house
Christie’s
Evening performances –
Live sound art performances by three leading sound artists:
Free evening lecture
The opening lecture will be held by Sha Xin Wei, Research
Director of Topology media lab,
We can offer a range of conferences tickets with concessions for students and
freelance artists. Please go to www.exhibitionroad.com/supersonix/booking
for more information.
Tim
Dr Tim Boon,
Head of Research and Public History,
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