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Artist talk: Bill Fontana
Presented by Pavilion, programmed by Lumen
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The Leeds Club, 3 Albion Place, Leeds, LS1 6JL
Thursday 22 May 2003
6.15pm - 8.15pm
[Free]
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BILL FONTANA is an American artist known internationally for his
experimental work using sound. Fontana uses urban and natural environments
as a living source of musical information to radically transform the
acoustic meaning of public space. The artist will talk about past and future
works including Speeds of Time, his current public art commission for the
BBC which uses London's Big Ben.
Fontana has received prestigious fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation,
the National Endowment for the Arts and the Japan U.S. Friendship
Commission. His work has been exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American
Art (New York), the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Museum Ludwig
(Cologne) and the Art History and Natural History Museums in Vienna. His
recent work includes a public art project in Paris called Sound Island
(1994) at the Arc de Triomphe, Acoustical Visions of Venice (1999)
commissioned for the 48th Venice Biennale and Falling Echoes (2002), an
acoustic mapping sculpture commissioned for Creative Time's Consuming Places
exhibition in New York. (http://www.resoundings.org)
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Pavilion
Pavilion is a key regional new media arts organisation that seeks to engage
artists and audiences within exploratory and innovative projects. Pavilion
has a history of major publicly sited artists' commissions, new
collaboration and a unique approach to arts & regeneration.
(http://www.pavilion.org.uk)
Lumen
Lumen exist to advocate a greater knowledge, understanding and appreciation
of communication technology and its impact upon artistic practice and
discourse. Lumen annually produce the Evolution media arts festival and
deliver regional and national support in the presentation of media artworks.
(http://www.lumen.net)
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Places are limited, to avoid disappointment please contact Helen Perkins at
Pavilion on 0113 2431749 or [log in to unmask] to book a place.
This event has been funded by Screen Yorkshire and supported by Lumen.
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