Speakers Series - Carsten Seiffarth
dal 18/4/2011 al 18/4/2011
Segnalato da
18/4/2011
Speakers Series - Carsten Seiffarth
CCS Bard Center for Curatorial Studies, New York
Sound art in berlin / curating sound art
Carsten Seiffarth studied orchestral music, musicology and sociology in Weimar and Berlin. Since 1991, he has overseen and produced projects in the area of contemporary music and sound art in Germany and abroad. He is an editor of sound and media art publications and artist monographs (Paul DeMarinis, Gordon Monahan, and others). From 2005 to 2007, he was a member of the artistic directorate of the Media-Art-Laboratory TESLA Berlin. In 1996, Seiffarth established Germany's only sound art gallery, singuhr - hoergalerie in Berlin, and has been the director there ever since. Sound art has established itself as a new art form, existing somewhere between the borders of visual art and music, for several decades. The boundaries between this art form - once described by Bernhard Leitner as 'sound-space-art' - and media art, electronic music and performance, environment, kinetic and installative site-specific art are fluid. At its core, however, is the creative interaction with sound as a material in a specific space.