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27/8/2009

See this Sound

Lentos Art Museum, Linz

Curated by Cosima Rainer

SEE THIS SOUND explores the connections between image and sound in art, media and perception. Our world of experience today is marked by the omnipresence of audiovisual products and structures, in which the cultural production of images and sound is densely interwoven in terms of media technique, market strategy, and artistically. The project See this Sound responds to this by presenting and discussing different positions, approaches and realizations of contemporary art and art studies. The fields of reference here range from pop culture to the theory of cognition and media technology.

Exhibition at the Lentos Art Museum

The quiet halls of the museum are a thing of the past. Instead, music and sounds are heard everywhere, as visual artists today take for granted the integration of the world of sounds in their works. The former hegemony of the visual has meanwhile given way to a diverse interplay of image and sound. The relationship to music, sound and experimental composition has always been charged with various visionary promises. The first pioneers in this expanded field of artistic work already emerged during the 1920s. Against the culture-historical background of visual music in abstract films of the 1920s and intermedia developments since the last 1950s, the exhibition shows the changed sounding image of a contemporary art that has made the most diverse variations and questions of sound&vision its theme and range of instruments.

Artistic engagement with image and sound and audiovisual media is closely linked with a discussion of media art and visual art. A look beyond the field of “media art” is especially interesting in a place like Linz, where it almost seems like a “trademark”, which is positioned apart from the rest of art developments. For this reason, the exhibition See this Sound seeks to make the points of reference of the partly very different approaches visible and audible.

Media art and visual art have been separate fields for decades. The establishment of media art in the 1960s was linked with the utopia of raising political consciousness and achieving social change through the democratic use of new media. At the same time, a technology-affirmative avant-garde emerged with a claim to science. Visual art, on the other hand, partly positioned itself as poetically individualist, partly as an instance of social criticism spreading out its forms of expression in the pluralisms of style of postmodernism. Despite occasional overlaps, media art and visual art each developed different infrastructures of production and distribution. An integral reception rarely takes place; a shared, historically grounded canon only applies to small intersections. Since the use of audiovisual media has become omnipresent and taken for granted today, however, it is time to renegotiate the division of fields. There is room for both areas in the expanded art field and under the roof of museums. But what has happened to the former ideological oppositions? Have they been reduced to gradual differences between loud and quiet, between enthusiasm for technology and critical distance, between the narrative and the immersive?

The exhibition presents this charged field with the theme of the interlinking of image and sound. There is an overlapping of visual art and media art especially in this area. Media art, as we call it today, started from this point. In the meantime, sound is used in manifold ways in the expanded field of art. Sound and image have become equal instruments of art – although the interests and practices are highly diverse: there are spiritual and metaphysical approaches as well as ideas of a gesamtkunstwerk or a collective meta-language; there is entertainment and there are formal investigations, radical critique of representation and illusionist narrative forms all the way to counter-cultural initiatives.

In a series of thematically framed focal points, the exhibition See this Sound positions exemplary artistic works against a background of cultural history references. Specific media history issues and research perspectives are integrated in the exhibition through the collaboration with the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Media.Art.Research. The focal points of research will be academically developed in conjunction with a web archive and presented in the exhibition.
Web Archive of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Media.Art.Research.

See this Sound – Audiovisualogy
Starting 28 August 09

The interdisciplinary and trans-genre character of the project is especially conveyed within the framework of an online platform on the subject of sound-image relations (bilingual German-English).
This interdisciplinary field of knowledge has previously only been explored from the perspective of separate disciplines. For this reason, the audiovisual lexicon pursues the goal of establishing a trans-disciplinary knowledge base of image-sound relations with contributions from experts. Specialists from art history, musicology, film theory, media studies, theater studies, pop theory, cognition psychology and neurology contribute their respective perspectives to an “audiovisuology” as an area of intersection between these academic fields. Text contributions from research work in the Institute are conjoined here with essays from external authors.

On the basis of thematic focal points, a multitude of artist and theoretical standpoints are linked with one another and related to historical and scientific information. The entire spectrum of audiovisual arts and phenomena is presented with historical longitudinal sections and systematic cross-sections in 35 lexicon entries. Longer essays provide a more in-depth discussion of interdisciplinary themes. Examples of work are documented audiovisually and commented on and contextualized academically. Audiovisuality is thus at once the theme and the method of the online platform.

The lexicon entries and audiovisual work examples that are coordinated and linked with one another through key words and time sections thus result in an overall view opening up new conjunctions of meaning. This procedure also enables overlapping and interlinking the artistic and academic elements of the project and developing new directions in the multimedia communication and representation of science and art. An interface developed at the Institute in collaboration with the line of research “Knowledge Representation and Visualization” will link the online platform with the exhibition.
Symposium of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Media.Art.Research.

See this Sound – Sound-Image Relations in Art and Media
2 and 3 September 09

An interdisciplinary exchange among the theoretical and aesthetic thematic fields of the project is the aim of the Institute’s international symposium. At the points of intersection of various academic disciplines, the conference touches upon art studies and musicology, media theory and art theory, media archeology and the history of technology, among others. Artistic presentations will be integrated into the course of the conference to stimulate a dialogue between art and science.
Publications of the Lentos Art Museum Linz and the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Media.Art.Research.

A catalogue will be published in the course of the exhibition with numerous illustrations and topical essays. The academic texts from the online platform will also be published as a book. In the printed form they will be supplemented with contributions from the conference participants and an evaluation of the research results generated in the course of the project.

Team
Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Media.Art.Research.:
Project Director: Dieter Daniels
Academic Associate: Sandra Naumann
Lentos Art Museum Linz:
Project Director: Stella Rollig
Curator: Cosima Rainer
Curatorial Associate: Manuela Ammer
Project Coordinator: Veronika Floch

See this Sound is realized in close collaboration between Lentos Art Museum Linz and the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Media.Art.Research. as an exhibition, research, and multimedia project. It is financed with funds from the Capital of Culture Linz 2009.

Starting 28 August 2009

Lentos Art Museum
Ernst-Koref-Promenade 1, Linz

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