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Old Noise, New Sounds: Sonic Explorations In Gallery Spaces, Su Ballard Dec 2012

Old Noise, New Sounds: Sonic Explorations In Gallery Spaces, Su Ballard

Su Ballard

Leon Narbey's electronic sound and light installation Real Time opened . New Plymouth's Govett-Brewster Art Gallery in February 1970. It was a noisy exhibition. Fluorescent and neon lights constructed flickering visual spaces, swathes of black polythene disguised all internal architecture, and recording microphones and movement triggers transferred sounds from one space to another. It was simultaneously disorientating and exhilarating. Real Time was a major installation in a minor location. Outside the centres of an already. peripheral country, Real Time raised the possibility of networked electronic installation transgressing the mainstreams of both "gallery art and media art." It did this by …


D>Art05 Distributed Art And Mobile Journeys, Su Ballard Dec 2012

D>Art05 Distributed Art And Mobile Journeys, Su Ballard

Su Ballard

There is time for the work to be examined, experimented with, and opened up to a visiting public. This kind of exhibition model has for a long time been problematic for works that do not exist within a defined 3D space, or a comfortably measured duration. D>Art05 and Mobile Journeys address the temporal and spatial restrictions of the exhibition model by making the work available for download both during and post-exhibition. Visitors to the exhibition could bring their mobiles and download any of the fourteen works in Mobile Journeys, in effect, mobilising the work.


Information, Noise, Et Al., Susan Ballard Dec 2012

Information, Noise, Et Al., Susan Ballard

Su Ballard

Divided into three sections, Error brings together established critics and emerging voices to offer a significant contribution to the field of new media studies. In the first section," Hack," contributors explore the ways in which errors, glitches, and failure provide opportunities ...