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Indepth Arts News:
"Inaugural Exhibtion: S.O.S. - Scenes of Sounds"
2000-10-29 until 2001-01-28
Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College
Saratoga Springs, NY,
USA United States of America
Skidmore's Tang Teaching Museum and Art
Gallery introduces the museum's opening
exhibition, S.O.S.: Scenes of Sounds
scheduled for presentation from October 2000
to January 2001.
An exploration of sound through art, artifacts
and contemporary culture,S.O.S. will give
visitors a vivid sense of the kind of exhibitions
we envision for the Tang - exhibitions that bring together
seemingly disparate disciplines and extend the notion of the
visual arts through innovative experiences.
Inventions such as the telephone, tape recorder, loudspeaker,
radio, Walkman, compact disk, internet radio, and
computer-synthesized speech have produced dramatic shifts in
human communication. The resulting reconfigurations of acoustic
space--of what we hear and how we hear it-have held increasing
fascination for contemporary artists. So while for most critics the
notion of sound (implied or actually heard) in the context of a
visual artwork remains problematic, and while to the uninitiated
sound is a particularly esoteric component of avant-garde
practice, there is in fact a rich vein of art in which sound is either
subject matter or primary element. It's with this theme in mind
that we have chosen to open the Tang Museum with S.O.S:
Scenes of Sounds. The exhibition will include a wide range of
media: installations, sculpture, paintings, electronically-driven
multimedia and interactive work, and photography. It will include
works by well-known artists but special consideration will be given
to emerging artists with limited exhibition records.
Supplementing the visual works in S.O.S. will be a library of
audio art by such artists as Richard Artschwager, Bill Fontana,
Alison Knowles, Sol LeWitt, Claus Oldenberg, Yoko Ono, Adrian
Piper, and Wolf Vostell. This historical overview, organized by
artist and media curator Stephen Vitiello, will also be broadcast
daily on WSPN, Skidmore's student-run radio station, throughout
the exhibition.
Consistent with the Tang's mission as an interdisciplinary
teaching museum, S.O.S. will also feature exhibits that
illuminate the science of sound. Adjunct programs will include a
silent film series, a concert by a deaf choir and a wide range of
special performances by artists. A listening station will play the
25 sounds for which the United States Patent Office has issued
patents (for example, the roar of the MGM lion and the three
chimes of the NBC television network).
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