Indepth Arts News:
"pHonic Curated by r a d i o q u a l i a opens Today"
2001-07-18 until 2001-08-11
Physica Room
Christchurch, ,
NZ New Zealand (Aotearoa)
Curated by r a d i o q u a l i a for the Physics Room as a part of
the Christchurch Arts Festival 2001, pHonic concentrates on
how sound has been mutated and transformed by the
manifold uses of software. Sound has been one of the
primary areas of innovation and experimentation within art
and technology culture, with practitioners quickly embracing
new forms of production and exhibition. Advances in scientific
areas such as algorithmic and chaos driven approaches to
sound composition have profoundly shifted the field of
experimental sound art. Sampling and digital technology
detonated the remix bomb, causing a fusion of styles,
methods and origins. Audio in digital media contexts has
become a field of unlimited transmutations and unheard
potentials.
Recent developments in the delivery of audio across the
Internet have also lead to the mass distribution of music
online. Though this has interrupted the stranglehold corporate
culture has on the distribution of sound, it has also raised
interesting questions about artistic ownership and copyright.
pHonic takes a critical approach to this charged
socio-auditory atmosphere, presenting artistic tools,
interfaces, instruments and audio environments which evolve,
devolve or manipulate the authorship of sound work.
Focusing on how sonic technology acts as an interface
between musician and listener, pHonic investigates how this
traditional relationship is deconstructed by artists who
reposition the listener as musician.
pHonic incorporates artists based in London, Mexico City, and
Riga, Latvia, working variously across the mediums of
programming, design, music, visual and audio arts. The
interactive environments they have created in pHonic are
opened up for audience response and play, allowing
participants to create and move through their own visual and
audio microworlds.
r a d i o q u a l i a is an online art group founded by New
Zealanders Adam Hyde and Honor Harger in Australia in
1998, and now based in Europe. Using various media, rQ
experiments with the concept of broadcasting, using the
internet, radio and television as primary tools, and also
working across gallery, performance and publishing contexts.
They have exhibited and performed extensively, at events
including Sonar 2001 in Barcelona, VideoPositive2000 in
Liverpool, Ars Electronica 99 in Linz, the VIPER Festival
in Zurich and Next 5 Minutes in Amsterdam. Individually
Adam and Honor have extensive experience in working with
media and cultural practice, Adam in the fields of television,
radio, web and software development, and in his current
position with XS4ALL in Amsterdam, as Director of Web
Development and Streaming Media. Honor Harger has
worked on a range of publishing, cultural and tactical media
projects, and is presently engaged with the Tate Modern in
London, where she is the Curator of Webcasting
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