Sonic Planetarium is an audio model of the stuff in Earth’s orbit, in real time. Audio files representing satellites and space junk are played across a surround-sound speaker installation as the actual object passes far overhead. Visitors experience the dissonance of many individual satellite transmissions heard at once, as if they can listen past Earth's atmosphere and into outer space.
Heidi Neilson is an interdisciplinary artist interested in giving visual and sensible form to the connections between people on the ground and above-earth conditions and infrastructure. Her often collaborative and publishing-based work is included in over 60 museum and university collections, and her activities have received support from many organizations for exhibitions, production, publication, residencies, and travel, including: the Art Matters Foundation, the Bronx Museum of the Arts, the Center for Book Arts, the Klondike Institute of Art and Culture, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the New York Foundation for the Arts, Queens Council on the Arts, and Wave Farm. Born in Oregon, Heidi and lives and works in New York. www.heidineilson.com.
Kim Fisher is a web developer and mapping enthusiast. He pursues innovative ways of working and collaborating with spatial data over the internet and currently works for the Wildlife Conservation Society as a Spatial Analyst and Developer.
Thomas Martinez is a New York City based artist and interaction designer from Los Angeles, CA. His work in multichannel sound, improvised guitar, video and custom software form a body that embraces the rising singularity between computer algorithms and acoustic (or real) material. He has performed and exhibited work at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Shanghai Biennal 2012, Harvestworks, and Microscope Gallery. http://thomasjohnmartinez.com/
Heidi Neilson is an interdisciplinary artist interested in giving visual and sensible form to the connections between people on the ground and above-earth conditions and infrastructure. Her often collaborative and publishing-based work is included in over 60 museum and university collections, and her activities have received support from many organizations for exhibitions, production, publication, residencies, and travel, including: the Art Matters Foundation, the Bronx Museum of the Arts, the Center for Book Arts, the Klondike Institute of Art and Culture, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the New York Foundation for the Arts, Queens Council on the Arts, and Wave Farm. Born in Oregon, Heidi and lives and works in New York. www.heidineilson.com.
Kim Fisher is a web developer and mapping enthusiast. He pursues innovative ways of working and collaborating with spatial data over the internet and currently works for the Wildlife Conservation Society as a Spatial Analyst and Developer.
Thomas Martinez is a New York City based artist and interaction designer from Los Angeles, CA. His work in multichannel sound, improvised guitar, video and custom software form a body that embraces the rising singularity between computer algorithms and acoustic (or real) material. He has performed and exhibited work at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Shanghai Biennal 2012, Harvestworks, and Microscope Gallery. http://thomasjohnmartinez.com/
Ars Telematic The museum visitor is unaware of the pressure they place on the rarified museum environment. Bodies radiate heat, clothes shed dirt and dust, open doors spill in humidity. The dissonance generated by the imbalance of environmental standards is invisibly managed by the museum via sophisticated sensors and systems. This installation measures, amplifies, and visualizes this tension, the inharmonic ratios, stimulating awareness in both visitor and museum.
Neal Johnson composes and performs electroacoustic music using software, bent circuits, chance operations, and home-built sound interaction interfaces. Neal has created sound installations for DCLL SoundScene and the East Austin Studio Tour. He is a member of the Vision Gland art/media collective. https://soundcloud.com/vanwinkletunes
Alan Watts is a hardware and software engineer interested in blending low and high-tech into strange interactive contraptions. When he's not coding database backends or huffing solder fumes, he is most likely slogging up some mountain with his backpack and dog. http://www.clawfun.com/ http://www.datax.com/
Neal Johnson composes and performs electroacoustic music using software, bent circuits, chance operations, and home-built sound interaction interfaces. Neal has created sound installations for DCLL SoundScene and the East Austin Studio Tour. He is a member of the Vision Gland art/media collective. https://soundcloud.com/vanwinkletunes
Alan Watts is a hardware and software engineer interested in blending low and high-tech into strange interactive contraptions. When he's not coding database backends or huffing solder fumes, he is most likely slogging up some mountain with his backpack and dog. http://www.clawfun.com/ http://www.datax.com/
Elsewhere is an immersive visual and sound installation. This 360-degree piece contemplates the journey of many people around the world who flee from dissonance, noise, and discord in their homelands that take the form of wars, violence, social upheaval, hunger, famine, floods, and other horrors, in search of a better life.
Mona Kasra, MFA, Ph.D. is a cross-disciplinary scholar and a creative practitioner, who explores and experiments with existing and emerging media. She is currently Assistant Professor of Digital Media Design in the Department of Drama at the University of Virginia (UVa). www.monakasra.com @monaism
Michael Austin, Ph.D. is a local sound artist and composer, originally from Dumas, Texas. He and Mona Kasra met as doctoral students in the Arts and Technology program at the University of Texas at Dallas. He is Assistant Professor of Media, Journalism, and Film and Coordinator of the Interdisciplinary Studies Program in the Cathy Hughes School of Communications at Howard University in Washington, D.C. www.mlaustin.com @MichaelLAustin
Mona Kasra, MFA, Ph.D. is a cross-disciplinary scholar and a creative practitioner, who explores and experiments with existing and emerging media. She is currently Assistant Professor of Digital Media Design in the Department of Drama at the University of Virginia (UVa). www.monakasra.com @monaism
Michael Austin, Ph.D. is a local sound artist and composer, originally from Dumas, Texas. He and Mona Kasra met as doctoral students in the Arts and Technology program at the University of Texas at Dallas. He is Assistant Professor of Media, Journalism, and Film and Coordinator of the Interdisciplinary Studies Program in the Cathy Hughes School of Communications at Howard University in Washington, D.C. www.mlaustin.com @MichaelLAustin
