ARC Seminar with Sound Artist Matt Parker at the LAB, 13 Jan 2017
ARC Research Seminar with audiovisual composer and sound artist Matt Parker
Friday 13 January, 2017, 11am-1pm
Hosted by the MA in Art and Research Collaboration (ARC)
Venue: the LAB, Foley St, Dublin 1. (Workroom 4, Fourth Floor).
Admission is free but places are limited. Please book your place here
Techno-cultural sound scholar Frances Dyson has argued that, “despite the fact that most of the world’s sense-making occurs through various technological devices and sounds within physical spaces, the relationship between the output device and the room in which it is heard in the making of sense is rarely questioned.” In other words, the actual ‘sound’ of digital media is ignored, as are the conditions of hearing it.
What are the sounds of digital media and how might we listen to them? By listening to their infrastructures, what might we learn about our relationship with media technologies?
Matt Parker is an audiovisual artist who has travelled inside the belly of the Internet to try and understand how the Internet works only to emerge more confused and with more questions than before. Join Matt in delving deep into the network, breaking down the Internet; its politics, its ecologies and its environments through a series of prepared sonospheric investigations that give special attention towards the rising tensions in Ireland between data centre developments including the high profile Apple Data Centre project in Athenry, County Galway.
Biography
Matt Parker (b. 1984) is an audiovisual composer and sound artist working with and producing archives that amplify hidden connections between every-day technology and the environment. His work is influenced by the sonosphere, unsound, ecology, the economy of noise, infrastructure studies and the Internet. He has a Masters in Music Technology from Birmingham Conservatoire, is the winner of the Deutsche Bank Creative Prize in Music 2014, winner of New Art West Midlands 2016, was shortlisted for the Aesthetica International Art Prize 2015 and was artist in residence at Bletchley Park in 2015. He is the co-director of media infrastructural investigative collective The People’s Cloud.
Links
@earthkeptwarm
Reference
Dyson, F., 2014. The tone of our times: sound, sense, economy, and ecology, Leonardo book series. MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass. ; London.