Sonic Self! In New York

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SONIC SELF
An exhibition exploringsound related art

July 17 until August 30,2008

Opening Reception:Thursday, July 17 th , 2008, 7-11 pm

www.thesonicself.org

CAM - 556 West 22nd Street , New York, NY 10011,212.255.0719

www.chelseaartmuseum.org

From July 17th untilAugust 30th, 2008, the Sonic Self isbringing together local and international sound artists, musicians, video/multimedia and performanceartists to facilitate the exchange and development of pioneering ideas, innovative skills andpractices in contemporary Sound Art discipline. The Sonic Self - a sound-art relatedexhibition aims at developing an open and direct audio-visual dialog betweenvideo and sound artists in order to expose significant similarities anddifferences in the growing confluence ofaudio and visual experiences in the emerging Sonic Culture, where;communication, sound and visual experience merge as significant pattern in thecultural sensibility towards sound and the surroundingpersistent, random audio architecture a kind of sonic explosion that can beseen as a breakthrough of the Sonic Itself.

The Sonic world (an audible space) - is an emerging intersection between the audio and visual experiences, based onincreasing internet and digital technology inventions - gave the sound a most significant stage in the surrounding environment in themultimedia environment ofcontemporary culture than ever before. The exploration of the sound emergent spaces, time ofaudio resonance, sound design, audio-visual simulation, virtual dimension,linguistic utterances, musicalperformance or random noise, becomes an individual expression which could exceed itsform in relation to our internal self and sonic influences.

As Damian Catera says:Sound is no longer trapped within the mechanism of the ear; its multidisciplinary aspects are reflected in a blurringof sensory experiences. Sound is tactile, visual, spatial and spiritual. Theseelements have long been ingrainedin the experience of sound since the dawn of humanity.

Jimmy Hendrix's famous quotationWhen the power of love overcomes the love of power, theworld will know peace can certainly also be applied to the SonicSelfas an underlying and unifying inspirationwhich brought together many of the participating sound artists from around the worldwith the main goal that their collaborative projects bridge disparate audio-visualpractices and expose their sharedlanguages -- human sonic resonance.

The Sonic Self - An exhibitionexploring sound related art, curated by Jolanta Gora-Wita,Koshek Swaminathan, Anna Frants, Koan Jeff Baysa, Yaro, with guestcurator Maciej Zygmunt Czarkowski, will presentworks by selected pioneering artists, who use sound as their medium, encompassinga spoken word, field recordings, computer generated sound, video projection,interactive art, sound performance,avant-garde theater, live music and DJ sampling. The Sonic Self artists will collectivelyexamine forms in which we communicate with each other and with the world around usby way of articulate sounds,music, dialog, visuals and motion - transforming the perception andtransporting the mind through an internal sound experience.

The curators of the Sonic Selfwill next bring this unique international soundproject to Chennai, India, in winter of 2009, and to St. Petersburg,Russia in spring of 2009. The Sonic Self project, initiatedin the spring of 2003 by Jolanta Gora-Wita, will be presented for the secondtime this summer at the Chelsea Art Museum, NYC.

The Sonic Self active associatesinclude Chelsea Art Museum, NYC;

Agency of Culture andCinematography, NYC;

National Centerof Contemporary Art, StPetersburg Brunch, Russia,

Cyland Medialab, St.Petersburg, Russia;

Fine Arts Academy of Krakow,

Cricoteka - Centre for theDocumentation of the Art of Tadeusz Kantor, Krakow, Poland;

Harvestworks, TheConstellation Group Ltd,

Stellar Public Relations,Net for Art and Bincode New Media, NYC.

A/V system and sound made possible byGreg Smith, Legacy Studios and Nigel Dickie Production. Video presentation support byThe Matrix Art Collective andDennyDaniel Video Production, NY.

Internet Technology by: Mohammad Mahbubur Rahman(a.k.a Maqsood) and Sergey Teterin.

Additional support by: Balinoff Inc. and KoolEvents.

Participating artists include:

Sound Art Installation by:

David Marcus Abir, MikhailAcrest, Paul Amlehn/ Robert Fripp, Damian Catera, DJ Olive,Phil Dadson, Fiorentina De Biasi, CylandMedialab (Concept Anna Frants, programming Michael Chernov, brush-stroke artist Marina Koldobskaya), Ivan Govorkov/ Elena Gubanova, Timur Kuyanov, MelissaLockwood, Lisa Moren, Shelby Voice and Virgil Wong.

Video and Multimedia by:

Romeo Alaeff, Christian Austin,Natalie Bewernitz/ Marek Goldowski, Dmitri Bulnigin, DennyDaniel, Jarret Egan, Hasan Elahi, Anna Frants, Frankie Hutton, AndreaJuan, Kit Krash, Anna Kolosova, Katka Konecna,Amy Cohen Banker/Amy Kool with Nigel Dickie, Olga M, Scotto Mycklebust, AlexandraLerman, Natalia Lyakh, Eugene Rodriguez, Miroslaw Rogala, Dmitri Shubin, Maria Sharafutdinova, KirillShuvalov, Srinivasan, Pawel Wojtasik Jarek Zajac, and special guests.

Sonic Self Series - PerformingArts at CAM:

SUMMER 2008 - Thursday, July 17, 2008, 7-8pm

Ramya RamnarayansNrithyanjali Dance Group

Drumpaiting - Cyland laboratory - Thursday, July 17, 2008, 8-11 pm

Damian Catera

Hahn Rowe

Text of Light - Friday, July 18, 2008, 6-9 pm

Zuvuya Collective

BICAMERAL

Zemi17

GAMELOTRON

Christian Austin, Olga M, Peter Shapiro,Talena Sanders, Martha Williams, Jen Kosky, Chris Jordan andAmoeba Technology - Dok Gregory and Peter Principle.

- Saturday, July 19, 2008, 7-10 pm

David Linton

Greg Smith with 10dead2Wounded

Nigel Dickie & Veinmelter

- Thursday, August, 14, 2008, 6-9 pm

Avant-Garde Theater & Sound: TadeuszKantor - Theatrical dynamism, scale, texture and sonic properties inearly avant-garde theater. Video, documentary and discussion panelsponsored by Cricoteka - Centre for theDocumentation of the Art of Tadeusz Kantor, Krakow, Poland.

- Thursday, August 28, 2008, 6-9 pm.Closing Reception

Harvestworks, One Song One Life, Rhaki,Kortek, Angel Mass Anger with Pandayaro, Kundalini Shock Attack

Sound Art Books -- CAM Bookstore

Sound Unbound

Sampling Digital

Music and Culture Edited by Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky thatSubliminal Kid

Special edition signed by the artistavailable during the Sonic Self exhibition.

For contact & Sonic Self events program please visit www.chelseaartmuseum.org or www.thesonicself.org

or e-mail:
contact@chelseaartmuseum.org