Thursday, October 14, 2010
MIT SOUND ARTIST TRIBUTE - October 22, 2010
MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology
A Tribute to Pioneering Sound Artist Maryanne Amacher
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Sound Shapes and Ear Dances
Friday, October 22, 2010
Lower Level, Wiesner Building (E15) at MIT
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Schedule of Events
4–6pm — Lecture and Round Table Discussion
Welcome by Ute Meta Bauer, Associate Professor and Head of the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology
Anne Hilde Neset, “Women in Electronic Music”
Micah Silver and Robert The, “The Amacher Archive”
Kevin Drumm, Florian Hecker, Jessica Rylan Piper, roundtable discussion on Amacher's influence on current electronic music
6–7pm — Reception
8–10pm — Sonic Presentations
by Jessica Rylan Piper, Kevin Drumm, Florian Hecker
Location:
Bartos Theater [Lecture and Roundtable]
The Cube [Sonic Presentations]
Lower Level, Wiesner Building (E15)
20 Ames Street, Cambridge
(see directions below).
This event is free and open to the public.
For more information:
http://visualarts.mit.edu/about/events.html
act@mit.edu
617-253-5229
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SPEAKERS AND PERFORMERS
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ANNE HILDE NESET is the Deputy Editor of The Wire magazine. In 2005 she co-founded Electra, a contemporary art agency based in London and was a curator for Her Noise, an exhibition of sound art and contemporary music by women artists, performers and composers.
FLORIAN HECKLER is a German artist. He has given numerous international audio presentations and has been incuded in exhibitions at: MMK, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main; IKON Gallery, Birmingham and Chisenhale Gallery, London, all in 2010.
KEVIN DRUMM is an experimental musician based in Chicago. Drumm’s work draws upon musique concrète, electronic sound, improvisation, heavy metal and noise music.
JESSICA RYLAN PIPER is an artist, performer and engineer, investigating the history and future of technology. She builds synthesizers for playing music and for sound installations.
MICAH SILVER is an artist and curator who worked for three years with Maryanne Amacher on her final and unfinished work at EMPAC.
ROBERT THE is a book cutter/sign painter living in Kingston, New York, and was a close friend and confidant of Maryanne Amacher for many years. Silver and The initiated The Amacher Archive.
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MARYANNE AMACHER
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The Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is proud to host this tribute to the late Maryanne Amacher, a pioneering sound artist and former MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS) fellow on the first anniversary of her death. The focus of the tribute, round table discussion and concert will be on Amacher’s influence on contemporary musicians and composers.
Amacher was a fellow at MIT’s CAVS during the 1970s, and CAVS founder Gyorgy Kepes is credited as one of her primary influences. While at MIT, she worked on her noted City-Links, a series of installations using real-time “telelinks” that transmitted sounds from remote locations. The project was presented at Minneapolis’s Walker Art Center and Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art in 1974.
Amacher was a student of Karlheinz Stockhausen in the 1960s, a collaborator of John Cage and Merce Cunningham in the 1970s and 1980s, and a teacher at Bard College until her death in October 2009. As a seminal figure in acoustics, architectural installation and the physiological phenomenon called otoacoustic emission, she received awards and grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, Pew Memorial Trust and the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, among others. In 2005 she was awarded the Prix Ars Electronica.
A Tribute to Pioneering Sound Artist Maryanne Amacher
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Sound Shapes and Ear Dances
Friday, October 22, 2010
Lower Level, Wiesner Building (E15) at MIT
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Schedule of Events
4–6pm — Lecture and Round Table Discussion
Welcome by Ute Meta Bauer, Associate Professor and Head of the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology
Anne Hilde Neset, “Women in Electronic Music”
Micah Silver and Robert The, “The Amacher Archive”
Kevin Drumm, Florian Hecker, Jessica Rylan Piper, roundtable discussion on Amacher's influence on current electronic music
6–7pm — Reception
8–10pm — Sonic Presentations
by Jessica Rylan Piper, Kevin Drumm, Florian Hecker
Location:
Bartos Theater [Lecture and Roundtable]
The Cube [Sonic Presentations]
Lower Level, Wiesner Building (E15)
20 Ames Street, Cambridge
(see directions below).
This event is free and open to the public.
For more information:
http://visualarts.mit.edu/about/events.html
act@mit.edu
617-253-5229
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SPEAKERS AND PERFORMERS
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ANNE HILDE NESET is the Deputy Editor of The Wire magazine. In 2005 she co-founded Electra, a contemporary art agency based in London and was a curator for Her Noise, an exhibition of sound art and contemporary music by women artists, performers and composers.
FLORIAN HECKLER is a German artist. He has given numerous international audio presentations and has been incuded in exhibitions at: MMK, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main; IKON Gallery, Birmingham and Chisenhale Gallery, London, all in 2010.
KEVIN DRUMM is an experimental musician based in Chicago. Drumm’s work draws upon musique concrète, electronic sound, improvisation, heavy metal and noise music.
JESSICA RYLAN PIPER is an artist, performer and engineer, investigating the history and future of technology. She builds synthesizers for playing music and for sound installations.
MICAH SILVER is an artist and curator who worked for three years with Maryanne Amacher on her final and unfinished work at EMPAC.
ROBERT THE is a book cutter/sign painter living in Kingston, New York, and was a close friend and confidant of Maryanne Amacher for many years. Silver and The initiated The Amacher Archive.
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MARYANNE AMACHER
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The Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is proud to host this tribute to the late Maryanne Amacher, a pioneering sound artist and former MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS) fellow on the first anniversary of her death. The focus of the tribute, round table discussion and concert will be on Amacher’s influence on contemporary musicians and composers.
Amacher was a fellow at MIT’s CAVS during the 1970s, and CAVS founder Gyorgy Kepes is credited as one of her primary influences. While at MIT, she worked on her noted City-Links, a series of installations using real-time “telelinks” that transmitted sounds from remote locations. The project was presented at Minneapolis’s Walker Art Center and Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art in 1974.
Amacher was a student of Karlheinz Stockhausen in the 1960s, a collaborator of John Cage and Merce Cunningham in the 1970s and 1980s, and a teacher at Bard College until her death in October 2009. As a seminal figure in acoustics, architectural installation and the physiological phenomenon called otoacoustic emission, she received awards and grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, Pew Memorial Trust and the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, among others. In 2005 she was awarded the Prix Ars Electronica.
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