What is lost or gained when sound is framed, channeled and put on display in an art context? Professor Nora M. Alter, chair of the Film and Media Arts Department, will present a talk exploring this question at Making Time: Art Across Gallery, Screen, and Stage, a cross-disciplinary arts symposium to be held at the Arts Research Center in Berkeley, Calif., April 19 – 21, 2012. Scholars, artists, presenters and curators will discuss what it means to make, curate and evaluate hybrid art practices. Symposium panels and roundtables will broadly examine the definitions of these art practices, the way such work challenges the divisions of labor within and between institutions, and the questions around the works’ authorship, collection, documentation and evaluation.
Alter will discuss the work of video and sound artists Renee Green, Esther Shalev-Gerz, Mathias Poledna and Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller, looking closely at the installation of sound and the use of silence in video, performance and sculptural work for the museum and gallery.
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