14-15 November 2014
A free livestreamed colloquium from media@mcgill at McGill University Montreal.
Sound, Vision, Action puts contemporary art and scholarship in sound studies and visual culture in direct dialogue around questions of power and politics. Speakers include:
Surveillance:
Karin Bijsterveld – “Hearing and Seeing Voices: Speaker Identification at the Stasi”
Caren Kaplan – “The Emotion of Motion: Exceeding the Visual in ‘Aerostatic Spacing’”
Militancy:
Ultra-red (Dont Rhine & Robert Sember) – “What did you hear?”
Natalie Bookchin – “Long Story Short”
Humanity:
Negar Mottahedeh – “One Light: Cinema and Islamic Spirituality”
Anette Hoffmann – “The Auscultation of Culture: Sound Recordings and Knowledge Production”
Capitalism:
Mark Curran – “The Normalization of Deviance and the Construction of THE MARKET”
Sumanth Gopinath – “Beep: Listening to the Digital Watch”
Performance:
Daphne Brooks – “Engines of Modernity: Black Sonic Women & the Open Road”
Amelia Jones – “The Sound of Art”
Mediation:
Georgina Born – “Power and the Circulation of Digital Musics”
Natalie Casemajor – “The Digital Drift of Derivative Artifacts”