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A work of art is an installation only if it makes a dialog with the surrounding space. [13] A sound installation is usually site-specific, but sometimes it can be readapted to other spaces. It can be made either in closed or open spaces, and context is fundamental in determining how a sound installation will be aesthetically perceived. [14]
Times Square, often referred to as the hum [1] or the Times Square Hum, [2] is a permanent sound art installation created by Max Neuhaus in Times Square in New York City. Originally installed in 1977, it was removed in 1992 and reinstalled in 2002. It is maintained by the Dia Art Foundation, who consider it one of the twelve locations and sites ...
London is the author of Video Art/The First Fifty Years (Phaidon Press, 2020), which traces the history of video art as it transformed into the broader field of media art. In 2013, London organized and curated Soundings: A Contemporary Score, an investigative exhibition on contemporary sound art that was presented at MoMA. She edited and wrote ...
The audio video installation has been purchased by the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Rist's nine video segments titled Open My Glade [24] were played once every hour on a screen at Times Square in New York City, a project of the Messages to the Public program, which was founded in 1980.
He coined the term "sound installation" to describe his sound works which were neither music nor events. Neuhaus' first work as an independent artist was a series of walks called Listen (1966-1976). He invited audiences to walk with him through the streets of New York City, with the word listen stamped on their hand.
Kevin Beasley (born 1985 Lynchburg, Virginia) is an American artist working in sculpture, performance art, and sound installation. He lives and works in New York City. Beasley was included in the Whitney Museum of American Art's Biennial in 2014 [1] and MoMA PS1's Greater New York exhibition in 2015. [2]
For her first sound work, How Deep is Your (2003, MoMA PS1), Swartz connected speakers in the space's basement through PVC pipe to a large blue amplifying funnel on its top floor. The funnel emitted a faint overlay of the songs " How Deep Is Your Love " (the Bee Gees ) and " Love " ( John Lennon ) that also leaked out on the journey up. [ 11 ]
Oliver Beer studied musical composition at the Academy of Contemporary Music, London; visual art at the University of Oxford; and theory of cinema at the Sorbonne, Paris. His background in both music and fine art led to an early interest in the relationship between sound and space, particularly the voice and architecture.