Fringe Event Oct.1st, 2008 :: Lecture Series “Behind Pythagoras’ Curtain” at Galleri Mejan
Lecture Series Behind Pythagoras’ Curtain
Wednesday, October 1st, 2008, 5pm-9pm
LOCATION:
Mejan Gallery
Excersisplan 3, Skeppsholmen
Stockholm
(Across from the main entrance of Moderna Museet)
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Behind Pythagoras’ Curtain
LECTURE SERIES
Curated by Jacqueline Hoang Nguyen and in collaboration with FRINGE (the Interactive Institute)
Wednesday, October 1st, 2008, 5pm-9pm
Behind Pythagoras’ Curtain proposes to understand "behind the scenes" and reveal contemporary strategies in sound and interactive art practices. The lecture series Behind Pythagoras’ Curtain will be offered as a compound strategy, and is about identifying the relationships between the spatialization of sound, interactivity, and storytelling in today’s artistic practice.
The notion of Pythagoras’ curtain is used here as a conceptual framework, since it is thought to be the origin of the term acousmatic in concrete music. It is said that Pythagoras’ pupils were required to listen to their master lecturing while standing behind a curtain or a veil, so that they would concentrate better and knowledge would be better assimilated. In other words, acousmatic sound is the sound one hears without seeing the originating cause.
Participating Lecturers:
Robin McGinley (UK) is a sound artist/composer, performer, and co-director of Interactive Agents, the independent production company and R&D think tank.
Jacqueline Hoang Nguyen (CA) is an artist, curator and editor. Her artistic endeavors are often developed into sound and video installations, these seemingly newfangled artistic practices primarily stem from her interest in the notion of dynamic installations. Nguyen has participated in European and Canadian exhibitions.
Håkan Nilsson (SE) teaches art history and art theory at Södertörn University College and at Konstfack, University College of Arts, Crafts and Design, both situated in Stockholm. Nilsson is also an art critic at Dagens Nyheter and founding editor of cultural magazine Merge.
Malin Zimm (SE) holds a PhD in architecture which she obtained in 2005 with her thesis "Losing the Plot - Architecture and Narrativity in Fin-de-Siècle Media Cultures". She is currently chief editor of the Swedish architecture magazine Rum.
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Contact person: Jacqueline Hoang Nguyen | jacqueline.hoang.nguyen@gmail.com
The artist would like to thank the Royal University College of Fine Arts, the Institute for Electro-acoustic Music in Sweden (EMS), and the Canadian Embassy in Stockholm for their generous support. This project has been made possible with funding from the Swedish Research and Development in the Arts Foundation.