An online exhibition conceived and curated by Finetuned.
Commissioned by CRiSAP
From the inaudible to the barely registered, the overheard to the impossibly loud, Not for Human Consumption presents a collection of sonic phenomena, tests, by-products and compositions that challenge our, self-given, position at the centre of sonic events.
We live in continuous contact with noise yet the range of sounds we register is minuscule in proportion to those occurring in the world and further afield.
Not for Human Consumption draws together scientific projects and artistic works – including mosquitoes, brain stems, train motors, black holes, hard drives, voibots and electron microphones - that point to sound worlds where objects other than ourselves may be the recipients.
Curated by Julian Weaver, Not for Human Consumption is the fourth in a series of web exhibitions commissioned by CRiSAP (Creative Research into Sound Art Practice).
The exhibition was launched at Cafe Oto with commissioned live performances by Semiconductor (UK) , Valentina Vuksic (CH/NL) and a new text by Graham Harman (US)
Commissions
Semiconductor premiered Subterranean; a new sound work aggregating seismic data on a global scale and composing data from the Columbia Glacier experiment.
Valentina Vuksic performed a new version of 'Tripping through Runtime'; a real time exploration of acoustic spaces between computer hardware and software.
Graham Harman's 'Real Qualities', in which he critiques Meillasoux's ill-defined association of primary qualities with only those that can be mathematised, was specially commissioned for the event. Read the paper.
Contributors
Perseus Cluster - Chandra Observatory, A.C. Fabian et al.
Acoustic Probe - Martin V. Gustafsson
Insect Geophone - Richard Mankin
Solar Oscillation - Alexander Kosovichev
Auditory Brainstem Response - Nina Kraus
Acoustic Vibration Testing - NASA/Team Corp.
Voibot Choir - Eduardo Reck Miranda
Uh Ha - Eduardo Reck Miranda
1/F Noise And Auditory Aesthetics - R. Michael Winters
Friendy Rest Room - Christian Dayé and Alberto De Campo
Spamradio - Richard Airlie and Ian Morrison
Tripping through Runtime - Valentina Vuksic
Smell my Hum - Semiconductor
Voices from Hell - Internet Spoof
Highmast - Stephen Hammer
Field Samples - Julian Weaver
- Line Test Signal
- CRT Flyback Transformer
- Virm-1
Semiconductor is artist duo Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt. Through moving image works they explore the material nature of our world and how we experience it, questioning our place in the physical universe. Their unique approach has won them many awards and prestigious fellowships such as the Gulbenkian Galapagos, Smithsonian Artists Research and the NASA Space Sciences. Their work is part of several international public collections and has been exhibited globally including Venice Biennale, The Royal Academy, Hirshhorn Museum, BBC, ICA and the Exploratorium.
Valentina Vuksic is a computer artist and programmer based in Zürich. Her work is a personal exploration of the possibilities afforded by articulated hard- and software mediation. She approaches computer systems via inductive microphones for magnetic fields, so-called “telephone adapters." With choreographies for software and computer elements, she utilizes these as actors in software/noise pieces for, and in, computers.
http://harddisko.ch
Graham Harman is Associate Provost for Research Administration and Professor of Philosophy at the American University in Cairo. He is the author of eleven books, most recently Weird Realism: Lovecraft and Philosophy (2012) and Bells and Whistles: More Speculative Realism (2013). He is the editor of the Speculative Realism book series at Edinburgh University Press, and (with Bruno Latour) co-editor of the New Metaphysics book series at Open Humanities Press.