CrosssFade Exploring the Sounds of Cyberspace

[anna balint]

                CrossFade Exploring the Sounds of Cyberspace

A joint project by the SFMOMA [San FranciscoMuseum of
 Modern Art; USA], the Goethe-Institut Inter Nationes, the
 ZKM_Karlsruhe [D], and the Walker Art Center
[Minneapolis; USA] featuring online sound projects and
multimedia essays.

On March 5, 2001, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
[SFMOMA; USA], the Goethe-Institut Inter Nationes, ZKM
[Center for Art and Media] Karlsruhe, Germany, and the Walker Art
Center, Minneapolis, USA, will jointly launch CrossFade. Sound
Travels on the Web, an online initiative that focuses on the Internet
as a  performance and distribution space for sound art. As it
unfolds throughout the year, CrossFade will act as a base for
access to sophisticated, sound-related artist projects and
thought-provoking media essays and critical writings - in English and
German - by prominent experts in the field. It will be available on
the Web site of each of the co-organizing institutions:
                www.sfmoma.org/crossfade
                www.goethe.de/sanfrancisco
                http://www.zkm.de
                http://crossfade.walkerart.org/

Two projects will go online March 5: Ping by Chris Chafe and Greg
Niemeyer, a Web interface to the artists' installation in the exhibition

010101: Art in Technological Times [which opens on March 3 in the
SFMOMA galleries], and an essay by German musician and cultural
critic Golo Foellmer, which will include a series of links and streaming

media interviews with musicians who are breaking new ground in sound
experiments.
Launching on March 10, a 100-day project with artist
and musician Yoko Ono, SonicFlux: Yoko Ono, will allow online
visitors the chance to interact with an Ono score. In April these works
will
be joined by a second essay, ;Music and the Net: Musaic+, by Dutch
sound artist and theorist Josephine Bosma, an expansion of a lecture
on the state of the field that includes links to many current sound
projects.
Projects planned for May include works by composer Anthony Moore
and San Francisco-based artist Chris Salter with the art-and-research
collective Sponge.

Curatorial flexibility is a hallmark of the CrossFade initiative;
certain
projects are being put together by a single institution while others are

organized collaboratively by curators Steve Dietz [director of New
Media Initiatives, Walker Art Center], Kathleen Forde [curatorial
associate, SFMOMA], Johannes Goebel [director of the ZKM_Institute
for Music and Acoustics], Dieta Sixt [director of the Goethe-Institut
Inter Nationes, San Francisco] and Benjamin Weil [curator of media
arts, SFMOMA].