[syndicate] CrosssFade Exploring the Sounds of Cyberspace

[Peter Luining]

On March 5, 2001...



anna balint wrote:
> 
>                 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].
> 
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