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ISEA2010 RUHR Conference
P48 New Art Theory II
Fri 27 August 2010
13:00–14:30h
Volkshochschule, G 133a
Moderated by Christo Doherty (za)
- 13:00h | Christiane Heibach (de): Multimedia Art and Multisensory Experience. Towards an Epistemology of Multimedia
- 13:30h | Eva Kekou, Iannis Zannos (gr): What's All the Noise about? Thoughts about the Role of Sound in Media Art
ISEA2010 Conference Proceedings | P48 New Art Theory II (PDF, 83.41 KB)
Christiane Heibach (de)
Multimedia Art and Multisensory Experience. Towards an Epistemology of Multimedia
Philosophical approaches increasingly seek for an epistemological model that is able to explain multisensory perception. Traditional epistemologies seem to be too reductive as they concentrate on the visual sense and on consciousness as main elements for explaining perception. But facing multimedia environments, more complex concepts are required. The paper aims to develop an approach to multisensory perception and will use this as a starting point for sketching the complex process of experience - a key concept for current multimedia art projects.
Dr. Christiane Heibach holds a position as research fellow and lecturer at the Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung in Karlsruhe and is currently funded by the DFG (The German Research Foundation) for her project 'Epistemologie der Multimedialität'. Research fields: media theory and aesthetics.
Eva Kekou, Iannis Zannos (gr)
What's All the Noise about? Thoughts about the Role of Sound in Media Art
In this paper, we investigate the significance of sound in Media Art from an empirical and descriptive point of view, based on examples of works where sound plays a central role. To guide our analysis, we look first into different approaches of sound in the context of contemporary culture. Various types of sound approaches have been proposed, each of which employs different criteria to classify or describe sounds. We centre our approach on the concepts of sound-scape (Schaeffer 1966) and dérive (Debord 1955).
Eva Kekou's recent publications focus on public space, interactive media art and audience theories. She has been a lecturer at the University of the Aegean, Greece for several years and worked as a research fellow at academic institutions in London. She has a multidisciplinary academic background.
Iannis Zannos has a background in music composition, ethnomusicology and Media Art. He has worked at the State Institute for Music Research (SIM) in Berlin, and at CREATE, UCSB. He is currently teaching audio and Media Art at the Department of Audiovisual Arts of the Ionian University, Corfu.
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