Towards the Expanded Field
Experimental and interdisciplinary approaches to immaterial spatiotemporal environments
Towards the Expanded Field: experimental and interdisciplinary approaches to immaterial spatiotemporal environments was a three day symposium including lectures, spatial audio performances and a VR exhibition that took place between 7 and 9 of March 2018 at the Haus der Architektur Graz.
Description
Virtual reality and spatial audio technologies bring about a new paradigm in the fields of architecture and music. While defying classification, works developed in these media extend our spatial and auditory sensibilities beyond what is perceivable in the physical world. Can we regard them however as architecture and music, or are they foreign to their origins?
Architect Constantinos Miltiadis and composer and sound artist Gerriet K. Sharma will present their investigations and exhibit works on virtual navigable environments and sculptural spatial audio. The event intends to initiate a discussion on the nature of such explorations, in parallel to the nature and future of music and architecture in the expanded field.
Program
| Date | Program |
|---|---|
| March 7 | |
| 6 pm | Opening presentations Constantinos Miltiadis – The Architectural Continuum: science, technology, art, choropoietic media and spatial aesthetic Gerriet K. Sharma – Spatial Practices in Contemporary Loudspeaker Music Stephan Günzel – On Spatiality |
| 8:30 pm | VR exhibition opening Valentin Moser – Chronicles Lukas Gosch – Awakening Philipp Sattler – Library of the Absurd |
| March 8 | |
| 10 am | Reading group Rosalind Krauss “Sculpture in the Expanded Field.” October 8 (1979) |
| 6 pm | Spatial audio performances Antonia Manhartsberger – Mo.ve [modus vertiginis] Paul Wolff – 1500 |
| 7 pm | VR exhibition Valentin Moser – Chronicles Lukas Gosch – Awakening Philipp Sattler – Library of the Absurd |
| March 9 | |
| 6:30pm | Closing round table discussion Constantinos Miltiadis, Gerriet K. Sharma, Antonia Manhartsberger, Valentin Moser, Philipp Sattler |
| 7:30 pm | Spatial audio performance Gerriet K. Sharma: “gleAM” sound sculpture for BESSY II VSR and IKO |
Credits
Concept & realization
Constantinos Miltiadis, in collaboration with Gerriet K. Sharma.
Presentations
- Constantinos Miltiadis
architect and computational designer, currently an assistant professor at the Institute of Architecture and Media of TU Graz. His research and teachings are focused on the architectural qualities and aesthetic potential of virtual navigable environments.
studioany.com/ - Gerriet K. Sharma
composer and sound artist, currently an artistic researcher in the OSIL project at the Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics of KU Graz and Edgard Varèse guest-professor at TU Berlin. His work is focused on sculptural composition in complex loudspeaker environments and space as a cultural key concept in the now.
www.gksh.net/ - Stephan Günzel
media philosopher with expertise in the philosophy of space, Programme Director for New Media Design at UE Berlin (née BTK Berlin).
stephan-guenzel.de/
Spatial audio performances
- Antonia Manhartsberger
- Paul Wolff
VR exhibition
- Philipp Sattler
- Valentin Moster
- Sabrina Kullmaier
- Lukas Gosch
Documentation
- Pictures by Felix Zitter (HDA)
- Video recording by Antonia Manhartsberger
Acknowledgments
Conducted with the kind support of Haus der Architektur Graz, The Institute of Architecture and Media TU Graz, and the Deanery of the Faculty of Architecture of TU Graz. The IKO speaker was provided courtesy of the Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics, Kunst Uni Graz.
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