EXHIBITIONS

 

Sonic Architectures: Mapping the Ancient Theatre in Image and Sound / 2006

This exhibition was held at the FCA Gallery, Faculty of Creative Arts, University of Wollongong (UoW) between 17th – 25th September 2006, and included works by artists Ian McGrath, Stephen Ingham, Diane Epoff Goodman, Brogan Bunt, and Diana Wood Conroy. The exhibition was curated by Professor Diana Wood Conroy of UoW.

Sonic Architectures: Mapping the ancient theatre in image and sound explored the way the ancient theatre could give contemporary artists new insights in working at the cutting edge of electronic technologies. The Sonic Architectures project asks: How might an understanding of the ancient theatre give contemporary artists new imaginative insights in working at the cutting edge of electronic technologies?

Staff and students of the Faculty of Creative Arts, with Diana Wood Conroy, have contributed since 1996 to the University of Sydney’s Paphos Theatre Expedition in Cyprus. The marvellous adventure of combining art and archaeology over a decade of excavation came about through the vision of Professor Richard Green, director of the excavation. Creative arts and archaeology came together again in fieldwork at the theatre in Paphos in April-May 2006.

The theatre in antiquity brought together all the arts (architecture, sculpture, painting, poetry, music, song, drama) as the central point of communication and ritual. By investigating aspects of visual and sonic mapping of the ancient theatre, the five artists in Sonic Architectures constructed a parallel cross-disciplinary exhibition across the senses of touch, sound and sight, in the 21st century.

Artists:

Diana Wood Conroy: Texture and touch

Brogan Bunt: Video, sound and programming

Diane Epoff: Digital photographic mapping

Ian McGrath: The acoustics of voice

Stephen Ingham: Sonification of visual data

 
 

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