Article in Cabinet magazine issue 44, Winter 2011-2012, 'Shapes with the sound of their own making' http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/
14 April - 25 June 2012
Psychosis part II, "I is someone else", group exhibition curated by Robin McGinley Färgfabriken - Centre for Contemporary Art and Architecture, Stockholm http://www.fargfabriken.se/index.php?sit=arkiv&id=347
21-23 June 2012
Pop-up Cinema at Christie’s South Kensington with screenings of films by Aura Satz
Thursday 21st and Friday 22nd: 11am to 6pm; and Saturday 23rd 11am to 1pm
Plus
23rd June 2.45-4.45pm.
A screening of an additional selection of films curated by Aura Satz, including films by Manon de Boer, Jayne Parker and Luke Fowler
Supersonix Symposium, Exhibition Road, London http://www.exhibitionroad.com/7416/pop-up-cinema-at-christies-south-kensington-aura-satz
12 September to 3 November 2012
Jarman award shortlist touring programme showcasing works by the 10 shortlisted artists will take place from at venues across the UK, including FACT (Liverpool), CCA (Glasgow) and CIRCA Projects (Newcastle). The tour will culminate in a special event at London’s Whitechapel Gallery on Saturday 3 November with screenings, Q&As and performances. Q&A with Rebecca Shatwell at Circa Projects on the 26th September. http://flamin.filmlondon.org.uk/projects/projectscurrent/jarmanaward/jarman_award_12 http://www.circaprojects.org/
6th October 2012
Film screening as part of 'Does Dark Matter?' curated by Cosmicmegabrain.
Artists featured include Bálint Bolygó, Emily Candela, Ronin Cho, Davide D’Elia, Roberto Ekholm, Goodbye Leopold, Andy Holden with Tyler Woolcott*, Janina Lange, Romvelope, Aura Satz and Semiconductor. http://www.cosmicmegabrain.com/index.php?id_section=14&id_event=19
1 November 2012
"In and out of Synch", performance screening, Arnolfini, Bristol, as part of four day event showcasing exploratory practices in music, performance, visual art and cinema featuring Russell Haswell, Kevin Drumm, Thomas Ankersmit, Ben Russell, Tai Shani, Raime, Emptyset, Her Ghost: An Homage To Chris Marker’s La Jette by Kode9, MFO and Ms Haptic, Aura Satz’s And Out Of Synch, People Like US aka Vicki Bennett’s film The Zone and more. 26 October–3 November. http://www.arnolfini.org.uk/whatson/films/details/1422
13 February 2013
Workshop at Camden Arts Centre, together with Steve Dorney, to coincide with exhibition “Film in Space: Group show selected by Guy Sherwin” Participants in the workshop will include Steven Ball, Andy Birtwistle, Rob Mullender, Aura Satz, Jan Thoben, David Toop, and Duncan White. http://www.camdenartscentre.org/whats-on/view/eve-gs-06
4 March 2013
Flights of Fancy
Turner Sims, University of Southhampton
Screening and performance of Tatton Park commissions http://www.turnersims.co.uk/
Artist page on the website of The Wire: Adventures in Modern Music: thewire.co.uk to accompany the cross-platform feature on my work in the September 2010 issue.
This includes:
An excerpt of the filmic installation 'Sound Seam' thewire.co.uk
An excerpt of 'Automamusic' thewire.co.uk
An excerpt of 'Oramics: Atlantis Anew', thewire.co.uk
An excerpt of 'Vocal Flame', thewire.co.uk
My short film on the Theremin virtuosa Lydia Kavina, thewire.co.uk
"We will be entering a strange world where composers will be mingling with capacitors,
computers will be controlling crotchets and,
maybe, memory, music and magnetism will lead us towards metaphysics."
Daphne Oram, An Individual Note of Music, Sound and Electronics (1971)
Conceived of as an Artist's film in homage to Daphne Oram, the pioneer of British Electronic Music and co-founder of the BBC Radiophonic workshop in 1958, the film features a close-up encounter with her unique invention, the Oramics Machine, housed at the Science Museum in London. Oram used drawn sound principles to compose 'handwrought'electronic music, and yet the visual nature of her work remains largely unseen and unsung. The film brings this obsolete technological fantasy briefly to back to life, enabling the visualisation of the drawn sound material, re-interpreting and translating it into new filmic sequences.
The soundtrack features electronic music composed by Oram, interlaced with her voicover reading excerpts from a first draft of her book "An Individual Note of Music, Sound and Electronics" (1971)
The film premiered on the 10th October 2011 at the opening event of The Science Museum's exhibition 'Oramics to Electronica' 29 Jul 2011 - 01 Dec 2012
The 35mm films featured in the film are reproductions made by Aura Satz based on the strips which feature in documentation as well as scans of the originals found on the machine.
They are currently laced up in the Oramics machine and are on display at the Science Museum.
An excerpt of the film, named after Daphne Oram's futurological manifesto, can now be viewed on The Wire website
Oramics: Atlantis Anew is included in the group exhibition
‘The Sight of Sound’
Deutsche Bank VIP Lounge, Frieze Art Fair
4–7 May 2012, performance on the 5th May 2pm Group exhibition including John Cage, Christian Marclay, Jorge Macchi, Jenny C. Jones, David Ellis and Aura Satz.
Wherever we are, what we hear is mostly noise. When we ignore it, it disturbs us. When we listen to it, we find it fascinating.
John Cage
Selected works feature artists from the Deutsche Bank Collection who reference music in a variety of ways: as a structural or notational device, a vehicle for chance and improvisation, or as a social platform for communicating identity. These artists from different generations share a trajectory of using musical forms as a source and framework. The theme underscores Deutsche Bank’s global commitment to supporting art and music, and promoting cultural advancement through the intersecting worlds of ideas and practices.
The historical influence of musical sound on visual artists is immeasurable, but its effect upon form, process, and conceptual art has clearly become more prevalent in modern times. From Piet Mondrian’s painting, “Broadway Boogie Woogie,” his homage to jazz, to John Cage and Nam June Paik’s experiments with performance-driven work, to real-time musical interactions via satellite, video and digital interfaces, the relationship between the aural and visual arts are continually shape-shifting.
ORAMICS: ATLANTIS ANEW was shown as part of the exhibition Samsung Art+ Prize BFI Southbank, London 18-29 January 2012
Samsung Electronics are delighted to present the UK’s first ever prize for new media art. A shortlist of 10 emerging and established contemporary artists has been selected by a panel of curators from leading arts organisations for a two-week exhibition at the BFI Southbank. Opening on 18 January 2012, the exhibition will include new work as well as pieces that have never been shown before in the UK.
The Samsung Art+ Prize aims to highlight artists who reveal the ways technologies can touch our lives. All of the selected artists must be a citizen of, educated in or currently residing in the UK and they have been nominated
for work they have created in the past three years. The shortlisted artists selected are: Neil Cummings, Doug Fishbone, Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, Torsten Lauschmann, Lucky PDF, Aura Satz, Hiraki Sawa, Semiconductor, Erika Tan and Thomsonand Craighead.
The resulting shortlist showcases the diverse range of practice offered by new media, and includes artists working in screen friendly idioms as well as those exploring diverse strategies of communication such as performance, sculpture and music.
The 10 nominated artists have been selected for their ability to expand and challenge our understanding of the role of new media. In the era of smart media the prize will celebrate the unique ways in which artists respond to the changing world and embrace the possibilities offered by different media opportunities; not only as platforms of production and research but also as new modes of communication beyond the traditional gallery.
The judges including Jan Dalley, Arts Editor at the Financial Times; Dr. Peter Weibel, Chairman and CEO of the ZKM Centre for Art and Media; Stuart Comer, Curator of Film, Tate Modern; Jiyoon Lee, Director of SUUM; and New York based media artist, Sooja Kim.
