February 6, 2015

Granoff Center, Englander Studio

Broken World, Steerage: Thinking through blankness, terror, and broken worlds

Material from distorted motion capture is employed in virtual worlds; considerations of terror and genocide in terms of anguish and the unutterable; phenomenology of blizzards and whiteout; revrev-live reverse reverberation or anticipatory music; and practical-theoretical issues of gamespace/edgespace.

Alan Sondheim is a cross-disciplinary artist, writer, and theorist. He recently completed a successful residency at Eyebeam Art + Technology Center in New York; while there he worked with a number of collaborators on performances and sound pieces dealing with pain and annihilation. He also created a series of texts and 3d printing models of ‘dead or wounded avatars.’ He recently completed a residency at Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and in 2011-2012 was a resident at Eyebeam Art and Technology in New York. In 2012 he had a book published through West Virginia University Press, Writing Under, and last year he released two CDs of experimental improvisation. He lives with his partner and co-worker, Azure Carter in Providence, RI.