Lecture: Douglas Kahn

Thursday 19 November, 6.30 – 8.00pm

As part of a national tour, renowned sound art theorist Douglas Kahn presents a lecture on sound and electromagnetism.

Nature, Art and Communications

Since the mid-1960s, artists and musicians have begun setting up shop along parts of the electromagnetic spectrum, from natural radio and brainwaves, to the gamma of nuclear radiation. Even visible light. To account for this surge in artistic energies, it is necessary to go back to the 19th Century and rewrite the history of communications technologies in terms of nature.

Douglas Kahn is Professor at University of California at Davis, author of Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts (MIT Press) and presently completing Earth Sound, Earth Signal (University of California Press).

$10/$8 MCA Members & Concessions

Bookings Essential: education@mca.com.au
or 02 9245 2484

Presented by Australian Network of Arts and Technology and Art Monthly
Australia's 'Occasional Lecture Series' and the Specialist 'Arts of Sound'
edition (Nov 2009) Partnership.

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