The Crisp-Ellert Art Museum and Flagler College are pleased to announce a new exhibition, entitled Four Channels, by Chicago-based musician and media artist Olivia Block. The exhibition will kick off with an artist walkthrough on Friday, March 2 at 4pm, followed by a reception from 5 until 8pm.
Four Channels was initially inspired by Block’s participation in the CEAM Artist Residency in October 2016. The artist's interest in acoustic ecology, the relationship of human beings to their environment, as mediated through sound, led her to
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The Crisp-Ellert Art Museum and Flagler College are pleased to announce a new exhibition, entitled Four Channels, by Chicago-based musician and media artist Olivia Block. The exhibition will kick off with an artist walkthrough on Friday, March 2 at 4pm, followed by a reception from 5 until 8pm.
Four Channels was initially inspired by Block’s participation in the CEAM Artist Residency in October 2016. The artist’s interest in acoustic ecology, the relationship of human beings to their environment, as mediated through sound, led her to propose a site specific sound installation at CEAM, and an exciting partnership with the Guana Tolomato Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserve (GTMNERR). The sound installation will present “raw materials – field recordings, scientific data, photos from on site stems, in two different contents – the museum space and science pedagogy space.” The development of Four Channels stems from Block’s engagement with the conservation research work done at the GTMNERR, as well as her interest in the presentation of “science education to the public – dioramas, interactive features, living specimen presentation, narrative, and artistic design.”
Olivia Block is a composer and media artist based in Chicago. Her recorded compositions combine field recordings, chamber instruments and electronic textures, and others. Block creates multimedia installations and performances utilizing field recordings, found sounds from micro cassette tapes, video, and curated 35mm slides. Block’s current work reflects her interests in site-specificity, ethnographic sound, architecture, and found/archival materials from the 1950s-90s. Her studio based compositions are published on And/Oar, Cut, Erstwhile, Glistening Examples, NNA, and Sedimental, among other labels. She has created site specific multi-speaker installations for The Sanitorium in Sokolowsko, Poland, The Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Millenium Park, Chicago, and the Olympics in Turin, Italy, among others. She has performed and premiered pieces in festivals throughout America, Europe, Scandinavia, and Japan. Block has been interviewed on NPR’s Morning Edition, Wire Magazine, Musicworks Magazine, Blow Up, Chicago Reader, and many additional podcasts, publications, and radio programs.
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