| Voicetracks: Attuning to Voice in Media and the Arts Contributor(s): Neumark, Norie (Author) |
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ISBN: 0262036134 ISBN-13: 9780262036139 Publisher: MIT Press OUR PRICE: $44.55 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Media Studies - Computers | Digital Media - Audio - Computers | Social Aspects |
| Dewey: 302.23 |
| LCCN: 2016039113 |
| Series: Leonardo |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.3" W x 9.2" (0.90 lbs) 232 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The affects, aesthetics, and ethics of voice in the new materialist turn, explored through encounters with creative works in media and the arts. Moved by the Aboriginal understandings of songlines or dreaming tracks, Norie Neumark's Voicetracks seeks to deepen an understanding of voice through listening to a variety of voicing/sound/voice projects from Australia, Europe and the United States. Not content with the often dry tone of academic writing, the author engages a "wayfaring" process that brings together theories of sound, animal, and posthumanist studies in order to change the ways we think about and act with the assemblages of living creatures, things, places, and histories around us. Neumark evokes both the literal--the actual voices within the works she examines--and the metaphorical--in a new materialist exploration of voice encompassing human, animal, thing, and assemblages. She engages with artists working with animal sounds and voices; voices of place, placed voices in installation works; voices of technology; and "unvoicing," disturbances in the image/voice relationship and in the idea of what voice is. She writes about remixes, the Barbie Liberation Organisation, and breath in Beijing, about cat videos, speaking fences in Australia, and an artist who reads (to) the birds. Finally, she considers ethics and politics, and describes how her own work has shaped her understandings and apprehensions of voice. |
Contributor Bio(s): Cubitt, Sean: - Sean Cubitt is Professor of Film and Television at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is the author of The Cinema Effect and the coeditor of Relive: Media Art Histories, both published by the MIT Press.Neumark, Norie: - Norie Neumark, a sound and media artist, is Honorary Professorial Fellow at Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, and Emeritus Professor at La Trobe University in Melbourne. She coedited At a Distance: Precursors to Art and Activism on the Internet and VOICE: Vocal Aesthetics in Digital Arts and Media, both published by the MIT Press. |